OP here with follow up on how pickup went...including s neat story!
We arrived at MK yesterday morning at 7:45 planning to quickly validate tickets at GS, have breakfast at BoG and ride SDMT before the park opened.
What I wasn’t prepared for was the huge line already at Guest Services 75 mins before park opening. Looking at the lines and the almost non-existent lines at the tap machine I decided to try to tap and go in and see what happened. As anticipated it turned blue and we were asked to head to GS to activate our tickets. We did this (were in line about 25 mins) and easily activated our tickets with our Nexus cards. We headed to BoG, enjoyed breakfast but did not have time to rise SDMT. Disappointed but that’s life.
Now the cool part! Just before we finished breakfast I received a text from Lisa of Disney Guest Experiences team . She said their system alerted them that I had had problems entering that park with my MB. She asked if everything was okay now and if I had any questions. I told her we were in and all was good. (I fought the inner battle to tell them we’d missed riding SDMT as in reality I had misjudged the crowd at GS that early in the morning.)
She wrote back and offered that since we were delayed entering the park she would like to offer us an additional anytime FP! Woot woot!! She made it for SDMT and we were able to show up anytime to use it!! So cool! We got to ride after all and, it was offered without me asking. Very happy with my first interaction with Disney’s Guest Experience team!