From what I understand, and this is subject to change, you need to "friend" those profiles in the separate MDE to your main MDE. Once those individuals appear in your main MDE, you can then use the MBs from the separate MDE to obtain SDFPs. Those SDFPs can then be transferred using the change party function in the app after your own 3 FPs have been used (or perhaps when they have expired).
You can only book SDFP for them. You will not be able to book advance FPs at 30 or 60 days like you would with your APs. And you must change party to someone with a valid ticket that was used for admission in order for the transferred FP to be usable.
It's only kiosk-free if you are using CPFP to transfer FP from someone in your group with a ticket attached to their profile for whom you have already reserved FP+. If you only have ticketless MBs or cards, you still need to go to a kiosk to acquire a SDFP.
Lol. I'll be honest though - despite all my testing, I still don't know what most of these acronyms are. Haven't figured out NBCP yet, although I'm sure it's been mentioned many times and only understood NBFP when someone else clarified it a couple pages ago. I just do the testing.
So what do we call this version then? NBCPSDFP? Hiro, ScrapYap, marciemi? What do you say?
Wouldn't it be disturbingly funny if those of us whom enter the Parks on the 6th we're handed 3 random paper FP's at the turnstiles and they say here are your FP's for the day, FP+ is no more?
I really don't care about SDFP going away since I rarely, if ever, use it other than for testing or to give some extra cards I have to people visiting so they can use it (since I don't trust them with my AP's). Not being able to use other AP's though for FP (at least as easily - will require lots more planning/coordinating of times) will be much harder since I rarely spend days in the parks, just a few hours and would prefer to book a couple overlapping FPP's in the same hour and move on.
You're not weird. Unless weird is a good thing, then yes, you are!
I keep having that feeling too, although it's not what we're hearing. In the past we've been told they can't eliminate kiosks from accepting any bands/cards, etc., since so many people just buy their MB's at the park and would need them to work. But that doesn't make any sense to me since they couldn't be buying them in the park without admission into the park anyway. I really think it makes sense for it to be at the earliest location as well and check for valid tickets (just like it does online if you book in advance), rather than check for tickets (which it has to be doing for it to flash blue later), but NOT TELL YOU, and then make a CM deal with it at a ride. I guess I also realize they could always do away with the Change Party feature but as ScrapYap says, there are so many valid reasons for it that I'm hoping that won't happen with this change at least.
I tend to agree. With the introduction of the $ MaxPass in DLR I think it is just a matter of time before WDW introduces some sort of paid option. I know DLR and WDW are completely different entities in terms of types of visitors and everything, but I see them trying to standardize more and more. I have spoken with someone "in the know" and MagicBands will be coming to CA very soon.
So say I purchased mb, and I had them linked to phantom names on a dummy made account without tickets. If I connected these names via friends snd family to my primary made account, wouldn't I be able to use those dummy bands to make sdfp at a kiosk and then transfer them via friends and family to the primary names? Hypothetically speaking
Sorry I meant to answer you yesterday then there were so many pages of posts when i came back I assumed you had gotten your answer by then. You can do this but subject to tiering rules at all but MK now.
Hmm good point about the APs. I have two non-expiring tickets still linked in MDE. I may just have to hold onto them.
