Discounted MagicBand designs can be found for pre-arrival Walt Disney World resort visitors and Annual Passholders. This shopping for information covers the improve buy course of, stock shortages, worldwide points & errors, Magic Band+ types, and new choices. (Up to date August 3, 2025.)
To improve your Magic Band, use the My Disney Expertise app or DisneyWorld.com, which lets you select from a wide range of colours and designs impressed by characters, resorts, sights, nighttime spectaculars, and extra. The types rotate with regularity, and there are dozens of MagicBand decisions at discounted costs.
Walt Disney World sometimes presents dozens of MagicBand improve choices, with new seems to be added as others promote out. As mentioned beneath, the “new seems to be added” a part of that has not been occurring as a lot these days. Pricing varies, with choices beginning at $24.99 and costing as a lot as $44.99. We replace this often with screenshots of the brand new MagicBands, plus data, and troubleshooting suggestions for what has confirmed to be a irritating course of.
Let’s begin with all the updates, as a lot has modified since this program launched. Walt Disney World has eradicated the complimentary solid-color MagicBands that have been despatched to visitors pre-arrival. Disney additionally stopped providing free MagicBands to Annual Passholders.
Because of this all MagicBands now value cash–you don’t get free ones with resort reservations or for being an Annual Passholder. Upgrading to those designs, shopping for MagicBands within the parks, or by way of shopDisney.com is your solely choice.
As all the time, MagicBands are not required at Walt Disney World. For room entry, park admission, Lightning Lanes, and charging privileges to the resort room, Walt Disney World presents plastic Key To The World playing cards. This may be offered on the resort entrance desk, and is how issues labored previous to the debut of MagicBands a number of years in the past. Alternatively, visitors can obtain customary ticket media and use that for park entry or utilizing Lightning Lanes.
Moreover, MagicMobile service is on the market at Walt Disney World by way of the My Disney Expertise app. This may be added to your Android, iPhone, or Apple Watch digital pockets as soon as enabled. This works similar to a MagicBand with most options working by merely holding up your good machine close to an entry level. It may be used to enter theme parks, join Disney PhotoPass pictures to your account, enter Lightning Lanes, and extra. Right here’s how MagicMobile compares to MagicBands.
MagicMobile and Key to the World playing cards are two of 4 methods to entry these options. The opposite choices are the MagicBand+ and the common ole MagicBand 2.0, as we’ll talk about beneath. Our brutally sincere MagicBand+ Evaluation: Good, Dangerous & Ugly ought to assist you decide whether or not it’s for you.
For these questioning how MagicBand+ and MagicMobile examine to the unique MagicBand, beneath is a useful chart. We’d advocate consulting that, attempting out MagicMobile, and studying the above assets to find out whether or not upgrading to the MagicBand+ is value it for you:
Sadly, there actually isn’t a lot pointing in evaluating the MagicBand+ to the OG MagicBand, because the latter is now not accessible on-line. You would possibly nonetheless have the ability to discover older stock in reward outlets at Walt Disney World, however that’s a problem. In Finish of an Period for MagicBands at Walt Disney World, we element the tragic downfall of the wearable gadgets.
Not solely is the MagicBand 2.0 lifeless, however the increased worth factors of the “plus” machine are solely going to speed up the demise of MagicBands, interval, at Walt Disney World. Whereas I’m positive there are some collectors who nonetheless buy them, the identical might’ve been mentioned for Vinylmations or any variety of now-extinct product strains that after had loyal fan followings.
In any case, right here’s a present have a look at MagicBand+ stock for the pre-arrival program as of August 3, 2025:
MagicBand+ Improve Designs – Fall 2025
There are at the moment 35 pre-arrival choices, which is a pointy spike as in comparison with this winter by early summer season! The three earlier occasions we reported availability–in February, April and June–there was a low of 15 choices and a excessive of 19. Having 35 decisions, lots of which are literally good, is a big enchancment.
It’s nonetheless fewer than shortly after the brand new MagicBand+ launched, when the choices peaked at a excessive of 82 MagicBands. A part of the rationale for a decrease quantity since is undoubtedly that Walt Disney World is phasing out the common ole MagicBands (formally often known as MagicBand 2.0).
Personally, I nonetheless hope that Walt Disney World reverses course and makes extra common MagicBand types. I’d fairly pay much less and persist with tried and true MagicBand 2. Right here’s hoping that lower-than-anticipated gross sales of the MagicBand+ trigger Disney to rethink its strategy. Common MagicBands are cheaper to make, which additionally means they wouldn’t must be offered at such astronomical worth factors.
It’s additionally potential that there’s lots much less curiosity in MagicBand upgrades amongst visitors. What began as a free program turned paid, however was nonetheless a reasonably good take care of $10 MagicBand choices. Now, the minimal is $25 and there are improve choices costing as a lot as $45. You’re arguably higher off simply ready for a sale on the Disney Retailer, which additionally has higher choice.
There’s additionally no hurt in ready till you arrive at Walt Disney World to buy your MagicBand. The one draw back is that you simply received’t have the ability to instantly use your MagicBand to open your resort room door, enter the parks, and so on–however the precise course of of shopping for a MagicBand and linking it to your My Disney Expertise account is easy and straightforward. It’s also possible to purchase from DisneyStore.com, the place there’s a perpetual choice of MagicBand+ designs on sale.
Talking of which, you can stroll right into a Walt Disney World reward store proper now and discover cabinets and cabinets of MagicBands. There may be ample availability within the parks & resorts…however these should not the identical product strains and the logistics of delivering to the parks is totally different than the success heart for these MagicBand improve choices. (A extra resourceful firm would possibly determine a method to reallocate provide, however Disney is not any Amazon!)
Whether or not it’s best to pay to buy a MagicBand pre-arrival is a private resolution, however there’s one huge upside in that it makes the holiday expertise seamless and streamlined. You may bypass your resort’s entrance desk, don’t must problem with separate funds, keys, and so on. So there’s undoubtedly a component of comfort for on-site visitors.
Be aware that you’ve got till 10 days earlier than your arrival at Walt Disney World to customise and order your MagicBand if you wish to have the MagicBand shipped to your own home. When you order in beneath 10 days, you’re eliminating two of the largest benefits in shopping for MagicBands.
Attributable to postal service delays, we advocate inserting your order at the very least 14 days prematurely to play it secure. Anecdotally, we’re additionally listening to of extra visitors having their orders delayed or cancelled utterly, so even ordering far prematurely doesn’t assure that your MagicBands will arrive on time–or in any respect.
With that mentioned, listed below are our troubleshooting suggestions and the step-by-step course of for ordering. (Simply take into account that this was written when provide chain disruptions weren’t a factor–so that you’re going to see much more stock n the screenshots beneath that’s NOT at the moment accessible!)
MagicBand+ Improve Troubleshooting Ideas
It’s arduous to imagine, however the MagicBand improve choice went reside a couple of years in the past. A part of the rationale that it’s arduous to imagine is as a result of MagicBand stock stays hit and miss. The system can also be frustratingly glitchy, with errors all through the method.
One factor we’ll begin by noting is that worldwide visitors can now not order MagicBand or MagicBand+ by way of the pre-arrival system except they’ve a United States mailing deal with. When you’re finding outdoors the U.S. and are having issues, that’s not a bug of the system.
There are potential workarounds for this, which ought to help you order and pick-up on the resort–however it requires a variety of further legwork. In our view, it’s not definitely worth the effort. Simply purchase a MagicBand whenever you get to Walt Disney World…or by no means.
Walt Disney World has not provided an official clarification (and possibly by no means will), our greatest guess is that it’s a matter of mental property legislation. As talked about in our Information to DisneyBand+ on Disney Cruise Line, the title change was made there for that cause. We’ve since heard extra in regards to the concern, and it sounds prefer it’s extra vital than beforehand reported–that Disney can not use the MagicBand title in any respect in sure worldwide markets.
Disney Authorized might be erring on the aspect of warning and stopping Walt Disney World from advertising and marketing or promoting MagicBands internationally in any capability to keep away from litigation publicity. Once more, all of that is unconfirmed however we’ve heard sufficient to imagine that this clarification is extremely credible. The upshot is that Disney doesn’t care when you leap by a couple of further hoops and handle to make a pre-arrival order even whereas residing in Canada or the UK or wherever.
In any other case, there are nonetheless intermittent points with the pre-arrival improve system. Past this troubleshooting recommendation beneath coupled with persistence, there’s no good decision. If reader studies are any indication, contacting Disney is unlikely to yield favorable outcomes. (We’d love to listen to your experiences within the feedback!)
When you’re having bother finishing the choice course of, or getting this to work, we’d advocate utilizing the desktop web site as an alternative of the My Disney Expertise app or cellular web site. If the desktop model of DisneyWorld.com received’t be just right for you, attempt non-public shopping, incognito mode, or a distinct browser solely.
Often, we first attempt non-public shopping on Chrome, and that resolves the difficulty. Nonetheless, a few occasions we’ve obtained a message that we would not have entry to a sure web page, or that our fee couldn’t be processed–each of these points may be resolved by time-traveling again to Y2K and utilizing Web Explorer. (Don’t fear, you received’t have to make use of AOL or dial-up, too.)
We’ve discovered that this course of will get hung up on a number of totally different pages, together with on the choice and checkout course of. Having a ‘clear’ browser will usually resolve these points. It’s not foolproof, however when you’re discovering that issues develop into unavailable proper after you choose them, that’s one clarification as to why.
When you’re having points with stock…there’s no nice answer to that. We’d advocate watching the location, checking every morning at round 8 am for the day’s restocks, and ordering your MagicBands whenever you see a ‘ok’ choice of MagicBands that attraction to you. Moreover, persons are reporting points with their orders truly transport, however this appears to be a sporadic downside.
In case your Walt Disney World trip isn’t within the close to future, we’d advocate being affected person and ready for a design you truly need. Now that Disney has a extra correct understanding of demand, they’re (hopefully) extra prone to improve the stock to an enough degree to fulfill the unbelievable demand.
Whereas we aren’t enormous into Magic Bands, this can undoubtedly have collectors and character followers excited, because it means buying a brand new design for what quantities to $10 to fifteen off. When you favored distinctive designs and have already got a drawer stuffed with the ‘customary’ colours from previous Walt Disney World journeys, leaping on the up-charge definitely is smart.
Personally, I’ll in all probability simply keep on with the one, stable blue MagicBand that I’ve been utilizing for the previous a number of years…which itself changed a distinct blue one which needed to be “retired” as a result of it was too soiled.
Not that you simply care about that. Anyway, right here’s how the method works…
After clicking the “My MagicBands and Playing cards” hyperlink beneath the My Disney Expertise drop-down on DisneyWorld.com or the “Select MagicBands” button in your resort reservation, you’ll see the above display.
As you’ll be able to see, there’s a message on the display indicating that the brand new improve choices may be shipped to visitors’ properties (U.S. addresses solely) if ordered 11 or extra days forward of arrival. They are often personalised if carried out so at the very least 6 or extra days forward of arrival.
That is what seems subsequent, and when you hit “Choose” the display scrolls down on the identical web page, revealing all of this:
No Nation Bear Jamboree, however ya can’t win ’em all. New designs are continually being added, designs promote out, are restocked, and so on. Choices change as a part of particular promotions, seasonal occasions, and that type of factor. The ‘greatest’ designs that Walt Disney World believes will promote to collectors and lovers stay unique to shops, the place they are often offered at full worth.
As soon as chosen, you arrive at this entire buy display the place you’ll be able to change your title. From there, you’ll enter fee data, a transport deal with, and end the checkout. Assuming the system works. Good luck!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you consider the brand new MagicBand improve choices? Will you be paying the premium for one in every of these colours or themed designs? Any particular design catch your eye? Do you cynically suppose that is only a lame cash-grab? Any questions we will help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even whenever you disagree with us–is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
