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Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub This is a good article. I can not decide if I want to be one of the chosen visitors to "test" this device or do I want to be old fashioned to experience the park casually...I want to be a chosen one!
Originally Posted By nbodyhome I wouldn't take one. I can get a show schedule that would be lighter. I don't want to carry something else around (I already have my cameras). And I don't want to get dinged so much money if I lose it! Denise
Originally Posted By blueharvest82 I have always been a supporter of all the new innoventive ideas WDI comes up with. However, I am not so sure about this one. It seems likes its a next-gen MPM with-out the cuddly toy and souvenir potential. Besides that, you are not getting to keep a nintendo DS, you are renting a used one that you are now responsible for, and will have to pay the upcharge on. I have been to WDW a billion times, both with and with-out other people who know the parks. I understand how frustrating it can be for some families who have know idea what they are doing when they come here. I hear people all the time on the buses and monorails trying to figure out what park TOT is in, or why they couldn't find spiderman at the Disney Studios. I think the unoficial guides and QA forums like this are one of the best resourses for wait-times, closures, characters, crowds, dining, and shows and disney realizes that and they are trying to cash in on that. I am a huge disney fanatic and I am hoping I will have a chance to test one of these out (I am gonna go tomorrow). However, I think they should just improve MPM a little if they were gonna do anything at all. I am sure a lot of you noticed how many people both with and with-out kids walk around with one.
Originally Posted By GMouse Sounds cool, but it's not for me. I work in IT and I go to Disney to get away from personal technology devices.
Originally Posted By nbodyhome Considering how badly their bus system worked (Magic in Motion?), I'm not sure I'd trust Disney to get me the correct info anyway. I also agree on getting away from technology at Disney. I have a friend or two who carry Blackberry type devices - I just like to get away from the computer when out. I'm on it enough all day.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 One thing that caught my eye was the description of games being offered in the queues specifically designed around that attraction. While that sounds great, I can see a problem -- what if you only have one unit and multiple children? I would imagine this could lead to a lot of fighting. Personally, I don't think I would want to carry around a Nintendo DS around the parks with me all day - those things are quite large. I think Disney would be better off coming up with a system that could integrate with people's cell phones -- at least that way I wouldn't have to carry around another device. They could even charge a small service fee for accessing their system, which I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to pay for up to the minute wait times, or even a way to get fastpasses without going to that ride.
Originally Posted By CMDad <<Considering how badly their bus system worked (Magic in Motion?)>> Magic on Demand
Originally Posted By figment1986 sounds interesting... I would use it... if they offered it as a cartage for the DS... The idea might be better used as a cell phone application or a Web site for cell phones to access, much like how universal Orlando has a beta site showing wait times.
Originally Posted By Brian Noble It would certainly be better than calling WDW-INFO, which is what I do know when I want to know if it's worth trekking across a park to grab a fastpass. Not really necessary in Epcot, where the secondary tip boards broadcast return times.
Originally Posted By blueharvest82 I was at MK today. I wasn't chosen to use one, but I saw about 3 families and 1 couple with them. They are white ds lites. The cartridge goes into the gameboy slot and has a grey attachment that wraps around the whole thing with two small speakers in the front.
Originally Posted By nbodyhome I don't know what a ds lite is. Is it about as big as a regular Gameboy? Not that I know what they are sized like these days, I just have an old Mattel hand-held soccer game from the 80's. Denise
Originally Posted By dshyates My guess is when they go online for real it will be a $45 cartridge speaker system that you buy for your personal DS Lite. There will also be a stack of $149 DS Lites for sale right beside them. So for a mere $200 you to will be able to play games while waiting for your fastpass time.
