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This is the podcast you have been waiting for.
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We are officially diving into weight magic.
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I am going to tell you how to use the app, what strategies to use, what I liked about it, what I didn't like about it, and I am going to give you your walkthrough on how to use it.
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Now, do I think that weight magic is for everyone?
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No.
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Do I think that weight magic is a complete game changer?
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Absolutely.
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Welcome to Well, Hello Magic, the podcast for Disney lovers, busy parents, and anyone who wants a little more magic in everyday life.
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From the best tips for families to solo travelers going to Disney to real life moments.
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You're in the right place.
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Now, here's your host, Jessica.
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Okay, so before we get into all the different ways you can use weight magic, we need to start with the basics because I know some of you are probably listening to this thinking, Jessica, what in the world is weight magic?
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Weight magic is a third-party tool created by thrill data.
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And if you're familiar with thrill data, you already know that I use them for tracking things like Disney weight times, lightning lane availability, crowd data, and all of those little numbers that Disney people like me can spend way too much time looking at.
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This is one of the three crowd calendars that I tell you to look at because this one is looking at the actual weights in the park, which help you get a more well-rounded perspective of what crowds look like.
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But weight magic takes this information and turns it into something that you can actually use to help you manage your lightning lanes.
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And the first thing I wanted to make very clear is weight magic is not a Disney product.
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This is not something you're gonna find inside My Disney experience, and it's not something that comes with Lightning Lane multipass.
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It is completely separate, it is a third-party service.
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So it actually has nothing to do with Walt Disney World, the Disney company.
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This is created by Thrill Data, which is something completely outside of the realm of Disney.
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The easiest way for me to explain weight magic is this.
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Instead of sitting on your phone refreshing my Disney experience over and over again, looking for better lightning lane times, weight magic essentially does the searching for you and also the modifying for you.
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I know a lot of you have been here and heard me talk about Standby Skipper over the years.
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Weight Magic is a different project product that does a few things differently.
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Some things better and then some things just the same as Standby Skipper.
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I will be honest, I was using both of the products to test them out at the same time after I had given Weight Magic a chance.
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And some of the more popular rides Standby Skipper got, and then some of the rides Weight Magic got.
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So I think they are essentially doing the same thing.
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It's just kind of the luck of the draw.
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It's the same way that I use a bunch of different dining alerts to be able to get the reservations I want.
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Using Standby Skipper and Weight Magic at the same time, almost guaranteed that we were always able to get on a ride.
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I know not everyone wants to spend the money on two different apps, but hopefully this podcast will help you differentiate what weight magic can do for you.
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And then you already know standby skipper's out there, and I have lots of stuff on that, and you can decide.
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So let's say you have a lightning lane for an attraction at 6 p at 6 p.m.
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at night, but you really want to write it earlier in the day.
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Normally you would go into my Disney experience, keep hitting that modify button, checking the times, refreshing, checking again, refreshing again, and hoping that somebody changes their plans and an earlier time pops up for you.
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And listen, I have absolutely done that.
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I do that all the time.
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I'm not always using standby skipper or weight magic, but I also don't necessarily want to spend the entire Disney vacation on my phone, or if we have a lot of people with us, or even when I just have my kids, it's easy for me to get distracted and forget to go back and check.
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So that's where things like weight magic comes in.
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You basically tell weight magic that you're looking for a specific ride during a specific window.
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Maybe you want an attraction that has also been sold out.
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Maybe you were wanting to move something up, like the example I gave where you don't want to stay at the park till 7 p.m.
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and you want to get on this ride earlier.
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This is where you would set up a request in Weight Magic and it would continue searching for availability in the background.
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And I think it's really important to understand weight magic doesn't have a secret stash of lightning lanes.
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It is literally using some kind of computing to constantly check for openings in the park.
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So there will be some days where it is just so packed and so busy and everyone is losing lightning lane.
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These are the days where lightning lane usually sells out that it may not necessarily get something just because the parks are at pool capacity.
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It doesn't have access to lightning lane reservations that the rest of us can't see.
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So if Slinky Dog is completely unavailable, Weight Magic doesn't manufacture like a Slinky Dog Lightning Lane.
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It's basically waiting for either the little drops that happen during the day if the ride is running really smooth, or if someone cancels their plan and there is an opening.
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So it basically is doing the watching for you.
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Disney availability changes constantly during the day.
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Like I said, some days the rides are running really smooth, and so they drop to more availability.
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Sometimes somebody cancels or someone modifies, and then there are more lightning lanes available.
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And instead of you having to capture that weight magic thing.
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So I don't want you to think of weight magic like a Disney hack, because it's not a hack, it's more of an assistant that's helping you with Lightning Lane.
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And then one more thing before we dive in deep because weight magic is a third-party service, you have to connect it to your Disney plans in order to actually have it manage lightning lanes for your party.
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That connection happens through Disney's friends and family system.
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When you set everything up, weight magic gives you instructions for connecting the profile that you'll need in your My Disney experience account.
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I know the second I say that out loud, it sounds like wait, you're connecting what to my what.
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And we will go in and explain everything in detail.
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I'm gonna walk you through exactly how you set it up, what you're connecting to, and what weight magic can and cannot do once it's connected.
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But before we even get there, I want you to understand this very basic concept about weight magic.
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Weight magic is essentially a tool that helps you automate the process of searching for and managing lightning lane availability.
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So you don't have to spend your day refreshing on your phone or constantly looking at it.
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And once you understand that, everything else that I talk about in this episode will make a whole lot of sense.
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Before we can even start talking about weight magic, I need you to understand the basic principles of Lightning Lane.
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I do have a video on YouTube that is the 2025 Lightning Lane video.
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Not very much has changed.
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That video is still relevant, so it's hard for me to go and make a new one when everything is pretty much still the same.
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But go on to my YouTube channel and watch the Lightning Lane video breakdowns because I break it down to the rudimentary level so that everyone can understand.
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Unlike Standby Skipper, I don't feel like weight magic is user-friendly.
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And so if you do not have basic knowledge of Lightning Lane, you are not going to be able to understand using weight magic and it may cause more frustration.
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So I always say weight magic is for the more advanced user.
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So if you've been to Disney, you know, more than once, but if you're a newbie, you may want to stick with Standby Skipper because it's more user-friendly.
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The app is more user-friendly.
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There aren't a bunch of ads and all of that stuff.
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But if you have been to Disney, you understand Lightning Lane, and you really want to maximize your ride availability and being able to modify and manipulate your ride times, then weight magic is where you can land.
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Okay, so now that you know what make weight magic is and you know what I think you need to be able to successfully maneuver it, we're gonna talk about setting it.
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I'm gonna pre-warn you this podcast is gonna be probably pretty long.
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It's gonna be very detailed because I know I won't have the opportunity to make a YouTube video about this.
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So basically, the podcast and the blog is going to be as detailed information as you're gonna get about weight magic.
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And so it will be very detailed because I want you to feel confident after listening to this podcast and then reading the blogs, and I'll put pictures on the blogs with examples of how to use it.
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And then at the end of this, I'll give you some strategy that worked for my family.
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So for me, the easiest place to start with Weight Magic is actually on a desktop.
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I wish I could tell you that you could start it on the phone, but I think it makes it less complex for you if you actually go on your computer and start there when you're initially setting it up.
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The website is thrill-data.com.
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Now, if you Google weight magic, thrill data will come up, but this is the website where you need to start.
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They just revamped it, so it's all cool and modern and dark right now.
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But you're gonna start here and you're going to sign up.
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When you hit that sign up, it's on the upper right side.
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You are going to create an account there.
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Once you've created an account, you will have access now to a deeper dive into all of their information when it comes to wait times at all the theme parks because they track a lot more than Walt Disney World.
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They track basically like all the US parks, but you'll always see the big ones in the front.
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So, like Epic Universe, Hollywood Studio, Cedar Point, Epcot, Islands of Adventure, and Magic Kingdom are the things that I see on my screen right now.
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Also, feel free to walk through this with me because I'm actually at my computer and I will be walking through this as I'm doing the podcast so I can tell you step by step how I'm doing this.
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Once you've created an account, what will pop up is Thrill Data Plus, which is the membership for their site.
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It covers a whole array of tools.
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Most of these are not necessarily useful for the one-time goer to Walt Disney World or the casual user.
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For people like me who are data nerds and like to keep up with all of this stuff, it does help us because we get a little in-depth look more on wait times and lightning lane availability and when they sold out on specific days.
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And that kind of stuff helps me to create content.
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Now, for you, you may not really care about all of this information.
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It also removes the ads.
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And I will say, Thrill Data has a lot of ads.
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I understand it as someone who has a blog, and when you are monetized, the ads bring you revenue.
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But I feel like sometimes their stuff is overloaded with ads.
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So for me, it's enough to pay to get the ads off, but you also want access to weight magic.
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Now, what's different is that this is a membership, so that's interesting, versus just like paying for the service of Weight Magic, the way maybe other skip the line apps work.
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So you have two days for$25, a week for$30, 10 days for$35, monthly at$45, yearly at$75, which is what I did, and then live time at$300.
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I suggest if you need to cover your trip.
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So if you're there for a week, get a week.
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If you're there for longer than a week in 10 days, get 10 days.
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Just get enough to cover the whole time because what always happens is when it works and you finally understand how to utilize a service like this, you're going to use it all the days you have it available to you.
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So just buy what you need.
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Make sure you don't have the auto renew on so it doesn't charge you again afterwards, or just be mindful of the day that you need to cancel it because you can cancel it if you need to.
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And again, if you have the auto renew off, it's just over.
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There's no issues.
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Now they do also have an email address where they are very responsive and a Facebook group where they are very responsive if you need help.
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So make sure you're also in those things as you are planning this trip.
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But go ahead and select your weekly or 10 days, whatever you need.
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But only do this if you're about to actively go on the trip.
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So now that you have your membership, it is time to connect weight magic to my Disney experience.
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And I know this is probably the part where some of you are like, wait, Jessica, I'm not, why am I connecting this to my Disney account?
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So I'm gonna walk through this.
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First, you're not giving Thrill Data your My Disney experience username or password.
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You're not handing over any of your Disney login information.
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Instead, weight magic connects through Disney's friends and family system.
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If you've traveled to Walt Disney World with other people before, you've probably used friends and family without even thinking about it.
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This is what allows someone in your party to see your plans and make modifications for you and also make plans for you.
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It's basically that linking system that we use.
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Weight Magic is essentially using that exact same system.
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That way it can book these rides for you.
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So once you have logged in your into Thrill Data on my computer, you are going to go to MDX Connector.
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MDX is just referring to my Disney experience.
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Thrill Data is gonna give me a weight magic profile that I need to connect to.
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The name is Nicole Goodman.
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So when you see that name pop up, you are going to connect to her.
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There is an important distinction.
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You're not logging in to Disney through Thrill Data.
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You're basically adding weight magic as a friend to have permission to interact with your plant.
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Once that connection is made, weight magic needs to be able to see the people that they're actually going to be booking lightning lanes for.
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So let's say I'm going with just my husband and the four kids.
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It isn't enough for Weight Magic only to see my account.
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It needs to be connected to everyone.
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So I manage some of the kids and my husband manages some of the kids.
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So I need to make sure that all of the members in my travel party are connected to Wait Magic and it has permission to view and manage the plans.
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This is especially important with children or anyone else that you manage a Disney profile for because those profiles will work a little differently than the adult ones where everyone will have to accept on their own.
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You will go in and accept on behalf of the people you manage.
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Once everyone is connected, you can go back to Thrill Data and you can actually see who is connected to Weight Magic on this page.
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And so it will say, you know, under the linked guest, like I look at it now, and it has my husband, me, and all four of my kids under linked guest.
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That's how you know that they are properly linked.
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So here comes the next part on why I want you to do this on a desktop versus a computer.
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So you may have to do some of the linking like through your app, your My Disney Experience app, because that is a little bit easier sometimes.
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But once your party is linked, you can see everyone under linked guests.
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You're going to go over to parties.
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So parties is where you're creating groups.
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So unlike other apps where you can just click the people who want to ride a specific ride with Thrill Data, you have to make these groups.
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So I went ahead and pre-made them on my desktop because it's a lot easier to see on your desktop than it is trying to make these groups in your phone on the flyer in the moment.
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So for my family, I have a group of six, which I just have listed as Mickelson family.
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Then I have the coaster crew because only four of us like to ride roller coasters.
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Then I have the girls, then I have the boys, and then I have non-coaster duo, which is my oldest, the 14-year-old, and my youngest, the six-year-old.
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They don't like to ride coasters.
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So that way I can book them rides while the coaster crew is off riding rides.
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Sometimes the girls go off, sometimes the boys go off.
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But these are typically our five groupings that we have.
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So what you need to decide is what are typically the groupings that you have with your family?
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Because it's easier to set this up.
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If you're lucky, you have a family of four, everyone likes to do everything together, then you have one group, just your family name.
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If you have mixed-age kids, if you have younger kids that don't ride certain rides, then you'll need multiple groups.
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And I'm telling you, it's a lot easier just to kind of brainstorm these groups before you get to the park because it is annoying on the web page to make these.
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Now there is an app, we'll talk a little bit about that.
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It's still in beta testing right now, but most of the time I am using their web page on my uh phone, and it's harder to see.
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So go ahead and set up those groups under parties so you have that all done.
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So now that we have our group set, you've paid for the membership, we're ready to start using this.
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You may be wondering when do you set up your Thrill Data account?
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When do you set up all of this stuff?
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And this is before your trip.
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So Thrill Data works well before your trip.
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So while you have to do Lightning Link seven days out, I say get all of this set up 10 days before your trip.
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That way you can mess around with it for three days, making sure everything is linked properly.
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They also do have an app, and the app is actually great, but it's in beta testing.
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So the way that you're going to get access to the app is you're going to log on to Thrill Data on your phone.
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When you log on on your phone, you'll see a bar that says something like download the app or install the app.
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It's going to take you to this thing called test flight.
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Test flight is where like beta apps can live in, so you can test it.
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Then when you click on when after you've downloaded test flight, you go back to that link, click on it again, and thrill data will come up.
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And when you look at this app, it is very clean, it's very easy to maneuver and use.
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And the great thing is, once you log in, all of your information is there.
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So, like as I'm looking at the app right now, all of my parties are listed in there.
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All of the people I'm connected to are listed.
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Right now, I don't have any plans, but it's all in there.
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And it also still has the other stuff from the Thrill Data website.
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So it has alerts, dining alerts that you can set up, which I've not tested the dining alert, so I don't know how well it does, but I will on our upcoming trips.
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Then it has all the information about lightning lane data for Disney World and Disneyland.
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You can see all the theme parks that are being tracked, and then there's a trip planner in here.
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But of course, weight magic is what we are going for.
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And at the top, you can see in the app it says new search.
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So I'm gonna bounce back and forth between describing how to use the app and also setting it up on your phone through Safari if you don't want to download the app.
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But again, the hope is the app will be live here by the end of the month.
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If you're listening to this, I should tell you, if you're listening to this on October 7th when this dropped, it's hopefully it'll be live at the end of the month.
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If you're listening to this after, you know, October 2026, then it's live.
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So at this point, I'm assuming that you have already done the work.
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You have looked at my Lightning Lane video, you have read about Lightning Lane, you have printed the sheets.
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I have free sheets that help you sit down and plan out your Lightning Lane goals for the day.
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You understand what are the most popular rides, you understand what sells out, and you also understand that you are basing your selections on what your family wants to do at the theme park.
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If you are someone who is staying at a Disney resort collection hotel, you know that you have a seven day advantage in booking your lightning lanes, and you can book for your entire trip up to 14 days.
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If you're lucky enough to stay longer than 14 days, that's wonderful, but you'll have another booking window.
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But at this point, you understand.
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Okay, this is what I have to do to book.
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If you are off Disney property, which 60% of people who go to Walt Disney World actually stay off property, which is wild to think because I feel like sometimes the resorts are so sold out, and just knowing that that's only 40% of the people who go to the park is wild.
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But if you are off property, you know that you can book Lightning Lane three days in advance, but you are doing it every day.
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So there is a little disadvantage with staying off property that you don't get staying on property.
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So things like weight magic will really be useful and helpful to you.
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But I am assuming that you have done this work.
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So when I'm gonna start talking about how to set things up in the app and when to set things up, I am assuming you know how to do this.
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If you do not know how to do this, stop this podcast.
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I'm just shy of 23 minutes and you need to go and read my blogs or just watch that one hour Lightning Lane video.
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And I'm telling you, once you've done that, you will fully understand Lightning Lane and then come back to this podcast and you want to start it at 23 minutes and pick up where you left off.
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So the first thing you're gonna do is you're going to take your phone and you are going to open your app.
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So right now in beta testing, you're going to click test flight, and then you're going to open the Thrill Data app.
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The hope is that when this is released, you won't have to do that.
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You're on the interface, you've already paid for the membership, you have all your groups linked, and you have all the fun stuff that's available to you in this app, which I will say the setup of the app is wonderful.
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It looks great, it looks very user-friendly and easy to use.
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What you care about is the weight magic that is on the far right on the bottom.
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Now, when are you going to set this up?
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You have now booked your lightning lanes and you got the times that you got.
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So if you are lucky and you were able to overlap that last 20 minutes of a reservation, your times are close together.
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Or if let's say you're at Epcot and you know your tier one for you there is Rummy and you're gonna get that, but put it later in the day.
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And then you're gonna get two tier twos that are rides that are over by like test track and frozen.
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So maybe you put like mission space as your very first lightning lane ride because you're hoping to rope drop test track or frozen, and that's what you're using as a burner ride.
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That may be scheduled, you know, right when the park opens.
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It just depends on whatever strategy that you've decided to use that day.
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But let's say, for instance, you know, that was my strategy was I was gonna book Remy later in the day because I want to rope drop frozen or test track, which are both tier twos, but I paid for guardians to be in the morning because I want to be over on that side of the park.
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And I got mission space, but maybe I got it like at 10, knowing that the park opens at nine, and I just couldn't get that spot.
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I could go in and start a new search before I even get to Disney World.
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And so I would click the new search button.
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I'm gonna pick Mickelson family because I want the entire group.
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Then it says attraction selection.
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This is where you can click on any of the four parks that are there.
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So I'm gonna click on Epcot, and you just want to make sure your date is on the right date.
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So it goes visit date, party selection, attraction selection, and I'm gonna go down to mission space and I'm gonna click that.
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Then it's going to ask, do you already have a lightning lane book for this?
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And you're gonna click yes.
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Then you are gonna be asked modify or attraction swap.
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And I'm gonna say, I want to modify this booking.
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Then comes what do you do after a successful change?
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Do you want it to keep searching, to keep modifying until it gets a higher time, or do you want it to pause?
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Now, this is very important because what I found, even with me who is like an expert at Lightning Lane, I would forget to turn off the continue modifying.
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So this is a great change where it's asking you what you should do after success because it will keep modifying.
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And sometimes it modified a ride so early that it kind of ruined my plan for the day, and we had to go over there.
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Then it comes down to target return time.
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You can do earliest time available anytime within the next hour, morning, which is 7 to 11:59 a.m.
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Early morning, which is 8 a.m.
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to 9.59 a.m.
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Late morning, which is 10 a.m.
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to 11:59, afternoon, which is 12 p.m.
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to 4.59 p.m.
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Early afternoon, which is 12 p.m.
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to 1.59 p.m.
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Late afternoon, which is 2 p.m.
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to 4.59 p.m.
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Evening, which is 5 p.m.
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to 11.59 p.m.
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Early evening, which is 5 p.m.
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to 7.59 p.m.
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And then late evening, which is 8 p.m.
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to 11.59.
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Then you have the choice of picking specific times.
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It this is a lot.
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This is a lot of choices.
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Then there is a tab that says only earlier than, and you can put only earlier than 9 a.m., only earlier than 9.30, and it goes through all of those choices.
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Then there's only after.
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So you can say, I only want it after this.
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And then there's another button next to it that says custom range, and you can just set the range.
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This is great that there are so many options, but if you can only imagine someone who is coming to Walt Disney World for the first time and seeing all of these options, this is overwhelming.
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It's too much.
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And that is why I say weight magic sometimes is so complicated or it gives you so many options.
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I shouldn't say it's complicated because the app actually makes it so much easier than the website, which is why, you know, I'm talking about the app first and then I'll talk about the website.
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The app makes it easier because it's a lot of click button and it's to the next thing.
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But when you have so many options and if you don't understand strategy, this can feel like a lot.
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So let's just say I'm doing morning because I'm setting this before I get to the park, right?
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So this is when I'm at home.
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I want to modify that booking because I got a 10 a.m.
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booking.
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I would like to push it at nine.
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And you know what?
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This actually would be a great instance in where maybe I don't want to set it at morning.
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I want to set it at only before, you know, 10 a.m.
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Because I already have a 10 a.m.
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time.
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So I may click only earlier than 10 a.m.
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to ensure that I get a time that is before 10 because that is my goal.
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Then I would hit create search.
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That search would be created, and then it literally would show up on the searches.
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So at the top of your wait magic, you have searches, plans, friends, and parties.
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And this now is in the searches.
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So you know it's an active search.
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And it will say searching on there.
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When it's paused, it will say paused.
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Then you actually can also, like, let's say you don't need this search anymore.
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There is a pause button you can hit there, there's an edit button, and there's even a delete button.
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So now you're going to continue setting these up before you get to Disney.
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So that way it can continue to try to modify the reservations to the times that you want.
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So this is all your pre-planning for the trip.
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As it modifies, you should take the worksheets that you've done and also modify that so that you can continue to tweak your plans.
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Now, you also have to remember from the video if you have dining experiences, those can sometimes push away times that will be shown available to your party because they always want to have kind of a buffer around dining experiences.
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So if you're someone where the rides are more important, especially in the morning, you may not want to book any character meals or breakfasts that are table service on days where you're going to the park.
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You may want to make sure those are dinners or just wait to do those on rest days anyway, especially if you have a priority enough to use this during your park days.
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Maybe a table service meal in the morning.
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It's something that you don't want.
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Because if you can maximize your time in the morning, then you can get on all these rides and have a relaxing type of day.
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So this is part one of your setups is correcting all of your morning rides and you know when you want to get on them.
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Part two of setting up before you get to Disney is now looking at your goals in terms of ride goals.
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So you know how I say it's you set like eight priorities.
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A realistic Disney Day consists of eight different experiences where it's either rides, table service and rides, or parades, shows, rides, and table service.
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I can always guarantee you that you will at least experience eight of those things.
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Will you experience more in a realistic Disney day?
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Yes, you will.
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But I don't want you to feel so rushed and put everything down as a priority that you have a list of 16 things and then you have a miserable day.
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So look at those eight priority items and then decide: okay, we want to also get on, you know, frozen again, test track, because we're hoping to rope drop those.
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Then, you know, we want to ride Figment, Soren, Living with the Land, all of that stuff.
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And you're going to start building your day in terms of approximate windows and times that you want to be at those things.
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So for me, what I would do if I know, let's say weight magic got that mission space and now it's at 9:15.
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And I want to leave open two Lightning Lane availability spots.
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So let's say, you know, I have the Remy booked in the evening because we're going to spend the early evening over on that side of the world showcase.
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But in the morning, we're hoping to rope drop, you know, test track.
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So we're going to leave Frozen to Chance and hope that it books it in the morning.
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I am only going to book Mission Space.
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So that way I have two Lightning Lane spots available because, especially at EFCON, I know we'll be able to get multiple rides a little bit easier.
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So I'm not just going to book another ride at the time of booking.
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So in Wait Magic, I'm going to set up searches for later in the day.
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So I'm going to set up Frozen for the morning.
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So I want to make sure we get it in that morning window.
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So I set frozen up for that, knowing we are going to rope drop test track and we're hoping to get through test track.
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Now, I also am going to set up a search for test track because my kids love test track.
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And if we can get it again in the morning, great.
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And if we can, I'll just delete it and know we at least got on it one time.
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Then I'm going to set up a search maybe for Soren in the early afternoon because my plan is, you know, we'll finish this side of the world showcase, get on Guardians, Test Track, Frozen, and Mission Space.
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We're going to walk over to Sunshine Seasons for lunch around 11:30-ish, 12 o'clock.
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So hopefully we can land a Soren in the afternoon.
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So I'm going to preset Soren for the afternoon.
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I'm not going to put Living with the Land in yet because I know I have other priority rides.
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And because of availability, I bet Living with the Land will have a little bit more availability, except for at Christmas time.
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That's the only time that Living with the Land kind of shrinks down with availability because it has the glimmering lights and everyone loves the glimmering lights.
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But outside of Christmas, I wouldn't put Living with the Land in there.
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During the holiday season of Christmas, so like November 6th ish until the end of the year, I may put Living with the Land in there for the afternoon because I know how popular that ride is during the holidays.
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However, living with the land is much better at night during Christmas.
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So that's just my little tip.
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It still looks cute during the day, but if you want to see the glimmering lights, you need to really ride it in the evening time.
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But I digress.
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Let's say I put that in there.
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I still need to make sure I'm managing the correct times that I'm putting in the searches.
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You don't want to just put all the searches in on any time.
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That doesn't make sense because you don't want to write it anytime.
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And you don't want the only after only before this time and only after this time until your day is pretty much done.
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When your day is done and you've accomplished all of the priority things on your list, then you could really start using those to get on multiple rides.
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You also don't want to be running all over the park.
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With Epcot being a circle, if you put any time, you could be at Frozen and then get a Soren, and then you're having a walk a mile.
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And that does not, that's not fun.
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So you want to be really specific about the windows of time.
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And that's where having that paper itinerary breaking up the time slots for you would be really helpful because you're trying to guesstimate about how long you're going to be in each specific area and you're going to correlate your weight magic booking times to those windows.
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So this is the beautiful thing about weight magic.
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So you've set all of this up and you are finally in the park.
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You've tapped into Spaceship Earth, and now you have gotten off of a ride and you've put all these parameters in to book these different selections.
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So you come out of the attraction, you look at your plans, and all of a sudden you see a notification that says, Oh, frozen is booked.
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This is when you start to be like, okay, this is worth it, because you didn't have to go into your My Disney experience and book it.
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Weight Magic did.
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And then this is the process that will continue throughout the day.
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You tap into a lightning lane, you have more lightning lanes available, and then the same thing happens.
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Weight magic continues working through your requests and creating new bookings for you that you did not have to go through my Disney experience and do.
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So instead of you constantly thinking, what should I book next?
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You've already done a lot of that thinking ahead of time.
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Put all of those requests into weight magic, and then you get to actually pay attention to your day.
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You're experiencing Disney in the moment, which is also why I say I don't want you to set up more than like five requests.
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You have your three that you already have for the morning, and then you put in like your extra five because weight magic doesn't get confused with how many things you have in there.
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It's booking all of your priorities.
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You maybe hop in like a 15-minute standby line or a 10-minute standby line.
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You'll especially experience this at Magic Kingdom when you have low demand rides, but you never feel like you're actually waiting in your day because Wait Magic is continuing to search for those lightning lanes and book them, and then you're living in the moment.
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So throughout the day, I want you guys to understand that you also have to go back and kind of clean up your request as they're done, or maybe as your needs change.
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You have to decide what do I still want?
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What don't I need anymore?
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Making sure you're turning off some search modifications because let's say that you put a write in and the wait was like five minutes and you don't really need to do it again.
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You'll have to go back in and turn that off.
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Reassess your windows.
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Are these realistic?
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Is there something new that I want to add?
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Did weight magic already accomplish something that changes the rest of your strategy?
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So those are the times where you're going to have to tap back in, but it's really not that often because you've done all the pre-planning ahead of time.
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So that is the beautiful thing with being able to put all these selections in.
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Now, if you do run out of rides, you'll want to go back in and put more selections in so that hopefully you can get it.
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And then obviously there's Florida and weather, there's getting extra multi-experience passes, which again, if you don't know what I'm talking about with multi-experience passes, you need to go back and watch that lightning lane video.
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Because one of the great things about multi-experience passes is let's say it's raining outside or there's lightning and Big Thunder Mountain is down because that's an outside ride that stops functioning once lightning is like within 10 miles or something like that.
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You will get a multi-experience pass so that you can get on Big Thunder late later, but it also opens up that you can book another lightning lane.
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And when days like that have happened to me, we've gone to the point where we had literally seven lightning lanes because of the multi-experience passes, plus also the continuously booking of lightning lanes that you get after you get a multi-experience pass.
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So that's another benefit of having something like weight magic constantly booking because it's already picking up when that multi-experience pass has been given to you.
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Because sometimes you don't even realize that you've gotten a multi-experience pass until later.
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But if you have alerts set, they're already booking for you.
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Okay, so before I make weight magic sound like it's going to solve every lightning lane problem you've ever had, I do want to be really clear about something.
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Weight magic cannot create availability.
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So if Remy is gone for the day and there's absolutely no lightning lanes available, weight magic cannot magically make Remy lightning lanes appear.
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It's called weight magic because it's actually doing the magic, but it cannot create anything that is not available.
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So if it is just one of those days at the park where everything is breaking down, it's just a rough day, which does occasionally happen at Disney, it's going to keep searching for availability, but it's not going to be able to create it.
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What I don't want is for anyone listening to think, okay, I'm going to pay for weight magic, and now I'm guaranteed to get every single lightning lane I want.
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Absolutely not.
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If I tell you wait, if I tell weight magic that I want Remy between one and two, and that availability never comes up, you're not getting Remy between one and two.
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You need to change the availability.
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That's why sometimes those limited windows, I don't think, are the best.
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You want like a broader time range or like a frame of at least three hours.
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It can only work with the inventory that Disney is actually making available.
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I also want to point out that weight magic is not necessarily faster than you.
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There are times where maybe if you have the app open and you're sitting there refreshing my Disney experience and a great lightning link pops up at that exact second, you grab it before weight magic does because again, weight magic is searching the same way you do.
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So it's a race to the finish.
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The same way with dining alerts, how I always say that I set multiple different companies because sometimes ones are faster than others.
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This is the exact same thing.
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But here's the thing I don't want to do that all day.
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I don't want to refresh all day, the same way I don't want to check on dining alerts.
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So I know how to refresh, I know how to modify, I know how to play the Lightning Lane game.
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Obviously, I've been using Lightning Lane since its inception.
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I absolutely have spent like Disney days doing it on days where I didn't have this, or maybe if I was just stopping by, but I just don't necessarily want to do it.
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I don't want to walk through the world showcase with my family staring at my phone because I'm trying to move Remy up.
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That's just the reality.
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And that's where I see the value in things like weight magic.
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I'm not paying for this, or I'm not paying for weight magic because it has a secret stash of lightning lanes.
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Like I've reiterated that so many times over this podcast, but I am paying for automation.
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I'm paying for someone else to keep looking while I'm eating around the world, while I'm riding another ride, while I'm taking a kid to the bathroom for the 15th time, or I just want to spend the time with my family.
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So sometimes it's going to get exactly what I asked for.
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Sometimes it's going to find something better than what I already had.
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And then sometimes it's not going to work at all.
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And that's just the reality of lightning lane availability.
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Even if you were someone who was on their phone 247, you probably could not do what weight.
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Magic is doing.
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So, as always, I want everyone to go into this with realistic expectations.
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Weight Magic is a tool and it's something that will take some of the work off of you, but it's not guaranteeing you anything.
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And at the end of the day, Disney still controls the inventory.
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Personally, that is what I'm paying for when I get a service like this.
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So let's talk about using Weight Magic from the website because for a long time, when they released this, we had to use it from the website.
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The biggest tip on that is to set it as like your home or main page.
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So every time you open Safari or Google, whatever site that you're using, it pops up first.
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And then it kind of functions like the app, but I don't think it does.
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So a lot of people are like, oh, then you treat it like an app.
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No, it still feels very much like a website.
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And so I don't love using it on the website on my phone, but you still will set up your attractions the same way.
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It's just not clean.
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And I, if you read the blog, I'll show two pictures side by side of what it looks like on the website versus the app.
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The app is definitely more user-friendly.
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So if you can download the app and use it that way, it would be much better for you.
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I think you would enjoy the experience.
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But during, but if you're using the website on your phone, it feels very much like a website.
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And you know, like spacing is weird on those.
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Sometimes you have to zoom in to see things on it.
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And that's why I also like to set it up on a desktop because setting it up on your phone is just a pain to do that, especially if you're using the website.
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But to create a search, you'll still go through all of the same type of presets, finding the ride and doing all that.
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And then you would create the search.
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Now, the other thing I don't like about using the website is it bounces like when you use it.
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Like with the app, each of the different phases are just like set because it's in an app.
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When you're on a website, you know, like the screen moves, it zooms in and zooms out.
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And so I don't love it.
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It's still the same way to use it as the app kind of.
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You will still be able to maneuver it with all the details I gave you on this podcast.
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But I'm telling you, it's worth downloading test flight and getting the beta version so that you can use that.
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If you pay for three data with the membership, also remember you don't have the ads.
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So I'm glad they changed that because I remember when I used it the first time and I was using it as a website, the ads were killing me because I was like, I just pay for this.
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And to use Weight Magic, there's still all these ads everywhere.
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So when you pay for the membership now, the ads are gone, which is nice, which makes it a lot more user-friendly if you're just using it as a website on your phone.
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But I still think it's worth downloading the test flight to download the beta version of the app, especially because you're doing all of that setup at home.
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So the bottom line or the question everyone's asking is so is Weight Magic worth it?
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Obviously, I think it is.
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I think anything that's going to make your Disney day easier is worth considering, especially if you're willing to put in the work to understand Lightning Lane, build a strategy before you get there.
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Use the resources that I have given you to be able to make your days easier.
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And I do want to point out that I haven't given you the full Lightning Lane strategy in this episode.
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We've talked about priorities because you need to understand those to use weight magic, but we haven't gone through sellout order, attraction popularity, what you should book first, what you shouldn't book first, and how I would actually build a full lightning lane day.
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I have lightning lane videos where I go much deeper into that.
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I talk about that on Instagram, and I have podcast episodes that break down individual parks because weight magic isn't the strategy.
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And I really want that to be clear.
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It's a tool that helps you execute a strategy.
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You still need to know what attractions are important to you, which ones are harder to get, and what makes sense for you and your family or your friends, whoever you're going to the park with.
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And if you're willing to do that work, then yes, I absolutely think weight magic is worth it for you.
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You just have to keep your expectations realistic.
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It isn't a guarantee that you can get impossible lightning lanes.
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It can't create availability that isn't there.
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And there may be times when somebody manually refreshes my Disney experience and happens to grab something before weight magic does, and that's okay.
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For me, the value is not that weight magic somehow has better access.
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It's definitely that you're not constantly looking for the rides, looking on your phones, and you can pre-plan your strategy before you even get to the park because you've done all the legwork, entered in, all the wait times or wait windows that you want rights to pop in.
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I'm paying for convenience.
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I'm paying for someone to do the work that I've been doing or carrying every Disney trip.
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So I'm basically handing over what I would do to someone else.
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And especially when I'm traveling with four kids and I'm already managing everyone's needs and what we're eating and who's hungry, who needs to go to the bathroom.
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And with my multi-generational trips coming up and knowing that weight magic also allows me to have 20 people on it, unlike Standby Skipper, which is limited to 12, that takes a lot of stress off of me.
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And speaking of that multi-generational trip, I will create more categories that are so useful.
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So, like if the grandparents want to take the littles, I'll have a grandparent and little care category.
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The adult kids want to go all ride something together and leave all the kids with the grandparents, I'll have that category.
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So there is a lot of strategy that can be used ahead of time to pre-plan those days to take the load off of the planner.
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So I'm here to tell you again: learn Lightning Lane, have a strategy, know your priorities, and then let weight magic do the rest.
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For me, this is absolutely worth it.
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I am giving it a 10 out of 10.
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It is a little bit more complicated than Standby Skipper.
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You know how my brain works.
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So I'm always wondering can I teach this to my Disney fam so that they can execute it easily?
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I'm hoping that this podcast has really broken it down for you.
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And I hope the blog that is attached to it also breaks it down further.
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I will add pictures to the blog to show you how things work.
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And so I hope the combination of those and then doing the legwork of going through planning my different park days will definitely help you in having a more successful Disney trip.
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I know this was a long podcast, even getting some long ones from me lately.
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But I hope that this gives you all the information you need.
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I know you have a lot of places you can go for information.
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So I appreciate you spending this time with me.
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And I hope you have a magical rest of your day.
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This is the podcast you have been waiting for.
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We are officially diving into weight magic.
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I am going to tell you how to use the app, what strategies to use, what I liked about it, what I didn't like about it, and I am going to give you your walkthrough on how to use it.
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Now, do I think that weight magic is for everyone?
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No.
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Do I think that weight magic is a complete game changer?
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Absolutely.
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Welcome to Well, Hello Magic, the podcast for Disney lovers, busy parents, and anyone who wants a little more magic in everyday life.
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From the best tips for families to solo travelers going to Disney to real life moments.
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You're in the right place.
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Now, here's your host, Jessica.
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Okay, so before we get into all the different ways you can use weight magic, we need to start with the basics because I know some of you are probably listening to this thinking, Jessica, what in the world is weight magic?
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Weight magic is a third-party tool created by thrill data.
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And if you're familiar with thrill data, you already know that I use them for tracking things like Disney weight times, lightning lane availability, crowd data, and all of those little numbers that Disney people like me can spend way too much time looking at.
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This is one of the three crowd calendars that I tell you to look at because this one is looking at the actual weights in the park, which help you get a more well-rounded perspective of what crowds look like.
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But weight magic takes this information and turns it into something that you can actually use to help you manage your lightning lanes.
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And the first thing I wanted to make very clear is weight magic is not a Disney product.
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This is not something you're gonna find inside My Disney experience, and it's not something that comes with Lightning Lane multipass.
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It is completely separate, it is a third-party service.
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So it actually has nothing to do with Walt Disney World, the Disney company.
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This is created by Thrill Data, which is something completely outside of the realm of Disney.
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The easiest way for me to explain weight magic is this.
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Instead of sitting on your phone refreshing my Disney experience over and over again, looking for better lightning lane times, weight magic essentially does the searching for you and also the modifying for you.
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I know a lot of you have been here and heard me talk about Standby Skipper over the years.
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Weight Magic is a different project product that does a few things differently.
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Some things better and then some things just the same as Standby Skipper.
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I will be honest, I was using both of the products to test them out at the same time after I had given Weight Magic a chance.
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And some of the more popular rides Standby Skipper got, and then some of the rides Weight Magic got.
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So I think they are essentially doing the same thing.
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It's just kind of the luck of the draw.
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It's the same way that I use a bunch of different dining alerts to be able to get the reservations I want.
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Using Standby Skipper and Weight Magic at the same time, almost guaranteed that we were always able to get on a ride.
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I know not everyone wants to spend the money on two different apps, but hopefully this podcast will help you differentiate what weight magic can do for you.
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And then you already know standby skipper's out there, and I have lots of stuff on that, and you can decide.
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So let's say you have a lightning lane for an attraction at 6 p at 6 p.m.
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at night, but you really want to write it earlier in the day.
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Normally you would go into my Disney experience, keep hitting that modify button, checking the times, refreshing, checking again, refreshing again, and hoping that somebody changes their plans and an earlier time pops up for you.
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And listen, I have absolutely done that.
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I do that all the time.
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I'm not always using standby skipper or weight magic, but I also don't necessarily want to spend the entire Disney vacation on my phone, or if we have a lot of people with us, or even when I just have my kids, it's easy for me to get distracted and forget to go back and check.
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So that's where things like weight magic comes in.
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You basically tell weight magic that you're looking for a specific ride during a specific window.
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Maybe you want an attraction that has also been sold out.
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Maybe you were wanting to move something up, like the example I gave where you don't want to stay at the park till 7 p.m.
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and you want to get on this ride earlier.
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This is where you would set up a request in Weight Magic and it would continue searching for availability in the background.
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And I think it's really important to understand weight magic doesn't have a secret stash of lightning lanes.
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It is literally using some kind of computing to constantly check for openings in the park.
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So there will be some days where it is just so packed and so busy and everyone is losing lightning lane.
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These are the days where lightning lane usually sells out that it may not necessarily get something just because the parks are at pool capacity.
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It doesn't have access to lightning lane reservations that the rest of us can't see.
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So if Slinky Dog is completely unavailable, Weight Magic doesn't manufacture like a Slinky Dog Lightning Lane.
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It's basically waiting for either the little drops that happen during the day if the ride is running really smooth, or if someone cancels their plan and there is an opening.
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So it basically is doing the watching for you.
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Disney availability changes constantly during the day.
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Like I said, some days the rides are running really smooth, and so they drop to more availability.
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Sometimes somebody cancels or someone modifies, and then there are more lightning lanes available.
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And instead of you having to capture that weight magic thing.
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So I don't want you to think of weight magic like a Disney hack, because it's not a hack, it's more of an assistant that's helping you with Lightning Lane.
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And then one more thing before we dive in deep because weight magic is a third-party service, you have to connect it to your Disney plans in order to actually have it manage lightning lanes for your party.
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That connection happens through Disney's friends and family system.
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When you set everything up, weight magic gives you instructions for connecting the profile that you'll need in your My Disney experience account.
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I know the second I say that out loud, it sounds like wait, you're connecting what to my what.
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And we will go in and explain everything in detail.
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I'm gonna walk you through exactly how you set it up, what you're connecting to, and what weight magic can and cannot do once it's connected.
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But before we even get there, I want you to understand this very basic concept about weight magic.
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Weight magic is essentially a tool that helps you automate the process of searching for and managing lightning lane availability.
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So you don't have to spend your day refreshing on your phone or constantly looking at it.
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And once you understand that, everything else that I talk about in this episode will make a whole lot of sense.
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Before we can even start talking about weight magic, I need you to understand the basic principles of Lightning Lane.
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I do have a video on YouTube that is the 2025 Lightning Lane video.
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Not very much has changed.
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That video is still relevant, so it's hard for me to go and make a new one when everything is pretty much still the same.
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But go on to my YouTube channel and watch the Lightning Lane video breakdowns because I break it down to the rudimentary level so that everyone can understand.
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Unlike Standby Skipper, I don't feel like weight magic is user-friendly.
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And so if you do not have basic knowledge of Lightning Lane, you are not going to be able to understand using weight magic and it may cause more frustration.
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So I always say weight magic is for the more advanced user.
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So if you've been to Disney, you know, more than once, but if you're a newbie, you may want to stick with Standby Skipper because it's more user-friendly.
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The app is more user-friendly.
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There aren't a bunch of ads and all of that stuff.
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But if you have been to Disney, you understand Lightning Lane, and you really want to maximize your ride availability and being able to modify and manipulate your ride times, then weight magic is where you can land.
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Okay, so now that you know what make weight magic is and you know what I think you need to be able to successfully maneuver it, we're gonna talk about setting it.
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I'm gonna pre-warn you this podcast is gonna be probably pretty long.
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It's gonna be very detailed because I know I won't have the opportunity to make a YouTube video about this.
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So basically, the podcast and the blog is going to be as detailed information as you're gonna get about weight magic.
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And so it will be very detailed because I want you to feel confident after listening to this podcast and then reading the blogs, and I'll put pictures on the blogs with examples of how to use it.
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And then at the end of this, I'll give you some strategy that worked for my family.
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So for me, the easiest place to start with Weight Magic is actually on a desktop.
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I wish I could tell you that you could start it on the phone, but I think it makes it less complex for you if you actually go on your computer and start there when you're initially setting it up.
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The website is thrill-data.com.
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Now, if you Google weight magic, thrill data will come up, but this is the website where you need to start.
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They just revamped it, so it's all cool and modern and dark right now.
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But you're gonna start here and you're going to sign up.
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When you hit that sign up, it's on the upper right side.
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You are going to create an account there.
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Once you've created an account, you will have access now to a deeper dive into all of their information when it comes to wait times at all the theme parks because they track a lot more than Walt Disney World.
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They track basically like all the US parks, but you'll always see the big ones in the front.
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So, like Epic Universe, Hollywood Studio, Cedar Point, Epcot, Islands of Adventure, and Magic Kingdom are the things that I see on my screen right now.
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Also, feel free to walk through this with me because I'm actually at my computer and I will be walking through this as I'm doing the podcast so I can tell you step by step how I'm doing this.
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Once you've created an account, what will pop up is Thrill Data Plus, which is the membership for their site.
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It covers a whole array of tools.
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Most of these are not necessarily useful for the one-time goer to Walt Disney World or the casual user.
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For people like me who are data nerds and like to keep up with all of this stuff, it does help us because we get a little in-depth look more on wait times and lightning lane availability and when they sold out on specific days.
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And that kind of stuff helps me to create content.
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Now, for you, you may not really care about all of this information.
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It also removes the ads.
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And I will say, Thrill Data has a lot of ads.
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I understand it as someone who has a blog, and when you are monetized, the ads bring you revenue.
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But I feel like sometimes their stuff is overloaded with ads.
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So for me, it's enough to pay to get the ads off, but you also want access to weight magic.
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Now, what's different is that this is a membership, so that's interesting, versus just like paying for the service of Weight Magic, the way maybe other skip the line apps work.
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So you have two days for$25, a week for$30, 10 days for$35, monthly at$45, yearly at$75, which is what I did, and then live time at$300.
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I suggest if you need to cover your trip.
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So if you're there for a week, get a week.
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If you're there for longer than a week in 10 days, get 10 days.
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Just get enough to cover the whole time because what always happens is when it works and you finally understand how to utilize a service like this, you're going to use it all the days you have it available to you.
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So just buy what you need.
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Make sure you don't have the auto renew on so it doesn't charge you again afterwards, or just be mindful of the day that you need to cancel it because you can cancel it if you need to.
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And again, if you have the auto renew off, it's just over.
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There's no issues.
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Now they do also have an email address where they are very responsive and a Facebook group where they are very responsive if you need help.
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So make sure you're also in those things as you are planning this trip.
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But go ahead and select your weekly or 10 days, whatever you need.
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But only do this if you're about to actively go on the trip.
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So now that you have your membership, it is time to connect weight magic to my Disney experience.
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And I know this is probably the part where some of you are like, wait, Jessica, I'm not, why am I connecting this to my Disney account?
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So I'm gonna walk through this.
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First, you're not giving Thrill Data your My Disney experience username or password.
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You're not handing over any of your Disney login information.
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Instead, weight magic connects through Disney's friends and family system.
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If you've traveled to Walt Disney World with other people before, you've probably used friends and family without even thinking about it.
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This is what allows someone in your party to see your plans and make modifications for you and also make plans for you.
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It's basically that linking system that we use.
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Weight Magic is essentially using that exact same system.
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That way it can book these rides for you.
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So once you have logged in your into Thrill Data on my computer, you are going to go to MDX Connector.
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MDX is just referring to my Disney experience.
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Thrill Data is gonna give me a weight magic profile that I need to connect to.
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The name is Nicole Goodman.
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So when you see that name pop up, you are going to connect to her.
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There is an important distinction.
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You're not logging in to Disney through Thrill Data.
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You're basically adding weight magic as a friend to have permission to interact with your plant.
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Once that connection is made, weight magic needs to be able to see the people that they're actually going to be booking lightning lanes for.
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So let's say I'm going with just my husband and the four kids.
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It isn't enough for Weight Magic only to see my account.
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It needs to be connected to everyone.
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So I manage some of the kids and my husband manages some of the kids.
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So I need to make sure that all of the members in my travel party are connected to Wait Magic and it has permission to view and manage the plans.
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This is especially important with children or anyone else that you manage a Disney profile for because those profiles will work a little differently than the adult ones where everyone will have to accept on their own.
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You will go in and accept on behalf of the people you manage.
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Once everyone is connected, you can go back to Thrill Data and you can actually see who is connected to Weight Magic on this page.
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And so it will say, you know, under the linked guest, like I look at it now, and it has my husband, me, and all four of my kids under linked guest.
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That's how you know that they are properly linked.
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So here comes the next part on why I want you to do this on a desktop versus a computer.
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So you may have to do some of the linking like through your app, your My Disney Experience app, because that is a little bit easier sometimes.
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But once your party is linked, you can see everyone under linked guests.
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You're going to go over to parties.
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So parties is where you're creating groups.
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So unlike other apps where you can just click the people who want to ride a specific ride with Thrill Data, you have to make these groups.
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So I went ahead and pre-made them on my desktop because it's a lot easier to see on your desktop than it is trying to make these groups in your phone on the flyer in the moment.
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So for my family, I have a group of six, which I just have listed as Mickelson family.
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Then I have the coaster crew because only four of us like to ride roller coasters.
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Then I have the girls, then I have the boys, and then I have non-coaster duo, which is my oldest, the 14-year-old, and my youngest, the six-year-old.
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They don't like to ride coasters.
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So that way I can book them rides while the coaster crew is off riding rides.
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Sometimes the girls go off, sometimes the boys go off.
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But these are typically our five groupings that we have.
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So what you need to decide is what are typically the groupings that you have with your family?
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Because it's easier to set this up.
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If you're lucky, you have a family of four, everyone likes to do everything together, then you have one group, just your family name.
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If you have mixed-age kids, if you have younger kids that don't ride certain rides, then you'll need multiple groups.
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And I'm telling you, it's a lot easier just to kind of brainstorm these groups before you get to the park because it is annoying on the web page to make these.
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Now there is an app, we'll talk a little bit about that.
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It's still in beta testing right now, but most of the time I am using their web page on my uh phone, and it's harder to see.
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So go ahead and set up those groups under parties so you have that all done.
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So now that we have our group set, you've paid for the membership, we're ready to start using this.
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You may be wondering when do you set up your Thrill Data account?
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When do you set up all of this stuff?
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And this is before your trip.
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So Thrill Data works well before your trip.
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So while you have to do Lightning Link seven days out, I say get all of this set up 10 days before your trip.
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That way you can mess around with it for three days, making sure everything is linked properly.
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They also do have an app, and the app is actually great, but it's in beta testing.
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So the way that you're going to get access to the app is you're going to log on to Thrill Data on your phone.
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When you log on on your phone, you'll see a bar that says something like download the app or install the app.
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It's going to take you to this thing called test flight.
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Test flight is where like beta apps can live in, so you can test it.
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Then when you click on when after you've downloaded test flight, you go back to that link, click on it again, and thrill data will come up.
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And when you look at this app, it is very clean, it's very easy to maneuver and use.
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And the great thing is, once you log in, all of your information is there.
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So, like as I'm looking at the app right now, all of my parties are listed in there.
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All of the people I'm connected to are listed.
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Right now, I don't have any plans, but it's all in there.
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And it also still has the other stuff from the Thrill Data website.
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So it has alerts, dining alerts that you can set up, which I've not tested the dining alert, so I don't know how well it does, but I will on our upcoming trips.
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Then it has all the information about lightning lane data for Disney World and Disneyland.
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You can see all the theme parks that are being tracked, and then there's a trip planner in here.
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But of course, weight magic is what we are going for.
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And at the top, you can see in the app it says new search.
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So I'm gonna bounce back and forth between describing how to use the app and also setting it up on your phone through Safari if you don't want to download the app.
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But again, the hope is the app will be live here by the end of the month.
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If you're listening to this, I should tell you, if you're listening to this on October 7th when this dropped, it's hopefully it'll be live at the end of the month.
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If you're listening to this after, you know, October 2026, then it's live.
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So at this point, I'm assuming that you have already done the work.
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You have looked at my Lightning Lane video, you have read about Lightning Lane, you have printed the sheets.
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I have free sheets that help you sit down and plan out your Lightning Lane goals for the day.
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You understand what are the most popular rides, you understand what sells out, and you also understand that you are basing your selections on what your family wants to do at the theme park.
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If you are someone who is staying at a Disney resort collection hotel, you know that you have a seven day advantage in booking your lightning lanes, and you can book for your entire trip up to 14 days.
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If you're lucky enough to stay longer than 14 days, that's wonderful, but you'll have another booking window.
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But at this point, you understand.
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Okay, this is what I have to do to book.
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If you are off Disney property, which 60% of people who go to Walt Disney World actually stay off property, which is wild to think because I feel like sometimes the resorts are so sold out, and just knowing that that's only 40% of the people who go to the park is wild.
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But if you are off property, you know that you can book Lightning Lane three days in advance, but you are doing it every day.
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So there is a little disadvantage with staying off property that you don't get staying on property.
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So things like weight magic will really be useful and helpful to you.
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But I am assuming that you have done this work.
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So when I'm gonna start talking about how to set things up in the app and when to set things up, I am assuming you know how to do this.
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If you do not know how to do this, stop this podcast.
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I'm just shy of 23 minutes and you need to go and read my blogs or just watch that one hour Lightning Lane video.
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And I'm telling you, once you've done that, you will fully understand Lightning Lane and then come back to this podcast and you want to start it at 23 minutes and pick up where you left off.
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So the first thing you're gonna do is you're going to take your phone and you are going to open your app.
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So right now in beta testing, you're going to click test flight, and then you're going to open the Thrill Data app.
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The hope is that when this is released, you won't have to do that.
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You're on the interface, you've already paid for the membership, you have all your groups linked, and you have all the fun stuff that's available to you in this app, which I will say the setup of the app is wonderful.
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It looks great, it looks very user-friendly and easy to use.
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What you care about is the weight magic that is on the far right on the bottom.
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Now, when are you going to set this up?
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You have now booked your lightning lanes and you got the times that you got.
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So if you are lucky and you were able to overlap that last 20 minutes of a reservation, your times are close together.
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Or if let's say you're at Epcot and you know your tier one for you there is Rummy and you're gonna get that, but put it later in the day.
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And then you're gonna get two tier twos that are rides that are over by like test track and frozen.
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So maybe you put like mission space as your very first lightning lane ride because you're hoping to rope drop test track or frozen, and that's what you're using as a burner ride.
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That may be scheduled, you know, right when the park opens.
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It just depends on whatever strategy that you've decided to use that day.
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But let's say, for instance, you know, that was my strategy was I was gonna book Remy later in the day because I want to rope drop frozen or test track, which are both tier twos, but I paid for guardians to be in the morning because I want to be over on that side of the park.
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And I got mission space, but maybe I got it like at 10, knowing that the park opens at nine, and I just couldn't get that spot.
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I could go in and start a new search before I even get to Disney World.
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And so I would click the new search button.
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I'm gonna pick Mickelson family because I want the entire group.
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Then it says attraction selection.
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This is where you can click on any of the four parks that are there.
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So I'm gonna click on Epcot, and you just want to make sure your date is on the right date.
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So it goes visit date, party selection, attraction selection, and I'm gonna go down to mission space and I'm gonna click that.
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Then it's going to ask, do you already have a lightning lane book for this?
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And you're gonna click yes.
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Then you are gonna be asked modify or attraction swap.
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And I'm gonna say, I want to modify this booking.
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Then comes what do you do after a successful change?
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Do you want it to keep searching, to keep modifying until it gets a higher time, or do you want it to pause?
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Now, this is very important because what I found, even with me who is like an expert at Lightning Lane, I would forget to turn off the continue modifying.
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So this is a great change where it's asking you what you should do after success because it will keep modifying.
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And sometimes it modified a ride so early that it kind of ruined my plan for the day, and we had to go over there.
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Then it comes down to target return time.
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You can do earliest time available anytime within the next hour, morning, which is 7 to 11:59 a.m.
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Early morning, which is 8 a.m.
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to 9.59 a.m.
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Late morning, which is 10 a.m.
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to 11:59, afternoon, which is 12 p.m.
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to 4.59 p.m.
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Early afternoon, which is 12 p.m.
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to 1.59 p.m.
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Late afternoon, which is 2 p.m.
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to 4.59 p.m.
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Evening, which is 5 p.m.
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to 11.59 p.m.
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Early evening, which is 5 p.m.
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to 7.59 p.m.
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And then late evening, which is 8 p.m.
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to 11.59.
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Then you have the choice of picking specific times.
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It this is a lot.
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This is a lot of choices.
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Then there is a tab that says only earlier than, and you can put only earlier than 9 a.m., only earlier than 9.30, and it goes through all of those choices.
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Then there's only after.
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So you can say, I only want it after this.
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And then there's another button next to it that says custom range, and you can just set the range.
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This is great that there are so many options, but if you can only imagine someone who is coming to Walt Disney World for the first time and seeing all of these options, this is overwhelming.
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It's too much.
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And that is why I say weight magic sometimes is so complicated or it gives you so many options.
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I shouldn't say it's complicated because the app actually makes it so much easier than the website, which is why, you know, I'm talking about the app first and then I'll talk about the website.
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The app makes it easier because it's a lot of click button and it's to the next thing.
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But when you have so many options and if you don't understand strategy, this can feel like a lot.
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So let's just say I'm doing morning because I'm setting this before I get to the park, right?
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So this is when I'm at home.
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I want to modify that booking because I got a 10 a.m.
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booking.
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I would like to push it at nine.
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And you know what?
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This actually would be a great instance in where maybe I don't want to set it at morning.
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I want to set it at only before, you know, 10 a.m.
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Because I already have a 10 a.m.
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time.
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So I may click only earlier than 10 a.m.
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to ensure that I get a time that is before 10 because that is my goal.
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Then I would hit create search.
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That search would be created, and then it literally would show up on the searches.
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So at the top of your wait magic, you have searches, plans, friends, and parties.
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And this now is in the searches.
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So you know it's an active search.
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And it will say searching on there.
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When it's paused, it will say paused.
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Then you actually can also, like, let's say you don't need this search anymore.
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There is a pause button you can hit there, there's an edit button, and there's even a delete button.
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So now you're going to continue setting these up before you get to Disney.
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So that way it can continue to try to modify the reservations to the times that you want.
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So this is all your pre-planning for the trip.
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As it modifies, you should take the worksheets that you've done and also modify that so that you can continue to tweak your plans.
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Now, you also have to remember from the video if you have dining experiences, those can sometimes push away times that will be shown available to your party because they always want to have kind of a buffer around dining experiences.
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So if you're someone where the rides are more important, especially in the morning, you may not want to book any character meals or breakfasts that are table service on days where you're going to the park.
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You may want to make sure those are dinners or just wait to do those on rest days anyway, especially if you have a priority enough to use this during your park days.
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Maybe a table service meal in the morning.
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It's something that you don't want.
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Because if you can maximize your time in the morning, then you can get on all these rides and have a relaxing type of day.
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So this is part one of your setups is correcting all of your morning rides and you know when you want to get on them.
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Part two of setting up before you get to Disney is now looking at your goals in terms of ride goals.
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So you know how I say it's you set like eight priorities.
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A realistic Disney Day consists of eight different experiences where it's either rides, table service and rides, or parades, shows, rides, and table service.
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I can always guarantee you that you will at least experience eight of those things.
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Will you experience more in a realistic Disney day?
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Yes, you will.
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But I don't want you to feel so rushed and put everything down as a priority that you have a list of 16 things and then you have a miserable day.
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So look at those eight priority items and then decide: okay, we want to also get on, you know, frozen again, test track, because we're hoping to rope drop those.
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Then, you know, we want to ride Figment, Soren, Living with the Land, all of that stuff.
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And you're going to start building your day in terms of approximate windows and times that you want to be at those things.
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So for me, what I would do if I know, let's say weight magic got that mission space and now it's at 9:15.
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And I want to leave open two Lightning Lane availability spots.
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So let's say, you know, I have the Remy booked in the evening because we're going to spend the early evening over on that side of the world showcase.
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But in the morning, we're hoping to rope drop, you know, test track.
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So we're going to leave Frozen to Chance and hope that it books it in the morning.
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I am only going to book Mission Space.
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So that way I have two Lightning Lane spots available because, especially at EFCON, I know we'll be able to get multiple rides a little bit easier.
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So I'm not just going to book another ride at the time of booking.
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So in Wait Magic, I'm going to set up searches for later in the day.
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So I'm going to set up Frozen for the morning.
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So I want to make sure we get it in that morning window.
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So I set frozen up for that, knowing we are going to rope drop test track and we're hoping to get through test track.
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Now, I also am going to set up a search for test track because my kids love test track.
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And if we can get it again in the morning, great.
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And if we can, I'll just delete it and know we at least got on it one time.
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Then I'm going to set up a search maybe for Soren in the early afternoon because my plan is, you know, we'll finish this side of the world showcase, get on Guardians, Test Track, Frozen, and Mission Space.
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We're going to walk over to Sunshine Seasons for lunch around 11:30-ish, 12 o'clock.
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So hopefully we can land a Soren in the afternoon.
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So I'm going to preset Soren for the afternoon.
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I'm not going to put Living with the Land in yet because I know I have other priority rides.
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And because of availability, I bet Living with the Land will have a little bit more availability, except for at Christmas time.
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That's the only time that Living with the Land kind of shrinks down with availability because it has the glimmering lights and everyone loves the glimmering lights.
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But outside of Christmas, I wouldn't put Living with the Land in there.
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During the holiday season of Christmas, so like November 6th ish until the end of the year, I may put Living with the Land in there for the afternoon because I know how popular that ride is during the holidays.
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However, living with the land is much better at night during Christmas.
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So that's just my little tip.
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It still looks cute during the day, but if you want to see the glimmering lights, you need to really ride it in the evening time.
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But I digress.
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Let's say I put that in there.
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I still need to make sure I'm managing the correct times that I'm putting in the searches.
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You don't want to just put all the searches in on any time.
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That doesn't make sense because you don't want to write it anytime.
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And you don't want the only after only before this time and only after this time until your day is pretty much done.
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When your day is done and you've accomplished all of the priority things on your list, then you could really start using those to get on multiple rides.
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You also don't want to be running all over the park.
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With Epcot being a circle, if you put any time, you could be at Frozen and then get a Soren, and then you're having a walk a mile.
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And that does not, that's not fun.
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So you want to be really specific about the windows of time.
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And that's where having that paper itinerary breaking up the time slots for you would be really helpful because you're trying to guesstimate about how long you're going to be in each specific area and you're going to correlate your weight magic booking times to those windows.
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So this is the beautiful thing about weight magic.
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So you've set all of this up and you are finally in the park.
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You've tapped into Spaceship Earth, and now you have gotten off of a ride and you've put all these parameters in to book these different selections.
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So you come out of the attraction, you look at your plans, and all of a sudden you see a notification that says, Oh, frozen is booked.
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This is when you start to be like, okay, this is worth it, because you didn't have to go into your My Disney experience and book it.
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Weight Magic did.
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And then this is the process that will continue throughout the day.
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You tap into a lightning lane, you have more lightning lanes available, and then the same thing happens.
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Weight magic continues working through your requests and creating new bookings for you that you did not have to go through my Disney experience and do.
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So instead of you constantly thinking, what should I book next?
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You've already done a lot of that thinking ahead of time.
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Put all of those requests into weight magic, and then you get to actually pay attention to your day.
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You're experiencing Disney in the moment, which is also why I say I don't want you to set up more than like five requests.
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You have your three that you already have for the morning, and then you put in like your extra five because weight magic doesn't get confused with how many things you have in there.
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It's booking all of your priorities.
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You maybe hop in like a 15-minute standby line or a 10-minute standby line.
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You'll especially experience this at Magic Kingdom when you have low demand rides, but you never feel like you're actually waiting in your day because Wait Magic is continuing to search for those lightning lanes and book them, and then you're living in the moment.
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So throughout the day, I want you guys to understand that you also have to go back and kind of clean up your request as they're done, or maybe as your needs change.
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You have to decide what do I still want?
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What don't I need anymore?
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Making sure you're turning off some search modifications because let's say that you put a write in and the wait was like five minutes and you don't really need to do it again.
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You'll have to go back in and turn that off.
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Reassess your windows.
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Are these realistic?
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Is there something new that I want to add?
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Did weight magic already accomplish something that changes the rest of your strategy?
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So those are the times where you're going to have to tap back in, but it's really not that often because you've done all the pre-planning ahead of time.
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So that is the beautiful thing with being able to put all these selections in.
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Now, if you do run out of rides, you'll want to go back in and put more selections in so that hopefully you can get it.
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And then obviously there's Florida and weather, there's getting extra multi-experience passes, which again, if you don't know what I'm talking about with multi-experience passes, you need to go back and watch that lightning lane video.
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Because one of the great things about multi-experience passes is let's say it's raining outside or there's lightning and Big Thunder Mountain is down because that's an outside ride that stops functioning once lightning is like within 10 miles or something like that.
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You will get a multi-experience pass so that you can get on Big Thunder late later, but it also opens up that you can book another lightning lane.
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And when days like that have happened to me, we've gone to the point where we had literally seven lightning lanes because of the multi-experience passes, plus also the continuously booking of lightning lanes that you get after you get a multi-experience pass.
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So that's another benefit of having something like weight magic constantly booking because it's already picking up when that multi-experience pass has been given to you.
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Because sometimes you don't even realize that you've gotten a multi-experience pass until later.
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But if you have alerts set, they're already booking for you.
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Okay, so before I make weight magic sound like it's going to solve every lightning lane problem you've ever had, I do want to be really clear about something.
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Weight magic cannot create availability.
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So if Remy is gone for the day and there's absolutely no lightning lanes available, weight magic cannot magically make Remy lightning lanes appear.
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It's called weight magic because it's actually doing the magic, but it cannot create anything that is not available.
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So if it is just one of those days at the park where everything is breaking down, it's just a rough day, which does occasionally happen at Disney, it's going to keep searching for availability, but it's not going to be able to create it.
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What I don't want is for anyone listening to think, okay, I'm going to pay for weight magic, and now I'm guaranteed to get every single lightning lane I want.
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Absolutely not.
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If I tell you wait, if I tell weight magic that I want Remy between one and two, and that availability never comes up, you're not getting Remy between one and two.
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You need to change the availability.
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That's why sometimes those limited windows, I don't think, are the best.
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You want like a broader time range or like a frame of at least three hours.
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It can only work with the inventory that Disney is actually making available.
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I also want to point out that weight magic is not necessarily faster than you.
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There are times where maybe if you have the app open and you're sitting there refreshing my Disney experience and a great lightning link pops up at that exact second, you grab it before weight magic does because again, weight magic is searching the same way you do.
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So it's a race to the finish.
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The same way with dining alerts, how I always say that I set multiple different companies because sometimes ones are faster than others.
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This is the exact same thing.
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But here's the thing I don't want to do that all day.
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I don't want to refresh all day, the same way I don't want to check on dining alerts.
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So I know how to refresh, I know how to modify, I know how to play the Lightning Lane game.
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Obviously, I've been using Lightning Lane since its inception.
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I absolutely have spent like Disney days doing it on days where I didn't have this, or maybe if I was just stopping by, but I just don't necessarily want to do it.
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I don't want to walk through the world showcase with my family staring at my phone because I'm trying to move Remy up.
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That's just the reality.
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And that's where I see the value in things like weight magic.
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I'm not paying for this, or I'm not paying for weight magic because it has a secret stash of lightning lanes.
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Like I've reiterated that so many times over this podcast, but I am paying for automation.
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I'm paying for someone else to keep looking while I'm eating around the world, while I'm riding another ride, while I'm taking a kid to the bathroom for the 15th time, or I just want to spend the time with my family.
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So sometimes it's going to get exactly what I asked for.
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Sometimes it's going to find something better than what I already had.
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And then sometimes it's not going to work at all.
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And that's just the reality of lightning lane availability.
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Even if you were someone who was on their phone 247, you probably could not do what weight.
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Magic is doing.
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So, as always, I want everyone to go into this with realistic expectations.
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Weight Magic is a tool and it's something that will take some of the work off of you, but it's not guaranteeing you anything.
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And at the end of the day, Disney still controls the inventory.
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Personally, that is what I'm paying for when I get a service like this.
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So let's talk about using Weight Magic from the website because for a long time, when they released this, we had to use it from the website.
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The biggest tip on that is to set it as like your home or main page.
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So every time you open Safari or Google, whatever site that you're using, it pops up first.
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And then it kind of functions like the app, but I don't think it does.
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So a lot of people are like, oh, then you treat it like an app.
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No, it still feels very much like a website.
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And so I don't love using it on the website on my phone, but you still will set up your attractions the same way.
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It's just not clean.
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And I, if you read the blog, I'll show two pictures side by side of what it looks like on the website versus the app.
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The app is definitely more user-friendly.
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So if you can download the app and use it that way, it would be much better for you.
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I think you would enjoy the experience.
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But during, but if you're using the website on your phone, it feels very much like a website.
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And you know, like spacing is weird on those.
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Sometimes you have to zoom in to see things on it.
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And that's why I also like to set it up on a desktop because setting it up on your phone is just a pain to do that, especially if you're using the website.
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But to create a search, you'll still go through all of the same type of presets, finding the ride and doing all that.
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And then you would create the search.
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Now, the other thing I don't like about using the website is it bounces like when you use it.
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Like with the app, each of the different phases are just like set because it's in an app.
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When you're on a website, you know, like the screen moves, it zooms in and zooms out.
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And so I don't love it.
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It's still the same way to use it as the app kind of.
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You will still be able to maneuver it with all the details I gave you on this podcast.
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But I'm telling you, it's worth downloading test flight and getting the beta version so that you can use that.
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If you pay for three data with the membership, also remember you don't have the ads.
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So I'm glad they changed that because I remember when I used it the first time and I was using it as a website, the ads were killing me because I was like, I just pay for this.
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And to use Weight Magic, there's still all these ads everywhere.
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So when you pay for the membership now, the ads are gone, which is nice, which makes it a lot more user-friendly if you're just using it as a website on your phone.
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But I still think it's worth downloading the test flight to download the beta version of the app, especially because you're doing all of that setup at home.
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So the bottom line or the question everyone's asking is so is Weight Magic worth it?
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Obviously, I think it is.
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I think anything that's going to make your Disney day easier is worth considering, especially if you're willing to put in the work to understand Lightning Lane, build a strategy before you get there.
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Use the resources that I have given you to be able to make your days easier.
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And I do want to point out that I haven't given you the full Lightning Lane strategy in this episode.
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We've talked about priorities because you need to understand those to use weight magic, but we haven't gone through sellout order, attraction popularity, what you should book first, what you shouldn't book first, and how I would actually build a full lightning lane day.
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I have lightning lane videos where I go much deeper into that.
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I talk about that on Instagram, and I have podcast episodes that break down individual parks because weight magic isn't the strategy.
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And I really want that to be clear.
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It's a tool that helps you execute a strategy.
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You still need to know what attractions are important to you, which ones are harder to get, and what makes sense for you and your family or your friends, whoever you're going to the park with.
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And if you're willing to do that work, then yes, I absolutely think weight magic is worth it for you.
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You just have to keep your expectations realistic.
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It isn't a guarantee that you can get impossible lightning lanes.
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It can't create availability that isn't there.
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And there may be times when somebody manually refreshes my Disney experience and happens to grab something before weight magic does, and that's okay.
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For me, the value is not that weight magic somehow has better access.
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It's definitely that you're not constantly looking for the rides, looking on your phones, and you can pre-plan your strategy before you even get to the park because you've done all the legwork, entered in, all the wait times or wait windows that you want rights to pop in.
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I'm paying for convenience.
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I'm paying for someone to do the work that I've been doing or carrying every Disney trip.
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So I'm basically handing over what I would do to someone else.
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And especially when I'm traveling with four kids and I'm already managing everyone's needs and what we're eating and who's hungry, who needs to go to the bathroom.
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And with my multi-generational trips coming up and knowing that weight magic also allows me to have 20 people on it, unlike Standby Skipper, which is limited to 12, that takes a lot of stress off of me.
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And speaking of that multi-generational trip, I will create more categories that are so useful.
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So, like if the grandparents want to take the littles, I'll have a grandparent and little care category.
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The adult kids want to go all ride something together and leave all the kids with the grandparents, I'll have that category.
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So there is a lot of strategy that can be used ahead of time to pre-plan those days to take the load off of the planner.
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So I'm here to tell you again: learn Lightning Lane, have a strategy, know your priorities, and then let weight magic do the rest.
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For me, this is absolutely worth it.
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I am giving it a 10 out of 10.
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It is a little bit more complicated than Standby Skipper.
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You know how my brain works.
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So I'm always wondering can I teach this to my Disney fam so that they can execute it easily?
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I'm hoping that this podcast has really broken it down for you.
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And I hope the blog that is attached to it also breaks it down further.
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I will add pictures to the blog to show you how things work.
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And so I hope the combination of those and then doing the legwork of going through planning my different park days will definitely help you in having a more successful Disney trip.
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I know this was a long podcast, even getting some long ones from me lately.
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But I hope that this gives you all the information you need.
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I know you have a lot of places you can go for information.
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So I appreciate you spending this time with me.
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And I hope you have a magical rest of your day.
