But they do ask me how many are in the party when we make a reservation. So right now I have my wife and I and our 2 and 3 year old but not our 6 month old. Neither have tickets because they are under age so will they not need a FP+ to get on the ride with us?
They don't need a FP now, so they won't need a FP+ either. When we ride Barnstormers My husband and I each get a FP and then we each go with her separately, so she rides twice. But never have they asked for her FP because she is too young to have a ticket and therefore wouldn't be able to get a FP. So the new system would work the same way. While your children would be added to your reservation, they would probably not be counted in the FP count and would not get a ticket and/or band since they don't require one.
On a side note, Disney is testing this with CM and their families. They are having people stay in the hotels and giving them passes to test out this system. They are even having them do the dinner reservation part of it. Not sure how big of a CM group was selected to have their family members test this out, but I know of one CM that was selected and she asked her sister.
I still am waiting to see how this system plays out before complaining or hating it. It sounds like they are working out same day FP requests, so until I see it impossible to get Toy Story or Space Mountain unless you try 60 days in advance I am going to reserve judgement. I am liking the magic bands and can't wait to get mine. Was commenting the other day when buying stuff at stands holding my child that I can't wait to be able to swipe my band across vs. fumbling to get stuff out of pockets, bags, etc. I also can't wait to know longer have to deal with paper FP and storing them somewhere. So we will see, but so far I haven't seen any huge negatives unless they don't handle same day FP requests properly.
I personally think the things HTF was talking about are pretty neat. I think RFID to trim workforce is something similar to when machines were invented for manufacturing. Or computers for things that use to be done manually. Because both of these cut down on the number of workers in that particular field. Now the interesting part, is both of these also created jobs. The jobs to create the equipment, engineer the equipment, and maintain the equipment on the manufacturing side. Computers created millions of jobs programming computers, manufacturing them, supporting them, etc. So while RFID technology will reduce the number of low paying jobs, there are some ways it may increase skilled workers. Now where this creates a problem with the economy is you are getting rid of lower paying jobs that don't require an education and replacing them with higher paying jobs that require an education. But at the same point new companies will be invented and most all companies require some lower paying jobs for things like being a receptionist or mail room, etc. Our world has changed like this over the last 100 years many times and the part that I don't like is it does kill the majority of middle class jobs, which is going to be a HUGE issue.
