By now mostly everyone has found out Walt Disney World is quietly testing out what could be soon our next generation magic bands, the question hold what will they do with our old ones in which took Disney $2 Billion dollars to make, Walt Disney for this quarter of its fiscal year had about a 4% guest drop. In which could be one of the reasons why they are working on a next level park entry technology, Disney lost so much money, This year that they had to do a lot of budget cut changes around its theme parks. For one they let go about 1,500 employees i believe in Disney Springs, just a couple weeks ago, they also let go a large group of imagineers, but that is known to happen once they finish with a project it's not guaranteed they will stay working for the Large company. Now Magic Bands could be a heavy hitter in which they might be losing a lot of money in. The above image as it shows a new form of a magic band similar to the size of a puck, From researching and finding out information about this next level band, Disney will give you the option to keep that puck round magic band inside of your pocket and it will still be in range of Disney's technology to read the chips information without losing signal their for giving the ability to get into the fast pass+ lines and etc. Second option will be quite similar from what i hear to the fitbit in which you can change the straps to the color of your choice, doesn't that sound less of a headache for Walt Disney World not having to send you a new magic band for each trip you take, you can just change the straps to the option of your choice and it goes from there. Below will be an example to what Disney is thinking of doing with this next gen park entry technology.
The company has been keeping this technology quite confidential, from the documents i've seen they first started testing these out a few months back May 17,2016. This Round Puck may not be the final production of it but let me tell you it has completely changed my outlook of it.