disney are now offering the option for onsite guests to upgrade the free plain magic band to a selected character band you just pay the difference between the 2 - save $14.99 off the price of the new one.
It was meant to be live on the system from the 15th but as of yet its not actually been available

oh that's cool. don't go till Sept so I'm hoping it's all sorted before then

Wish they would hurry up and sort this out! Still in triple figures but need to be organised! 😂😂😂

I always thought the 15th a very optimistic so soon after the announcement, if it were that quick they would of simply waited and then announce it as it went live and saved their customer service teams taking various calls and so on about it

I suspect their IT teams are working on it and are either in the final stages of making the changes or they are doing a pre-release test run as we speak with selected guests

I have no evidence to back it up but I would guess it would go active mid June in time for July and August holidays.

Which twitter account?

It was Walt Disney World Today, they have now changed to 'At this time we do not have an official date for the launch of this service'. I'm out of time now :(

Still only offering solid colours on my MDE

Someone on facebook this morning posted that they managed to get them to show but now it is only showing the standard 'Stitch ate my page' error message. Looks like it should be up imminently though.

Also looks like it will be for existing bookings too.

I am going to hold off and only order nearer the time as who knows if they will add more designs by then and you may not be able to swap and change like you can with the plain colour ones