One of the features most advertised about MagicBand+ is watching the Walt Disney World nighttime spectaculars with synchronized lighting on your wrist. We’ve already tried it with “Disney Enchantment” at the Magic Kingdom and the Beacon of Magic over at Spaceship Earth, so naturally the next stop was “Harmonious” at EPCOT!

While we can report that unlike “Disney Enchantment”, the lighting on MagicBand+ takes place throughout most of the entire show.

The band syncs to the music and lighting on the barges rather than the fireworks themselves. Some of the notable patterns include a cherry blossom during the “Mulan” section, with red on the outsides and a white Mickey icon at the center, along with some rainbows during “Coco”.

There were occasions where one band in our party would light up when others wouldn’t, but for the most part it stayed lit for most of the show.

While this is a much more “finished” product than the experience we had with “Disney Enchantment” last night (which is also a statement that could be made about “Harmonious” versus “Disney Enchantment” as a whole), it still feels rather pointless — why watch your wrist when the fireworks and projections are right in front of you? We missed a good chunk of the show just staring at our wrists, and it seems like there’s no actual purpose here for this other than as a marketing point.

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