Fans of Disney’s PhotoPass service, we’ve got something new you may love to save those vacation pics!
PhotoPass Photographers in Hollywood Studios
If you’ve had your pic snapped by PhotoPass photographer, one of those instantly-loved PhotoPass camera boxes (ha!), or snapped a Magic Shot or 2 around the parks, you know all too well that pictures taken by Disney can be great memories to save long after your trip. And now there’s an easier way!
Disney’s Memory Maker is a (pricey!) but great service for guests who want to get full use out of PhotoPass services around the parks and leave their own cameras behind.
Photopass set up at Tower of Terror
It costs $199 or $169 if purchased in advance of your trip, and grants you unlimited downloads of any PhotoPass photos taken during your trip. This includes Magic Shots, pics taken by PhotoPass Photographers, ride photos, and more for up to 45 days after the photo was taken. Many Annual Passholders get Memory Maker benefits included in the price of their passes and can access their photos up to 365 days after they were taken. But what happens after that??
Say Cheese for PhotoPass Photographers!
Even if you download your photos while you can, what if something happens to your computer? You wouldn’t want to lose those great photos (especially if you spent a pretty penny to get them!). Disney has a new solution: The Disney PhotoPass Archive USB.
Disney PhotoPass Archive USB ©Disney
This little USB drive is available for $34.95 on the Disney PhotoPass site. You can go online and, at the time of purchase, all Memory Maker photos available on your account will be mailed directly to you on a little USB for safekeeping! Now you won’t have to worry about losing all your favorite family photos from Disney World (well…as long as you don’t go losing the little USB drive, that is!).
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Is this available for the 1 day memory maker option? What would be the total cost for the usb and 1 day memory maker? I can see pluses and minuses to it.
I’m sorry but this has got to be the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while.
I can go to Best Buy or Amazon and get a 256gb flash drive for about $20.
And I guarentee the one Disney sells if probably only about 2 or 4gb.
Soo…
I don’t know how big it is but I would think if you have a decently long week-plus vacation it would be a lot more than a 4 gb. One trip before they called it that, you could order the backup CD’s and I have 700 pictures on like 6 cd’s. And they are not low res pics. They are saved with sufficient dpi to zoom in and crop and the print a good looking 8×10. You need high res for enlargements. I would also imagine that if you call PhotoPass about a certain photo they can help you get a super high res if you need it. When you go in to see the photos they let you crop and do borders and stuff and if you get one that is special to you, I’m sure they will work with you as much as possible to get it exactly the way you want it. We have always purchased the whole albums, from PhotoPass since its inception. And I can never replace those photos with all of us in them. Of course, you can burn them to CD or DVD yourself or a USB if you want to. I totally recommend preserving them anyway, but if they will do it for me when I have 700 photos, I’m going to save myself the effort. $35 is nothing. IMHO, this is the best. I have possibly the best picture of my son in Ketchakiddee creek when he was maybe 2-3. the smile on my autistic son is something I don’t have too many of. he’s 12 now, and developing a mustache now and bigger than me. But I will always have that picture! I LOVE that it is now part of an annual pass too. I bought them before they did this. We are from Boston and sometimes get the AP to use late summer one year and early summer the next. Not always, but most of the time.