As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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We have 4 in our group. We will be splitting up some because some can't ride certain rides, some don't like certain ride, etc. Say I want to book two of us on Rock n Roller Coaster and the other two on Toy Story Midway Mania for the same approximate times. What's the easiest way to do that? Book all 4 on one ride and them modify two of them, or choose a party of 2, book one ride and go back to choose the other party of two and book the other ride?
This will be my first time picking FPs with the new + system, so I want to be efficient! TIA!
We have 4 in our group. We will be splitting up some because some can't ride certain rides, some don't like certain ride, etc. Say I want to book two of us on Rock n Roller Coaster and the other two on Toy Story Midway Mania for the same approximate times. What's the easiest way to do that? Book all 4 on one ride and them modify two of them, or choose a party of 2, book one ride and go back to choose the other party of two and book the other ride?
This will be my first time picking FPs with the new + system, so I want to be efficient! TIA!
I had to do this as my DGD is only 3 and short for her age, and my DGS is 8 and wants to ride all the thrill rides. What I did was book the two groups separately. Me & DD-in-Law & DGD are in one group and my DS and DGS are in the other group - only for the rides where we are splitting. For example, we are all doing Peter Pan so I did that as a group, but group1 is doing Anna&Elsa while group2 is doing 7 Dwarves. With the new FP+ system, it was a lot easier than I thought. The main thing is trying to schedule times that overlap somewhat so one group isn't standing around waiting for the other one.
You'll only be as efficient as the site will let you be . As for picking FP, I remember from the times I've done it, somewhere in the selection process it will ask you who the FP will be for. I don't know if it's after you pick the ride or after picking the ride and the time but you'll be able to tell the system exactly who will be using them.
I've done it both ways, but not since the upgrades this year. It was just as easy either way. Here are some things to consider:
If you are looking for a hard-to-get FP for only a few people, then book the groups separately, and book that one first. You have a better chance to snag a FP for, say, 4 people than for 8. CinderAbby is right, the system will just give you a selection of people for whom you want to book the FP, and you click the ones you want
In the old system, it was a very bad idea to cancel a FP and then try to add a new one. You could change/modify a FP easily, but adding a third back in once you deleted it was extremely difficult. I think the upgrades probably fixed that issue.
OK, so every time you want to pick a FP+, you have to choose your party? I was assuming that you pick you party at the start and then just pick which FP+ you want. If you have to choose your party each time, then that renders my question moot (or moo per Joey on Friends, LOL!).
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. As for picking FP, I remember from the times I've done it, somewhere in the selection process it will ask you who the FP will be for. I don't know if it's after you pick the ride or after picking the ride and the time but you'll be able to tell the system exactly who will be using them.
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