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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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11-22-2004, 03:45 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: new york
Posts: 9,202
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pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
DM Darlene 40 second trip to wdw
DD Heather 15 second trip to wdw
DD Alicia 11 second trip to wdw
DD Britney 8 second trip to wdw
Destonatin AKL january 9-17
hear is a little background on how this trip came about. we were supposed to go for xmass in 2001 and then my dad was killed in the world trade center attacks so that ended that trip because my mom did not want to go by herself. we went in 1997 and my two younger sisters were 3 and one and were two young to remember anything and I was 8 at the time.
so during our summer vacation this year at cape cod my mom was asking us what we wanted to do in the summer of 2005 and we said that we wanted to go to disney world and she said yes and then we started planning but then I remembered that I would be working a the ymca summer sleep away camp and that my sistes wanted to go to camp again because they go to camp every july.
this was when my mom came up with the idea of going in january and then we got really excited because we were finally going again. my mom talked to our teachers and they were ok with us missing school for a week because they knpw how important it was to my family.
we are staying at akl for nine days from january 9-17 and we are using disney transportation.
hear are our plans so far
sunday january 9th
leave albany international airport on southwest airlines at 3:10pm land at 6:10 make a stop for snakc's check in AKL eat dinner at mara and maby swim
monday january 10th
magic kingdom
breakfect at cindys royal table 8:30am
Lunch casey's corner
Dinner La cellier 8:00pm
Tuesday january 11th
Animal Kingdom
breakfest rain forest cafe 8:30am
Lunch pizzafari
Dinner Boma 8:00pm
Wednesday January 12th
mgm epcot
Breakfest staring rolls cafe
Lunch electric umbrella
Dinner coral reel at living seas 7:00pm
Thursday January 13th
sea world downtown disney
Breakfest mara
luch counter serice in sea world
Dinner planet hollywood 8:00pm
friday january 14th tbd
Breakfest Boma 9:00am
lunch tbd
dinner tbd
the rest of the trip is free so far. do you have any other ideas as to the things we should go and see that my sisters would like.
I will keep adding to this as we get closer to out trip and I will give a full report when we get back.  |
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11-22-2004, 07:47 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
I will try and keep this going as it gets closer to our trip
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11-22-2004, 10:43 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: WI
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
Looks great! We'll be there Jan 6-11, maybe we'll bump into each other!
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11-23-2004, 07:21 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
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Location: Connecticut
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
Looks like a great plan so far! I'm sure you're all going to have a great time  You'll  AKL!! |
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11-23-2004, 02:04 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Northern Ohio
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
I hope you have a magical vacation!  |
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11-23-2004, 02:12 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: new york
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
thanks for reading my trip report if you guys have ideas on other things that we should do then please let me know my younger sisters don't know about the extra days they think that we are comming home on january 15th the extra day's will be an xmass present for them we come home on the 17th now which is a monday and a school holiday. we may spend the extra day's at the lodge or going to vero beach but my mom has not decided I think that she has and is not telling me her plans.
I will keep you posted on what we end up doing and I will keep updating this as our trip gets closer and then I will give you guys a full report when we get back.
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11-23-2004, 08:48 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
I am so sorry about your Father.  I'm sure you are all going to have a wonderful trip! |
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11-23-2004, 08:57 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
Sounds like you have a great trip planned so far.
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11-24-2004, 08:25 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Location: new york
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
today we watched the disney planning video and we also watched the shows we taped off of the travle channal can't wate to be their this will be the best vacation ever
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11-25-2004, 09:18 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
we are planning to watch a disney movie every night till we leave for our trip. today we went to the tanksgiving pardae in nyc and then we drove up to my grandparents house in albany,ny they are my mom's parents it was alot of fun. we go to the tanksgiving parade in nyc every year because it is only 45mins from my house in westcheste.
only 44 days and we will be at the world I am so excited about getting to go again
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11-26-2004, 09:47 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
I think a Disney movie every night is a great idea!! How lucky that you get to see the Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC every year!  |
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01-06-2005, 11:08 PM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Chocolate City, DC
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Re: pre trip reoprt january 9-17th
Sounds like a great trip is planned! I would add though that since there will be great FL weather that week, maybe you could take a trip to Blizzard Beach for a little water park fun! My family and I will be in Disney too (1/9-1/16) and I am JUMPIN with excitement!   on your trip plans and HAVE FUN! |
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