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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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're hard at work completing our next e-book, "PassPorter's Disney Character Yearbook," and we need your help! While Disney rules prevent us from including actual photos of characters in our books, we can provide hyperlinks to PassPorter members' photos of characters thanks to the nature of this e-book. Our members have uploaded MANY character photos over the years, and we're mostly drawing from this large collection. But there are some rare characters that we haven't found PassPorter member photos to which we can link. Perhaps you have photos of unusual characters in your photo collection? Here's a list of rare character photographs we'd like to see:
Abby Mallard (from "Chicken Little")
Abu (from "Aladdin")
Anastasia and Drizella Tremaine (Cinderella's Stepsisters) -- BradK, if you're reading this, I know you have photos of these two in your collection -- may I place a hyperlink to it from our e-book?
Annie (from "Little Einsteins")
Atlantis characters
Atta (from "A Bug's Life")
Bert (from "Mary Poppins")
Big Al (from Country Bear Jamboree)
Big Bad Wolf
Blue Fairy
Bo Peep and Her Sheep
BoardWalk Performers
Bowler Hat Guy
Bullseye (from "Toy Story 2")
Chicken Little
Clara Cluck
Clarice (Chip & Dale's Friend)
Clopin (from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame")
Darkwing Duck
Disney Bear
Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather
Fiddler Pig, Fifer Pig, and Practical Pig
Figment
Friar Tuck
Frozone
Gepetto
Gideon
Governor Ratcliffe (from "Pocahontas")
Hyacinth Hippo
Ice Gator
J. Worthington Fowlfellow
Jane Porter (from "Tarzan")
John Smith
Jose Carioca
June (from "Little Einsteins")
Kim Possible
Lady Tremaine (Cinderella's Stepmother)
Lagoona Gator
Launchpad McQuack
Leo (from "Little Einsteins")
Lightning McQueen
Little John
Liver Lips McGraw
Maleficent
Mama Stork (Animal Kingdom park opening)
Marie (from "Aristocats")
Mike Wazowski
Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny (at Disney)
Pam Brody
Panchito Pistoles
Philoctetes (from "Hercules")
Quasimodo
Quincy (Little Einsteins)
Ron Stoppable
Scrooge McDuck
Stanley
Streetmosphere characters
Stromboli
Suzy, Perla, Jaq, and Gus (Cindrella's mice)
Tarzan
... plus any other characters that you feel are rare, or are perhaps dressed in unusual costumes!
Additionally, if you have character photos of more typical characters that you'd like us to consider linking to in the e-book, those are welcome too!
So if you have any of the above character photos, please either paste the link to them in this thread or upload them to this thread ... deadline is Sunday, June 24.
I've found a few in the pictures from our trip in 2003 your welcome to use. I have a lot I'm not sure about some of the other characters I have pictures of I didn't label them but I'll check on and post later if I find any others. I found Princess Atta, Mike Wazowski, Stanley, & Friar Tuck.
I have a photo of my siblings and I w/ Alice in Wonderland in front of the teacups from our family trip back in 1979 or 80?? It is floating around my house somewhere, hopefully I can dig it up and scan it in time for Sunday's deadline.
It is lovely... complete w/ knee high striped sport socks!
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also as a sidenote, in the event you weren't aware, recently wilbur, lewis and bowler hat guy have been completely displaced by emile and remy from ratatouille, blue lunar wolf has been replaced by yellow operation overdrive and handy manny has been spotted on ultra rare occasions
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