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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.

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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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Old 09-13-2002, 05:55 PM   #16
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Sorry, I don't kiss and tell and I don't age and tell either!

39 forever! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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Old 09-13-2002, 06:00 PM   #17
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What a fun poll! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

32 and loving it!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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Another 28 year old here! [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]

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Old 09-13-2002, 06:43 PM   #19
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I'm 40. but I swear I don't look a day over 21! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] Really! Really! Really!
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Old 09-13-2002, 07:42 PM   #20
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Hey Disneynut [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] we have the same Birthday, I too turn a year older next Friday, though I wish I was turning 30 again lol. I turn 37.

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Old 09-13-2002, 08:37 PM   #21
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36 here
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36 going on 6!
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I turned 34 in June [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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30 here, but in six days I'll be 31 [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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I'm going to be 37 in Dec and I just realized in 2005 I will be 40,I think I know where I want to celabrate!!
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Old 09-13-2002, 10:03 PM   #26
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I think we may need to change the name of the boards to "thirtysomething"! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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I'm 36, I'll be 37 next month. Oct 6, to be exact (and if somebody could remind DH it's the 6th not the 8th).

Mary and Janine, my DH shares your b'day too! He'll be 40!
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I'm only 24.. I won't be 25 until March.

DFiance is 26.

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28 and still a kid at heart!!!!!
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