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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.
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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.
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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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I am planning a scavenger hunt through wdw for my daughters. They have to use their cameras and take a pic of each thing they find from the list. So far I have hidden mickeys from each park, the center of wdw at epcot, Devine, singing in the rain umbrella at hs, talking trash can at Epcot, several characters, paw prints in front of Tony's, a Viking helmet, a tarantula in line que for jungle cruise and the liberty bell. Any other suggestions?
We do the same thing except we make ours a contest. We right down enough character names so the each person will draw 10 names. We mix easy ones with hard ones and then on the plane we draw the names out a bag and each person has to find and take a pic with their 10 names. Whoever gets the most or finds their 10 first gets an extra souvenir. My suggestion would be to find a name that matches their name on the tiles walking into MK. (first name only as last would be too hard)
When I do scavenger hunts, i choose some things that are a little open ended as well. Like I will say "something red" or "balloons" or "a dance" ... it leaves things open to interpretation and is fun to see what they come up with for them. This might not work as well if it's a contest though, this is better for just being creative.
Okay, well, you can do that, of course, but why not do Epcot's Perry the Platypus scavenger-hunt type secret agent missions there instead and save yourself a lot of effort?
When we were at WDW last, they were Kim Possible missions. You picked up a "Kimmunicator" (looked like a flip-open cell phone) gadget that gave you a choice of missions, and you'd get a clue about where to go and a guess-what-it-means series of hints on what to do that took you all over World Showcase.
Some involved pointing your Kimmunicator at something and pressing a button, and things would make noise and move or light up. We startled several people standing near such when we'd make them do whatever they did and got used to answering, "Did YOU do that? How'd you do it? We want one of those, too. Where'd you get it?"
For instance, one clue took us to the British teashop where we were to go to the CM cashier and say, "Danger is my cup of tea." I expect she thought a shaved-headed middle-aged guy in a scooter doing a Kim Possible mission was a bit peculiar, but she simply smiled, asked if we were having fun and gave us a free teabag.
Finding out where to get going with the new Perry the Platypus missions is definitely on our list when we get to WDW next year. We had so much fun with the Kim Possibles that we hated to have to quit and were nearly late for our dinner ADR as a result.
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I did look into the perry the platypus thing and considering doing both. The reason I am doing the scavenger hunt on my own is because my daughters have been reading a lot about the "things you didnt know about wdw". They want to find everything that they read about so I thought I would make a game of it. My oldest is really into the hidden mickeys right now. We have been there enough times that they are starting to be interested in things besides just rides and characters. I just thought it would be fun!! I am looking forward to finding some of these things also!!!
I do really like the open ended ones also. They would appeal to my youngest a lot. She has some attention problems and a hard time reading (dyslexic). I cannot give her too many hard to read clues. She will lose interest before she even finishes reading it! Thanks for the idea.
I did look into the perry the platypus thing and considering doing both. The reason I am doing the scavenger hunt on my own is because my daughters have been reading a lot about the "things you didnt know about wdw". They want to find everything that they read about so I thought I would make a game of it.
Certainly wouldn't discourage you from supporting their desire to learn about WDW since I'm a retired teacher. Good for you for being willing to put out the effort it will require to set up a scavenger hunt created just for them!
Looks like I was preaching to the choir about the "Agent P" mishes, huh? Oh, well, sorry 'bout that, and perhaps the info will be helpful for someone else reading your thread who didn't know about those.
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I try to make all of their trips educational as well. My oldest was the only one in her kindergarten class that knew the little mermaid was a book by hans Christian Anderson. ( not sure if his name is spelled correctly) She is 11 now, but she can come up with many things she has learned while at wdw!
I guess I should have mentioned that reason she knows the little mermaid book is because it is in the Norway store at Epcot. She was floored to find out it was not just another story by Disney. She still loved the little mermaid movie!!
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