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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
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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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I realized that I had been talking about us getting stamps at the Kidcot stations in my last couple of updates, but I never explained what we were having stamped! I was thinking of getting the girls their own passports, but sometime before our trip I had an idea. I was in Hobby Lobby and saw some photo mats, so I got one with the plans of having it stamped in each country, as well as having the CMs write "hello" on it in their native language (just the non english ones obviously ). We'd finish it off with a signature from Duffy. I thought it came out really cute, now I just have to get one of our pictures from our meet with Duffy to put in it
So the Duffy costumes...super cute. I especially like the pirate one...something about a bear with a patch....
Love your mat! What a neat idea for the WS.
LOL, the patch totally makes it, right? And you can't see it, but it also comes with a cute stuffed sword that attaches to his belt on the back. Adorable!
Thank you about the mat! I did one with the characters signatures on our first trip, it is one of my favorite souvenirs from that trip. It's still hanging on the wall in the girls' playroom
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Awesome idea! Would go well with a collage of pictures from each country.
Oh, that's a good idea, Mayra!!
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Getting the photo mat stamped is a great idea!
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What a great idea!
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Love the photo mat!
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Wow you guys got so much done! I am impressed. Also love the picture frames.
Looks like a great time at Epcot. I'm going to admit I know very little about Duffy. I've never had that much interest in him. Now that my kids are older (an my daughter seems to be obsessed with stuffed animals and bears) I'm going to need to figure out about him. It looks like your girls really enjoy some Duffy. And the outfits for the bears are too cute!
Looks like a great time at Epcot. I'm going to admit I know very little about Duffy. I've never had that much interest in him. Now that my kids are older (an my daughter seems to be obsessed with stuffed animals and bears) I'm going to need to figure out about him. It looks like your girls really enjoy some Duffy. And the outfits for the bears are too cute!
She would probably love Duffy! He's one of the softest and cuddliest bears too, he's perfect for snuggling. The story behind him is really cute, they tell it at night on one of the resort channels as a bedtime story for the kids
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). We'd finish it off with a signature from Duffy. I thought it came out really cute, now I just have to get one of our pictures from our meet with Duffy to put in it 
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Also love the picture frames. 
the photo mat idea! 
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