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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.
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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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It's always so sad to get off the ship! At least you had something to look forward to, instead of just heading to the airport. Legoland looks really cute! Nice and clean, and well maintained.
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Legoland looks really cute! Nice and bright and clean! I'm not sure it would be a good value for my family with older teens, but I'd love to see it sometime.
If you are there to see the sculptures it's great...the rides....ugh!
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It's always so sad to get off the ship! At least you had something to look forward to, instead of just heading to the airport. Legoland looks really cute! Nice and clean, and well maintained.
I hate getting off the ship.
It was pretty clean...but the staff....thats another story...which I will get to eventually.
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Cool pictures of Legoland!
Thanks
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Legoland looks really cute! Nice and bright and clean! I'm not sure it would be a good value for my family with older teens, but I'd love to see it sometime.
It's really expensive for what they have...If we hadn't had free tickets for 2 I don't think I would've gone....and now that I have been, I don't think we will ever go back.
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Can't wait to see more photos of Legoland - Scott and Em would probably love to visit there sometime!
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It looks like fun to play and build the sculptures (at least for a while). I think eventually it would get to be just any JOB and the complaints would start.
I finally got caught up with your last few updates! Loved all the pictures of Castaway Cay and also your evening at Animator's Palate! It sure looks like you all enjoyed your time on the cruise I hope to do a Disney cruise one of these days! My daughters would have loved LegoLand when they were youngsters!!! So sad that your TR is coming to the end soon.
It is truly amazing what they can build with Legos - imagine the person who gets to sit and play all day!
That has to be a cool job!
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It really is amazing what they can make with Legos!
It really is!
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It looks like fun to play and build the sculptures (at least for a while). I think eventually it would get to be just any JOB and the complaints would start.
You are probably right...but still better than some other jobs for sure.
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I am amazed at what can be built with Legos and the detail that goes in to designing those things.
It really is amazing.
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So sad to be getting off the ship but at least Legoland was there to ease the pain So many cool creations there!
I was so happy not to be heading home. I wish we could've even stayed longer.
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I finally got caught up with your last few updates! Loved all the pictures of Castaway Cay and also your evening at Animator's Palate! It sure looks like you all enjoyed your time on the cruise I hope to do a Disney cruise one of these days! My daughters would have loved LegoLand when they were youngsters!!! So sad that your TR is coming to the end soon.
I loved the cruise. I am really aching to go on another one. I know some many people who have sailed in the last 2 weeks. They are taunting me.
After the greenhouse we were ready to do something and we saw that a show was going to start soon.
This was a 4-D type movie. They actually played 3 throughout the day at different times and I no longer even remember which we saw.
We had a seat in a practically empty theatre. Claire and I started to feel a drip of wet. We later realized that they had some sort of sprinklers for the 4-D effect and it was leaking exactly where we sat. The movie itself was good but the effects were poor and the screen shape was just awful….think Soarin’…and that screen is perfect compared to this one. While in there we noticed that the families that were in there really had no manners and let their kids run wild; climbing over seats and talking loudly.
When it was over we tried to brush that experience off and hope it was just one bad time.
I took this picture because Claire loves Lego Friends.
We debated on eating but decided to wait for now.
Love the mossy trees. I remember my first adult trip to FL with my best friend….we drove down and I remember seeing all the mossy trees and it was just an amazing thing. Not something I had expected at all. Now when I see them they bring back the good memories of that trip.
We headed over to Miniland next. This was one of the highlights of the whole day. You could spend hours here looking at all the details.
Another beautiful tree in the area.
New York City!
As you can see I was going back and forth between the different displays. There was so much to see and it was amazing the amount of work put into these.
As you can tell this is the Lego Movie area.
The Obama’s were hanging out in front of the White House.
There were some cute rides there, but many were kind of babyish.
We decided to head over to the Lost Kingdom Adventure ride.
It had a bit of a line but it seemed to be moving fairly fast.
One thing we learned very quickly is that Legoland is very slow at loading and unloading rides. They need to go take a Disney class on this.
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Legoland looks really cute! Nice and clean, and well maintained.
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