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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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MrsM, princessthilitha, MEM, SandyMFT - Its so exciting to see all the people who will be going on this cruise with me. Cant wait to see you all there MEM, Glad to hear you added the WDW portion. We finally broke down and went for it ourselves. It just wouldnt have been the same without visiting the WORLD!
Pfishgirl - Im jealous! would have LOVED to do both the Eastern & Western crusie. Have a great time
Retro Mommy, I hope to see you there too. I am looking forward to being able to meet my fellow passporter board members, and hopefully there will be some teens for my son to hang out with, he will be 14 when we go. I am sooo excited myself, I just cannot stop planning and scrapbooking already, i cannot imagine what the final product will look like!
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hopefully there will be some teens for my son to hang out with, he will be 14 when we go.
Thats awesome! you are the first person Ive found with a teen! my daughters will be 15 & 16 by the time we go. Will he be doing The Wild Side teen excursion on Castaway Cay?
He probably will be doing the Wild Side excursion, and I am sure he will be spending a lot of his time onboard in Aloft. His name is Tony.
My daughters names are Paige & Amber. Tell Tony he isnt the only one worried there wont be many teens. I believe the teen club on the Magic is the Stack and im quite positive my girls will spend a majority of their time there and the pool. lol.
This will be our 3rd cruise. There will be me, dh and ds (19) and ds (15). The cruise is to celebrate: our 20th wedding anniversary, our older son's graduation from high school, the younger son's birthday and my 50th birthday. My DH is still grumbling about the money, so I think i'll just leave him home
This will be our 3rd cruise. There will be me, dh and ds (19) and ds (15). The cruise is to celebrate: our 20th wedding anniversary, our older son's graduation from high school, the younger son's birthday and my 50th birthday. My DH is still grumbling about the money, so I think i'll just leave him home
This is the same cruise we're on. This is our second cruise, but first on the east coast, and over the holidays. Sounds like you'll be have a huge celebration on board! Only 20 months to go :-)
We are booked with our two daughters, who will be 6 and 4 at the time, for a one-week Eastern Caribbean cruise stopping at Tortola. We'll be traveling with our friends and their 3 kids, who will be 5 and 1 (twins). This will be our 3rd Disney cruise but our first cruise on the Magic.
We booked the 3 day Land/4 day Sea for October 15 through October 22, 2009.
Our first cruise and I am excited beyond belief. My daughter will be 8 1/2 by then (this is actually a late celebration of her communion happening in May 2009) and my son 3 1/2.
I'm praying I can have my son potty trained by then...I don't think he will accept going in the "baby" play area when his sister is in the big kids pool. Well, at least this will give him a goal!
Hi Cruisers of Aug. 15th to Tortola!!
We are booked on our 3rd Magic cruise and can't wait. We will be celebrating my DS' 10th birthday and our 15th anniversary. And we'll be at WDW the week before with friends!!!!!!
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MEM, Glad to hear you added the WDW portion. We finally broke down and went for it ourselves. It just wouldnt have been the same without visiting the WORLD! 
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