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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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03-22-2003, 06:52 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 17,166
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Cruise Treasures
What are some of the keepsakes, souveniers, etc. that you have brought home with you from your Disney Cruise? Are there a lot of unique items exclusive to the Cruise Line? Thanks!
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03-22-2003, 09:31 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Jersey Shore
Posts: 7,249
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Great question Debbie. DH heard that there are DCL exclusive pins. I think that is the only reason he wants to cruise [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] !
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03-22-2003, 09:39 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Oklahoma
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Well, I have some exceptionally unique treasures!
The one other cruisers can get: DCL Mickey antenna topper! Mickey with a sailor hat.
Unique: Pongo sketch done by Ducky Williams, the character artist for Disney Marketing. I won it in a raffle, and he's only on the ships once or twice a year.
"Who Wants to Be a Mouseketeer" contestant pin!
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03-22-2003, 10:32 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
Concierge Level: 3
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Love, love, love my Castaway Cay tank top. Be sure to pick up something when there as you can't find many of the CC items onboard the ship. Including CC pins!
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03-22-2003, 01:09 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
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Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Ohhh, sounds wonderful everyone...any more fun treasures?
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03-22-2003, 01:36 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: Cruise Treasures
So on DCL it's only Fab Five beannies?
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03-22-2003, 04:53 PM
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Community Rank: Tourist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 17
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Treasure Ketch was selling gold by the inch. I bought a bracelet with gold Mickey Mouse "charms" on it. I'm sure it's really cheap, but I'll enjoy it as long as it lasts! As for Beanies. we got our 2 DS's Chip & Dale, so they did have more than the Fab 5. I also bought a friend a Mickey Mouse mystery pearl. You don't know what color pearl you get until you open the box. The pearl goes into the larger, hollow circle (Mickey's face). There are the 2 hollow gold balls on top of this (Mickey's ears). Probably didn't explain that too well, but it was very cute.
Woobie
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03-22-2003, 07:01 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,738
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Well Debbie, I have not been on a Disney cruise yet but when I go, I hope to get (I hope they have these) a Disney Cruise Line, license plate holder........ [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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03-22-2003, 09:41 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: Cruise Treasures
A Stuffed Crusie Line Mickey and a DCL cup with the water and confetti in it. DCL beach bag. I want to get the Crusie Line Minnie if they still have it.
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03-22-2003, 10:30 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Woobie do they have any of the Hundred Acre Wood characters?
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03-22-2003, 11:40 PM
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Community Rank: Tourist
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Chicago
Posts: 19
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Re: Cruise Treasures
In 30 Disney cruises, our house is starting to resemble a Disney Cruise Line annex! It really helps to keep me from feeling homesick between cruises. Our most common souvenirs are pins and t-shirts. Like Katerkat, I was also fortunate enough to get a sketch from Don Williams...it's of Figment, and I had it framed and hanging by my desk at work (we also have a Cinderella litho of his that we got on that trip). But my favorite of all is one of the pcitures that hangs in the staterooms over the beds. There are several, but my all-time favorite is the one of a ship, with little circles showing what people are doing on board (for example, a couple dancing, a cook preparing dinner, and a man reading in a deck chair). It is the picture from my favorite stateroom, 5650. They sometimes sell the stateroom art at the silent auction, so watch for it! It was a real adventure getting it home because it is large and long, but the kind people at ATA devoted an entire luggage bin to it! Now it hangs proudly in my house where I can see it every day and daydream about being on the ship.
Barb
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03-23-2003, 12:28 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Wow Barb, to own the picture from your favorite state room...very cool!
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03-23-2003, 08:50 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Ann Arbor, MI USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 14,427
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Re: Cruise Treasures
There's plenty of DCL-specific merchandise. Some of it is Castaway Cay-exclusive (pins, apparel, beach items, etc.), some ship-exclusive.
I don't know how much of it I'd consider "treasures" compared to cruising memories, but I've got a bunch of stuff. Many pins, embroidered shirts, a "treasure chest" gift box that came with a roll-up beach mat, wristwatch, water bottle and binoculars; a die-cast model of the Wonder and a Wonder license plate, both autographed by Captain Henry....
This is Disney, for Pete's sake! I've gotten Jennifer a Radko Christmas ornament (a DCL ship, what else?). There are cut-crystal keepsakes, watches, jewelry, duffel bags, plush, embroidered and screen-printed apparel, hats, figurines, picture frames....
And if that's not enough, there's a silent auction on every cruise, offering a variety of unique/unusual items ranging from bolts of cloth (Animator's Palate vest material) to framed holiday dinner menus, photos, stateroom decorative items, commemorative plates, etc.
Then, of course, there are the photos of you and your party-you'll probably leave the ship with at least one.
I don't recall ever seeing a cruise-specific 100 Acre Woods character. Perhaps there are royalty/licensing issues they'd rather not get into?
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03-23-2003, 01:59 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
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Re: Cruise Treasures
Dave, it sounds like you have the same problem I do every time I travel to WDW...HOW DO I GET IT ALL HOME?!?!? [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
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03-23-2003, 04:24 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Brooklyn,NY
Posts: 165
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Re: Cruise Treasures
If you want a Capt. Mickey Antenna topper get it the first day!!!Otherwise you might be disappointed--they sell out fast!
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