A seed was planted and here’s what grew....Magical Memories - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Originally Posted by lissybri
All caught up now. This is a great TR. It sounds like you had a wondeful, magical vacation. I hope Lenny is okay. Can't wait for more.
Thanks Liz, I'm glad you're enjoying it - we really did have a wonderful vacation this year.
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Originally Posted by taylan1
Just finished reading your whole TR so far, I can't believe I missed it. Sounds like you have had a pretty good trip so far, especially with your food issues. Love those Disney Chefs! Our DS has a severe peanut/tree nut allergy. All your pics are just great. I was hoping that Imageworks would still be there when we went in a couple of weeks but it looks like since Kodak has pulled out it will be gone. Love your picture from them with the castle, hope you get the Nemo one as well. Looking forward to the rest of your TR.
There's so many TR in that forum that I know how easy it is to overlook some. Plus I haven't been updating nearly as frequently as I have in the past. It's not for lack of trying - it's just been lack of enough time, but I promise I AM posting the next part today. We did have a good trip and if it weren't for the chefs, I wouldn't have been able to eat like I did. Thanks about the pictures and as far as Imageworks goes, I haven't heard one way or the other. That part might not even be affected by Kodak because all the designs are strictly Disney and I don't even think it was printed on Kodak paper - so IMO there's still hope. I'm not making any promises but with the weekend quickly approaching I should be able to add quite a few more installments to this. I am going to do one today though.
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Originally Posted by mzozzietj
for the upcoming procedure. I know what you mean about driving in the city. I used to work in Boston for years and dreaded it. I would drive in before 7am just to avoid the traffic. This was of course before my daughter came along. Am so glad to have a job closer to home now, that used to take me 1.5 hours each way with much traffic.
Can't wait to hear more about the cliffhangers... I need lessons on writing trip reports from you. I never even finished the one I started last December, LOL
Thanks. And lessons on writing my TR - I start writing it on paper on the train trip and driving home and then once home, I transfer everything to computer. The reason why I'm able to get it all typed and completed is because I take the time between coming home and going back to work (I work for a school) and focus mainly on that everyday. After Disney, I have no money to go anywhere else so Abby and I just chill here at home and while she sleeps late and just takes the days to relax her way (it's one of the few weeks that she's not in school during the year) I use my time to type between all the other household chores. This year I had 10 days between vacation and work and it took me pretty much that whole time just to get it typed in completion minus my final thoughts (that's a work in progress). I have yet to finish proofreading and tweaking but I do that before I'm ready to post so that's ongoing as well. But that's mainly it - type, type, then type some more.
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Sounds like you have had a pretty good trip so far, especially with your food issues. Love those Disney Chefs! Our DS has a severe peanut/tree nut allergy. All your pics are just great. I was hoping that Imageworks would still be there when we went in a couple of weeks but it looks like since Kodak has pulled out it will be gone. 
Love your picture from them with the castle, hope you get the Nemo one as well. Looking forward to the rest of your TR. 
for the upcoming procedure. I know what you mean about driving in the city. I used to work in Boston for years and dreaded it. I would drive in before 7am just to avoid the traffic. This was of course before my daughter came along. Am so glad to have a job closer to home now, that used to take me 1.5 hours each way with much traffic.
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