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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
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A Gargantuan Gathering of Passporter Peoples . . . THREAD ONE - COMPLETE!!!
Is this the first MouseFester trip report? Woo-HOO!!! Let the fun (and massive amounts of reading) begin!!!!
<u>Pre-Trip . . . Part 1 . . . “The Voice”</u>
<font color="firebrick">”HELLLLLLLLOOOOOOO!!! Ho-ho-ho . . .”</font>
<font color="darkblue">It’s that time again!!! Time for an <u>all new</u> DopeyGirl trip report!!!
Well, as some of you may have heard . . . We’re going back to our Happiest Place on Earth!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
This will be my 4th . . . yes, 4th . . . trip to a Disney property this year!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blushing.gif[/img] We went to WDW in January and March . . . and Disneyland in June! But, in my honest opinion, there is no such thing as too many Disney trips!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Really, I feel so <u>absolutely</u> blessed to have been able to spend so much “Disney time” this year!
So, how did this trip come about, you might ask? Well, lemme tell ya!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
Last</font> <font color="darkorange">Halloween</font> <font color="darkblue">weekend, Mike went to Atlanta with a buddy from work for a NASCAR race. It was a guys only thing, so, I made a deal with him. “You went to a race, so how about I go to WDW?” He begrudgingly agreed and my January 2005 “Mommy/Daughter” trip was born. After Emilie and I returned, I had mentioned that I really enjoyed our time and that I wouldn’t mind doing it again. Mike said he didn’t think it was “fair” that we wanted to go on trips without him (but yet, it was perfectly fine for him to go on a weekend jaunt to Atlanta for a race without us [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]) , but he said that if we wanted to do another trip like that sometime, he’d “deal with it”. So we didn’t talk about that anymore, we went on our March 2005 WDW trip with his parents, came home and I went into severe withdrawals!!!
I started noticing on the boards that there were quite a few of us that had trips planned during the last couple of days of November and into the first week of December. How could I NOT sign on for that time?! So, I set my dates at November 30-Dec. 5th and commenced to planning away, unbeknownst to Mike! Meanwhile, the Navy sent Mike to Chicago to teach for three months . . . and my parents surprised Emilie and I with plane tickets to the city of my birth, San Diego (with a side trip to Disneyland) in June/July . . . so I have been privileged enough to see TWO Disney resorts during the</font> <font color="blue">Happiest Celebration/Homecoming on Earth</font>!!!
<font color="darkblue">Mike had been talking with a bunch of guys from work for a few months about renting an RV and camping in the infield at the Talladega Superspeedway for the weekend of the</font> <font color="firebrick">UAW-Ford 500</font> <font color="darkblue">NASCAR race in October. It looked to me like history was going to repeat itself when I asked him, one day in May, with a similar deal as we had made for January’s trip. He called me one day and I asked him "Are you definitely going to Talladega in October?" He said "As far as I know. We haven’t really talked anymore about it though." So I brought out the deal . . . "How about if you go to Talladega with the boys, I go to WDW with the girls?" . . . and he said . . .
"I think that's an OK idea!"
WHAAAAAAAAAT?!
He agreed, again, to let Emilie and I head down for MouseFest time!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] SO I got right online and made reservations for All Star Movies for November 30-December 5. A couple of weeks later, I decided that it just wasn’t long enough (as usual), so I added a night to my reservation . . . we’d now be leaving December 6th! And I started working on my pre-trip at that point!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] I had already decided that I was going to do my best to give each installment title a "Seinfeld" touch . . . didja notice that yet? Stay tuned . . . [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
Well . . . the trip to Talladega never got planned and therefore the idea was scrapped . . . and Mike said he got to thinking about it and . . . he’d “really like to go” . . .
Wha-wha-WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
Yeah, he said he would really like to go with us . . . SOOOOOOO . . . we called and added him to our room reservation and to a couple of our ADR’s and that was that!!!
OR WAS IT?!</font>
CONTINUED IN NEXT POST . . .
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