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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Reliving My Youth in NYC with New Kids on the Block! May 2008
Pretrip: How all of this started
In 1988 we were sitting in the car in Burlington, Vermont on the way to church with my family and a song came on the radio. As “Please Don’t Go Girl” played I looked at my sister and said, “Why is a girl singing ‘please don’t go girl’.” She laughed and said, “That is New Kids the Block.” Little did I know the following year I would not only know every single word to every song on their album but my room would be plastered with photos of every member of the group. In 1989 my sister went to see them in concert in Lake Placid, NY. She was going with a friend so I wasn’t invited. That fall we watched a Disney TV special and that is when I really took notice of New Kids on the Block. Joey, the 16 year old with the bright blue eyes, was my favorite. That Christmas my mom purchased the cassette tape of Hangin’ Tough. I played it so many times on my Walkman I actually wore the tape out.
By 1990 I ate, drank and breathed New Kids on the Block. My mom rolled her eyes when I would babble off trivia about the boys. That summer I my best friend Jenn and I boarded a bus to Montreal to see the New Kids on the Block at Olympic Stadium. We were late for the show and missed the opening acts. By the time we got to our seats the show started. I was shaking with excitement. We were seated so far away you could barely tell there were people on stage. It didn’t matter I was there, breathing the same air as Donnie, Danny, Jordan, Jonathan and Joe.
The Top Photo I am holding my concert ticket!!
In 1992 I graduated from high school. My love of New Kids on the Block followed me to Pine Manor College outside of Boston, MA. During orientation I sat next to a girl named Marisa. We started talking and both realized we loved New Kids on the Block. Later that night at dinner she introduced me to Sandy who was also a fan of the boys from Boston. The three of us became so close to this day we are like sisters. I can count on Sandy and Marisa for anything. We found out less then a month after we started school that we lived less then a mile from Joe McIntyre.  I have no idea how we did it but we found his house and walked over there more times then I can count. We never met him...and never saw him (although I did meet his brother at Star Market).
Marisa, Sandy and I Across the street from Joe McIntyre's House in 1993
College was much harder then any of use expected. In 1994 I married a man from Dorchester, MA and moved to Michigan with him. I had quickly thrust myself from my carefree college years to pure adulthood. Any of my true loves (family, friends, NKOTB) took a backseat to my marriage. We lasted less then a year. He moved back to Boston and I moved back to Vermont, determined to get my head straight and move on. I moved back to Michigan later that year and started college at Michigan State in August 1996. New Kids on the Block broke up in 1994 and I had no idea. Life had made me miss the last 2 years they were together. When I came to this realization I was very sad.
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38th Birthday with Mom, Dad and friends 2011
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