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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-28-2010, 08:23 PM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: 6 hours from WDW
Posts: 71
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Our anticipated return to WDW, with dining and Christmas day included! PTR 12/19-12/26
Hello everyone! It has been quite a while since I have been on the boards, but I am BACK! Much has happened since I have been away, some good, some not so good, but that is life and we must keep rolling! Now, we haven't been to WDW since last September, which is the longest we have gone in 4 years without visiting. IT'S KILLING US!! We had no choice though, I began Paramedic school last fall and there was no way to find the time or money to go....HOWEVER..... I have now graduated, and we are heading BACK!  This is going to be the most in depth trip we have made to date, it will be the first time we utilize the DDP, and we will be there for Christmas Day! Now, on a side note, we never go during any busy time of the year because I personally can't stand the crowds, but keeping in mind that we haven't been for 15 months, and it will be Christmas, I think I can deal with it  . Now that the boring stuff is out of the way, lol, on to the good stuff!
DW and I decided it would be a really nice way to celebrate Christmas with the kids this year if we could do it in Disney, however, the costs would be more than we were used to because of the peak time and the fact that we would have to purchase regular AP's to visit during the holiday. We spent some time thinking about how we would come up with the extra, and then one day it hit me. Now I am sure many of you know about Disney's Vinylmations. I have been collecting them since our trip last September, and collecting them, and collecting them, lol. I think they are so neat.....BUT......staring at them all in my living room would be nowhere near as good as thinning them out and creating some Christmas magic Disney style! Sooooo....I have been selling some of them to assist us in our endeavour, and it is working beautifully.
Initially we were going to stay in ASM and dine as we saw fit, which is our usual way. As I began selling the vinyls though, I started to figure out how much I could bank by selling the most desired ones, and realized we could do much more for our trip! It doesn't hurt that we can pay for our AP's monthly now either!  So DW and I started looking at other options. The more we looked, the more we wanted to stay in a Moderate, initially CB, however DD is now 14 and DS is going to be 11, and those full size beds don't work for them anymore. That is when we discovered CS has 2 queen beds in each room! There it was, our mind was made up, lol.
Coming soon........."Let's do Christmas dinner in Biertgarten.....OH, that Luau looks fun......WAIT, what about a character meal?", and how that all turned into "Well, it won't be THAT much more just to try the DDP!"
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Jami (my beautiful wife), Kristen (my beautiful daughter), Jerry (my dashing son), and ME (the biggest kid of em all)
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Last edited by shaunmyers; 09-28-2010 at 08:29 PM..
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