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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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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Magic Kingdom - Part 1 - Crystal Palace breakfast
July 12
It’s here, it’s here…the real day of vacation. The day that everyone plans – going into MK for the first time! You know, you’re supposed to go gazing up to the castle and get to stand in Awe of it – right? Isn’t that the commercials you always see, the vision you imagine….and then reality comes crashing down for our family!
Again, silly me, I think OK, I have more time to really look at the alarm clock since we were tired arrival day and I just thought I turned it on. This time I’m really going to have it set correctly. We have an 8:00 PS for Crystal Palace, we don’t want to be late for that, we want plenty of time to see the castle, take it all in, etc…
WHAT? What do you mean this stupid thing didn’t go off again and we wake up again at almost 7:30! WHAT? We are supposed to BE there in 30 minutes! The good news is that I did have everyone’s outfit’s labeled in Ziplock bags, so that helps speed things up but there is no way the family of 6 can be up & ready to go and over to MK in 30 minutes, just is NOT going to happen. Luckily, the meal is breakfast so at least I know we will be getting food.
We get ready to go and DH refuses to walk over to MK, he insists that we take the Monorail – forget the fact that I TELL him that MK will be the last stop and it will take longer, etc… I just don’t feel like arguing with him, I’m already stressed since we are late as it is. We hop on the Monorail to get to breakfast.
We get through the gates around 8:30 and I’m walking fast to make a beeline to Crystal Palace. Ahh…there’s the castle, isn’t it pretty, yeah, there are not many people, no we can’t take pictures, we are 30 minutes late to breakfast – what if they won’t seat us? (I didn’t know what would happen if we were too late to a PS – do they just cancel it on you at that point and give it to a walk-up or what?) – We can’t miss Pooh bear, that’s DD’s favorite and one thing she has been looking forward to the entire time we have planned vacation!
Yeah, DD remembers to grab a time’s guide today so we don’t have the same issue as MGM (we forgot to get one and had no clue what was going on when!).
We get seated and are one of the first tables the characters come to! Get our drink orders and we can go get food anytime….except that the characters are coming out RIGHT NOW. Tigger, Pooh & Eyeore were rotating, Piglet was standing in the middle so we could go see him whenever. We didn’t go get our food for about 30 minutes because everytime we thought we would get a chance a character was right there.
Now, I wasn’t sure how DS-1 was going to react to characters, it could have gone either way. He absolutely LOVED them. He wasn’t too fond of Tigger but he loved Pooh bear and Eyeore (I think he liked long ears because he got more excited with the characters with long ears – besides Mickey – he loved Mickey!).
The food was average but we rushed through the meal because A. we had been late to start with B. The characters came by so fast that by the time we got food we had already been there for a while. Just felt a bit rushed in general (probably because in my head, I kept thinking about all these other things we needed to get to that we are off schedule for now!).
We finish breakfast and head out into the park! We see the ending of Cinderellabration – another for whatever reason we never get to the beginning of this. Now, at least at this point, I am not a psycho mom and rush everyone around. We had a great viewing of it from where the stroller and stuff was, so we stopped and watched it until it was over.
Next up – the rest of the morning in MK and we get to meet PUSH!
DD's day is made - she meets Pooh bear!
Ahhh...my favorite - Eyeore with the little guy
I just loved this picture, it was unplanned and DH snapped it. They were waiting for me.
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