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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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So I'm going to buy the Memory Maker and link it to my MBs (Which I just got the other day so cool!) but when I go online to order Memory Maker, it asks me where I should ship it (I guess they are referring to the card). All I need (or think I need LOL) is a confirmation number or id # to link them to my MBs.
So I clicked on the Chat button, asked where to ship MM if I want to eventually link to my MBs and she tells me to click on Will Call for guests who do not have room reservations to pick up at the parks. Uh, then I explained but I do have a room reserve, don't I need a confirmation number and then she said, yeah select Will Call and i'll get a confirmation number that I can use.
So do you think she was right? LOL I hate second guessing everything I hear from a Disney CM these days but I am so stressed about all of these new things going on LOL
So I'm going to buy the Memory Maker and link it to my MBs (Which I just got the other day so cool!) but when I go online to order Memory Maker, it asks me where I should ship it (I guess they are referring to the card). All I need (or think I need LOL) is a confirmation number or id # to link them to my MBs.
So I clicked on the Chat button, asked where to ship MM if I want to eventually link to my MBs and she tells me to click on Will Call for guests who do not have room reservations to pick up at the parks. Uh, then I explained but I do have a room reserve, don't I need a confirmation number and then she said, yeah select Will Call and i'll get a confirmation number that I can use.
So do you think she was right? LOL I hate second guessing everything I hear from a Disney CM these days but I am so stressed about all of these new things going on LOL
Here's what you do to link your Magic Bands to your PhotoPass account:
1) Log into your MyDisneyExperience account.
2) In the upper right corner, just under the Search box, put your cursor on the main menu (don't click it, it pulls down automatically).
3) When the main menu pulls down, select "Disney PhotoPass". This will take you to your PhotoPass account.
4) Once you're in your PhotoPass account, click on the Magic Band icon. This will take you to the page where you enter your Magic Band numbers. They may already be linked to your PhotoPass account, since you got them as part of a WDW resort reservation.
When you purchase the Memory Maker product, you with be given an option to either have the card mailed to you at home, or the Will Call option, which means the Memory Maker card will be waiting for you at WDW. I advise everyone to choose the mailing option, because a fellow Passporter recently had a lot of trouble finding where she could pick up her Memory Maker card.
Also, if the Memory Maker card comes to your home before you leave for WDW, you can enter it into your PhotoPass account in advance and don't have to worry about doing it with your smartphone or trying to track down a place to add it to your account.
NOTE: When your Memory Maker card arrives, use the same process I detailed above, except at step #4, click on the Memory Maker icon to enter your Memory Maker card number instead of a Magic Band.