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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Everything looks delicious, we had ordered the chocolate slipper for DD's birthday as well and she loved it, I thought it was too pretty to eat but she had no problem devouring it
Thanks for posting a pic of the beef and blue salad from Sci Fi. I've always wanted to know what it looked like. Yummy. I'm glad you can get the dressing on the side. I wonder, I'm not a big blue cheese dressing fan, can you get Ranch instead?
Thanks for posting a pic of the beef and blue salad from Sci Fi. I've always wanted to know what it looked like. Yummy. I'm glad you can get the dressing on the side. I wonder, I'm not a big blue cheese dressing fan, can you get Ranch instead?
I'm not sure if they have Ranch dressing, but if they do I'm sure you can get that instead with no problem.
More pictures of delicious food from Disney! You are too kind to contribute them I'm sorry to hear your Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownie was a dudd. My DH would go for that.
Thanks for posting a pic of the beef and blue salad from Sci Fi. I've always wanted to know what it looked like. Yummy. I'm glad you can get the dressing on the side. I wonder, I'm not a big blue cheese dressing fan, can you get Ranch instead?
I'm not sure about Ranch per se, but I just read somewhere on the boards that someone ordered an alternate dressing because they were not a fan of blue, probably ranch is available.
Tuna sandwich, hummus sandwich, chips and yogurt; kid's meal of mac n cheese and sides. The sandwiches here were soooo good! I'm usually not a fan of tuna sandwiches at restaurants but this one was very good quality tuna and not a lot of filler and the mult-grain bread was so tasty.
Ice cream on Main Street:
2 mint chip and a Mickey cone. This really hit the spot! And we got an impromptu concert from the Dapper Dans to boot.
Dinner at Chefs de France:
Lobster bisque appetizer from the prix fixe menu--I loved this! Just the right amount of creamy and a nice portion of lobster.
Entrees--beef short ribs with pasta and in the background you can see DH's seafood boulebaise. The beef was incredibly tender--I didn't even need a knife.
For dessert we both had the lemon merangue tart with sorbet.
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Fresh fruit platter with yogurt dipping sauce, bbq pork sandwich with baked beans, key lime pie and chocolate cake (I think the kid's meal escaped the picture!). Everything was great with the exception of the key lime pie--it had a funky taste to it.
Dinner at 'Ohana:
Salad.
Dipping sauces--peanut, sweet n sour and hot.
Dumplings (I could've eaten the entire bowl!!).
Wings.
Noodles.
Steamed veggies with pineapple bread in the background.
Skewered beef.
DH's glow-tini.
Somehow I missed a picture of the bread pudding for dessert but I did get a shot of these babies from the concierge lounge--moon pies (yellow cake filled with buttercream and topped with a chocolate Mickey). These were sooooo good--I wish I'd skipped the bread pudding and filled up on these.
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Heather, even more delicious food pix from Disney. Those potstickers look delicious and I loved your comment about how you could have eaten a whole bowl of them. I think we might have to try out O'hana's. Those Moon Pies look delicious too.
Such wonderful photos - thanks for posting!!! I love the little Mickey shaped ketchup from Sci-Fi too - how cute! Also the Chocolate Slipper looks so nice - how nice to have all those fresh berries surrounding it. I probably wouldn't have had a problem eating it either
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Enjoying Tokyo DisneySea with my Buzz & Woody...
I know'd I made a good choice! DVC - Saratoga Springs Resort
Croissants--just had to post these because I enjoyed so many of them during the week. Yum!
Lunch at Akershus:
Bread basket. The little butter balls look like golf balls and remind me of Spaceship Earth.
Plates from the cold bar (peel & eat shrimp along with various smoked fish, cheeses and salads).
Soup and salmon club sandwich. This was DH's entree and he said it was very good.
Pasta stuffed with roasted veggies. The pasta itself was pretty good but I didn't like the overload of creamy sauce that it was sitting in. (In the background you can sort of see DD's meal--Mickey-shaped ravioli with sauce and meatballs on the side.)
Dessert plate--flourless chocolate cake, rice pudding with strawberries and school bread. Yum, yum and yum!
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I'm sorry to hear your Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownie was a dudd. My DH would go for that.
Guess where we were headed??
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