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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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My mom sent me a package with about 200 photos in it. The photos are from just about every year of my life. It is neat to look back and see myself as a little kid. What is better is remembering the memories of when the photo was taken.
Lots of baseball players, ice skating shows, trips with Girl Scouts, birthday parties…and lot of BAD haircuts! I also noticed a lot of bad fashion. OMG who’s idea was it to dress everyone in neon colors?
What do you think was your worst fashion mistake??
I don’t know what I was thinking when I got a perm then had my hair cut short. YIKES…I looked like a boy.
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Robin Twitter name: @NKsDogwalker Find me on FB: robinkay6573@yahoo.com 38th Birthday with Mom, Dad and friends 2011 Next Trip: Cruise on Jewel of the Seas for Christmas 2012
I love finding those old photos.. . Mine was my 'poodle cut'... warned the hairdresser about my hair taking a perm very well, shorter (but not really short) hair, and honest to goodness, i looked like a poodle! Fastforward 4 years; decide to get a perm (yep, 4 years between), different shop, same conversation... same result; then I realized it was the same hairdresser....
3rd grade - bad perm - got my nickname for the next 3 years - Fuzzy! Yuck!
Also my mom was not a clothes shopper so we had to wear those nasty stretchy polyester sets from Sears - double yuck! So glad she finally let me choose my own clothes by Jr. High School - what a relief!
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A Fairy Godmother wannabe -
Look what a little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo can do!
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HyperColor shirts . . . and shorts. Together in the same outfits. You know how the clothes changed color when heat was applied, right? Yeah, whoever invented HyperColor had a great idea with the shirts, but SHORTS?! And I wore them. Everyone knew which parts of me were hot. GAWD. What a geek.
Then there was the bad BAD home perm in 9th grade (think kinda like Joey McIntyre of NKOTB's hair, only on a girl. ) It was SO bad that I wore a hat to school all day right after my mom did it and my PE teacher made me take it off in class so that my massively bad perm stuck out everywhere. And everyone laughed at me. So, I cried and ran out. It was like one of those teen movies. And humiliating.
Of course there were the too-short running shorts and athletic socks up past the knees when I was a little kid . . . but that's kinda what we had to deal with in the late 70's/early 80's, ya know?
HyperColor shirts . . . and shorts. Together in the same outfits. You know how the clothes changed color when heat was applied, right? Yeah, whoever invented HyperColor had a great idea with the shirts, but SHORTS?! And I wore them. Everyone knew which parts of me were hot. GAWD. What a geek.
I totally remember those shirts/shorts! My sister and I both had a shirt! I use to slap her back to make a mark and she would get mad and chase me around.
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Of course there were the too-short running shorts and athletic socks up past the knees when I was a little kid . . . but that's kinda what we had to deal with in the late 70's/early 80's, ya know?
I have SOOO many photos with that combo. The socks weren't cool unless they had a bright, wide, colored stripe on them! Have you ever looked at NBA players shorts in the 70/early 80s and compared them to players shorts of today. OMG the guys wear their shorts down to their knees now back then you could see the "little black curlys"
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three words: Dorothy Hamill haircut...
I have REALLY thick hair and I insisted on getting a Dorothy Hamill haircut - I think it was 4th grade - and it looked AWFUL!!! My hair was WIDE!
oh yes memories are flooding back. Knickers for pants and then the leg warmers pants were purple and leg warmers were bright yellow. The had my picture taken in the pink and purple plaid type shirt and put my hair in a bun then curled the strans next to my face. There was this other school picture were it looked like I didn't brush my hair. Oh man how embarassing it is now to think of it So are we doing this to our kids too? or do we and them have better fashion sense than our parents
I remember the neon color phase And the BIG hair. And the Miami Vice look I look back on my high school photos and think, good God, what was I thinking
I had a terrible perm in the third grade. As for fashion, the "grunge" look was in when I was in 6th - 7th -ish grades, so it was all about flannel shirts and skater-sneakers like Airwalks. Really baggy, gross looking clothes. We'd color streaks in our hair with kool-aid or magic marker and wear blue fingernail polish. My mother was horrified. Luckily it didn't last too long.
My freshman year of high school - I don't think Britney Spears was around yet - I had this one outfit I loooved - it was a short-short blue and yellow plaid pleated school girl skirt, a matching blue, fuzzy short-sleeved sweater and black Mary Janes. Of course, all my friends loved it too and had similar outfits in different colors. Now I look back on those pictures and howl. Lordy. And I thought I was so cool!
My third grade perm that never went away. My hair was straight as a pin and blonde before that. Post-perm, it has been curly ever since and BROWN. My mom says it's the best $35 she ever spent at the hairdresser. I hate my curly hair.
As for fashion mistakes: tight-rolled jeans and the single-curl-uber-wave bangs I had in seventh grade. The kind where you'd just wrap your entire section of bangs around the curling iron, curl it back, and empty a half a bottle of Aqua Net on the wave. I'm getting sick just thinking about it.
Also, the matchy-matchy 80's thing. 2 color outfits from head to toe. Purple earrings, purple and mustard "layered" t-shirt all in one, mustard-colored jeans, purple scrunched socks, and purple sneakers.
Oh wait, one more - grunge. Flannel shirts and boyfriend jeans over long underwear shirts or wife-beater tanks.
Okay, last one - spandex, zipper-down dresses in hot pink. I have a picture of myself in one (that I am not sharing ) from when I was about 13 years old. Also have a photo of myself from Halloween when I was 14 - red bodysuit, red miniskirt, red tights with flames, 4 inch red stilhetto heels, and devil horns and tail. My dad let me leave the house in this fashion travesty.
OK . . . I admit to the Dorothy Hamill haircut (at age 4), the Grunge outfits (stole my dad's hunting flannels to wear. ) and the tight rolled jeans and the huge crusty bangs.
Oh my I remember the tight "pegged" jeans, the skidz, and then peace frog. One bottle of aqua net a week in 7th/8th grade and many mini curling irons. My dad used to swear I wore big bangs to add to my height. He was right, I needed those three to five inches to get me to 5'6".
HyperColor shirts . . . and shorts. Together in the same outfits. You know how the clothes changed color when heat was applied, right? Yeah, whoever invented HyperColor had a great idea with the shirts, but SHORTS?! And I wore them. Everyone knew which parts of me were hot. GAWD. What a geek.
OMG Sarah! You brought back a big memory!! I remember those hyper color shirts stopped working after a couple washes..
As for me I had the big Farrah hair do
& thought I looked cool in my crcohet halter top & Jordache jeans ( with a parrot on the butt)
& Debix3.. *I* wore one of those John Travolta 3 pc suits with a red satin blouse
that was the 'in' thing to wear at the under 18 discos..
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I also noticed a lot of bad fashion. OMG who’s idea was it to dress everyone in neon colors? 
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. Mine was my 'poodle cut'... warned the hairdresser about my hair taking a perm very well, shorter (but not really short) hair, and honest to goodness, i looked like a poodle! Fastforward 4 years; decide to get a perm (yep, 4 years between), different shop, same conversation... same result; then I realized it was the same hairdresser.... 
Yeah, whoever invented HyperColor had a great idea with the shirts, but SHORTS?! 
And I wore them. Everyone knew which parts of me were hot. 
or do we and them have better fashion sense than our parents
And the BIG hair. And the Miami Vice look 
My hair was straight as a pin and blonde before that. Post-perm, it has been curly ever since and BROWN. 
My mom says it's the best $35 she ever spent at the hairdresser. 
) from when I was about 13 years old. Also have a photo of myself from Halloween when I was 14 - red bodysuit, red miniskirt, red tights with flames, 4 inch red stilhetto heels, and devil horns and tail. My dad let me leave the house in this fashion travesty. 
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