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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I am a huge Minnesota Twins fan, so I have collected various things over the years related to the Twins. I have a number of baseball cards as well as a baseball that I just recently got autographed by former Twins player Tony Oliva. One of my friends and I like to go to the games where there are give-aways. This year I got a special collector's set of baseball cards, a schedule magnet, a bronze statue of Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, as well as three Twins baseball caps. One is from opening day, one is a pink one which was from Mother's Day, and one is pinstripe cap in blue and grey. Not owning enough caps already, I bought a really cool red, white and blue hat with #57 Johan Santana on it! I have a number of shirts and jerseys as well. I have my really old #14 Kent Hrbek jersey as well a #57 jersey for Cy Young Award winning pitcher Johan Santana. As far as shirts I have a red t-shirt with #7 Joe Mauer on it, as well as a Twins Piranha shirt. DD has shirts with #7 Joe Mauer and #48 Torii Hunter on them. Oh, and I almost forgot my Twins lanyard that I wear every day to work as well as the Twins magnet which is on the back of my car.... Can you tell that I love baseball and love watching the Minnesota Twins?
So what do you own in the sports memoribilia department?
I have a jillion clothing articles with Pittsburgh Steelers stuff on it: socks, sweats, shirts, jerseys, hair scrunchies, earrings, pins, and my navel ring (which I have not removed since our SB 05 season).
I've got about five Terrible Towels, one being a Super Bowl special edition. I've got glasses from the early 80's that McDonald's gave out; I've got an eons-old beer can I got off of Ebay; I've got lights, beads, a bucket, a banner than hangs outside, and a windsock.
My mom just bought me a Christmas-tree skirt for this year as well as some lights in the shapes of helmets for my tree. The past two years I've received Christmas cards with the player's signatures on them (probably because I always buy stuff from the site) and these are under lock and key.
I've also got ticket stubs from a game I went to in January 05-the one where we lost to the Patriots. Had we won it we woulda went to the SB that year. It was horribly cold and we froze our patooties off-I couldn't hang any more after halftime and didn't feel my toes until we had went to bed that night in our hotel in Pittsburgh.
We have a ton ofSox, Pats and Bruins stuff and some Celtics stuff as well. Jerseys, hats, yearbooks, etc. We have Ted Williams autograph, Tom Brady, Danny Ainge, and Jim Lonborg (Cy Young Winner)... We also made a collage of all of our ticket stubs. And have a ton of basball cards.
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I have tons of UNC Chapel Hill Tar Heels stuff. When I was in school there, they'd give away a lot of free stuff, and I've bought a lot from the student store as well. I also have a lot of Wake Forest stuff, as that's my family's team (seems like everyone went to WF but me ) and I grew up a Wake Forest fan (still cheer for them -- as long as they aren't playing UNC).
We've got all kinds of Pats, Sox, Celts and Bruins stuff.
We have a personalized autographed picture of Bobby Orr.
A large photo collage (best way to describe it) of Bobby Orr - the large picture is a favourite of mine when he was very young and played for the Oshawa Generals and then three smaller photos and one is of the famous game winning goal against St. Louis.
A framed picture showing the final games for the Celts and B's at the Boston Garden, the first Pats Monday Night Football game, and picture of Fenway (there's some meaning to it but I can't remember what and it's packed away right now).
A framed autographed photo of Tom Brady.
A signed photo collage of Ray Bourque.
I also have some Bruins calendars from the 80s that I got autographs from numerous players and my Barry Pederson Bruins jersey that's autographed by various Bruins.
There's also all the stuff from when DH went to the Super Bowl in Houston when the Pats when their 2nd title. Loads of stuff my dad sent up when the Sox won in 2004 and when the Pats won in 2001.
I have a bunch of Celtics stuff from the 80's. There's a really good poster that the Herald gave away for the 1986 Championship team I need to get framed.
I still have my Doug Flutie Heisman Trophy poster that McDonald's gave away when you bought a Big Mac. I had my dad get one so I could have the poster.
Here's a quick list of my memoribilia:
-Lots of Baseball cards, Hockey cards and Football cards.
-most of the ticket stubs to any sporting event I attended
-World Series programs, Super Bowl programs
-a few autographs
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I have a number of shirts and jerseys as well. I have my really old #14 Kent Hrbek jersey as well a #57 jersey for Cy Young Award winning pitcher Johan Santana. As far as shirts I have a red t-shirt with #7 Joe Mauer on it, as well as a Twins Piranha shirt. DD has shirts with #7 Joe Mauer and #48 Torii Hunter on them. Oh, and I almost forgot my Twins lanyard that I wear every day to work as well as the Twins magnet which is on the back of my car....
Can you tell that I love baseball and love watching the Minnesota Twins? 
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) and I grew up a Wake Forest fan (still cheer for them -- as long as they aren't playing UNC).
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