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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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After baking a bunch of cookies last night, I have an idea that someone should work on. Short people cannot always easily manage an oven with a door that opens downward. Sometimes, after I've opened the oven, it's difficult to put what I want to cook into the oven from so far away. I've tried accessing it from the side, but that's not always easy either. My aunt has the same issue. As she gets older, it's harder for her to keep her balance as she bends and reaches to get into the oven.
Can't someone invent an oven with French doors, or a door that opens like a car door? That way I could get closer to the oven itself and make it less likely that I lose my balance and fall onto a hot door.
What might work for you, is if you can find a long-handled spatula with some hooks/notches on the side. You can sometimes find it with outdoor-barbecue gear. You would use that, and the notch / hoke, to pull the rack out of the oven towards you, and to push that rack back into the oven.
The prolem with a "french door" approach, you see, is that the junction between the doors would be VERY difficult to properly seal and insulate. On two-door refridgerators, there's an extra bit on the left-hand door that pivots about, and provides BOTH doors a surface to seal against when that left-hand door is closed.
Now, a door that came out, and SLID SIDEWAYS (like a van door), or even lifted vertically upwards or downwards, might be more workable. I'm not enough of an engineer to actually work out the hinge apparatus necessary to do that, but I can at least envision the door working that way.
Alternately, a door that hinged down as normal - but then SLID IN, under the oven ...? Or perhaps above the oven? Or opened sideways, then slid inwards on that side?
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Since those are the types of doors all our school kitchen ovens have (as well as all the restaurants I've seen on tv) , it's technically already been invented. I agree though, something like that would be good for the home market. I'm only in my 30's but because of ear problems, I find I already have balance problems and it's not fun when it happens when I'm cooking.
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Most commercial and high end kitchens have the french door ovens (I've watched enough Food Networks shows and see them all the time)! I could use one myself!
DD Samantha and her DH have ovens that open up like a door - not French doors. They have them because being quadriplegics they can't lean in and pull things out of a regular oven. They had pull out shelves installed under the ovens for rests.
The problem is I don't have a kitchen that will accomodate a wall oven. I need the kind that most homes have that sit on the floor. But, then again, even if I found this magic oven, I'd have to find the funds to purchase it.
We have a Gaggenau oven (previous owners put it in) and it opens to the side, like a car door. It's nice, because the hinge broke on one side, so the repair man was able to flip the door over and now it opens to the right instead of to the left. (Cheaper than getting a new oven!) It is not a wall oven, but not really a stand alone either. Kinda built in, it's separate from the range.
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