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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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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Lauren - LilMarcieMouse
Ben – mamajab
Jessica – DebiDebiDebi
Cole – LilMarcieMouse
Mike - Colexis Mom
Soko
JP- LilMarcieMouse
Chrissy – HiddenMickey
Ryan - Cattailmarsh
Legend
Hii = Hidden Immunity Idol
TC = Tribal Council
IN = Immunity Necklace
EI = Exile Island
Soko: Chrissy is happy that tribal council went exactly as it was supposed to and feels Ryan believes he can get further with her than with Ali. Ali confronts Ryan, feeling he didn’t trust her but he says she was too close to Roark and that was all it took. Ali feels hurt over being betrayed by him, saying she would have never kicked him to the curb, she cries over it being so rough. She says she is alone now and only wrote down Chrissy’s name because she felt that was what Ryan wanted. Ryan thought he would still be able to work with Ali but after she “railed” into him; he can’t have enemies in the game and thinks she may need to go now.
Yawa: Mike says catching a fish for the first time with a spear was amazing and now he feels he can do anything he puts his heart and mind too. He is excited to be able to provide for his tribe. Mike drops the fish into the fire, but Ben jokes that come hell or high water, he was cooking the fish. Ben is proud of him for being out of his element and doing so well. He says Mike caught a small fish and shared it whereas Cole catches a decent size fish and eats it by himself and that shows who you should work within the game. Cole is showing his colors and it is not a good thing.
tribe is trying to ration out the food but Cole says they shouldn’t cut down the food. When Lauren objects he tells her not to interrupt him as she tends to dominate the conversations. Cole says they should eat big while they have it as Lauren says no one is starving and if Cole wants to eat, he can cook it. Cole storms off saying he isn’t getting enough food, and without a bigger serving he can’t perform his best and without him, there wouldn’t be a Yawa tribe. Mike, Lauren, and Ben talk about Cole, saying he is digging his own grave when it comes to the tribe, as Jessica is the only one spending time with him.
Reward Challenge: They need to race out going through some obstacles to a set of poles, where they are to use the poles to transport a buoy across a balance beam, that buoy will release their boat, then untie some knots so they can themselves pull to a platform, where they will use a giant slingshot to knock down 2 targets’
The reward for the first team is 10 pizzas and soft drinks. The second team gets 1 pizza to share.
Mike sits out.
Soko takes the lead. Already at their boat but they fall behind when they forget to untie both knots on their boat. Yawa catches up and they are dead even racing off to the platform. Ashley and Desi are still trying to get across the course while the others are already using their slingshots. JP does it and Soko wins the first reward with Yawa winning second, leaving Levu has nothing and is told to head back to camp.
Soko: They all enjoy a whole pizza and some “down time.” Ryan says JP is a tank and very athletic, and with the merge happening soon, it raises the threat of having JP around. He is tough to read because he doesn’t talk strategy at all as all he talks about his chicks and bars. Ray feels its amazing that JP is still here because he has no clue that this is a social game. He thinks taking out such a huge threat right before the merge is priority number one.
Levu: Devon talks to Ashley about Joe and Desi’s connection, they want each other at the merge and it looks like if there was a tribal council it would be two on two and their hope is to get Desi to flip on Joe. Devon feels Joe is good at finding immunity idols and needs to keep eagle eyes on Joe because he makes him nervous. Ashley learns Desi trusts Joe in that he will stick with them to some point but admits she would vote him out. Desi believes Joe would use her until she is no longer to her advantage and he is definitely the most strategic player out there.
Desi is really considering getting rid of Joe at this point. Meanwhile, Devon and Joe continue to walk through the forest. He knows Devon is watching him, but his game is to have power, control and to manipulate. Joe finds a clue, very similar to when he was in the healer camp. He didn’t give Devon a reaction and feels he needs to get rid of the clue so no one knows he will have it. He is determined to get the idol that night.
n the middle of the night, Joe begins to dig by the tree. He says everything he does is for his children. He digs deep enough and is thrilled to find his second idol and promises if he moves onto the third camp, he will find that idol too. Personally I like when different people find the Idols. It’s getting kind of old the some person finds them all. I know they can’t control it.
Yawa: Cole wakes up, but as soon as he stands up, he falls face down. Mike rushes over and asks if he is okay, but has no clue what happened. Mike tells him to lay down and give him water; Jessica says she is going to cook some rice for him, offering to give him her portion. They were all scared that he fainted but Jessica and Mike are in the medical profession and are sure he is okay but she realizes in that moment that she didn’t want to play this game without him. Does anyone else feel like he faked it?
Mike feels Cole became a liability and they need to get rid of Cole. Ben returns and Mike tells him that Cole fell like a tree trunk. Ben and Mike sit alone when Ben says Cole should worry more about his appetite than his 6-pack; Ben agrees he is a liability. It is good he wasn’t hurt but they can’t pamper and cater to him. Ben says if they lose in the immunity challenge then Jessica’s boyfriend is going home. Cole tells Jessica he cares about her.
Immunity Challenge: Standing on beams, they each pull on a rope, suspending a disk, they will then work together to stack blocks on the disk, spelling “IMMUNITY”. If at any point they fall off their beam or the stack falls, they need to start at the beginning again. The first two tribes win immunity.
Soko is the first casualty and needs to start over as Ashley places the 6th block and Jessica right behind her. Both tribes need to start over as Yawa is in the lead with one block left; Cole has placed the “I” down but as he inches back the stack falls and they need to start over. Levu and Soko are neck and neck with one letter to go. Everyone puts the “I” on the stack, Yawa survives first, then Levu is second.
Soko: JP feels losing wasn’t a big deal as Ali is the next one to go and there is nothing she can do about it. Ryan feels Ali is the next target but JP is a huge threat and taking him to the merge is dangerous but in order to take out JP he needs to earn Ali’s trust as he needs her for this vote. He apologizes to her, he doesn’t think she is going home. They talk about needed Chrissy to come over and now Ali needs to convince her, after just voting for her. She tells Chrissy she is loyal but Chrissy worries about the merge as Ali promises to put her loyalty in her. Chrissy knows JP is a threat but she doesn’t know if she can trust Ali, she has aligned with Ryan the most and needs to talk to him about who is going home. Ryan doesn’t know why everyone wants to work with him as he considers himself a weasel.
Tribal Council: Ali reveals her and Ryan have swept things under the rug and are good moving forward. Chrissy says all four of them want to make it to the merge as Ali says it will influence their vote tonight. JP says traditionally the bigger guys get voted out now and it is scary sitting there right now; you can say what you want but at the end of the day it comes down to what is in the best interest in everyone’s game moving forward.
Ali is bothered that he doesn’t give a direct answer and doesn’t like that no one knows what he is thinking; Chrissy agrees that he is very quiet. Ryan says playing quietly is dangerous and isn’t sure he wants to work with someone like that. JP admits if he gets voted out, it will be a wake-up call to his social game. They vote and Jeff tallies them. No one has an HII so Jeff reads they votes.
Ali, JP, Ali, Ali, Ali is voted out and you hear her say “You’re kidding me!” She grabs her torch and tells them good luck beating JP.
So I figured she would go because they made you think it would be JP. Next week we get the merge so till then practice your knots and keep your bellies full my Surviving peeps!!
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I thought it was a pretty good episode. No Real Surprises though. I wondered about the merge bc Jeff said to them - guess you all are counting on a merge. Made me wonder if they were going to hold off on the merge.
Ali was my guess to go and I was right.
Not sure they did the right thing though.
We all thought pizza was a great reward.
Wondered how the group with five (including bottomless pit, Cole) divied up their one pie.
Those yellow team never did figure out what the other teams did....the person moving the piece should not keep their rope taut. Only the other team members should do that.
Did you know that people are speculating that Cole faked that fainting spell to get sympathy and more food? I'm not sure about that, but that would be an interesting move to make.
Did you know that people are speculating that Cole faked that fainting spell to get sympathy and more food? I'm not sure about that, but that would be an interesting move to make.
Will be interesting to see if that plays out in the episodes to come.
Did you know that people are speculating that Cole faked that fainting spell to get sympathy and more food? I'm not sure about that, but that would be an interesting move to make.
I thought that. There was something about how he acted when he came too. I fainted once and I knew what happened. My chin hit the only un carpeted spot in the room and that woke me up.
I didn't think it was faked. The way, and direction, he fell, he could have gotten hurt, and it didn't look controlled. Also, to me, he looked out of it when he came to. OTOH, I don't like how whiny he is about the food, not to mention, greedy. Who eats a whole fish by themselves in a tribe? I would not be sad to see him go.
I didn't think it was faked. The way, and direction, he fell, he could have gotten hurt, and it didn't look controlled. Also, to me, he looked out of it when he came to. OTOH, I don't like how whiny he is about the food, not to mention, greedy. Who eats a whole fish by themselves in a tribe? I would not be sad to see him go.
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