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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear about your problems with the TA I can't believe how many things went wrong. But at least you got all the negative stuff out of the way so your trip can only be 100% magical, right?
We'll both pray!! Next time I will go through someone on here or do everythin myself and then switch over for the OBCs.... It will be magical, though!!!!
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Boy, I hope this is the end of the problems caused by your TA. Instead of making your job easier, which is the whole reason for using a TA, she made you do at least twice as much work--and it would have been more, if not for "J". What would have happened if you had just given her the particulars and then relaxed until your trip I shudder to think!
You and me both!!! See we're eye -to - eye on this one!!! My DH said the EXACT same thing!!! He shudders to think what would have happened if I weren't so thorough and anal about all of the details, LOL! I would have gotten there and been pissed!! So I did go there and I got an after -hours emergency phone # for AAA - to use just in case anything else goes wrong with our plans while we are there!!! I pray for my TA that nothing else will go wrong....
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for your AKL room. Hoping you get all your requests.
Thank you dear......
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Hey Theresa, i uploaded another picture on my signature
Nice pic!!!... Can't wait to see the pics you get with the new camera!!! Make sure that you have a big enough memory card and take your battery charger/spare battery....
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What a pain. I hope your request comes through.
What a pain is ABSOLUTELY right!!! Thanks for the pixies!!!
[IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/SEBAST%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/SEBAST%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/SEBAST%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg[/IMG]i want to send you some fairy pixies for AKL, but i don't know how to do this. Hope everything goes well and that you don't run into any more problems. It's almost here
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Sorry about all this typing, i was trying to send you some pixies.
Yeah, We will be meeting soon.....
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So that this less than helpful TA is still putting kinks in the works! Many that all works out.
I have already done a "Donald Trump" - YOU"RE FIRED!!!!! - on her, BUT because she made a commission ( a large one at that) and it was already "issued" My DH wants her to finish what she started, but I told him... I'm doing more work than she is!!!! We went in to talk to her and her manager, but the manager is on vacation, until Sat.... so Saturday, I may just do a drive by......
Wow!! One week away!!!! How exciting! And just think - when you get back, YOU could become the travel agent after all the work you have done cleaning up after this one!!
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Don't worry... My "drive-by" was to talk to her and her manager, and in no uncertain terms - express my total dis- satisfaction... no bodily harm....
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Wow!! One week away!!!! How exciting! And just think - when you get back, YOU could become the travel agent after all the work you have done cleaning up after this one!!
You know!!! I feel with this site and all of the research that I have done... I think I could do a GREAT job - AND - I like doing surprises and spreading the magic to make people feel good....
Don't worry... My "drive-by" was to talk to her and her manager, and in no uncertain terms - express my total dis- satisfaction... no bodily harm....
I had to laugh out loud on this one. I can picture you driving by and using a wand and give her the mickey magic spell with the living broom from the closet.
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You know!!! I feel with this site and all of the research that I have done... I think I could do a GREAT job - AND - I like doing surprises and spreading the magic to make people feel good....
I think we are all Disney's travel agent of this site. We seem to get it.
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I can't believe how many things went wrong. But at least you got all the negative stuff out of the way so your trip can only be 100% magical, right? 
Next time I will go through someone on here or do everythin myself and then switch over for the OBCs.... It will be magical, though!!!! 
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that this less than helpful TA is still putting kinks in the works! Many 
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