Passporter December Gathering 09 -roll call UPDATED 1st Post - Page 13 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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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.
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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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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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For all of the people that are new to the PassPorter meet family - you may notice other PassPorter peeps in the parks due to their PassPorter gear. Many of us wear PassPorter pouches (blue wallets on strings) or a PassPorter badge like this one. I actually have two green badges - one with my screen name, and one with my real name. I believe that the current badges are only available in yellow (probably to distance PassPorter from the Disboards?). Here is a link to the page in the store if anyone wants to order one before the Gathering. PassPorter Name Badge Pin These are fairly inexpensive - only $4 a pin.
We know that these will definitely be approved by Dave and Jennifer.
I also noticed that several people who have taken trips since the May Decade of Dreams trip have worn their DOD lanyard in the parks on subsequent trips. (Lucky!!)
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For all of the people that are new to the PassPorter meet family - you may notice other PassPorter peeps in the parks due to their PassPorter gear. Many of us wear PassPorter pouches (blue wallets on strings) or a PassPorter badge like this one. I actually have two green badges - one with my screen name, and one with my real name. I believe that the current badges are only available in yellow (probably to distance PassPorter from the Disboards?). Here is a link to the page in the store if anyone wants to order one before the Gathering. PassPorter Name Badge Pin These are fairly inexpensive - only $4 a pin.
We know that these will definitely be approved by Dave and Jennifer.
I also noticed that several people who have taken trips since the May Decade of Dreams trip have worn their DOD lanyard in the parks on subsequent trips. (Lucky!!)
Just a thought!
Good point. I need o get another one.
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I knew about all of those before my trip in August and looked and looked to find some of them, but I found none. Not sure whether I was just totally unlucky or whether those just didn't stand out enough for me to pick up on. The blue pouches were out of stock for months before my trip, so that was not an option for me.
I would love to see something in that red that would really stand out, but that's just me.
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I will probably get a pin too. And I'm thinking seriously about the pouch. Betty, I wish it were red too. That's my favorite color and it reminds me of Minnie & Mickey!
I was going to suggest the PassPorter pouch and name badges - we always wear ours in the parks and we'll probably have Decade of Dreams lanyards as well. I made sure to get one for Mark, even though he couldn't join us in May.
I have mine from our last trip, maybe I should get one for Mattbell and the kiddies!
the pouches or name tags?. i'm confused. i'd like to just have the pouch but i have to tote more stuff than than. name tags, other than at actual meetings and conferences, i'm not so excited to wear.
can you please add me to the 12/06/09 area! We just extended our stay
Thanks!
knzyzach (Melissa, DH, DD8, & DS12) ~ Pop
Good for you!
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We'll be down there the same time as you all but I am not sure I can make any of the gatherings . Our first few days of our trip we'll be pretty busy as we have family and some friends that are also there the same time and we have an action packed few days.
We'll be at Saratoga from 12/6-12/12 and then AKV from 12/13-12/20.
I hope to see some of you in the parks though with your name badges and pouches, and will say hello if I do. I recognize the names from some of my posts or PM's and would love to actually meet in person.
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like this one. I actually have two green badges - one with my screen name, and one with my real name. I believe that the current badges are only available in yellow (probably to distance PassPorter from the Disboards?). Here is a link to the page in the store if anyone wants to order one before the Gathering. 
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