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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Us too! We go every other year ...the time in between we are plannig the next trip. Everything comes to a screeching halt in our house when a Disney commercial comes on, we all smile and start talking about past trips *sigh*
You sound like me! I went in January with my 3yo and am missing it more than ever! In late February I made a ressie for November for a weekend solo trip and we are all going again Feb. 09. My 3yo talks about it all the time too.
WHAT of course it's not normal. You are 30 something years old you should be into old people stuff, not Disney ok ok I was only kidding. Of course it's normal. I miss it terribly. I get on pp board everyday even on my cell phone. Thank goodness for internet on the cell phone.
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No dissent here...I dream f Disney...watch our planning video at least once every other day and could proably quote my Passporter and Birnbaum's guides verbatim. If people at work are thinking of taking a trip to the World...they come to me...
I've been twice in less than a year and if I could, I would go back RIGHT NOW!!!! Alas, I must wait until September. Of all the rotten luck. My DS tells me every morning he is going to ride Test Track and whenever we get in the car he thinks we're goign to the airport to go back to WDW. It's normal. It's the way we live our lives: from one trip to the next. I think Disney has a homing device it puts on us while we're in our sleep at their resorts. It sends out a signal when we're away: "Come baaaack! Come baaaaaaack! Giiiiive us your moooooneeeeey!!! Come baaaaaack!"
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I think Disney has a homing device it puts on us while we're in our sleep at their resorts. It sends out a signal when we're away: "Come baaaack! Come baaaaaaack! Giiiiive us your moooooneeeeey!!! Come baaaaaack!"
We took our first trip to WDW in Nov. 2007 and we had not even been home 2 days and I was already planning our next trip. Would love to have a job there. So now we are going back in Nov. 2009 and then we will be taking another disney cruise in2012 but I am sure there will another trip to WDW in between those trips. We took our first Disney cruise in Nov. 2004. Can't get enough of the BIG CHEESE. I think we are all in the right place.
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Isn't it great not to be alone when wanting something that is so good and clean? I'm with you on wanting to go back!! Luckily MY 33 yr. old DD is taking me back with her and her 2 kids for the 4th of July. We were the Dec.07 at BC and I just fell in love with the place.And like you, I was home 2 days and wanted to go back FOREVER!!! If I was young and single, bye bye MI, hello FL. So now I wait, 3mo. 1 wk. and off I go........
Like Scott said, you won't get a single dissention here. We're all in this together and this is probably the biggest group of folks with an addiction to a Mouse!!
My son who is 12 has been bit by the bug too-a few weeks ago he was just so upset and said he wanted to go back to Disney NOW! He even has asked if he could build a tele-porter so we could come and go as we please.
Of course it's normal! I can't stop thinking about my upcomming Disney trips! U should involve your daughter in planning your family's next trip! let her help make decisions on resorts, restaurants, iteneraries and other activities! (take her to the Disney store too ).
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