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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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I think this is just a friendly board where we're ... um... "friendly" with each other and will give support, encouragement, teasing, and gentle humor to each other.
I wouldn't look on the posts of encouragement as any nefarious plot against our collective spouses (who we all obviously love and respect), but rather as a bunch of people who love Disney and understand each other's needs to be there as much as possible -- making rationalizations for spending a little more (while saving a little too) just to be in our happy place.
That sounds like a great trip!!! Glad you got the extra day.
Hey, Yaka, we women folk are just making up for the years of oppression suffered by our ancestral females at the hands of the barbaric men who owned us by sneaking around WDW.
*that was a joke, just in case you missed it*
As a Mommy of a boy who just GRADUATED Kindergarten, I couldn't think of a more perfect way to start that very special year!
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You just have to know what works for each hubby. I managed to convince my hubby to go from... "just four days at WDW...no more...it's too expensive!" to a lovely six day trip at the Polynesian Resort by reminding him of his childhood desire to experience EPCOT. He remembers wishing he could go to FL as a kid just for EPCOT and Kennedy Space. I encouraged him to increase our stay so that we would have two days for EPCOT and thennnn managed to convince him to stay 5 MORE days in a condo near the.........Kennedy Space Center (right on the beach!!! so Mommy can rest!) And Daddy gets to fulfill his childhood fantasies......It's all in the motivation
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Just stress the airlines savings and that it means another day of free dining....Hey it's an extra day at Disney and I am sure he wants his daughter to be happy
Sounds like a great plan to me! Unfortunately we had to do the opposit and come home a day early to save on ours.
Thanks! I almost had to go that route too about coming home a day early! If I had bought my plane tickets a week earlier, I never would have seen this deal. Sometime it pays to procrastinate a bit! LOL!
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That's so awesome! You and your DD are going to have such a wonderful time! Congrats! 
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" to a lovely six day trip at the Polynesian Resort by reminding him of his childhood desire to experience EPCOT. He remembers wishing he could go to FL as a kid just for EPCOT and Kennedy Space. I encouraged him to increase our stay so that we would have two days for EPCOT and thennnn managed to convince him to stay 5 MORE days in a condo near the.........Kennedy Space Center (right on the beach!!! so Mommy can rest!
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