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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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You have Internet, right? How about joining Netflix for Instant Viewing in place of the TV you are missing? It doesn't cost that much and you'll have lots of TV series and Movies to watch. We watch on computer, through our BluRay, and through out XBox 360.
Try hulu.com It's free, and you can keep up with most TV shows. Some, though, you have to go to the individual network website for (e.g. "Big Bang Theory"). Free TV is better than paying for cable....
Good to see that you are doing well and still "pounding the pavement". Glad you got to connect with old friends. My DS is looking for a job also and finding the same situation - not many jobs out there. He also has to be able to walk there.
So I mentioned that my girlfriends from college are coming to visit.
Let me preface this:
I'm wearing a Pirates of the Caribbean T shirt and Mickey lounge pants. Drinking tea from the Tea Caddy shoppe out of a Figment mug that steeped from a Mickey T ball with water boiled in a Mickey Parts tea kettle.
In the 6 years that I've been "living in Orlando" for at least a month out of the year and the 6 weeks that I've actually lived here I've never set foot on Universal Property. I write about Disney, I blog about Dining at Disney. I spend most of my free time here--on a mostly Disney related message board. I listen to Disney Podcasts and watch Disney movies.
Where do my girlfriends want to go? Universal. Specifically Islands of Adventure.
I was kind of hoping for those classic Magic Kingdom photos with all of us in them. Apparently not.
I did, however, make the trek out the Theme Park Connection today to check it out. They have a lot of stuff. Sadly, most of the paper items aren't very well organized. There is no rhyme or reason to the bins filled with everything from copies of Ears on Ears from the 70s to the paper work Disney gives you when you are laid off or quit.
They do have some enormous items from the parks, movie props, costumes, that are neat to look at. However, most of the space--it's a warehouse--isn't air conditioned and is very dusty. They have a huge collection of snow globes and old Mickey Mouse telephones.
I don't know that I'd go out there unless I was looking for something specific and I think even I would check Ebay first. My hour journey--about 30 minutes each way for me--only netted me a Sleeping Beauty litho of Maleficent that I had never seen before. There are some props from Pirates that I was lusting after, but my pockets aren't that deep right now. Plus there doesn't seem to be anything that proves they were used in the movie. So $150-$300 for an item that you can say was used in the movie--sounds like a bit much to me. Most of the artwork is priced way out of my price range, but was interesting to look at. All in all the place needs to be better organized.
If you have a collection of Disney stuff they do buy pieces or collections. Send them an email with more info before showing up with it though. I saw some folks bringing in some envelopes and they appeared to have an appointment.
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