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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Okay - so I already posted all my "crying" confessions - but I have another.........last night I got a shipment of photo prints that I finally had printed - and it was from my last trip to the world which we celebrated DH & I's 10th anniversary and DD's 8th birthday - and I cried looking though all the pics, remembering what an incredible time we had!!!!
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We usually go to the Magic Kingdom on our last day and I always cry on the way out. I just cannot help it! I never want to leave and no matter how many times I go I don't feel like I have had enough time. Actually, I'm getting a little misty thinking about it now!
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I was so taken by WDW that I cried as we checked out of ASMu!
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Sept 2008 All Star Music/Jan 2010 Pop Century
Dec 2010 Summer Bay/May 2011 All Star Music/Nov 2011 Summer Bay Timeshare
Jan 2013 Old Key West
We were fortunate one year to open Magic Kingdom - rode in on the train to Main Street and threw pixie dust to open the park with all the characters will us. Anyway - at the end of our day in MK - Mickey walked by us and his handler was taking him on a much deserved break. My son shouted "Don't you remember me? I opened the park for you today!" Now, I would have understood if Mickey kept going because he is on such a tight schedule...BUT, he turned around, knelt on the ground and opened his arms to my son - I burst into tears at the thoughtfulness it displayed and my son has NEVER forgotten that - besides that time - I fall apart everytime I hear "when you wish upon a star" - you just feel so thankful that you're able to share that moment with your child or children - true magic DOES exist!!!
We were fortunate one year to open Magic Kingdom - rode in on the train to Main Street and threw pixie dust to open the park with all the characters will us. Anyway - at the end of our day in MK - Mickey walked by us and his handler was taking him on a much deserved break. My son shouted "Don't you remember me? I opened the park for you today!" Now, I would have understood if Mickey kept going because he is on such a tight schedule...BUT, he turned around, knelt on the ground and opened his arms to my son - I burst into tears at the thoughtfulness it displayed and my son has NEVER forgotten that - besides that time - I fall apart everytime I hear "when you wish upon a star" - you just feel so thankful that you're able to share that moment with your child or children - true magic DOES exist!!!
This has been a GREAT thread to read..... I have gone thru 3 tissues reading it ....all the wonderful memories made at a magical place .....I now wonder if Walt can see us all now, how HAPPY he must be to see that his vision and his dream has made our vacations with our family and friends so magical and so wonderful that we will remember them all of our lives......
I have already bought waterproof mascara for our next trip....it would have come in handy last year .
I haven't been since 1998, but I cry every single time that I think about taking my DD in May. She is so excited to meet the "real" princesses---I have booked so many princess ADR's & BBB that I know I'm just going to be a blubbering mess from the minute we board the plane. You know the Year of Million Dreams TV commercial where Cinderella's Castle is in the clouds? My DD thinks that Disney is really in the clouds & that is why we have to take a plane to get there (she's 5) I plan on taking plenty of tissues in my day pack!!
Pamela2768, who post is #43 of this thread, brought me in a CD of Wishes one day after I had returned from a trip. Little does she know ('cuz I didn't tell her), she made me tear up at my desk. Because at the time I felt silly. I didn't realize there were others out there like me who are afflicted by this condition. Side effects include tearing up at the sight of the castle, shouting "That's Me!" when the commercial is on and the boy says "I'm too excited to sleep", knowing the "single digit dance", and planning for friends and acquaintances.
On my last trip, I started to cry at MGM Studios (it was still MGM at that time) when my daughter was dancing with the HSM show. I'm not sure what set it off, but I know I'm not the only one shedding a tear at Disney!
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I know for a fact that I will ball again on our next trip, because my DD made a gift to give to Princess Aurora. It contains a picture of Princess Aurora and my DD from our first visit. What gets to me most is how much time the characters can take if not a long line of others. Princess Aurora after meeting DD at breakfast, spent an additional 20 min in France talking to my DD after she was out of her princess get up, simply because she was nice and very special. To this day when I look at the pic of the 2 of them in France, I weep like a tiny baby.
My mom calls me the 'hard hearted one'. I don't cry to much. However, when our family went to WDW in 2005 (it was a family Christmas), I hung back from everybody for awhile and watched my mom and dad go down Main Street together. It brought a tear to my eye. And seeing my niece's first glimpse of the Castle was something to see. She was on her daddy's shoulders. Yeah, I cry (don't tell my mom though).
I thought I was the only one who cried regarding Disney. It takes me about a week and a half to get over my depression from having to leave WDW.... It's awful.... Here I am 35 years old, going to Disney in 187 days, and listening to the Little Mermaid soundtrack just to stay in the "Disney Spirit"......
My mom calls me the 'hard hearted one'. I don't cry to much. However, when our family went to WDW in 2005 (it was a family Christmas), I hung back from everybody for awhile and watched my mom and dad go down Main Street together. It brought a tear to my eye. And seeing my niece's first glimpse of the Castle was something to see. She was on her daddy's shoulders. Yeah, I cry (don't tell my mom though).
I'm like that myself.... there are really only two things that can make me cry: daddy girl moments in movies or songs... and Disney....
my dad on the other hand can cry at the drop of a hat, so I laugh at him all the time, so I have to hide my 'moments' lol
Yes I cry, so add me to the list of Disney Weepers......
I cry when I see the commercials on TV; I cry when we hit th Flordia State Line;
I cry when we run onto the turnpike; I cry when we finally see the Contemporary, Space Mtn from the Western Way Entrance......and by the time we get on the proprty I am a blubbering mess and the front desk CM's just smile and say "the woman that cries is back" I cry as I leave the park that last day, I turn and look back down Main Street and the tears flow, then Grumpy takes my hand and says "We will back"
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We were fortunate one year to open Magic Kingdom - rode in on the train to Main Street and threw pixie dust to open the park with all the characters will us. Anyway - at the end of our day in MK - Mickey walked by us and his handler was taking him on a much deserved break. My son shouted "Don't you remember me? I opened the park for you today!" Now, I would have understood if Mickey kept going because he is on such a tight schedule...BUT, he turned around, knelt on the ground and opened his arms to my son - I burst into tears at the thoughtfulness it displayed and my son has NEVER forgotten that - besides that time - I fall apart everytime I hear "when you wish upon a star" - you just feel so thankful that you're able to share that moment with your child or children - true magic DOES exist!!!
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