Go your own way - Decade of Dreams - UPDATED 6/24 - COMPLETE!! - Page 53 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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WIB - I LOVE that party. While Fantasmic is not my favorite show, that space lends itself really well to mingling and the desserts are fabulous. (At least to this chocoholic!! )
What a wonderful dessert party...the weather looked perfect, there was a great crowd and it sounds like you had enough desserts to feed an army. Glad you all had such a good time....
Great looking party! Lots of yummies and good folks around. I have to say, I'm happy to hear you report more magnets at WDW - that's one of my favorite things to get and I'm having a hard time finding new ones I like.
WIB - I LOVE that party. While Fantasmic is not my favorite show, that space lends itself really well to mingling and the desserts are fabulous. (At least to this chocoholic!! )
I love Illuminations and I love the various locations of the dessert parties at Epcot BUT I think the desserts and set up at Fantasmic are a notch above.
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Having been on my Lifestyle Change since Jan. and really watching my desserts, I found those desserts to be too much for me and had me wishing for something other than chocolate(a catastrophe!). But of course that was after I ate that YUMMY rocky road bar: the peanut butter(yum yum chez!)chocolate and marshmallow. Talk about rich!!
That was when Larry won my heart forever! I was sitting there holding my bar and it was melting and I said, oh I knew I should have gotten a fork! He looked at me and offered to get it, he was all ready to get up too!! I declined the offer though as I just didn't want him to put down his own dessert get up just for me!
I was completely blown away by the kind gesture, the men in my everyday life are just not as, (oh what do I want to say??) well mannered as Bob and Larry are and Larry, you are the best!
I am blushing, Wendy! You say the sweetest things! Happy to oblige.
More wonderful pictures of the dessert party. Rich, rich, rich. Cheryl, I will gladly eat your peanut butter for you!
I particularly like certain folks' expressions in this picture:
Firstly, there's a certain someone who complained that EVERY time a picture was taken she was chewing.
Secondly, can't you just hear Sharon mumble between tight lips, "What wocky woad bahr?"
How to go behind the scenes! And it looks like you're all having a wonderful time at the party!
I think I understand how you feel about peanut butter...it's kind of like how I feel about Marmite. I tried and tried, but I don't think Marmite and I will ever be friends!
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I LOVE that party. While Fantasmic is not my favorite show, that space lends itself really well to mingling and the desserts are fabulous. (At least to this chocoholic!! 
Dreams, Wishes, Hopes... these are the parts of childhood we should never lose.
I have to say, I'm happy to hear you report more magnets at WDW - that's one of my favorite things to get and I'm having a hard time finding new ones I like. 
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Larry, you are the best! 
to go behind the scenes! And it looks like you're all having a wonderful time at the party!
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