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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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and trying to contain my excitement at work! I'm in the single digits for our FIRST ever trip to WDW ! I can't stand the excitement any longer........how will I ever make it tell then Thanks guys your the best!
Isn't it hard working these last few days!!! Enjoy Disney -I just turned single digits Tuesday -- there are certainly a number of people from this board going during the same time period! Its sooooooo exciting......I'll join you in a single digit dance....
I've been planning forever! Ever since I was in high school and went to Disneyland, I've wanted to go to Florida. So...................two years ago, when we decided we were done having kids I started planning this trip for my now DH, DS who's 12 and DS who's 6! I'm dying from the excitement My family and friends think I'm nuts because this is something I've dreamed about, read about, prayed about and planned for years!!!! you name it, I've studied it. Thanks guys!!!!!! I'm so thankful and excited.........
I am so happy for you! I realized my disney dream in August and it is just as wonderful and magical as you are dreaming. Have an awesome time and don't forget to tell us all about it!
You're going to absoultely LOVE Disney World! It's like no othe rplace in the world - I know it sounds crazy when people describe it as Magical, but it REALLYis - Disney has a funny way and making that feeling of magic real for all of their guests! I'm just like you - I went to Disney in 1992 but I was too little to do a lot and I don't remember much - mainly just whatever we have on tape. Then I went with school in 2001 and absoultely LOVED it! I was with people I didn't really like and they ruined it for me () but I was STILL able to feel the magic. Ever since then I've been planning trips to go back with my family and we were supposed to go back in the summer of 2001, then the summer of 2002, then the summer of 2003 and then this summer (at least we went to Hershey Park this year!) and now we're FINALLY going next summer. I know almost everything there is to know baout Disney having been so obsessed all this time and planning for the past 4 years! It's ALL worth it, though, once you get there and experience all the magical craziness for yourself!!
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I started planning this trip for my now DH, DS who's 12 and DS who's 6! I'm dying from the excitement 
you name it, I've studied it. Thanks guys!!!!!! I'm so thankful and excited......... 
) but I was STILL able to feel the magic. Ever since then I've been planning trips to go back with my family and we were supposed to go back in the summer of 2001, then the summer of 2002, then the summer of 2003 and then this summer (at least we went to Hershey Park this year!) and now we're FINALLY going next summer. I know almost everything there is to know baout Disney having been so obsessed all this time and planning for the past 4 years! It's ALL worth it, though, once you get there and experience all the magical craziness for yourself!! 
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