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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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We will be there aug 20-26. Our family of 5 + our niece will be staying at Old Key West. We are driving down from MA so we actually leave home on the 19th.
We will be at WLV Aug 16th-24th. there will be 10 of us. Daughter, Hubby, 2yr old, 6yr old. 8yr old. Pop and I with GC 3yr, 7yr, 9yr olds. Will have my passporter attached to stroller. Hate things around my neck. Keeping my fingers crossed the trip will go well, we have taken the kids before and they all are together all the time but it will be the first time we take the 3yr old himself so hoping being away from Mom wont be upsetting. We have taken his sister as young as 2 but she loved Disney so she was just so happy she didnt care. He is use to being with us all the time so hopefully all the fun at Disney will help Mom not being there.
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We will be there aug 20-26. Our family of 5 + our niece will be staying at Old Key West. We are driving down from MA so we actually leave home on the 19th.
We will be there the same exact days as you. We are driving down and leaving from NY on the 19th
We will be there the same exact days as you. We are driving down and leaving from NY on the 19th
We are driving from Massachusetts on the 19th too!!! Are you driving straight through? We do this trek a lot (only to West Palm Beach to visit family). Usually we take our time take 3-4 days to get down. But with the timing right before school starts and the fact this is a disney trip (the kids would kill me if we took too long), we have a different plan. We are driving to Fayetville, NC (about 12 hrs), spend the night then hop on the road early again and drive 8 hrs to Orlando.
Packing up the RV and heading from NJ on 8/17 for Fort Wilderness Cabins, Aug 19-29.
No RV for us - kind of wish we did though! We are driving in our Ford Flex - thank goodness we are staying the a villas with laundry - have to pack light to fit everyone in the car.
We are driving from Massachusetts on the 19th too!!! Are you driving straight through? We do this trek a lot (only to West Palm Beach to visit family). Usually we take our time take 3-4 days to get down. But with the timing right before school starts and the fact this is a disney trip (the kids would kill me if we took too long), we have a different plan. We are driving to Fayetville, NC (about 12 hrs), spend the night then hop on the road early again and drive 8 hrs to Orlando.
We drive straight through. We plan on leaving early on the 19th and should get there before the parks open on the 20th. My father and husband take turns driving so it's not too bad. Maybe we will see you there!
I'll be there the 17th - 24th. It will be me, ds20, dd17, and dd's BFF we will be staying at art of animation. It will be my dd's BFF first visit and I am really excited to take her on her first visit to the world
We haven't actually booked yet, but we plan to be there from Aug. 10th to 18th. We are staying at All Star Sports! We haven't been there since 2009 so we are really looking forward to going back!
I'm going to be there August 8 - 18th as off now. Still haven't booked but but the outgoing flight. I will probably stay at Pop Century or CSR. Would like to do a split stay with a day or three at WL or the Poly.
Only potential hitch is if I get a new job at a college that has a different holiday schedule.
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