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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Glad to see that you had such a great time with your camera and the displays. It looks like Claire is starting to get the teenager attitude "Don't point that camera at me." This exhibit hall is really beautiful.
Beautiful photos! Looks like a photographers paradise!
It sure was!
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This really looks like a great place to visit! Some many interesting things to see.
It was so neat to see.
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I'd be going nuts with photos in there - there's so much beauty everywhere you look. As for that first fairytale... no ideas here either!
It was easy to go nuts there...and I don't have very far before I reach nuts!
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Glad to see that you had such a great time with your camera and the displays. It looks like Claire is starting to get the teenager attitude "Don't point that camera at me." This exhibit hall is really beautiful.
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We next went to another outdoor area that had more of the Munro exhibit.
You can see a sign behind Claire in this next picture that says “Hot Shop”. They did glass blowing there, but it was too early for them to be doing it yet that day. We ended up not coming back later to see either as we finished our touring before they would even start for the day.
We went back inside again and my map had marked another Chihuly in the area. It was kind of in an area where most would not see it and that was sad, because it was so pretty.
This is where we ran into another family and we found out they had basically come for the Chihuly exhibit as well.
We started down this hall then as I needed to find the restroom and I almost passed these pictures. Only when I heard the family behind us say “These are Chihuly’s too” did I stop and take a look.
This is not what I associate with him at all and I am glad they spoke up or I would have walked right by.
After the quick stop to the bathroom we made our way to another outdoor area, this one with more of the Munro exhibit.
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We once again went in to another indoor exhibit and this room was really neat and one of our favorites. We probably spent the most time in here.
I really had to work to get this picture as there were other kids in here and they would not move out of the way for me to try to capture this. I really think they thought they were going to catch one…..and the parents were not watching them either. I kept waiting to hear a splash, but luckily no one ever fell in.
Another Chihuly! This thing was HUGE!!!!!!!
I stood a moment to line up this shot and as soon as I clicked…well you know how it goes…people walked right into it.
And they wouldn’t move then so I didn’t stick around for another try.
We found some stairs to go up to a lookout tower. This was a highlight to Claire, so we went up and took a few pictures.
And she ran down then so I could take her picture from up top.
I came back down and joined her then.
There were lots of butterflies in here too so I kept trying to capture them.
There are the kids who wanted to catch a fish.
You can’t see them very well in this next picture, but they had some things hanging from the ceiling in here…again I think they were part of the Munro exhibit.
I’ll let you in on a secret……I was curious if this was glass or not, so I reached over and touched it. I am pretty sure it was plexiglass if I remember right……Though the sign lists it as handblown glass…so maybe it just had a strange texture.
Oh I love that butterfly sitting on the exhibit - just beautiful. Isn't it frustrating when you're trying to get the perfect shot and someone's right in the way?
That is a very beautiful exhibit. My wife has seen an exhibit of Chihuly glass art in Virginia. I think it was at UVA in Richmond. He is quite an artist.
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