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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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01-09-2007, 04:21 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Alaska
Posts: 1,797
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OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
From looking out the windows, you'd think it's a beautiful day today.....
But then you'd look at the thermometer on my kitchen window sill.....
Yes, that is 33.7 degrees BELOW zero! BRRRR! It's so nice when the clouds clear but we are paying for it big time!!!![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]
(It was actually -37 degrees at some point last night! |
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01-09-2007, 04:24 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Grand Haven, MI
Posts: 1,378
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
OMG is right!!! I can't even imagine how cold it must be. BRRRRRRRRRRR
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01-09-2007, 04:25 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Michigan
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 5,998
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jawdrop.gif[/img] OMG and I was complaining it's cold here... It's 33 ABOVE zero here [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blushing.gif[/img]
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01-09-2007, 04:29 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Illinois
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 9,564
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
That is certainly beautiful, especially from the inside!! Take care and stay warm!
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01-09-2007, 04:31 PM
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PassPorter and WDW Addict
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Texas
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 12,489
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
Oh my...that is cold!
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01-09-2007, 04:33 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
Hooooooly mackeral!!!!!!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]
STAY INSIDE AND WARM!!!!!!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/coffee.gif[/img]
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01-09-2007, 04:40 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Alaska
Posts: 1,797
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
I have to park my truck outside since my husband has "projects" going on in the garage right now [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img], and it wouldn't start this morning, even with the engine block heater plugged in all night! My DD missed the first class of the day because she had to wait for her Dad to get home to take her to school. There was no way I was sending her down the street to wait for the bus in this weather. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] Good thing I didn't, because the bus was over 1/2 hour late! She'd have been frozen solid by then! Luckily DH got my truck started once he got home so I can meet her at the bus stop later. Dang I hope the next storm blows in soon....the weather guy says more snow so that will help warm things up!
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01-09-2007, 08:45 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Celebration, FL
Posts: 3,915
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
OMG! Stay warm!
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01-10-2007, 09:25 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Michigan
Posts: 2,081
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
I couldn't think of a more beautiful scene to enjoy from INSIDE! Wow, you really are in God's country.
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01-10-2007, 09:11 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
[ QUOTE ]
Hooooooly mackeral!!!!!!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]
STAY INSIDE AND WARM!!!!!!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/coffee.gif[/img]
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Exactly - and I was whining about it being in the 30's tonight -- that's 60 degrees WARMER than that temp!!
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01-09-2007, 04:31 PM
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Wishing I was at WDW!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Southwestern Florida, USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 39,153
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
Bless your heart - living in Alaska! I don't think you could ever find me living there! Northern Indiana is too far north for me! I guess I won't complain about our 30 degrees with a windchill in the low teens today!
Stay warm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stay inside!!!!!!!!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]
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01-10-2007, 09:46 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 3,968
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jawdrop.gif[/img] OMG and I was complaining it's cold here... It's 33 ABOVE zero here [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blushing.gif[/img]
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01-09-2007, 04:54 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
beautiful vista you have there! I'd love to enjoy it. From inside!
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01-09-2007, 05:09 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago Suburbs
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 5,921
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
You certainly won't be catching me complain about the Chicago weather in the winter ever again after seeing that thermometer. BTW - I did see your Alaska -35 temp last night on the news. I pointed out to my DH how cold it was.
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01-09-2007, 05:11 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Volunteer State - Tennessee
Posts: 12,203
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Re: OMG! You couldn\'t pay me to go outside!
Bless your heart, that is cold!!! Stay warm!!!
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