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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-06-2002, 11:35 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Another Hallowe\'en Silly Question
Do you decorate your house and/or yard for Hallowe'en?
We decorate the yard with spiderwebs and other things like those bags you fill with leaves. I made some big haunted houses and spooky trees that I stick in the lawn and spotlight. We have "tree masks" that we tie around our big oak trees so they have faces. I have battery operated hanging lanterns (like paper lanterns) that have Hallowe'en pictures on them that we light so that kids can see the way to the house easily. Last year I used glow in the dark paint and painted faces on small pumpkins. And of course the jack-o-lanterns! We all choose a pumpkin and one of those Pumpkin Master designs and we each carve a really elaborate jack-o-lantern.
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08-07-2002, 12:11 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Another Hallowe\'en Silly Question
Oh yes, we love to decorate for halloween. We carve up the jack-o-lanterns with the cool kits we buy every year. Here's a great tip: My DH (the very creative one in this operation) took a skull picture from the kit and projected the image on a giant bed sheet that we never used. He traced the skull image with a marker, then cut into the sheet as you would to the pumpkin. We put the sheet up in our living room window (a huge bay window) and lit it from behind with an orange lightbulb. The effect was awesome!!! Neighbors were walking by just to check it out. If I can find a copy of the picture to post here I will, but it might take me a little while to find it.
We also bake the pumpkin seeds in the oven, they are delicious. And we rent scary movies to watch all day and after trick or treating.
My next door neighbor is even better than us. He has a barn for his horses, and he has a witch in front of the barn that he lights so it casts giant shadows on the side of the barn at night. He also has stocks (like in olde Salem), an open coffin, a hangman's rope (all backlit on the barn), and a really scary jack-o-lantern lit up in the cupola on top of the barn. He also plays sound effects music. It's awesome!!!
Nancy [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
[ 08-06-2002, 12:12 PM: Message edited by: NancyW ]
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08-07-2002, 12:16 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 23,859
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Re: Another Hallowe\'en Silly Question
Donna, Halloween is up there with my birthday and Christmas in our house!!! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] We decorate and set up a little mini haunted house when the kids come around! We ALL get dressed up, too!
Signed,
Jack Skellington
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08-06-2002, 01:16 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: Another Hallowe\'en Silly Question
Yes the inside and my mom hates it.I made a ghost for out front too.
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08-06-2002, 02:11 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Re: Another Hallowe\'en Silly Question
I have a light up scary house that I'll put in the window. I also have some Halloween window clings.
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08-06-2002, 02:22 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 1,281
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Re: Another Hallowe\'en Silly Question
DF's family is big into Halloween. Her Brother is the worst. Her brother takes over there parents garage for an elaborate haunted house. He get everyone in costume and has professional theatrical lighting and smoke machines. It is a big hit in the neighborhood.
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