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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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I was thinking about this as I was mowing the grass. When I got my first car, it was a orange 1969 Toyota Corolla. It had personality, so I named it Herbie. This car was one of the first that Toyota made, and yes, it had rust. It could only go 90 kms, and going up the hills it would putter. It had a manual choke, that you had to pull out to get it started. Friends used to lift it up and move it around when I was inside it was that light-funny. However, I never named one after that. Does anyone do this anymore or is this a throw back to the 80's??? Just curious if anyone has a car that they have named and why.
Yes, I have time on my hands today...why do you ask
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My first car was named Sally....it was a Mustang, so not very creative.
My current car is a green Forerunner named Brandon. No idea why I named it that. It was just a name I liked and I was in college when I got it so we all had named cars.
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My first car....a rusted out orange 1971 Datsun was Chug-a-Bug or Chuggie.
Didn't name the next few, but now...
My 1996 GMC Jimmy is Duck....because it is the same teal green you seen on mallard ducks.
My DH has a Dodge Dakota...I call it DD and not for the reason you think. I call it that because when we got it and took it out to show off to my Dad. I asked if he wanted to come out to see it and he (being a die hard GMC man) said, "Why, it's just another d**n Dodge."
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I never names my cars but i do remember when corollas first came out. One of my college roommates bought one is the days they were advertised for $1995.00 (brand, spanking new)
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I never names my cars but i do remember when corollas first came out. One of my college roommates bought one is the days they were advertised for $1995.00 (brand, spanking new)
Wow, I am impressed that someone knows what type of a car I am talking about...thankyou Mine was 2nd hand and I spent $500 for it. I sold it after my foot went through the floor due to rust for $500 about 5 yrs later. It was a standard. I am making sure that my kids know how to drive standards....they are fun I own a Prius so a distant relative of Herbies LOL I never knew how important a first car was or I would have taken more photos of it.
I've always named my cars: Pierre Renault LeCar was the first. Then came Tony Corolla, Rocky the RAV4, Frank (a blue Rav named after old Blue Eyes), and now I have AG, a silver RAV. Our company cars at work are Nemo (a blue VW bug), Moby (a huge white van), an huge old station wagon named Moses, and twin pick-ups: Siegfried and Roy.
My very first car was a white Grand Am named Bob, my next car was a black Taurus named the Batmobile. Then I had a van that I never named. Now, I drive a light blue Nissan Maxima. I haven't named it yet but I'm thinking of Donald since it's blue and I would really love to find Donald stuff to go in it. I'll wait to see if I find the stuff before I name it.
Every car I own I call Lena. My great grandfather whom I never met called his vehicles that. It stuck with my mom and apparently I picked up on it because I just started doing it, lol.
My dad had an old beat up station wagon that got stolen once. After we got it back he called it "Runaway". I had a 2005 Suzuki XL7 that I called Ichiro after Ichiro Suzuki the Seattle Mariner outfielder. Even had personalized plates that read "Ichiro". My Volkswagon GTI doesn't have a name, but when asked if its fast, I always answer "It Scoots" so maybe I ought to call him "Scooter"
I've named a few of my cars. The first a 1973 green Vega hatchback was Herman Fred Vega. Our first car together was named Aslan K. Aries (it was a Dodge Aries). My red Escape was the Mickey Mobile and my current Edge with all its technology is the Starship Enterprise.
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Mine was 2nd hand and I spent $500 for it. I sold it after my foot went through the floor due to rust for $500 about 5 yrs later. 
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