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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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12-08-2003, 09:34 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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A yummy question
What kinds of Christmas cookies are you making this year?
We are making:
Peanut butter kisses
Sugar cookies
Raspberry thumbprint butter cookies
potato chip cookies
choclate chip cookies...................so far!  |
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12-08-2003, 09:40 AM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Dallas
Posts: 170
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Re: A yummy question
If we do cookies this year, we'll probably do break-n-bake.
I am the WORST baker..every thing I've ever tried to make 'from scratch' has turned out pretty awful.
Signed,
Not exactly the Pilsbury Doughboy
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12-08-2003, 09:45 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: A yummy question
I usually only make a couple different kinds:
Sour Cream Chocolate Chip
Reese's Mini Peanut Butter Tarts
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12-08-2003, 10:13 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: A yummy question
Haven't made any yet  , but I usually try to make Toll House and Sugar cookies  |
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12-08-2003, 11:06 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
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Re: A yummy question
I don't know if I'll try cookies - I'm doing both fruit flapjacks and coconut and cherry flapjacks though! |
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12-08-2003, 11:47 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Orlando, Fl
Posts: 5,517
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Re: A yummy question
Mom and I got together over the weekend to do baking. We made a ton (9 dozen of each). We plan on giving out cookie baskets as part of our present to some people (garbage man, mailman, nurses at Gram's nursing home, etc).
Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
Sugar Cookies
Pecan Tassies
"Good" Cookies
Oatmeal Raisen Cookies
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Date Nut Cookies
Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Gingerbread Men
Spritz Cookies
Kelly
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12-08-2003, 12:06 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: A yummy question
<font color="0066cc">I won't be baking any cookies. I buy shortbread, and Mom bakes enough yummy cookies that I'll have trouble restraining myself when we go home for Christmas. If I bake anything at all it will likely be mincemeat tarts. </font>  |
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12-08-2003, 12:39 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,734
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Re: A yummy question
I'm not sure yet. This is my first year baking from scratch, so I'm trying to find some <font color="purple"> easy</font> recipes!!
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12-08-2003, 01:51 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Re: A yummy question
thumbprint cookies that will get either a kiss or a peanut butter cup
spritz cookies
chocolate truffles
peanut butter fudge
chex party mix
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12-08-2003, 02:02 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Corona, New York
Posts: 3,436
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Re: A yummy question
<font color="purple">Yum, love the potato chip cookies Tara!
We'll be making Snickerdoodles. </font>
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12-08-2003, 03:02 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: A yummy question
[ QUOTE ]
What kinds of Christmas cookies are you making this year?
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My favorite are the free ones the neighbors bring over. No cookie bakers here.
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12-08-2003, 03:21 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: A yummy question
Hmmm, I'm not sure yet. Definitely Peanut Butter Kisses and chocolate chip. Also making some black and white brownies with Christmas M&M's. My friend sent me a cool recipe with p.b. and Rolo's, too.
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12-08-2003, 03:35 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: BrookLyn, New York of cOurse!
Posts: 286
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Re: A yummy question
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Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
Sugar Cookies
Pecan Tassies
"Good" Cookies
Oatmeal Raisen Cookies
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Date Nut Cookies
Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Gingerbread Men
Spritz Cookies
Kelly
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wow kelly! lol I'd like to be coming over your house for some yummy and delicious cookies!  . Well I'm not really sure what we are making this year but I know for sure sugar cookies. |
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12-08-2003, 05:28 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: A yummy question
I make Gingerbread Men every year. My son Chris loves to bake them with me now, so it's way more fun! I use to mutilate them when I first started baking. So to cover up my "inexperience", I would make X's for eyes and leave the tongue hanging out like they had gone to meet their maker (oh...but that would be me wouldn't it...teehee!). Now my family and friends wants nothing but my mutilated Gingerbread men. So even though my technique is much improved, I still have to make them look "injured"...shall we say.... |
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12-09-2003, 12:14 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 5,094
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Re: A yummy question
<font color="green">I haven't made my list yet, but there are some I always do that I know we'll be making.
Toll House
Peanut butter
sugar
Gingerbread men - this year they will be wearing little fire fighter's helmets...we bring a few dozen cookies to our fire house every year and I thought they'd get a kick out of this </font> |
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