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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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03-06-2005, 05:16 PM
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Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
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Crush 'n' Gusher will utilize "some of the latest water ride innovations in the industry today," said Patrick Brennan of Walt Disney Imagineering and lead creative designer of the new attraction. "When completed, Crush 'n' Gusher at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park will be the only water coaster thrill ride of its kind in Central Florida."
While riding Crush 'n' Gusher, guests will be whisked along a series of flumes and spillways that weave through what appears to be a rusted-out tropical fruit facility. It's another chapter of the Typhoon Lagoon legend.
As guests slip and slide through torrents of gushing water, gravity defying conditions caused by the recent typhoons create crushing bursts that propel guests up and down through cavernous twists and turns, weaving in and out of treacherous wreckage and debris that once transported tropical fruit through the plant's wash facilities.
Walt Disney World guests will have three different fruit spillways to choose from, each ranging between 410 to 420 feet in length with varying degrees of slopes and turns -- Banana Blaster, Coconut Crusher and Pineapple Plunger. |
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03-06-2005, 06:26 PM
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Location: Kissimmee, Fl
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
It does sound way cool, I am hoping it is open when we go in April, I would love to try them out. My nephew would too, though my niece woult sit these out lol.
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03-06-2005, 06:32 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
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It does sound way cool, I am hoping it is open when we go in April, I would love to try them out. My nephew would too, though my niece woult sit these out lol.
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Typhoon Lagoon reopens on March 12th (next Saturday!) and Crush N' Gusher is supposed to open on March 15th!!! As long as everything goes to plan, it should be open when you go Janine!!!  |
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03-06-2005, 09:35 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: North Dakota
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
I am so excited for the Crush 'n' Gusher! This sounds like so much fun and coming from a person that LOVES water and could live in the water, this so exciting! This is actually the deciding factor in whether we were going to Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon and now we are definitely going to Typhoon Lagoon! I am really really pumped for this. We are going to WDW for our honeymoon in August so hopefully it will be open and ready to use by then! Probably way before that but it's still good to know.  |
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03-07-2005, 03:23 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
It all sounds really neat, not that I'd ever summon up courage to try it!  |
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03-07-2005, 04:06 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
OOOHHHH -- I think I need to visit this in May,.... I need the latest schedule of events to figure out WHEN I can go!!! Sounds wonderful!
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03-09-2005, 07:25 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
I am one of those weird people who has yet to make it over to one of Disney's water parks but, by the sound of this attraction, it would be a worth a visit to Typhoon Lagoon just to experience this unique attraction.
Joy
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03-09-2005, 08:55 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: connecticut
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
3 more days from what I understand, can't wait to read the posts !!!
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03-11-2005, 01:10 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Ky
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
We can't wait, my dd is a big water park fan.
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03-11-2005, 05:48 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: connecticut
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
tomorrow...tomorrow...can't wait to hear about tomorrow.
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03-12-2005, 11:00 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: connecticut
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
okay, passporters, start writing in those reviews. as I understand it this ride opened today. What did you think ?
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03-12-2005, 03:58 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
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Location: Maine
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
As I'm sitting here looking out the window at yet another snowstorm  I'd love to hear about the Crush 'n Gusher!! I'm definitely dreaming of being at WDW!! |
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03-13-2005, 11:57 PM
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Red Hot Momma~
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Port Saint Lucie, FL USA 90 minutes from WDW!
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
Sounds like the names of new cocktails their gonna be serving! They do sound yummy! I mean fun.  |
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03-15-2005, 01:35 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
Here's a link to pictures from allearsnet |
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03-15-2005, 02:01 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
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Location: connecticut
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Re: Crush \'n\' Gusher to Make Splashy Debut At Disney\'s Typhoon Lagoon in Spring 2005
thanks for the pics, being a big water park fan I can't wait to try out all three !
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