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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-03-2006, 09:07 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: barberton, ohio
Posts: 268
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mr potato head
mr potato head and his bucket of parts, buckets of fun for everyone!
can anyone tell me the going price for a fill a box of tater parts? I have a brother going in two weeks (lucky dogs) and would like him to pick some up for my DD.
THANKS!
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09-03-2006, 09:13 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Volunteer State - Tennessee
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Re: mr potato head
We did it last January and my DD and I both think it was around $20 to fill a box, not for sure though. We thought it was well worth it and a lot of fun to fill the box! Even the CM's help you!
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09-03-2006, 09:17 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Frakes, KY
Posts: 470
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Re: mr potato head
I have done this three times!!! I only got one potato head, though. Just parts after that. You can fill up his body with the small parts- it is whatever you can get in the box and close the lid. I teach 4th grade and as a reward for making 100 on a pretest in spelling they get to change the potato heads. You wouldn't believe how it makes them study to play with a tater!
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09-03-2006, 10:17 PM
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Go Red Sox!! :D
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Rhode Island - Red Sox Nation
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 27,451
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Re: mr potato head
It is most cost effective to use the extra space in the box for the unique Disney parts that you cannot purchase at home and then pick up a basic Mr. Potato Head at home.
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09-03-2006, 10:26 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 3,062
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Re: mr potato head
I was kinda wonderin' that myself! Thanks for asking. I can't wait to do this with my son next week. We're big tater fans [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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09-03-2006, 10:38 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 18,767
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Re: mr potato head
It was $18.95 to fill the box in June. We spent about an hour in Once Upon a Toy stuffing our boxes to get the maximum amount of pieces in. We bought our Potato Heads at Wal-mart before we left. They just released some new parts here recently!
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09-04-2006, 10:06 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Western, NY
Posts: 5,502
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Re: mr potato head
My DD already had the Potato family at home, so we stuffed that box tight with parts!!! It was so much fun!!!!!! I am going back in Jan w/o DD and I am going to bring her back more parts. I am hoping there will be lots if new ones that she doesn't have!!
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09-04-2006, 11:30 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Boise ID
Posts: 14,396
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Re: mr potato head
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It is most cost effective to use the extra space in the box for the unique Disney parts that you cannot purchase at home and then pick up a basic Mr. Potato Head at home.
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/yeahthat.gif[/img]
I first learned about tater parts here on the boards, and we had a blast stuffing that box!! Once we got home he didn't get played with as much, but we've recently found him a "home" in the family room, and every once in a while DD changes his parts around!
I LOVE the idea of the kids getting to change his parts in the classroom! I might have to try that one!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
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09-04-2006, 02:29 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Richardson, Texas
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 5,653
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Re: mr potato head
Is there a box they give you to fill or do you have to use the actual Mr. Potato box? Also is this only at Once Upon a Toy?
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09-04-2006, 02:40 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Volunteer State - Tennessee
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Re: mr potato head
I saw some of the new tater parts on
www.laughingplacestore.com they were cute!! They have a yellow rain poncho, that wasn't there when we were. Buying tater parts at downtown Disney has become a tradition for us!!
When we were there in Jan, last year they had boxes by the Mr.potato head parts. It reminded us kind of like a salad bar--take your box and go around and look for what you want! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]Don't know if it's only at OUAT or not. |
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09-04-2006, 05:05 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Iowa
Posts: 2,006
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Re: mr potato head
when we were there Tuesday they were unloading Cruella hiar and Mary Poppins stuff as well as Halloween pieces ( a mickey Trick or Treat Bucket)
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09-04-2006, 09:53 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: barberton, ohio
Posts: 268
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Re: mr potato head
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It is most cost effective to use the extra space in the box for the unique Disney parts that you cannot purchase at home and then pick up a basic Mr. Potato Head at home.
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So you no longer have to have a Mr. Potato Head in the box??? It seems I remember from 2 years ago you had to have a Potato of some sort in the box?
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09-04-2006, 11:52 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Boise ID
Posts: 14,396
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Re: mr potato head
They have small cardstock/cardboard boxes that you fill. When we went in Dec 2004 you didn't have to have a potato in the box. We brought our own from home to play with when we took the parts back to the hotel room.
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09-05-2006, 12:39 AM
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Go Red Sox!! :D
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Rhode Island - Red Sox Nation
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 27,451
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Re: mr potato head
[ QUOTE ]
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It is most cost effective to use the extra space in the box for the unique Disney parts that you cannot purchase at home and then pick up a basic Mr. Potato Head at home.
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So you no longer have to have a Mr. Potato Head in the box??? It seems I remember from 2 years ago you had to have a Potato of some sort in the box?
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We bought ours in 2002 or 2004 (can't remember) and it was the CM who quietly suggested we leave the head out of the box quickly followed by, "but I didn't say that"
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09-05-2006, 02:43 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 3,062
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Re: mr potato head
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We brought our own from home to play with when we took the parts back to the hotel room.
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We added Mr. potato to my list of things to pack. I'm sure he's so excited he gets to go to Disney!!!! I can't wait to pick out new parts, ooh and Halloween ones, too.
I thought my husband might give a hard time about bringing it, but he put it on the list no questions asked [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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