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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Couple years ago we saw Oprah at Epcot. She was heading over to a gathering in one of the roped off areas near the water (we now refer to that spot as the Oprah area). She waved at people and smiled but had an entire entourage so couldn't actually get near her.
We followed Demi Moore & Bruce Willis with their girls, into MGM several years back. I didn't recognize them, CM pointed them out when I showed her my silver pass (we were entering thru the CM gate as were they). They toured just like any other family & we ended up in line with them several times thru out the day. I'm not certain if other people knew who they were or not. They were dressed like they couldn't afford a ticket - LOL!
I saw Michael Jackson and MacCauley Culkin (remember that duo?!) back in 1991 in the Idiana Jones Stunt show. We had heard rumors all day that they were there and just after we were seated, they came in with a big entourage and sat about 3 rows in front of us! I took pics but they, of course, weren't digital back then, so they're not on my computer. I was thrilled as a girl of the 80's.
DH and I also saw Kelly Rippa and family with a VIP guide in 2005. It was the weekend that the Christmas parade was being filmed. We were getting off of Spaceship Earth, and Kelly and family were getting on in the exit area. It was fairly late at night and she was holding one of her children who was fast asleep (the child also looked bigger than Kelly - she is tiny).
The funny part is that I didn't see them at first, and my DH kept saying to me "there is Katie Couric. Look, it's Katie!!" Hopefully, if she heard him, she had a laugh about it!
Isn't Lou Diamond Phillips the nicest guy. I met he and his wife, kelly, when she was preggers for thier 1st. She and I hit it off and I was one of the 1st people to know she was expecting. After his show, we all had drinks and talked, he is very normal, ohh and hot.. sorry had to add that. I am still a lost boys fan!
We knew Lou Diamond Phillips back in 1979 and was called Lou Phillips! My husband was in a play with him at Corpus Christi University and I worked lights. He was a sweet kid! (I'm all of 4 years older than he)
When we saw him in the Candlelight Procession in 2005, I wanted very much to bring one of our pictures from back then to see if he remembered the play. It was a musical written by a prof at the University...very strange play, but we had fun!
never at WDW, but last year I won home plate seating tickets to a Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball game. We were sitting there when all of a sudden, and by total coincidence, a bunch of security and people came trudging through. It was Tom Hanks, Colin Hanks, Dennis Miller, Ron Howard, a Pittsburgh Steelers player, and some others that I don't exactly know off the top of my head. I took some paparatzzi pix, but I can't find them at the moment. We didn't sit close to them, but when the game was over, they all walked about a foot from me while i was waiting on my mom! that was really really cool.
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My mom rode Splash Mtn. infront of Bruce Willis. He was a jerk. She got the pic with him behind her. He actually had the nerve to ask my mom to not buy it. He didn't want her "selling it". Who the h-e-double hockey sticks would want it is my question. It just has a bunch of people looking crappy from touring the world and ugly Bruce Willis......
Actually my managers have said it is our policy not to sell any ride photos with celebrities in them unless the celebrity gives permission. They have been through the situation a few times and always held the photos back until they spoke to the celeb and got permission. I'm not sure it's a hard and fast rule written down in black and white, but that seems to be what some managers abide by. I'm with you though. If you are going to go on Splash Mountain you are going to be in peoples photos. Get over yourself. I think now they give them private logs though, to avoid the issue.
In January of this year, my husband almost ran over Deep Roy (The guy who played the Oompa Loompa dude in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opposite Johnny Depp) and did a double take before saying to him "Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?" The guy just laughed a bit and nodded. The lightbulb then went on in my husband's head, and he merely nodded as well.
Of course, I'm not as cool - I'm like "HEY look hon, it's the Oompa Loompa dude!" which made the guy laugh even more (Probably because he can hear my husband scolding me for being rude, and my face turned a beet red).
He was with a Disney Guide. We saw him just outside Casey's Corner as we were heading towards the bathrooms, and I'm not sure if he was there as a tourist or doing something for Disney.
I saw Michael Jackson back in 1983 or 1984 at the height of his career....back when he still looked "normal".
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Quite a few years ago we were having dinner at the Brown Derby and saw George Hamilton eating dinner there as well. You could not miss that combination of dark tan and sparkling smile.
Forgot that I also saw Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles one night at MGM (near closing for EMH). They must have been filming something......not sure if it was "whose line is it anyway?" related or not
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I also saw MJ back in the mid 90's at DTD. He was hopiing, or trying to. I think a lot of people thought he was am imposter...or impersonator...but we just knew it was really him.
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I saw Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston (pre-breakup obviously) from behind a large crowd in December 2002. They were there for the Christmas parade taping and we were heading towards POTC and then were coming out the exit. There was a huge crowd around them and of course they had at least one CM with them but they were smiling and waving. I couldn't get close enough for a picture because of the crowd. I also once saw a local news personality (Don Polec) at Indiana Jones and said "Hi" to him, I think he was flattered that someone recognized him
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Irish Fall Festival, North Wildwood, NJ
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We saw Maddona, and Warren Beaty a long time ago at the Poly, when they were filming Dick Tracy(LAte 80's early 90's) ABout that same time we saw Neil PAtrick Harris on the Jungle Cruise.
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