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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-03-2003, 07:31 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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They\'re off!
Well the two middle schoolers got on the bus about 45 minutes ago. The first class should be starting as I type this. Plenty of parents there for pictures, but this will be the only day we are allowed. We even got the kid in black with all the piercing [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] in one (the school did ban the black trench coat last year). [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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09-03-2003, 07:35 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: They\'re off!
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We even got the kid in black with all the piercing [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] in one (the school did ban the black trench coat last year). [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">In Middle School?!? [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] HOLY SMOKES! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
Well Don, enjoy the day and glad they got off okay! My oldest son is getting ready to head off to the bus stop for the second day of school - alone! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] |
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09-03-2003, 07:40 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: They\'re off!
A pierced dude in black in middle school? Yikers. Hope your kids have a great first day!
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09-03-2003, 08:19 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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Re: They\'re off!
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Originally posted by loobyoxlip:
A pierced dude in black in middle school? Yikers.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">This is a combined high school/middle school bus. This kid lives next door and is a high school senior. He was home schooled through 9th grade. Let's just say he is blossoming now. He has also painted his room totally black (inc ceiling) and likes to jump off the porch roof and ride his bike into trees. They have a pool also and he swims dressed in black jeans and black tee shirt. Makes life interesting. |
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09-03-2003, 08:28 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: They\'re off!
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Originally posted by Disnydad:
This kid lives next door and is a high school senior.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">So, I'm assuming you use him often for babysitting? [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] |
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09-03-2003, 09:13 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
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Re: They\'re off!
Besides driving the parents and the entire neighborhood totally crazy, does the man in black have any goals?
Hope you're not to lonely now that school has started.
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09-03-2003, 05:05 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: They\'re off!
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Originally posted by Disnydad: He has also painted his room totally black (inc ceiling) and likes to jump off the porch roof and ride his bike into trees. They have a pool also and he swims dressed in black jeans and black tee shirt. Makes life interesting.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">H'mmmm sounds like my neighbor. Does he like riding said bike down the yellow double line of your subdivision? |
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09-03-2003, 05:11 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: They\'re off!
So Don, how was their first day? And of course, I'm assuming you got loads and loads of work done with all the peace and quiet, eh?!? [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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09-04-2003, 12:27 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: They\'re off!
Go Jason & Ashley!!
Glad to hear your kids made it safely to school - even with the man in black on the bus!
We've got our share of kids like that at the high school as well, and since our buses are K-12, the little kids see just as much! Unfortunately - most of the ones that dress/act like that do start in Middle School - plenty of piercings by the 8th grade (WHAT are the parents thinking - they have to sign for them!), funky hair coloring jobs - especially for the boys!
Amanda came home from high school yesterday, and commented "Mrs. Haley (the elementary asst. principal) would have dropped dead there! Kids chew gum all day long (a big no-no in K-8), PDA all over the place and it's allowed!" I think she would prefer to go back to the rules, although she did stop at the store on the way home from the game to buy a pack of gum! Better not be any PDA happening with my daughter!!
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09-04-2003, 12:40 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: They\'re off!
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Originally posted by Dumbo:
Besides driving the parents and the entire neighborhood totally crazy, does the man in black have any goals?
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Why wouldn't he?
I knew 3 kids who dressed all in black and they grew up to be college grads, computer professionals, and artists. They were my 2 brothers and I. And we STILL wear black are STILL functioning members of society.
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09-04-2003, 12:43 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 2,873
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Re: They\'re off!
My personal favorite PDA in high school was the hands in in each other's back pockets routine. Gross! I hated seeing that more than the rounds of tonsil hockey being played between classes.
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