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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-19-2003, 12:30 AM
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#91
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: UK
Posts: 2,476
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
In the Japanese Pavilion the Goju-no-to pagoda is 85 feet tall.
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Mel
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08-19-2003, 09:09 AM
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#92
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Community Rank: Navigator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Chester County, PA
Posts: 6,404
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
I know we've strayed from Brant's original idea, but this is fun!!!
From WDWIG:
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The Living Seas Pavilion was added to Epcot in 1986 and originally sponsored by United Technologies. It took 22 months to construct the pavilion.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Next up... 87!
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08-19-2003, 05:32 PM
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#93
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Community Rank: Day-Tripper
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
discover magical surroundings at the award-winning Walt Disney World Swan situated on 87 beautiful lakefront acres in the Epcot® Resort area
there ya go, 87 acres! who's got 88?
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08-19-2003, 07:15 PM
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#94
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Sacramento, CA
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 917
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
Priority Seating arrangements can be made anywhere in WDW by pressing *88 at any Disney payphone.
89?
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08-19-2003, 07:41 PM
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#95
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
Starting August 4th, Disney Vacation Club began offering units at it's new Saratoga Springs Resort, for **$89** point.
90 anyone??
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08-19-2003, 09:36 PM
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#96
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
Most Priority Seating reservations can be made 90 days in advance.
Who's got 91?
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08-21-2003, 09:01 PM
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#97
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Community Rank: Navigator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Chester County, PA
Posts: 6,404
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
Uh oh - gotta keep this going... stretching again but,
Beauty and the Beast, live on stage debuted at the Disney-MGM Studios in 1991.
Can we make it to 92?
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08-21-2003, 10:36 PM
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#98
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
"Walt Disney World's Dixie Landings Resort (now Port Orleans - Riverside) opened in February, 1992"
93 is next.
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08-21-2003, 10:41 PM
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#99
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
"Walt Disney World's Dixie Landings Resort (now Port Orleans - Riverside) opened in February, 1992"
93 is next.
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09-04-2003, 10:44 PM
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#100
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
I had to resurrect this one 'cause it was fun. We have to at least make it to 100! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Got this from wdisneyw.co.uk on a page about WDW landscape fun facts:
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The African savannah of Disney’s Animal Kingdom was designed with munching in mind. Elephants, giraffes, antelope and other creatures eat and play with the theme park landscape, so landscape designers created a 94-acre “browse farm” to replace natural forage including acacia, hibiscus, mulberry and shrubs.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Can someone get 95? [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
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09-05-2003, 02:29 PM
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#101
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Toms River, NJ
Posts: 3,062
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
Hang-on, we do need a 93 here before we hit 94 and 95! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
We'll give it another 12-hours, can anyone do a 93 WITHOUT doing a 19'93'??
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09-05-2003, 02:39 PM
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#102
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
[img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] Silly me. Can't even read. Sorry I skipped one. LOL! Thanks for getting us back on track!!! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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09-11-2003, 10:23 AM
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#103
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 36,592
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
The Tri-American Triathalon Series Finale will take place at Walt Disney World on Sept 27-28, 2003. According to wdwig:
The international-distance triathlon consists of a . 93 -mile (1.5 kilometers) swim, 24.8-mile (40 kilometers) bike race and a 6.2-mile (10 kilometers) run. (Note: Distances are worldwide standards used in the ITU World Championships and in the Olympic Games.) The 2003 race course utilizes a point-to-point format with the race starting at Disney's Contemporary Resort and finishing at Epcot.
Now we can move on to 95.......
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09-11-2003, 06:09 PM
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#104
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Community Rank: Navigator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Chester County, PA
Posts: 6,404
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
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The Candlelight Processional and Massed Choir Program began in 1958 at Disneyland in California. Thirteen years later, in 1971, Walt Disney World presented it's first Candlelight Processional in the Magic Kingdom with Rock Hudson as narrator. In 1994, the event was moved to the America Gardens Theatre at Epcot where thousands of guests continue to share in each of the 95 performances that are presented throughout the holiday season.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">96?
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09-11-2003, 06:58 PM
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#105
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Disney World in Sets game
The All Star Sports Resort has 96 King beds and 96 disabled-accessible rooms.
97 ...
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