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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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03-05-2005, 08:41 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 4,169
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How many people collect pressed pennies?
How many of you actually collect pressed pennies?
Does it get costly after a while?  |
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03-05-2005, 08:49 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 22,002
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
I'm sure it can.... I don't pay attention to it, it's fun...
This is what I collected in Feb. 2004
http://www.pbase.com/lizardcop/disney_pressed_pennies
and I haven't posted the ones I collected in Dec. 04, I guess I need to do that... |
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03-05-2005, 09:28 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Guilford, CT
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 6,938
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
Last time we went to WDW, my DS and DD collected the pennies. We gave them each two rolls of pennies and two rolls of quarters. They used them up pretty quickly, but they had a great time doing so.
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03-05-2005, 11:40 AM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 98
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
Last year our DD collected the pressed pennies and she is looking forward to doing it again this year. I saw somewhere that there was a site where you could actually find out where the pressed penny machines were located in the parks. Does anyone know where to find this information?? Thanks!!  |
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03-05-2005, 12:08 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Jamestown, NC 27282
Posts: 1,217
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
Hey Pam, I found the list on Deb's site. Here's the link....Ruth http://allearsnet.com/btp/pennylist.htm
Hope it works! |
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03-05-2005, 12:17 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Killeen, TEXAS
Posts: 1,135
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
COOL!
 for the pics of your collection!! NICE!
and for the link on Deb's site, I missed that!
Something else to go crazy about  |
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03-05-2005, 01:19 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NE Ohio
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 11,856
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
DD has collected pressed pennies for years. I don't think she cares about the cost. She does it because it's fun.
Clio
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03-05-2005, 02:05 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: MD
Posts: 2,038
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
We do............ |
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03-05-2005, 03:08 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 34,171
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
Both boys do! The link from Deb's web site is not always updated we found when I printed them off for the boys and gave them each a pressed penny book, rolls of pennies and quarters for the trip. Which coins on which machine was not always accurate. I'm sure it would be hard to maintain! It is helpful though, that was for sure!
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03-05-2005, 05:34 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: In the state of Disney Dreaming!
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,572
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
DH just hates this! He doesn't understand why we pay to have our money crunched! 
Right now, my Dteens do only the characters they like.
A few years back, DS#1 and DS#2 spent all of their allowance for the year on buying their DSis the complete set of pennies and quarters. It was a blast! We were running all over WDW on all of our trips. And then Disney announced they were changing the machines and so we had to do a mad rush to get the final like 5 they were missing. It was so much fun! Drove DH crazy!  |
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03-05-2005, 05:53 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
I do!!! Well . . . at least, I try to remember what I have and what I don't and I try to remember to get new ones!!!
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03-06-2005, 01:52 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Northern NV
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 12,516
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
My kids collect them, and enjoy hunting down the machines all over. There were so many more at WDW than at DL that the girls had to buy a second folder to keep them in. It's well worth the 51 cents.
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03-06-2005, 04:54 AM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: London, England
Posts: 4,429
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
DS both collect the pressed pennies, the love collecting them.
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03-06-2005, 09:16 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: IL
Posts: 889
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
We do! DD loves it! She does them at other places too when she sees the machines! It was a neat collectable thing for her to do, and cost way less than a plush or sweatshirt...plus it's fun!
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03-06-2005, 09:23 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 22,002
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Re: How many people collect pressed pennies?
I've added pics of the ones I added to my collection in December, 2004...
http://www.pbase.com/lizardcop/disney_pressed_pennies |
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