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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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01-29-2002, 06:50 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: HELP - What\'s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?
My kids get $1 per tooth - seems standard among their friends, too. Now, for teeth knocked out by bicycle accidents - well, let's just say that Justin got two new Game Boy Advance games for that special circumstance - one for each tooth!
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01-29-2002, 10:43 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Omaha, NE, USA
Posts: 2,025
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Re: HELP - What\'s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?
Stop the price gouging! $1 a tooth is all the tooth fairy pays at our hourse.
Here's my funny story. Child #3 (you can see where this is going) lost a tooth and both DH and I forgot to put $ under the pillow. We were surprised the next morning when DS came and showed us the dollar the tooth fairy had left. A few minutes later DD#2 - (approx. 10 yrs. old) came in and said "Don't worry about the tooth fairy stuff - I took care of it."
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01-30-2002, 02:30 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Duluth, Ga. , U.S.A.
Posts: 844
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Re: HELP - What\'s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?
Patsy-c,
Your son has a very special big sister there! Every now and then, they take care of each other and you just want to cry.
Our kids got $5 for their first tooth and $l each after that.
When my DD(9) lost her last tooth a few months ago, the Tooth Fairy forgot to visit. The first thing she did was comment on how the Tooth Fairy always forgets! She said, "Mommy, the Tooth Fairy is mean" Well, I couldn't let her think that, so I told her the truth. I though she was of enough to handle it, but she was heartbroken! I felt so awful! She said, "Great, the next thing you'll tell me is there's no such thing as the Easter Bunny."
I have to tell you a funny story that's related. Later that same week, she was watching The Weakest Link with the Brady kids all grown up. I could tell she was having a hard time understanding that they weren't really brothers and sisters, so I expained they are just actors. She said to me,"First, the Tooth Fairy, now the Bradys!"
As you can tell, she's the one who keeps us laughing!
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01-30-2002, 03:25 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Parsippany,NJ
Posts: 3,235
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Re: HELP - What\'s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?
Tooth fairy update: My son came into my bed room and told me the tooth fairy left him $2.00 and could he call Grandma to tell her about it? So I dialed my mom and he talked to her for a bit. When he hung up, I asked him if he wanted to call Nana (my MIL) next. He said "No, she didn't give me any money last time!" [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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01-30-2002, 04:10 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Toms River, NJ
Posts: 3,062
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Re: HELP - What\'s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?
Janet,
Oh my [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img], looks you have a top level executive on your hands...
Whatever happened to that time when cookies and candy were the bribes of choice among the grandma circuit?
-Brant
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01-30-2002, 08:38 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Parsippany,NJ
Posts: 3,235
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Re: HELP - What\'s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?
Joey, LOL! That's my mom in nutshell [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] . She bribes with everything under the sun. The kids knew where her cookies were kept before they were 2 years old! They also want to go to my mom's house on Halloweeen because they know she'll have several special treats just for them. If I bring them to their other grandmother (Nana), she gets out her camera but she's never given them a thing on Halloweeen. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
My kids learned early.
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01-30-2002, 10:28 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: HELP - What\'s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?
Funny-Sad story. Samantha was 6 and in the hospital in Intensive Care and a nurse accidently "extubated" her (knocked out the ventilator tube). They had to put it back in so quickly and she paniced so badly that both her top front teeth were knocked out. She had a HUGE fat lip and even 2 black eyes! Everyone felt so bad for her, the Dr. gave her $20, the nurses gave her some candy and a stuffed animal, her grandparents spoiled her, and we gave her $10 with a new video tape, a stuffed animal, and a new outfit.
She was 9 when her next tooth FELL out and got $2, "Where's all the rest of the stuff?" [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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01-31-2002, 03:46 PM
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#23
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 2,172
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Re: HELP - What\'s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?
We were at WDW two weeks ago, my DD's and DS's first trip. He had a front tooth that had been bothering him since mid-December but he wouldn't let us do anything about it.
One night as Epcot was closing we headed for Mouse Gear. He had barely eaten anything for dinner because that tooth was so loose and bothering him so. I noticed he was fooling with it while the rest of us were shopping and it FINALLY came out. He found a dollar under his pillow the next morning.
Two days later we were having lunch at the Diamond Horseshoe watching the show. The magician was performing card tricks and trying to look at the unsuspecting victim's card in the mirror behind the bar.
Of course it was very obvious, he promised not to do it again and he turned around with his back to the mirror. He then pulled out a telescoping pocket mirror so he could look over his shoulder to the mirror behind the bar and, of course, he was spotted. So he pretended he was using it to check his teeth. Then he started checking DS's teeth as part of the cover up and noticed the new gap in the front.
Magician: "Say, young fella, looks like you're missing some of YOUR teeth."
DS (lisping): "Yeth. I lotht it at Epcot the other night."
Magician: "OH! How much did you get?"
DS: "A dollar."
Magician: "Did you know that if you loose another while you are at Disney World the tooth fairy pays FIFTY DOLLARS?"
The place burst out laughing but you could tell DS was thinking about it.
Moral of the story: Pull all their teeth before you go. Just in case. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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