Forums Closed
|
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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
|
|
Welcome! We're happy you've found the PassPorter Community -- the friendliest place to plan your vacation to Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise Line, Disneyland, and the world in general! You are now viewing the PassPorter Message Board Community as a guest, which gives you limited access. As our guest, feel free to browse our messages by selecting the forum you want to visit from the list below.
To post messages and ask questions, join our FREE community today and you'll get access to tools and resources not available to guests, such as our vacation countown timers, "living" avatars, private messaging system, database searches, downloads, and a special PassPorter discount code. Registration is fast, simple, and completely free. Just click the Join Our Community link.
If you think you've already joined, log in below now. If you don't remember your member name or password, please visit our Member Name and Password Recovery page. You are also welcome to contact us.
|
 |
|
10-26-2005, 10:49 PM
|
#16
|
Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
Good luck, Sarah. Car problems are the worst!!!!
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 02:22 AM
|
#17
|
PassPorter Message Board Manager
 PassPorter Guide Author
Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
I hope it's not the head gasket and it's fixed really quickly. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 09:09 AM
|
#18
|
Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Manchester NH
Concierge Level: 4
Posts: 12,514
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 09:21 AM
|
#19
|
Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 8,784
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
I can so sympathize. Joe had alot of trouble with his truck last year, (he has to be at work a little after 6) and the boys and I had to get up, and drive him downtown in Philly every morning (we were leaving just after 5 as well). I hope everything is ok with the car!!!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 09:51 AM
|
#20
|
Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maine
Posts: 5,893
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
I hate how much we spend on cars, too!
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 10:24 AM
|
#21
|
Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,304
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 11:40 AM
|
#22
|
Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Southampton, U.K.
Posts: 8,125
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
I hope you get the car fixed quickly Sarah.
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 12:29 PM
|
#23
|
|
Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 34,171
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
Hope it gets fixed quickly Sarah!
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 01:59 PM
|
#24
|
|
Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
Sarah that just SO stinks!!!! Sorry to hear about the car - hope things get fixed soon!!!
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 03:21 PM
|
#25
|
|
Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 10:36 PM
|
#26
|
|
PassPorter and WDW Addict
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Texas
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 12,489
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
Coming right up!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
|
|
|
|
|
10-27-2005, 10:37 PM
|
#27
|
Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Wahiawa, Hawaii
Posts: 1,047
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] Hope it gets fixed soon!!
|
|
|
|
|
10-28-2005, 12:07 AM
|
#28
|
|
Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!! ------- YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alllllllllllllllllrighty then!!!
I already believed in pixie dust, but now I am absotively posilutely sure it WORKS!!!
Mike got a ride from one of our friends at 6am this morning . . . said he was so bored at work that all he could think of was "What the heck is wrong with the car?!". He got off of work at 12:30 today and went straight out to the car with his buddy Justin, who may just be my hero of the week! They started looking at everything and consulting the Chilton's manual (gotta love the Chilton's!) and then Justin started taking stuff off of the engine.
Turns out that it was the ignition coil and there was something haywire with the distributor cap as well. They called Advance Auto Parts since there's one close to the base and they said it would be $80 for the part . . . called another store and were quoted $40 [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] . . . called the "U-Pull It" junkyard and they said that part would run $9!!!
So they headed out to the junkyard, pulled 2 of the same parts (ironically, one of the cars they pulled it from is identical to Mike's car and we've already pulled a driver's side door automatic window motor from it!) and were only charged for ONE ($9 even). They came back, Justin changed out the parts, put everything back together and Mike said "The car just started up like nothing was ever wrong with it!" So he drove it to soccer practice and the thing now runs even QUIETER than it did before we even bought it!
Crisis averted again!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img]
Thanks for the pixies guys!!! Had it not been for all the well wishes, we might have had to use my vacation fund to get the car fixed and that would mean no MouseFest trip for me . . . which would have made me beat the crap out of Mike's car in retaliation! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thanx.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/flowerred.gif[/img]
|
|
|
|
|
10-28-2005, 08:23 AM
|
#29
|
Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 18,767
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!! ------- YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thewave.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thewave.gif[/img]:
The power of pixies works again!! I am SOOOO glad it wasn't a head gasket!! Really glad it didn't take away from your Mousefest fund!!! Now that would be an abomination!!
|
|
|
|
|
10-28-2005, 08:27 AM
|
#30
|
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 3,470
|
Re: Car pixies, please!!! ------- YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo-Hoo!!! Yay for Pixie Dust Power!!! It's wonderful that it wasn't a major fix!!!
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
About This Page: 
Like
Thank
Pixie Dust
