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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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12-22-2005, 12:45 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
I can't blame Angie for not wanting anything to do with ToT . . . I don't either!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
I also get creeped out big time going through the Alien scene on the GMR . . . ewwwwwwwww!!! Emilie usually does pretty well as long as we cover her ears (and she closes her eyes) but this time, even with that, she almost cried!!! But if she wouldn't have peeked, she might have been fine! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
MORE PLEASE!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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12-22-2005, 01:41 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
What a spectacular day so far!!! sounds like a good time is being had by all!! I [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] RnRC and ToT as well!! Keep it coming! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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12-22-2005, 02:24 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great update Robin and I love your pictures!!! Sounds like a really busy day!! Can't wait to read more!!!
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12-22-2005, 02:52 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great update Robin! Love your pictures.
More please.
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12-22-2005, 08:32 PM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great Update!!!
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12-22-2005, 08:43 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
I am a chicken when it comes to TOT- I have to be in a certain kind of really brave mood--- Robin, maybe in May??Love the pictures! Cant wait for more [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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12-22-2005, 10:04 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Corona, New York
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
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I can't blame Angie for not wanting anything to do with ToT . . . I don't either!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
I also get creeped out big time going through the Alien scene on the GMR . . . ewwwwwwwww!!! Emilie usually does pretty well as long as we cover her ears (and she closes her eyes) but this time, even with that, she almost cried!!! But if she wouldn't have peeked, she might have been fine! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
MORE PLEASE!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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<font color="purple">Sarah, I'm the daredevil in the bunch! TOT is my favorite ride at Disney. I hope we have another little daredevil in the making with Emilie, since her mom is such a chicken![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jester.gif[/img] As is evidenced in the animation in her signature![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Robin you are so welcome! I loved having a buddy to share that awesome room with! We were upgraded from a standard to a courtyard view!
Our view!
As I remember it, I got to MGM before Sheila did. We got a FP for TOT and then went on RNRC which was a walk on. Then we walked across the park to get something to eat at the Studio Catering Co. by the HISTK playground. I guess your chicken ceaser salad wasn't much to remember, huh? Then we walked back towards TOT, because Sheila had gotten to the park, but she was going to see the last showing of B&B for the day, while we used our FP. When we got to Tower, they wouldn't even accept our FP and made us use the standby line as it was a walk-on![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img]
After that, we walked to the intersection by the entrance of RNRC and the exit of the B&B show, but no Sheila![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] I called her cell and we literally were 15 feet away from eachother but on opposite sides of the street and it took us about 5 minutes to finally find eachother![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img]
That's when we tried, but to no avail, to get Sheila on the ride and the rest is history.
I'm so upset that I couldn't get a picture with them![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]
And here are some photopass pictures....well, actually the ones the photographer took with my camera![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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12-22-2005, 10:59 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
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<font color="purple">Sarah, I'm the daredevil in the bunch! TOT is my favorite ride at Disney. I hope we have another little daredevil in the making with Emilie, since her mom is such a chicken![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jester.gif[/img] As is evidenced in the animation in her signature![img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]</font>
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The chicken stands corrected!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] (Did I read that paragraph wrong? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img])
Oh yeah . . . I couldn't choose between Chicken Little or Runt of the Litter . . . I think Chicken Little was a bit better choice! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] (However, I am thinking of changing it to Fish Out Of Water! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] )
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12-23-2005, 03:12 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great photos Angie!! I love all the characters in their Christmas garb!!
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12-23-2005, 03:29 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great report Robin! More please!
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12-24-2005, 12:07 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
All caught up, and great report, Robin [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img] I love your pictures! How cool that you and Angie got to room together at the Wilderness Lodge, I'd LOVE to stay there one time. And those pictures of all the characters together are TOO cute, I've never seen so many charaters posing together! Can't wait to read more!!!
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12-25-2005, 05:38 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Posts: 31,940
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great update Robin -- and wonderful photos. I [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] WL -- and your view was wonderful!!
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12-29-2005, 04:05 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New York
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Posts: 7,960
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great so far, Robin! It sounds like you are having a great trip! I love your pictures, too! Hurry back with more, please!
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12-29-2005, 07:51 PM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great updates Robin and Angie [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Love the pictures, and how great to be upgraded [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] More please [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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12-30-2005, 12:45 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Peoria IL
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Posts: 6,423
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Re: Robin\'s First Mousefest 11/30 to 12/7 Day 1Part 2 WL & MGM with Angie & Sheila
Great report Robin. How cool you got to stay at WL and got an upgrade too. I just [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] it there!
Great pictures too!
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