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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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11-13-2002, 03:10 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
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Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
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Working in costume...have you ever?
Teddysmom's story in another post of her having to don an Easter Bunny costume while working in college made me wonder about the rest of us.
Have you ever worn a costume while at work on a non-Halloween occasion?
Debbi
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11-13-2002, 03:36 PM
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
Sort of. A few times I wore the company mascot suit during school visits. It is like the characters wear at WDW. In fact it was the same as Chip & Dale wear, only it was a bear costume. I was not allowed to speak (sound familiar?). It was like walking around in a portable sauna. HOT!! There was a screened vent on top of the head hidden by a ball cap. There were compartments to put ice bags on your chest and back to help. [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] If you see the "Goodneigh Bear" walking around, say hi for me.
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11-13-2002, 03:46 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
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Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
Hot like Africa or Animal Kingdom hot!!!
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11-13-2002, 03:49 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
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Location: Seward, NE
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
I worked in a Hallmark store in high school/college, and during Easter for two different years I got to be the Crayola Bunny. It was pretty gross. I'll leave it at that!
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11-13-2002, 05:42 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
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Originally posted by Disnydad:
Sort of. A few times I wore the company mascot suit during school visits. It is like the characters wear at WDW. In fact it was the same as Chip & Dale wear, only it was a bear costume. I was not allowed to speak (sound familiar?). It was like walking around in a portable sauna. HOT!! There was a screened vent on top of the head hidden by a ball cap. There were compartments to put ice bags on your chest and back to help. [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] If you see the "Goodneigh Bear" walking around, say hi for me.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">[img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] Intereesting story Don [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] . |
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11-13-2002, 07:48 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
Not exactly a costume but when we had rodeo week in Colorado Springs we could wear western type dress, my dress was kind of like a square dance dress, it was kind of fun but I was a lot younger then.
Travlin Gal, Colorado Jan [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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11-14-2002, 12:41 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Rio Rancho, NM
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
Yup! I wear a "costume" everyday that I work. That is what we call our "uniform" at The Disney Store.
Jennifer
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11-14-2002, 07:21 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Pine Bush, New York
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
In college I worked at Filenes in Boston, in the childrens dept. I was Miss Hello Kitty. I didn't have to wear the kitty suit. It had a tail, ears and an apron. I must say lots of Dad's came to buy toys.
Kids used to pull the tail.
Susan
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11-14-2002, 05:36 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
When the second mall opened in town some 20 years ago and I was looking for a second job (working to put hubby through school), I was hired by one of the anchor department stores to be the "Pot Belly Bear" during the 4 day Grand Opening.
It reminded me of Don's costume, an inch and a half of foam rubber with the only air holes in the nose and eyes. Someone would have to lead me around (no peripheral vision) and hand out my autograph (a pad of paw prints), and tell the children to ask their parents to take them to the toy department where they could buy a Pot Belly Bear of their very own. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Inside the suit was like a sauna, so hot I could only go out for 20 minutes at a time and all I had on underneath was a swimsuit. Even so, it was a blast as I could dance and hug and be as silly as I wanted since I was anonymous in the costume.
Although the job was temporary, the store hired me to stay on and work in the office and I ended up staying there for 5 years part-time, using it to help put me through school once hubby graduated.
I still have pictures of myself in costume which my DS thinks are too funny.
Debbi
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11-15-2002, 04:02 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
Debbi aren't you going to share the pictures with us too [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ?!
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11-16-2002, 03:37 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Michigan
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
Yikes!! I've done this more times than I'd like to admit!!
When I worked at TDS, each store in our district would be assigned a movie. For the yearly trivia contest we would have to be dressed as characters from that movie. It was totally volunteer, but we'd go all out. I was a mouse from Cinderella. On another occassion I was hired to take part in a children's theater project. It was to promote the Grand Rapids ballet who were performing Alice in Wonderland. I was just an extra, the Ace of Spades, but after the first day of hamming it up, I became a regular character at the tea party. It was a riot! We did 10 shows every Saturday for two months.
Jessi
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11-17-2002, 02:33 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
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Debbi aren't you going to share the pictures with us too?
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Darn, no scanner. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] (First time I've ever been thankful not to have one.)
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but after the first day of hamming it up, I became a regular character at the tea party. It was a riot! We did 10 shows every Saturday for two months.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">How cool is that, Jessi? It's great to be able to act out in the name of a character role, isn't it? Maybe the reason we love Disney so much is that we could see ourselves so easily fitting into any one of the characters and really having fun with it? It has to be one of the best jobs ever, just getting to make other people smile all day long. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Debbi
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11-17-2002, 10:26 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
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Re: Working in costume...have you ever?
Aaaaaaaaaaw [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] Deb I'm sure you could find one couldn't you [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ?
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