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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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01-09-2003, 09:51 AM
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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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UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
This past July while in Orlando, we decided to go to HRC. We drive over to Universal, go through the lovely ordeal of parking and fighting the crowds to go to HRC. We get there and outside the restaurant are stars...not reals ones, but dressed-up Carey Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Cher, Elvis and the list could go on and on. We wandered, "what's up?". It was a private party and HRC was closed. Just our luck!
Well guess what happened AGAIN last night?! DD is in town from college and we have a new HRC. We decided to go for dinner last night. We drive to downtown Pittsburgh, fight the rush hour traffic, park in a paid parking lot (no free parking offered), and walk up to HRC. One of the workers was putting out the red carpet...but not for us [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] . It was closed for a private party!
DH says he's never going back to HRC again. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Unbelievable!
[ 01-23-2003, 09:14 PM: Message edited by: Diz9 ]
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01-09-2003, 09:59 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: VERMONT
Posts: 4,201
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
What a pain! I don't know why they do that (It's gotta be the money) but if they knew how many guests they make angry and don't come back they might change their tune. I'd sure call ahead next time before going.
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01-09-2003, 10:05 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
If they are going to have private parties, they should do it after hours! The everyday people who visit their restaurants on a regular basis are the ones who keep them in business, not the wealthy people who rent the place out now and again! You should e-mail HRC to complain! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]
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01-09-2003, 10:21 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: In the state of Disney Dreaming!
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
What is funny about this...I was on their website before leaving the office, to be sure of hours of operation. After this happened, I said to DH...why don't they list private party dates on the website?
So I decided to e-mail them with that request. I doubt they'll listen, but atleast I got it off my chest.
I am sure private parties are a life-line for their financial stability, but with the technological age we live in, a little information to the general public would save a lot of bad feelings.
It did make us wonder if it was the Steelers who were having a private party, though! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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01-09-2003, 01:22 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
I think next time you want to try them Call ahead to see if thier open for the genaral public. I hope you get in soon.
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01-23-2003, 09:22 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: In the state of Disney Dreaming!
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
DH still insists he's not going back to HRC!
We finally made it to Pittsburgh's HRC tonight. There are 5 of us, they try and seat us at a table of four...didn't work! They moved us, willingly, which was nice.
Everything was great at that point. We ordered drinks, decided on meals (it was a really nice menu) and started looking around the cafe.
The food came and we start eating. All of a sudden a loud CRASH! To our left a man had a beer. He dropped it. The glass went flying...in DS#2's ear, all over our table and food!
We call the waitress over and tell her we couldn't eat the food because glass was in it. She looked at us like, "duh, why not?" [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] She said "I don't understand" . I'm ready to knock on her brain, glass--eating--not good, okay? I told her it was not healthy to eat glass. She said she'd tell the manager. He came over and had no problem and replaced our meals. He even offered dessert free. DS#2 took him up on it--I guess that was fair since he was the one wounded!
I don't know if we'll ever have an uneventful visit to HRC! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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01-23-2003, 09:58 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
Is DS#2 OK?? I would have been just as upset. I'm glad you talked to the manager but the waitress should have been more helpful.I mean the only thing to do is replace the food. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] .
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01-24-2003, 12:45 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 1,959
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
YIKES!!!
If I were you I think I'd be avoiding HRC's in the future. Hope everyone is OK.
Sorry to hear about your run of bad luck with the HRC.
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01-24-2003, 09:43 AM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 20,411
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
Some people just don't know how to operate their brains, do they? I'd ask her if she wanted to eat food with broken glass?
I think they should have given you your meals for free! Sorry you had such a bad experience!
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01-24-2003, 09:54 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
Quote:
Originally posted by LilMarcieMouse:
Is DS#2 OK??
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">He's great! It gives him a good story to tell at school today. He is nicknamed "Chat", rightfully so...he can't stop talking! The glass flew into his ear and for a moment I was worried it was small and would fall inside, but fortunately he thought quickly and turned his ear to the ground and the glass fell out. He had some blood, but not too major.
DS#1 watch glass fly into DD's chicken and caught DD right before she put a piece (with glass on it) in her mouth.
It all happened so quickly. I'm just glad the kids weren't hurt seriously. |
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01-24-2003, 10:50 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
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Re: UPDATE-Hard Rock Cafe
Wow, glad everyone is okay, but I would have expected a little more than free dessert.
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