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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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12-25-2005, 11:12 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: East Amherst, NY
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So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
My 4 sisters and I and our husbands draw names for Christmas. We believe that this will be the last Christmas for my sister Susan, who has Stage 4 Lung Cancer. My DH drew her name and wanted to buy her tickets to a Christmas show. I had a different idea, which took a bit of convincing. When we were very young in the 1960s, Susan got a beatnik doll for Christmas. A beatnik doll! We were these sheltered little girls going to a Catholic school - what did we know about Beatniks? It's name was Scooba Doo. She had long black hair and wore a tunic and tights. She had heavy dark eye make up. She was a very bizarre doll. She said things like "Dig my crazy black tights". I don't know what my mother was thinking when she bought this. Anyway, over the years, we have often commented on this unusual doll who ultimately met her demise in an unfortunate sandbox incident. This is the first Christmas without my mom, and probably the last with my sister. I went on Ebay and found Scooba Doo. When Susan opened the doll this morning, she burst into tears.
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12-25-2005, 11:16 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: second star to the right
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
That is so neat!! I cetainly can't top yours, but I gave my mom a Tassimo Hot Beverage dispenser. SHe [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] it which was awesome b/c she is so hard to buy for.
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12-25-2005, 11:27 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
I also can not top that, Cheryl . . . but I would say the best gift I gave this year was the $50 Target gift card that I gave to my sister and her husband. They are expecting their first baby in April and everything they want for the baby's room is at Target . . . I was on the phone with my family as they were opening gifts and when Julie opened it, she and Robert both yelled "AWESOME!!!" Methinks I have just purchased all of the baby's bedding! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
We also did a similar thing for DH's brother and his wife . . . they are adopting their first baby (from China!) and have NOTHING baby related or to childproof their house! We are giving them a $50 gift card to Babies R Us to help put a dent in the baby expenses! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]
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12-25-2005, 11:29 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Jersey Shore
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
I may be nuts, but we're going to Disney World.
I booked the trip this afternoon because Southwest had a Ding special that was too good to resist.
The crazy part is, we leave a week from tomorrow [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]!
My family thinks we're out of our minds, since we were just there for Mousefest [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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12-25-2005, 11:39 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Posts: 10,721
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Cheryl, what an incredible gift!
I think the best gift I gave was to my daughter Emily- whose favorite book is called Ella the Elegant Elephant. I found a very soft plush elephant that looks exactly like Ella in the book. When she opened it, she started saying "My own Ella!" "My own Ella"- and Ella has not left Emily's side all day.
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12-25-2005, 11:58 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Cheryl, that is sooo sweet! What a special gift.
I don't know the best one I gave this year...obviously, DDs were over the top w/ their Gameboys (I've never allowed video games), but they were from Santa [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] I think the one that made me feel the best was the gloves/hats/scarves I sent my parents to decorate their advent tree, then be donated to the shelter. I'm hoping that there are some people out there who are a little warmer tonight!
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12-26-2005, 08:44 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Dontcha just [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] eBay, Cheryl. Awesome groovy idea! :snap: :snap: :snap:
My brother and sister-in-law do so much for us throughout the year that we wanted to get them something special. We've always talked about all of us spending a weekend at the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec City--it's only a 5 hour drive from here and you feel like you're in another country. Well, you are, but you also feel like you're in another era of time. I did a year in Quebec City in college and [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]d it and DH let me turn 29 at the Frontenac. So anyways, we gave Mark and M a weekend at the Frontenac. I bought a 3D Frontenac puzzle and put the gift certificates inside the box, which was funny b/c Mark had already given M and Sam (nephew) puzzles to the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower, both which they visited this year.
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12-26-2005, 09:10 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Wow Cheryl what an awesome gift you gave especially given the circumstances! I think DH loves the IPod I gave him- that is probably the best gift I gave this year.
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12-26-2005, 09:16 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,304
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Awesome gift Cheryl!! Tnhe best gift was the book on The White House for my mom, she loves that stuff!!
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12-26-2005, 10:07 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
The best gift DH and I gave this year was a box of much-needed items sent to a family who left New Orleans because of Katrina that we found out about through these message boards. We know it's appreciated, but most of all, each item we sent is one less thing they have to worry about this Christmas. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] And nothing feels better than helping someone who needs you.
The best 'traditional' gift I gave would probably be DH's 5 disc DVD/CD changer. DH also decided to come along with DJ and I on our Mama/Son WDW trip next year. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Which was a huge gift for me as he is not the Disney nut that I am. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] I knew I asked that man to marry me for a good reason. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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12-26-2005, 10:20 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Niagara Falls
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Posts: 12,431
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Cheryl, what a sweet gift!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
I've got a good one, too. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/blushing.gif[/img] Sorry, it's sorta long.
My last great-grandparent, my Mom's Grandma, died in February. I got a call from my grandma (Mom's mom) in late spring to come over to my great-grandparents house to check out the kitchen table to see if I wanted it before the estate liquidators came the following day.
Once I got there, and said yes to the table, my grandma asked me if I wanted anything else, so I started to peek around. My great-grandma had silohuettes done of her years ago and they always hung in the living room. I took those.
Then I went into the basement, which was finished with a bar. Behind the bar on the wall, was the "liquor license" for my great-grandma's bar. My grandma didn't want that either, so I took that too.
When I took the items that day I had all intentions of giving them to my mom, who was totally devoted to her grandma, but I just didn't know when I'd give them to her.
Well, I framed the aging license (it was yellowed, torn and everything, being from 1957 and not preserved at all) and then gave her the silhouettes as well.
She opened them up and it took a second to realise what they were, and then she started to cry and said "That's my grandma!"
It was the best present of the day! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]
Jennifer
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12-26-2005, 10:40 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
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Posts: 24,867
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
My mom's Red Sox Tickets
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12-26-2005, 11:50 AM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Wow What great gifts!!
My mom collects Nativity Scenes -- she has them from all over the world. A couple of years ago - I was in EPCOT at Christmas and thought I could find another to add to her collection - I looked in Italy, Mexico without luck -- I went to the Hummel store in germany - and found one. All 23 pieces are like $4,000 - well that isn't happening -- then I decided to buy her one piece a year.
So year one was Baby Jesus - year two was Mary and this year was Joseph. So we now have the Holy family. Next year I am thinking Angels....
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12-26-2005, 11:53 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Santa got Jalen a boy Cabbage Patch Kid. I wasn't sure he was even going to like it, but the skin color on this doll was just exactly like Jalen's, and I kinda wanted it for myself [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] But...he absoluely loves him (his name is Caspar) and I have found him several times talking to him and calling himself 'Daddy' It's way too cute. And did you know Cabbage Patch Kids smell like baby powder now? He is too cute [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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12-26-2005, 12:08 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Orlando, Fl
Posts: 5,517
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Re: So what was the best gift you GAVE this Christmas?
Alex loved his train table. Didn't want to open anything else!!!
Kelly
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