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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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11-13-2005, 03:39 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
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Re: Last night
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/yeahthat.gif[/img] We saw U2 there in 2001 and I couldn't even dance around for fear that I was going to fling myself (a la Elaine Benes [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] ) and plummet to certain death!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Sounds like a great night of music and pointing with the Oompa Loompa . . . I mean, Sir Elton! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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11-13-2005, 04:25 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Chicago Illinois
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Re: Last night
Glad you had a great time! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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11-13-2005, 04:36 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Northwest Florida Panhandle/Lower Alabama
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Re: Last night
Glad you had a great time... we love Elton too [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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11-13-2005, 04:55 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 18,767
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Re: Last night
Sounds like you and Andy had a great time!!!!
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11-13-2005, 05:21 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 24,867
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Re: Last night
Glad you had fun at the concert and sorry about the stairs I know what you mean the arena where I work is a bit steep as well and I was scared when I was watching Tim Mcgraw last year. I was in the last row possible but one wrong step I would have been on the floor!
Glad you had a great time!
Amy
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11-13-2005, 05:39 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
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Re: Last night
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Glad you had fun! The Fleet Center (it has a new name, but I can't think of it [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]) here in Boston is crazy steep as well. I hate to stand up because I feel like I'm going to plummet to my death [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]!
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Yep - I've been to the Fleet Center in those seats - they are SCARY!! Sarah was pretty little - like 3 - and I thought I was going to lose her jumping over the seat to my mom!
Glad you had a fun time Melissa - even in the nosebleed seats! Elton is so fun!
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11-13-2005, 06:16 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Last night
I'm glad you had fun! I noticed that, too... after every single song he stood up and pointed in all dfferent directions, and everyone went crazy [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Did he sing the songs from Captain Fantastic?
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11-13-2005, 06:40 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
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Re: Last night
Yeah he did Melissa. Andy leaned over a few minutes into the show and said "Is he going to play the whole Captain Fantastic album?"
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11-13-2005, 07:07 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Last night
Sounds like a great concert, despite the seating. Glad you had a nice time.
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11-13-2005, 08:29 PM
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PassPorter and WDW Addict
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Texas
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 12,489
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Re: Last night
Sounds like you had a great time!
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11-14-2005, 08:56 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Last night
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Yeah he did Melissa. Andy leaned over a few minutes into the show and said "Is he going to play the whole Captain Fantastic album?"
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Very cool [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img]
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11-14-2005, 10:31 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: North Carolina
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Re: Last night
If the seats are steeper than in the old Charlotte Coloseium (sp?)(where the Hornets played), I feel for ya! I saw Garth Brooks there back in I think '89 or '90. We were statight back from the stage on the second row form the top. Scary! I saw mountain goats and snow on the way to my seat [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img], and the person in sitting in front of me, their head was right about ankle height to me to give you an idea of how steep it was! Luckily, the next show I wnet there (Alan jackson), we were right next to the stage, lower level, row AA. We were closer to the stage than the people on the front row floor!
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11-14-2005, 02:28 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Greenville, SC
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Re: Last night
Glad you had a good time!!! I [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] Elton John!!!! I've seen him in concert twice- once in Charlotte and once in Greenville (at the BiLo center [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img])
He puts on a good show doesn't he?!
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11-14-2005, 03:47 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
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Re: Last night
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and the person in sitting in front of me, their head was right about ankle height to me to give you an idea of how steep it was!
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That's exactly how it was the other night at the new arena!!
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I've seen him in concert twice- once in Charlotte and once in Greenville (at the BiLo center )
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GIRL!! I used to frequent the BiLo Center before we moved here to Charlotte. DH's band actually played there one night before a hockey game and during the intermission.
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11-14-2005, 10:40 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Greenville, SC
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GIRL!! I used to frequent the BiLo Center before we moved here to Charlotte. DH's band actually played there one night before a hockey game and during the intermission.
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Melissa, was it a Greenville GRRRRowl hockey game? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Guess I'll be visiting the BiLo center again (hopefully to see Disney on Ice!) before long once we move back to Greenville next month. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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