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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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12-20-2005, 09:44 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 1,019
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Greetings from SC!!!!
We made it!! We flew from CA to SC last Wed, and the moving van arrived at our new house Friday morning!! Soooo we are slowly getting unpacked and settled in.
I was really looking forward to decorating our new house for Christmas, but I just don't think I'm going to have time. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/pout.gif[/img] Not to mention that I haven't found half of our Christmas stuff. My parents put a Christmas tree up in our basement, so we do have that.
I'm glad to be here, we love the new house, but we have sooooo many boxes to unpack. Ugh. Anybody wanna help? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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12-20-2005, 10:09 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,481
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
Yeah...I will be right over (box cutter in hand)! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Congrats on the new house and the uneventful move!!
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12-20-2005, 10:09 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: second star to the right
Posts: 13,308
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
Glad to here you are working on getting settled in. We just moved in Septmeber and I had trouble finding all my Christmas stuff!! So I understand your pain! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Just take it a little at a time and you'll do fine.
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12-20-2005, 10:19 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: Greetings from SC!!!!
Glad that the move went so smoothly!!
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12-20-2005, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 36,592
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
Glad to hear you move went well. Good luck with the unpacking. I'm in the midst of the packing right now. Wish us luck now....we're moving in Thur/Fri this week!!
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12-20-2005, 11:40 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Mesquite, TX
Posts: 9,373
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
[img]http://smileys.*************.com/cat/23/23_1_140.gif[/img]
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12-20-2005, 11:41 AM
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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: Greetings from SC!!!!
Glad to hear your move went well!! If I was near ya, I'd be over to help in a second. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Good luck with the unpacking!!
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12-20-2005, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 21,627
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
Glad you arrived safely along with your furniture. Good luck unpacking... [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img]....here are some pixies to help you.
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12-20-2005, 12:16 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: Greetings from SC!!!!
Glad you made it [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Have fun unpacking [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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12-20-2005, 01:54 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
 PassPorter Guide Author
Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img] with all the unpacking! I would say we'll be right over, but it would take us a while to get there.. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/whistling2.gif[/img]
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12-20-2005, 04:06 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
I'm glad to hear that you made it safe and sound, Robin! I hope you get everything unpacked and organized zoon, and have fun decorating. I remember a few weeks ago you were trying to figure out how to move your pets... how did that go?
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12-20-2005, 06:24 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
I still think it's so funny that you moved to my home state that I just moved from. Tell me again what part of SC you're in?? I'm from the Clemson/Pickens area.
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12-20-2005, 07:04 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: Greetings from SC!!!!
Glad you made it! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] that you get settled quickly!
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12-20-2005, 07:06 PM
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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: Greetings from SC!!!!
Glad to hear the move went well - I hope mine goes as well.
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12-22-2005, 12:14 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 1,019
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Re: Greetings from SC!!!!
Thanks for the good wishes everyone!!!
Babieemelly- the kitty cats made it fine (they did end up going on the plane with us). They were pretty unhappy about the whole thing, but they're doing fine now!
MeStitch- we are in Greenville/Simpsonville. Very close to where you grew up! Dh graduated from Clemson!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] to HiddenMickey and DrDolphin on your upcoming moves!!!
Okay, back to unpacking! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] I'm hoping to find some time this weekend to catch up on all the delicious Mousefest reports!!
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