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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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11-22-2006, 08:22 AM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
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silly traditions
9 years ago today our family was complete when Miss Shelby Rose entered the world... I can not believe my baby [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zcry.gif[/img] is 9 years old already!!
Even tho she drives me insane a lot of the time due to being VERY headstrong & ornery I wouldn't trade a minute of having a precious daughter!!
We woke her up this morning to the sounds of New Kids on the block singing "Happy Birthday" I KNOW!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img].. it's a silly family tradition that dates back to when my oldest niece ( now 24YO) was a HUGE NKOTB fan & I took her to the concert on her 13th birthday.. we all sang it to her as Jon sang it on stage.. I've played it for her & her sister AND my kids for every birthday!!
I won't even tell you how many 'play concerts' my nieces & I put on to NKOTB.. that's a whole other embarssing post but hey.. I was a cool aunt!! (still am!!)
Anyway.. anyone got any silly embarassing traditions to share??
Again...
<font color="pink"> HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Shelby!! she is my princess!! </font>
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11-22-2006, 08:22 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
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Re: silly traditions
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/birthday.gif[/img] Shelby!!!!!
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11-22-2006, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
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Re: silly traditions
No silly traditions here (or maybe they just don't seem silly to me... [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]) but Happy Birthday to Miss Shelby!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/birthday.gif[/img]
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11-22-2006, 09:15 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY
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Re: silly traditions
Happy Birthday Shelby [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/birthday.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/poze.gif[/img]
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11-22-2006, 10:03 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
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Re: silly traditions
Well, first - happy birthday to Shelby!!
For birthdays - my dad always wakes the birthday person up with a really bad rendition of "Happy Birthday", the words slightly changed to "Happy b-day to me, happy b-day to me..." He'll call at 6AM to make sure he got me up! The one time he forgot though, I was sad all day - until he called in the PM!
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11-22-2006, 12:00 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: silly traditions
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/birthday.gif[/img] Shelby!
Karen
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11-22-2006, 12:27 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: second star to the right
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Re: silly traditions
I rarely do things that aren't considered silly [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Happy Birthday Shelby!
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11-22-2006, 12:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Romeoville, IL
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Re: silly traditions
Happy Birthday Shelby!
My husband always calls his mom and sings Happy Birthday like Bill Murray doing the "lounge singer" on SNL. It's cheezy but makes her laugh.
Liz
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11-22-2006, 12:59 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 15,346
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Re: silly traditions
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/birthday.gif[/img] Shelby!
Couple of things. For my birthday, I always have a Wegman's chocolate dome mini cake for breakfast on my birthay. DH began this tradition a few years ago and I love it! DS gets to choose a small cake for his birthday - any cake, any style, doesn't have to be a birthday cake. We've had pie, Pepperidge Farm frozen cakes, and two real birthday cakes so far. DH prefers we ignore his birthday - which is a kind of tradtion. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
Even my dad has a special birthday tradition. My best friend from highschool, Brielle, and her Mom, Maryanna, call my dad and sing to his answering machine - loud and off-key. They began doing this about 14 years ago. My dad has really missed it the last few years since Brielle and I lost touch with each other after she moved to Boston. I found her on MySpace recently and when she found out that my dad's 50th is next year, she made me promise not to tell my dad that I'd found her. She's going to surpise him on his birthday with a phone call and his song. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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11-22-2006, 01:40 PM
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Batman's Gal/Mickey's Pal
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Owensboro, KY USA
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: silly traditions
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/birthday.gif[/img] Shelby!
I don't really think of it as silly, but it is different. As a kid, my sisters and I didn't really want cake, so Mom made each of us our favorite dessert. Banana pudding for June, coconut cream pie for Pam, and chocolate cream pie for me.
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11-22-2006, 01:50 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Michigan
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 5,998
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Re: silly traditions
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/birthday.gif[/img] to Shelby!!!
No silly traditions here, but the birthday person gets to pck out anything to eat for dinner. Last year we had on DD 3 birthday we had hot dogs and mac and cheese!!! DS 6 picked Don Pablos!
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11-22-2006, 02:54 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
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Re: silly traditions
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/birthday.gif[/img] Shelby!
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