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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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07-22-2002, 11:19 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
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More news about Goliath!! =)
  I think we're out of the woods with him.  This morning for breakfast he ate a 1/2 tin of that terrible-smelling mushy dogfood the vet recommended. (That's as much as he ate all day on July 19th) I'm starting to give him a couple of dry kibbles so that he'll get used to his old food again, but he turned up his nose at them this morning. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
When I took him outside so he could "water" the trees he tried to trot ahead of me because he likes to be 2 or 3 feet ahead whenever we go for a walk. That was sooooo nice to see.
Tomorrow will be one week since we nearly lost him. He gets his staples removed July 30th, and that's the only thing I'm kind of concerned about now. Some of them seem to be healing inside his incision - will the vet be able to get them out?
 ***Thanks again to everyone who prayed or sent Pixie Dust for his recovery. Our family really appreciated all good thoughts that were sent our way.*** [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] |
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07-22-2002, 11:46 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
So glad to hear Goliath is doing better. We all get upset when one of our "kids" are not feeling well. Here's to a speedy recovery. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Travlin Gal, Colorado Jan [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img]
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07-22-2002, 01:10 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Charlotte, NC USA
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
Hooray for Goliath and your family!!! That is indeed good news.
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07-22-2002, 01:30 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 2,172
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
I know you are feeling relieved! Glad to hear he's made the turn for the better after the rough road he's been down.
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07-22-2002, 01:41 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 23,859
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
Donna, that is wonderful news!!!  GO, GOLIATH!!!!!!!  |
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07-22-2002, 02:14 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 5,790
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
Donna, that's great news! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] So glad to hear Goliath is feeling much better.
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07-22-2002, 02:19 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,259
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
What GREAT news! I have been worried about your Goliath but was pretty sure with your love and care, he was going to be alright. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Aren't they like kids? Hard to keep down when they start feeling good. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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07-22-2002, 02:33 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Foothills of the Adirondacks
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Posts: 4,733
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
I so glad to hear he is doing so much better.
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07-22-2002, 03:28 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
Posts: 3,406
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
So glad to hear he is doing better [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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07-22-2002, 06:54 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2002
Location: georgia
Posts: 2,818
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
i'm glad to hear the little guy is doing better. our dachshund had back surgery last year which required 17 staples diagonally from her left shoulder to her right hip. poor thing looked like frankenstein. anyway, they were in 11/2-2wks when we finally got them out. it was no problem at all. it just took a long time for her hair to grow back.
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07-22-2002, 07:30 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: More news about Goliath!! =)
Glad hear this Hope he keeps getting better.
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07-22-2002, 09:23 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 7,150
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
So glad to hear that he is getting better! I guess that it was money well spent then huh? [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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07-23-2002, 12:24 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 3,357
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
Don't worry, they'll be able to get them out. Don't be surprised it Goliath helps them ahead of time. When we had our Dachshound spayed, the vet asked us to come back to have the stitches removed. When we got back, everything was doing great, but there was only one stitch left. She had decided it was time for them to come out. And that was with our spraying bitter apple on them!
So glad he's getting back to being himself.
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07-23-2002, 12:31 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 1,281
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
Glad to hear Goliath is out of the woods. It must be a relief to the entire family.
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07-23-2002, 12:59 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 2,077
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Re: More news about Goliath!! =)
My first happy news of the day!! Glad Goliath is on the road to recovery and will be back to his old self in no time. Keep getting better Goliath.
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