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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-27-2004, 07:39 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: beautiful beachy FL
Posts: 2,357
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Tell me you would!-I DID UPDATE!
So I'd sort of kind of planned a quick Feb trip to the world, then with the damage Ivan wrought decided it just wouldn't be financially responsible.
THEN, one of my dear girlfriends (I was in her wedding, she was my Matron of Honor, as well as at my side when DD was born-we're close) whom I haven't seen in 3 (!) years called yesterday. She'll be in Orlando in Feb, with her DD (age 2) whom I've never met visiting her brother who is a CM.
So...I really want to see her. She's been in MI for the past couple of years and I really miss her. This would be a great chance to see her plus one last trip on my AP. DH sighed and said "how many times can you go in a year?" (this would be...um...since March...the 5th trip). I think, if I got AP rates at a moderate (I really really want to stay at a moderate-we've done deluxe and value and well, I want something different!) and only did one character meal, we could definitely swing this for well, still too much but it would be do-able.
So should I? Please help me justify this!! I need your help!
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09-27-2004, 07:50 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: Tell me you would!
OK. Who here is really going to tell you not to go?!?  That AP just has to be used one more time. It just has to be! |
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09-27-2004, 07:56 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 21,627
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Re: Tell me you would!
You have to GO. You haven't seen your best friend in 3 years and never saw her daughter. It would be a crime to not go. There, now GO. lol
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09-27-2004, 08:03 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: Tell me you would!
Are you kidding me??!?!?! You were meant to go!!! 
P.S. I agree with Tina! If you are looking for people to talk you out of it, you came to the wrong place, sister! |
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09-27-2004, 08:36 PM
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Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 29,184
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Re: Tell me you would!
Ummm  ...we would never tell you not to go...
So go for it!  |
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09-27-2004, 08:46 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: Tell me you would!
Uh, yayuh...you definitely should go. Period, end of story, start saving those ones and change NOW!!! The End.
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09-27-2004, 09:05 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: California
Posts: 3,878
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Re: Tell me you would!
I would, there is always a way to swing it. Go for it use that AP to its fullest.
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09-27-2004, 09:08 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 4,748
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Re: Tell me you would!
I think you definitely need to go. I mean how often do you get to see your friend (not in 3 years?!) so you can't pass this up. Go..Go!
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09-27-2004, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Foothills of the Adirondacks
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 4,733
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Re: Tell me you would!
Sounds to me like all you need is a "little" nudge! 
When I think of what I could have done with all the money we've spent at WDW & DL in the last ten years...well I really don't think about it. Life is too short and we, sometimes just I, have had some great times. I have lots of great memories and made some wonderful "Disney" friends.  |
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09-27-2004, 09:56 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: BURLESON TX (near Ft. Worth)
Posts: 5,589
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Re: Tell me you would!
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09-27-2004, 10:13 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2004
Location: northern california
Posts: 9,588
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Re: Tell me you would!
Shay,
If you do not see your friend and her DD, you will be heartbroken. Go for it b/c you do not live that far and you have AP's. Have fun. 
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09-27-2004, 10:57 PM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: Tell me you would!
GO!!!!!!
We're going again in March . . . gotta use your passes sometime, huh? DH can live with it . . . if you and DD are going and leaving him at home alone, he should be FINE with it!!! (As long as he isn't subjected to the happiness that is Mickey Mouse!!! )
Like I am going to tell you to stay home . . . |
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09-28-2004, 01:13 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Mesquite, TX
Posts: 9,373
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Re: Tell me you would!
 - go, go !
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09-28-2004, 02:28 AM
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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: Tell me you would!
You expect someone on here to tell you that shouldn't go???? I think the fact that you really want to see your friend and have never seen her daughter is more than reason enough. There you go! |
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09-28-2004, 04:23 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: Tell me you would!
Go go go Shay!  You must see your friend and her little one.
Karen |
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