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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
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Thank You all....truly...I have been to disney world a lot of times and this is the first time that I'm excited to calmly enjoy the parks and look for these treasures. We always travel with a party of 12-18 and I'm the navigator with the map perma-attached in my brain and lead everyone around the park (running like a kid) and missing all of the detail. It's all of the sudden not all about the rides, or me....
If the archives of my brain remember any exciting items of my own, I promise to post!
Little known fact... when the Haunted Mansion first opened, where the bride is currently standing there was a "hatbox ghost", created by Marc Davis. The illusion was the ghost's head would be on his neck, and then disappear and reappear inside the hatbox he was holding. I am glad they took him out after about 2 months because when I saw the picture online, I was scared half to death! EXTREMELY creepy. I slept with the lights on last night!!!!! For those of you who want to see him, pictures can be found on doombuggies.com. Enjoy!
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I just read about this the other night actually.... too funny you posted it. They took him out b/c they couldnt' get him to work properly....his head would never fully disappear. Very interesting stuff on that site. it!
OK so I have read almost all of these! How many of these are outdated? Can anyone take on the task of getting rid of the repeats or outdated one? I was just wondering!
I have gone thru and cleaned up some of the thread.
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Little known fact... when the Haunted Mansion first opened, where the bride is currently standing there was a "hatbox ghost", created by Marc Davis. The illusion was the ghost's head would be on his neck, and then disappear and reappear inside the hatbox he was holding. I am glad they took him out after about 2 months because when I saw the picture online, I was scared half to death! EXTREMELY creepy. I slept with the lights on last night!!!!! For those of you who want to see him, pictures can be found on doombuggies.com. Enjoy!
The Hatbox Ghost was at Disneyland, not WDW. By the time the Florida Mansion opened, the Hatbox Ghost was long gone.
As part of the cleanup of this thread, a very popular "secret" had to be removed: the engagement ring at the Haunted Mansion. While this was never an intentional part of the storyline per the Imagineers, it did take on a big following. When the ride was refurbished in the summer of 2007, the "ring" was permenantly removed.
Here are some old quotes regarding the ring:
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Haunted Mansion Ring. Here is how you find it. When you exit the ride you walk outside under a covered walkway and the Hearst carriage is in front of you. The walkway is made up of rectangular blocks about 2 feet by 1 feet. Then the walkway turns into a cobblestone style. Look at the SECOND row of big blocks BEFORE the cobblestone. The big Block that is dead center of the pathway and is parallel to the cobbleston big block line is the block that the ring is in. It is in the lower right portion, Not the hole on the lower left of this block. Phew! Hope this helps.
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After you exit the ride you will walk under a shaded area. At the end of the shaded area, near the horse-drawn carriage, there is a brick with two marks in it. The one on the right is the ring!
This ring is no longer there, but I wanted to keep it in this thread as a reference. I have removed all mentionings of this story from this thread until this post so as not to confuse any new WDW fans.
WDW is ever changing, so if anything else in this thread is no longer valid, please PM me and I will remove it.
Thank you for your participation in this very popular, five-year-old thread!
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Heres one i didn't see up here: At wishes(fireworks) tinkerbell is a man. If you stand under the line you can look up when she is flying and see it is a man dressed up as tinkerbell
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wow! What a thread! I am going to keep my eyes peeled for more Disney Secrets on our trip. This is a wonderful thread! Making a list of them now. Whoo-hoo!
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EXTREMELY creepy. I slept with the lights on last night!!!!! For those of you who want to see him, pictures can be found on doombuggies.com. Enjoy!
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