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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-03-2006, 09:39 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: Nerds
Candy cigarettes! If I remember the taste right, they were nothing but sugar, but they were fun to have.
Other than that, not much that I can't find now. Most candy from the 60s and 70s is still available, or has been brought back.
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09-03-2006, 09:43 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Nerds
Wigwags! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/facelick.gif[/img] But they don't make them anymore. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/pout.gif[/img] Oh, and Mojos! I haven't seen real Mojos in, well, probably a couple decades! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] I bought a Fun Dip a couple weekends ago and it definitely contributed to my South Beach Junkfood Hangover. I don't know if I'll ever be able to eat one again! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img]
For candy that's still available, I always get excited when I see Big Turks (hard to find) and molasses Hallowe'en kisses (only available for Hallowe'en). I buy them as soon as I find them!!
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09-03-2006, 09:44 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Cypress....Deep in Southern Illinois, close enough to see the Kentucky blue grass
Posts: 9,546
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Re: Nerds
Charleston Chews. The vanilla ones. Green apple bubble gum (you know the individually wrapped kind that was a penny a piece). Those wax coke bottle with different color liquids inside. Necco wafers (still around but rare in my area).
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09-03-2006, 09:50 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Nerds
wax pop bottles [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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09-03-2006, 10:00 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Nerds
Too funny! DD just bought some Nerds at the Confectionary on Main Street our last day there [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I love Charleston Chews [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/yuma.gif[/img]
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09-03-2006, 11:58 AM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,546
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Re: Nerds
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Candy cigarettes! If I remember the taste right, they were nothing but sugar, but they were fun to have.
Other than that, not much that I can't find now. Most candy from the 60s and 70s is still available, or has been brought back.
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Most of the candy's that were super popular have found their way back.. but did you notice they just don't taste the same? Razzles were my absolute favorite & now YUCK!!!
There's a candy store in Pittsburgh that specializes in all the old candies ( & all the new ones as well) the first time I found candy cigarettes there I was sooo excited..
the only thing I haven't been able to find are the bubble gum cigarettes.. I remember blowing into them & seeing the puff of 'smoke' come out
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09-03-2006, 12:36 PM
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Wishing I was at WDW!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Southwestern Florida, USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 39,153
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Re: Nerds
Pixie sticks and jaw breakers!!!!!!!! We used to walk down to the "candy store" when I was a little girl.....wow, that brings back some memories! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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09-03-2006, 12:59 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Posts: 13,817
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Re: Nerds
I also loved Hot Balls, the Jolly Rancher Stix - Watermelon and Green Apple were my fave.
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09-03-2006, 01:13 PM
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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: Nerds
I loved Wacky Wafers!!!
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09-03-2006, 02:13 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Cypress....Deep in Southern Illinois, close enough to see the Kentucky blue grass
Posts: 9,546
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Re: Nerds
I had forgotten all about the bubble gum cigarettes. They were wrapped in a paper of sorts and the "white soft coating" did look like smoke when you blew it out.
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09-03-2006, 03:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 21,627
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Re: Nerds
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wax pop bottles [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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I haven't thought of them in ages. As a kid they were one of my favorites.
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09-03-2006, 06:22 PM
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Uncle Duck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Paradise, CA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 18,048
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Re: Nerds
Would love to buy a sugar daddy.. but they don't come in sugar free..... [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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09-03-2006, 06:33 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Mesquite, TX
Posts: 9,373
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Re: Nerds
<font color="purple"> Ring Pops & Fun Dip </font> [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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09-03-2006, 09:33 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Stafford, CT
Posts: 928
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Re: Nerds
oooh, razzles. now I need some!!
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09-03-2006, 09:45 PM
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Batman's Gal/Mickey's Pal
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Owensboro, KY USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 95,254
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Re: Nerds
Chocolate covered raisins or peanuts
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