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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-03-2003, 01:40 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
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Re: spaceship earth?
Hey Marcie thanks for the update!
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09-13-2003, 09:35 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
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Re: spaceship earth?
I read on www.screamscape.com that there may be a problem with gutting the insides of the Spaceship Earth and replacing it with a new attraction (Time Racers?). It seems that the existing ride may have some structural importance to the entire building. Who knows, they may have to keep Spaceship Earth as it is! |
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09-13-2003, 09:44 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: spaceship earth?
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Who knows, they may have to keep Spaceship Earth as it is!
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">That would be the best news since sliced bread!
Signed,
Down with messing with SE! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] |
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09-14-2003, 11:16 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 7,386
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Re: spaceship earth?
Now I've got my fingers crossed that they won't be able to change Spaceship Earth into a thrill ride. Not that I have anything against thrill rides but Spaceship Earth is wonderful exactly the way it is. And I honestly don't think thrill rides are the heart of Disney World. To that honor belong all the family-oriented attractions that are sprinkled with that special magic that only Disney can perform. I can get all the exciting thrill rides I want right in my own backyard geographically speaking but only at Disney World can I be transported to a world of magical enchantment. I sincerely hope that the powers to be at Disney never lose sight of this fact.
Joy
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09-14-2003, 01:40 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: NY (just north of NYC)
Posts: 1,269
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Re: spaceship earth?
I agree that SE should remain as a non-thrill ride for those of us who like calmer attractions. Sure repair and update, but keep the original concept. When were on the ride in May, we noted how noisy and bumpy the tracks seemed from when we first visited in 1986. I think a good refurbishment is in order but not a total destruction of the focal point of the park.
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09-15-2003, 09:22 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Virginia
Posts: 160
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Re: spaceship earth?
keep it like it is!! keep it like it is!! I'd much rather have it than any other ride. it's so great!
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09-16-2003, 02:21 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Carrollton, TX
Posts: 965
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Re: spaceship earth?
OH! I certainly have to agree with everyone and say that I hope they don't change Spaceship Earth!! It was my first ever attraction at Epcot (as I'm sure it was for many people) and I've really been looking forward to riding it with my DH and DD's next year! Updating is one thing, but completely getting rid of it in its present form is something else altogether...Maybe we could start a petition! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
Carol
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09-16-2003, 11:41 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Boston, MA USA
Posts: 2,535
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Re: spaceship earth?
Thanks Michelle, that'd be great news. I'm resigned to the fact it might go...BUT...if I were lining up the "things to do" at WDW...gutting Spaceship Earth wouldn't even make the list. Who knows though. The sponsorship part of it probly complicates things a little.
Still, I say replace the track and move on to more important things. Like copycating as much as humanly possible of Tokyo DisneySea [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] A whole bunch more TDS pictures to drool over here at Westcoaster. I have yet to see a single picture of TDS that doesn't blow me away.
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09-17-2003, 11:40 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Boston, MA USA
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Re: spaceship earth?
And today at Screamscape:
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Screamscape has confirmed with other sources that the Spaceship Earth geosphere structure just simply can not be gutted and replaced with another ride due to the fact that that the current ride system is critical to the geosphere’s structural integrity. While, from a technical standpoint, it is still possible to go on with the project, the costs involved have likely risen to the point where it is no longer worth the effort and building the same ride in a new building from scratch would likely be a cheaper answer.
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09-17-2003, 03:35 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: spaceship earth?
I've just read this on screamscape as well - great news indeed, if it's true!
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09-18-2003, 12:47 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: virginia
Posts: 658
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Re: spaceship earth?
Now hear us all give a sigh of relief!
That's great news, thanks matt!
Jacquelyn
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09-18-2003, 12:49 AM
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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: spaceship earth?
Thanks Matt that wonderful news!!!!!! I would mind them changing and adding thing I just Rome still burns and Michael Angilo still piants.
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09-18-2003, 03:28 PM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 20,411
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Re: spaceship earth?
WOO HOO!!! Pixie Dust pays off again!
I say let's party!! Long live Spaceship Earth!!!!
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09-18-2003, 04:07 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Wawayanda, NY
Posts: 2,177
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Re: spaceship earth?
Yipee!!!! I don't want them to change it at all!
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09-18-2003, 07:31 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: NJ
Posts: 691
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Re: spaceship earth?
As long as they don't decide to just close the ride part and leave it as an Icon, aka Cinderella's Castle.
I hope they go ahead and refurb it rather then letting it go.
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