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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-31-2005, 08:41 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: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
Already is here!  I can't afford to go anywhere! |
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08-31-2005, 08:57 AM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Tulsa area
Posts: 160
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
$2.54 on Monday after work (I filled up), $2.69 later that night, and $2.79 the next morning. That's in OK, and our prices are usually among the lowest. |
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08-31-2005, 09:03 AM
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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: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
Paid $2.71 yesterday morning and cost me $30 when I was on a 1/2 tank.
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08-31-2005, 09:04 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,304
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
We paid $2.46 yesterday!!!
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08-31-2005, 11:01 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 3,958
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
4 stations near my house (intersection of I-40 and Hwy 42 outside Raleigh, NC), yesterday morning on the way to work it was 2.49. Last night on the way home, 3 stations were 2.69, one was 2.99! This morning, all 4 of them were 2.99. That's 50 cents in less than 24 hours!!!! What kind of crack are they smoking???? I don't buy form them unless I have to anyway because they're higher than most other places, being right on the interstate.
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08-31-2005, 11:02 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Killeen, TEXAS
Posts: 1,135
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
Yikes! It's $2.59 here! My parents are on their way down here from WA and at least the gas is getting cheaper as they travel south...who knows what it will be when they are driving home!! 
I've been telling DH to take my car (coupe) instead of the giant Suburban but he won't listen  he just put $60 in gas today
I'm not sure pulling oil from the Nat'l Reserves will help the climbing gas prices!?! |
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08-31-2005, 11:33 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Fishers, Indiana, USA
Posts: 678
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
It's already over $3.00 bucks here. My hubby's freaking out. :-)
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08-31-2005, 12:17 PM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
I saw up to $2.99 here last night as well!  |
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08-31-2005, 12:18 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 241
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
My mom paid $50.00 to get 17 gallons (she has 38 gallons) and PLUS our Disney trip is in less than 3 months..... my folks have said "if it gets to high we aren't going" NO FAIR! I have to have Disney NOW! (HAHAHA!) I really think that the President should say $2.50 thats it NO HIGHER!!! But who knows...
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08-31-2005, 03:10 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Lafayette, LA & BCV
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 4,751
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
We are hearing that by Friday gas will be up to $3.69 here in the south!!! Our prices now are around $2.69. So everyone get ready for the after effects of Katrina!
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08-31-2005, 03:35 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: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
Does anyone think that it's only b/c of panic and media that the prices jump that much? Yes, someplaces will have a shortage, but as long as people willingly line up at the pumps and shell out their money at those prices what incentives do the oil companies have to not just suck up our hard-earned dollars?
I remember the gas crisis in the 70s and we just stopped driving. Everyone did. We weren't even *allowed* to drive on Sundays (military). I realize that is hard, but it just seems that everyone is more willing to sacrifice other things than gas these days, which makes it hard on everyone (supply and demand). I'm just tired of feeling like I'm being led around by the nose by gas companies...I have yet to see any reports that their profits are suffering. A few weeks ago, I wouldn't have thought twice about dashing out to Home Depot for a can of paint. Today, there's no way I'd even consider it!
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08-31-2005, 03:49 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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$3.18 here!!!!!!
DH just called me, 4 gas stations in our town are out of gas. The price just went up to $3.18. My SIL waited in line 25 minutes to fill up!!! I'm sick and in total shock!
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08-31-2005, 03:57 PM
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Facebook Addict
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Philadelphia
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 39,682
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Re: $3.18 here!!!!!!
It's an absolute disgrace the highway robbery that is occurring at the fuel pump. The price rises for any and every reason, yet never comes back down.... hmmm?!?
For them to raise the price 35% when the price of a barrel of oil is actually down $1 today from 70 to 69 is TOTALLY INEXCUSABLE. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a price increase to be necessary.
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08-31-2005, 04:04 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
$3.09 here in Charlotte today!
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08-31-2005, 04:45 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Tulsa area
Posts: 160
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Re: $3.00 By The End Of The Week!
DH sent me email about 1 hr ago, up another $.10 to $2.89.
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