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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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04-27-2006, 01:10 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Illinois
Concierge Level: 1
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Re: What a night!
Hope Colin is "keeping it together" and hope you get a nap to recharge! Special [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] for you all!
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04-27-2006, 01:15 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: LITH, Illinois
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Posts: 3,205
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Re: What a night!
Poor Colin. Glad that no stitches were needed. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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04-27-2006, 02:08 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: What a night!
Awww what a brave little peanut you have Marnie. I hope it heals quickly [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img].
Karen
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04-27-2006, 05:16 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: What a night!
Poor Colin!!! OUCH!
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04-27-2006, 08:47 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Chicago Illinois
Posts: 5,421
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Re: What a night!
Poor Colin! Glad he's doing OK. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ouch.gif[/img]
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04-28-2006, 09:55 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 1,904
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Re: What a night!
Glad that he is okay. I think a new Power Ranger will help him feel better.
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04-28-2006, 10:17 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Guilford, CT
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 6,938
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Re: What a night!
Marnie, I hope Colin is doing alright. Glad everything turned out Ok.
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04-28-2006, 10:36 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Kissimmee, Fl
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 25,061
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Re: What a night!
Poor Colin!! Sounds like he was a great little trouper though! Lots of pixies coming Colin's way!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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04-28-2006, 11:55 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Buffalo,N.Y.
Posts: 561
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Re: What a night!
wow! i'm impressed that it took this long for you to have your first ER trip with a boy! and no stitches! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]
i hope he's feeling okay by now! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] my first trip to the ER with ds#1 was at about 8 weeks. he caught a virus, had a fever, and they thought it might be menegitis! he went again when he was about 1 1/2 cuz he had the flu and was severly dehydrated. both times scary! DS#2 took us to the ER at 15 months for staples when he jumped off the ottaman and banged his head on the computuer desk. i know that was the first of many trips for him cuz he's so fearless.
hope your little guy feels better.
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04-29-2006, 07:19 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Mahopac, NY
Posts: 3,460
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Re: What a night!
Marnie, reading your post got me remembering when Luke split his chin. I think he was 2 maybe.....he was on his his knees on the kitchen chair facing backwards and went right over...........thank god for Dermoabond.....they said that they could stitch it but then we would have to wait for the plastic surgeon and why put him thru all that???? So they just used the dermabond and we were done. He is 3 1/2 now and I just looked at his chin and there is barely a visible scar.It was more on the bottom of his chin.........anyhoo about 3 or 4 months ago(Dolly you will apppreciate this one) he was playing on the bed when my nieces were over and he fell right off and gashed his head on those wire interlocking storage cubes.......thank god the pediatrician could do the staples.....3 staple in my ds's head!!!! i couln'r believe it....and it was fast 123 done I think it was better than stiches since it was so fast. I don't think he would have sat there for stitches!!!!
I hope Colin has a quick recovery!!!!
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04-29-2006, 08:55 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Montana
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,499
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Re: What a night!
Those not-so-little bumps and owwies are stressful for moms and kids! Poor Colin! Pixies that everyone has a bit of relaxing down time after the excitement, and for the dermabond to hold. Stitches are no fun at all. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img]
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04-29-2006, 07:46 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 5,325
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Re: What a night!
So glad he is ok! Logan has to have the dermabond when he was 18 months. He cut his arm on a vase that broke. Good news is that he has no scar from it. That stuff is like magic!
Hope he likes his new toy too, poor guy!!
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04-29-2006, 08:25 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,929
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Re: What a night!
Oh no! I hope he's all better now. I am dreading that type of thing. Pixies for all of you!
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04-29-2006, 10:57 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,351
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Re: What a night!
I hope Colin is doing better now! How scary! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] that his chin heals up nicely!
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04-30-2006, 09:03 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: NC
Posts: 3,536
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Re: What a night!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] Glad he wasn't hurt any worse than that!
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