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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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07-06-2001, 07:12 PM
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#31
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Community Rank: Tourist
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Louisville, KY
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 15
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Date: Sept 15 - 23
Adventurers: Kathy(1st time in 16 yrs), Lorel (lost count how many), Kathy (1st time)
Resort/Hotel: Wilderness Lodge
Celebration: Annual Girls Vacation
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07-12-2001, 11:12 AM
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#32
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Going to the World Sept 17-Sept 22...
Sept 20in MK...it's my birthday!!!
Staying at Port Orleans Riverside
Jimmy (age 45)- my hubby
Mary (age turning 29)- that's ME
Bobby (age 7)- 3rd trip, 4th if you count the trip when I was pregnant)
Tommy (age 3)- 1st time, 2nd if you count the trip when I was pregnant
This will be the first time in years that I am NOT PREGNANT when I go to Disney!!!!! Horray!
I would love to meet other passporters! MaryCW0920@aol.com [img]null[/img] |
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07-20-2001, 12:25 AM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Lodi, California, U.S.A.
Posts: 125
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
When: September 8- 17
Who: Myself, Leigh, obsessive planner
DH, Keith, glad he doesn't have to plan
anything
Christa ,8, cousin, and my Disney buddy
since she was born.
Hotel: Carribean Beach Resort
We are Disneyland fanatics, going 3 or 4 times a year. This will be our first trip to Disney World. We have been planning and dreaming about this for 2 years!!
Special Plans: Cirque Du Soelil, Hoop De Doo, Polynesian Luau, and the Family Magic Tour.
Look for the people who can't stop grinning, thats us. Or on the 17 th, look for the people who can't stop crying, that will be us too!
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07-24-2001, 04:06 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Chester,NY
Posts: 45
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Date: September 23 - Sept. 29
Adventurers: Anthony (Me-the Planner and the excited one) 26- 4th Trip!!!
Nicole (the very unexcited Skeptical one! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]-still thinks disney is just a money Pit!!!) [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] 24- 3rd Trip
Resort/Hotel: Port Orleans-Riverside (DxL)
Celebration:To Relax.. although we leave 1 day short of our 1 year Anniversay and one day before the 100 YOM celebration starts (Praying for Soft Openings and at least 1 Eride night) [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]
Meetings: We'll be all over... I'll have my Passporter Pin and my RADP pin on my Backpack!
I'm way tooo excited!!!!
[img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
[ 07-24-2001: Message edited by: nywins ]
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07-25-2001, 02:47 PM
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#35
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cranberry Lake, NJ
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 3,180
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Hi!
We plan on visiting WDW Sept. 19-26th. This time it will be just me (Evie) and my 14 y/o son Steve.
This is kind of a belated birthday for Steve, and also the last time I can pull him out of school for a few days (before he starts High School next year.) We really decided to go because of the low rates at All Star Sports, and low airfares from NJ. Steve picked All Star Sports because he has 3 older sisters, and always got voted down! We plan on spending extra time at the water parks and some at disneyquest, and at long last to ride the water mice!! The only thing I couldn't talk him into was breakfast in the castle. Wouldn't you think a 14 y/o boy would love to be surrounded by princesses?? Oh well!! See ya all there!
Evie
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07-26-2001, 12:26 AM
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#36
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Community Rank: Day-Tripper
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: ohio
Posts: 6
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Arriving 9.10.01
Departing 9.15.01
Evening 9.10 Epcot
9.11 Epcot
9.12 MGM
9.13 MK
9.14 MK/Epcot/MGM?
dd 7
ds 9
ds 13
me herself [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img] nullnull
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07-26-2001, 12:47 AM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Pace, Florida
Posts: 190
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Date: Sept 17th- Sept 23
Adventurers: Theresa(that's me... the planner... and HUGE Pooh fan... can you tell??? LOL)who will turn 26 during our visit(on Sept 19), Paulette(my mother)55, Tom(my father)59, Connor(my son)3 1/2, and Christopher(my son) 2 1/2... it will be the boys 1ST TRIP!!!
Resort/Hotel: All-Star Movies
Celebration: My 26th Birthday on Sept 19th!!!! Had a rough year... a divorce and in February found out I have Multiple Sclerosis so decided I wanted to spend my big day with the mouse!
Meetings: You can't miss us... we will have Guest of Honor Badges with our names on them... Our plans are:
17th- Animal Kingdom and Campfire at Fort Wilderness that night
18th- Epcot in the morning... back to the hotel for naps and then MGM or MK that night depending if it's Eticket night
19th- MY BIRTHDAY!!! [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img]) Chef Mickey's Character breakfast at 8:30am... followed by the morning at MK... nap at the hotel and then back to MK that evening and Pleasure Island/Downtown Disney for girls night out
20th- MGM morning... nap at lunchtime... then off to one of the water parks... and MGM that night
21st- ?????? catch up day on what we haven't done
22nd- MK ... nap... MK for SpectroMagic and Fireworks in the Sky
23rd- Going home [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img](
We can't wait... going to try to make it as magical as possible!
If you see us and our crew please stop and say Hi!
Happy Birthday to all my fellow virgos [img]images/icons/blush.gif[/img]) [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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08-02-2001, 11:49 AM
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#38
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Souderton, PA
Posts: 53
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Date: September 15-22
Adventurers: Me (30) 3rd trip to Disney and DH (34) 1st time visiting the world.
Hotel: All Star Movies
Celebration: not really celebrating anything. This trip was my way of getting out of going camping in Canada. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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08-02-2001, 02:26 PM
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#39
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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: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Hi I will be there 9/21 to 9/30/200
I'm(Marcie) going with my sister Sue.
We are staying at The All Star Movies it's our 5th trip there [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
9/21: MK
9/22: MK
9/23: Epcot
9/24: AK(we are doing the back stage tour)
9/25: MGM
9/26:Epcot
9/27:Is open Maybe down town
9/28:AK
9/29:MK
I will have My pin on so say Hi if you see me [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
[ 08-02-2001: Message edited by: LilMarcieMouse ]
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08-08-2001, 03:16 AM
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#40
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Community Rank: Visitor
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 1
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Date: Sept. 5 - 11, 2001
Adventurers: Kelly (that's me, 24) & husband Erik (26)
This will be my 15th trip to WDW & my husband's 4th. We also honeymooned at Disneyland in CA in 1998. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Resort/Hotel: Boardwalk Villas
Celebration: my 25th birthday [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
My past Disney trips:
3/79 - offsite
3/80 - offsite
3/82 - offsite
3/83 - offsite
3/85 - offsite
3/87 - Polynesian
7/94 - Dixie Landings
3/95 - All-Star Music
Summer 95 - WDW College Program @ Emporium
8/95 - Bungalow @ Disney Institute,
Wilderness Lodge
3/96 - offsite
8/96 - offsite
7/97 - Beach Club
6/98 - Disneyland Hotel
10/98 - All-Star Music, Coronado Springs,
Dixie Landings
9/99 - Dixie Landings, Boardwalk Inn
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08-14-2001, 09:04 PM
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#41
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Community Rank: Day-Tripper
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Granbury, Tx
Posts: 7
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
DATES: Sept. 14-21st, 2001
Adventurers: Myself-36yrs-Disney Travel Agent
been to Disney 30+ times, but always need to go back for some more magic!
Friend-from D.C. area-fellow travel agent that I met at a Disney travel agent seminar at DL...she is a fanatic about Disney like I am...so now we go together whenever our kids will let us!!
RESORT/ITINERARY
Sept. 14-ck in Wilderness Lodge
then off to MK
CD-Liberty Tree Tavern
Sept. 15-GO on our 1st Disney Cruise!!!
Disney Magic
Sept. 19-arrive back
ck into WL AGAIN!
go to MGM to see FANTASMIC!We love this show!!
Sept. 20-CB-Cinderella's Castle with princesses
go to either Epcot or AK
CD-Chef Mickey's
Sept. 21-CB-Luau at Polynesian
Downtown Disney for Shopping!!
(if we have any money left!)
Me-fly back to Texas
Friend-fly back to D.C.
BOO HOO [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-21-2001, 09:41 AM
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#42
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Community Rank: Wayfarer
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Grafton, MA
Posts: 193
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Date: 9/29/2001 thru 10/6/2001
Adventurers: KB1ESX (36), DW (36) DS#1 (8, 1st Time), DS#2 (5, 1st Time) also
Sister & Brother In Law (40+ both), Nephew/Cousin (5, 1st Time)
Resort/Hotel: AKL Concierge
Celebration: Just Because!!!
I may have a Passporter Pin by then (aka "Dave"), Say Hello!!!
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08-21-2001, 04:23 PM
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#43
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Community Rank: Visitor
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Atlanta,GA
Posts: 1
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
We are traveling Sept. 19-Sept. 24, 2001
Adventurers:
Kim-(33 by then) Planner Freak and only one willing to do it
Blake-(35)DH likes Disney excited
Jake (4) FIRST TRIP TO DISNEY
Riley (1) FIRST TRIP TO DISNEY
Me-MAW (50) First trip since epcot in 1987
not fond of all the walking
Staying at:
Wildness Lodge-looking forward to being close to MK
Celebrating: Seeing Disney through the eyes of our Children
Adventuring: Hoping to all MK, MGM, AK and most of Epcot. Also hope to try River Country or Typhoon Lagoon
BE sure to say Hi: Jake will have his passporter name tag. I will have the passporter in my waist pack and hubby will have the passporter pack around his neck!
[img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] We cannot wait. First Plane for the babies too!
Kim in Atlanta
1973 off-site
1984 off-site
1987 off-site
1994 CBR
2001 WL
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08-26-2001, 01:46 PM
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#44
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 1,268
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Trip dates: September 20-29, 2001
grandparents 21-23 only
Adventurers:
Lori(DW)trip planner, packer, organizer
Randy (DH) former CM, provider of
financial backing for trip.
Joshua - 6 y.o. son and 1st time visiter
Grandma & Grandpa
Accomodations: 1 bedroom vill Wilderness Lodge Villa
Let's meet! I think it would be fun.
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08-26-2001, 04:30 PM
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#45
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Club Ichthyologist
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Merrimack, NH
Concierge Level: 5
Posts: 2,566
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Re: Flashback: Adventuring in 09/2001 (September 2001)
Dates:September 20 - 23
Where: Animal Kingdom Lodge
Who: Jenn-30, Jim-43
Why: Jim surprised me with an early 30th birthday present. A weekend trip to WDW!! I almost get to be there on on birthday, just one day shy.
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