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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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12-24-2005, 10:47 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: WI
Posts: 17,126
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
Congrats Jeanine!!! Welcome to the PP Preggo's Club!
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12-25-2005, 11:19 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Foothills of Maine
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
How wonderful!! I LOVE the picture! It is so adorable! Congrats!!
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12-25-2005, 06:14 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: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
Congrats!!!
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12-26-2005, 12:39 AM
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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: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
How exciting! Another new little passporter!!! Congratulations and hope your pregnancy is a happy and healthy one! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/flowerred.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/poze.gif[/img]
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12-26-2005, 11:10 AM
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Guide since 2003
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: West Mifflin, PA
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/bear.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/bear.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/bear.gif[/img]Congrats on the wonderful news.. can't wait to hear how it went with your family!!
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12-26-2005, 12:56 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 34,171
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
How did it go with your family? Do you have any pictures??
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12-26-2005, 02:04 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 9,547
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
AW!!! Congratulations! What a cute way to tell everyone!!! How did the surprise go?
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12-26-2005, 03:31 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: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
Congrats!
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12-26-2005, 03:56 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Manchester NH
Concierge Level: 4
Posts: 12,514
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
Congratulations!
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12-27-2005, 01:03 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: California
Posts: 3,878
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
Congratulations!
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12-27-2005, 01:39 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Wahiawa, Hawaii
Posts: 1,047
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
Congratulations!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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12-27-2005, 03:40 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Posts: 621
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
Hello Everyone and Merry Christmas!! I had every intention of coming online sooner to give you all an update but you know how the holiday weekends can be. On top of that, Tommy has had a bad cold and cough for the past week -- I finally got him to the dr today and it would seem he has come down with a case of bronchitis and I took him for a chest xray to make sure it's not pneumonia. We get the results back tomorrow hopefully.
Anyway, things went really well and we managed to really surprise our families. On Christmas Eve we were with my parents, my grandmother and my brother, SIL and niece. I got there at noon and didn't tell everyone until 7pm when we started to open the gifts - it was a LONG 7 hrs! So we had Sydney give each person an envelope with an 8x10 photo that you saw in the first post here and we just sat back and waited for reactions. Believe it or not, my dad was the first one to really get it -- we were surprised by this since he is blind in one eye and has terrible vision in the other -- we really thought he would have trouble reading it. To be honest, he is the entire reason we used a big font and printed them 8x10 -- guess it paid off afterall. My dad was so excited that he screamed OH! and then started to get emotional. He has been so down b/c of all the medical problems he has been facing of late that I think this might have been just the boost of happiness he needed.
The rest of family reacted just like you would expect them to -- very happy and excited. I am glad that we decided to share with them on Christmas - it just felt right. The other reaction I got was from a girlfriend of mine that lives only 5 minutes from me. Funny thing is we kept missing each other all weekend and I had an 8x10 for her as well but never got a chance to see her. We were on the phone late Sunday night and so I said "are you on the computer" and she said "yeah" - I told her "I sent you an e-mail, go check it out" -- it was about 5 seconds later that she starts screaming with excitement!!
It is so much fun to share these things with friends and family -- thank you all for being part of it with me -- it was such a treat!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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12-27-2005, 05:48 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 34,171
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Re: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
I am so glad it went well! Thanks for sharing with us! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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12-28-2005, 05:54 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: Sssssh! Sydney has a surprise!
Congratulations Jeannine [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img] Sydney (and everyone else) must be thrilled! What a great present!
Good luck with the pregnancy [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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