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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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11-28-2005, 05:13 PM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Thanks for the update!! Love the pics!
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11-28-2005, 08:41 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Massachusetts
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Thanks for the update!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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11-28-2005, 09:18 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Thanks for the swemi0live updates Bill!! If I can't be there, this is the next best thing!! Thanks for the photos too, they are awesome!!!
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11-28-2005, 09:25 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Houston
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
What a fun way to spend a birthday! Y'all look like you're having tons o' fun. Thanks for the live updates!
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11-28-2005, 09:48 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: second star to the right
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Thanks for the updates!! I sure do wish that I was there so you could hold my bag and my DH [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] Tell Jan if I was there I certainly wouldn't scream in her ear and I'd even let her ride in the front b/c I know how much it means to her [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Keep having fun!!
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11-28-2005, 10:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Thanks for the pictures and the live updates. Glad your sharing your trip...so wish I was there.
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11-29-2005, 01:21 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: LITH, Illinois
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Great pics.
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11-29-2005, 06:12 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
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Location: Maine
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Great pictures! Looking forward to more!
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11-29-2005, 08:03 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Well, another day at the World...
Late start yesterday, but then we're on vacation with no set schedule right now...
Got going around 10'ish and headed for.....
Once there, we skipped Future World, after buying a couple of pins and heading into Mouse Gear...
Remember the killer Bambi from the May trip? Well, here's the mean-looking Donald's they sell at Mouse Gear [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Off to lunch at the Cantina, then we took a walk around the world...
About the time we got to Germany the skies opened and it rained for a little while. Jan sampled some wine and I took some pictures, but not too many for either of us...
The rain let up and we traveled around the world some more.
We visited Japan and saw;
Then we cruised past Canada...
And then we headed back to the room to drop off what we had, download pictures, and then head to DTD. We decided with the weather like it was, we'd see if we could buy some of that stuff we were looking for.
Got to DTD and visited the Christmas shop, nothing bought this time. I think that's a record, twice we've walked through there this trip and no money spent yet... [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
We got hungry and headed to Rainforest Cafe for a bite, it was good. Jan wasn't able to finish half of her meal [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]
By this time the skies had opened up again, so we store hopped on the way to WOD.
I [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] WOD, but it seems that when we are looking for specific items and go there to buy them so we can save a few dollars because of our annual pass, those items aren't available there  We did manage to spend over a hundred dollars though [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Still raining so we headed over to Ghiradelli's, Jan got a Mocha, I got a coffee and we split a banana split [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] I took some more pictures (imagine that!!!)
By this time we decided to head back to the room, but not before browsing through the Art of Disney and the other shops in that building. I didn't get any scrapbooking stuff here, it just didn't look that great. No stamps to speak of either!!! We did buy a couple of pictures and then headed off to the bus stop...
Back to the room and we called it a night around 11:30...
No set plans for Tuesday except for the Illuminations Cruise. We're supposed to have more rain and yuck tonight, let's hope we get to cruise [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] |
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11-29-2005, 08:33 AM
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Eileeeeeeen!™
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] Best wishes on getting better weather for your cruise [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img] Your slow and easy vacationing at The World is admirable! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]
Can't wait to see you all soon!
Eileen
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11-29-2005, 08:50 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
I hope the rain holds off so that you are able to go on your cruise tonight! [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]
What a crabby Duck! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img] Thanks for another great live update Bill!
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11-29-2005, 08:57 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Lafayette, LA & BCV
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Great update Bill! I hope the weather is better today for your cruise. I love the picture of Off Kilter!!
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11-29-2005, 09:08 AM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Great update!! I hope the weather is good so you can go on your cruise.
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11-29-2005, 09:14 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Great update Bill!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] that you have good weather and get to go on your cruise!!
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11-29-2005, 10:37 AM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
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Re: LizardCop\'s semi-live updates at Mousefest.....
Thanks for the update! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
We're heading out here in about 3 hours and staying offsite tonight . . . checking into Pop tomorrow morning . . .
See ya at the B.A.H. tomorrow evening!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img]
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Get this popular e-book free of extra charges when you join the PassPorter's Club for as little as $4.95. A club pass includes access to all our other e-books; e-worksheets; super-size photos; and more! This e-book is also available for separate purchase in the PassPorter Online Store for just $5.95. |
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