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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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11-12-2006, 06:52 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
What wonderful memories you're bringing back - and I don't remember what I was laughing at in that photo, but you're right, it was probably something Tara / Donna said or did - wasn't it something to do with the whole Chez Alcatraz thing? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/questionicon.gif[/img]
That whole shark incident was so funny - and your captions are just right for it too. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Mark was utterly convinced that we were setting him up for that photo you know - he thought the shark was going to do something to him - that's why he was so reluctant at first to do any silly poses with it! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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11-12-2006, 10:55 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
What great pictures Bill [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Love the one with Mark being swallowed up [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Hurry back with more [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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11-12-2006, 12:08 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Great pictures, Bill. Universal's changed since I was there last. It looks like there weren't too many people there, either.
Liz
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11-12-2006, 12:18 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Great update and terrific photos, Bill. Please hurry back with more!
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11-12-2006, 12:20 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Great pictures, Bill! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/Flash.gif[/img] You took just a few, didn't you? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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11-12-2006, 12:35 PM
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The Original BagMan
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
[b] Saturday 10/28 @ Universal Orlando continued…
Somewhere in here they did Earthquake… Jan got a few pics of Tara’s performance. They’re not the greatest, but we thought you’d enjoy them…
The overhead screens…
The earthquake…
Then we did twister and back to the mummy again. As they were coming out of the mummy, The Blues Brothers were cranking on…
Jan’s Pics…
Mark with his “tail feathers”
Tara getting into it…
Me with a camera stuck to my face [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
My Pics…
Donna’s not a “blues person”
So we headed back for the Jaws ride… I stayed on shore and took a few more photos… The park was still pretty empty..
The ride scenes visible from the “shore”
Where the ride starts
Our group coming back…
I believe this is where I heard the “captain” thanking everyone for being so brave, except for our screamer (guess who that was)…..
The Screamer exits…
We visited each and every one of these on the property of every establishment we visited. These will forever be known as the “Tara Rooms” [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
A wet Mark, me thinks it had something to do with the screamer holding him under [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Jan’s Pic…
Next we headed for ET, and I shot a few pics along the way…
After ET, we headed for lunch… Tara, Cheryl and Mark were headed for Emeril’s, Jan, Donna, and I headed for NASCAR Café…
A few oics on the way out…
NEXT: After Lunch… Islands of Adventure… |
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11-12-2006, 12:47 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Great photos and updates Bill - you are SUCH a great photographer!!
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11-12-2006, 12:51 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Love all your pictures!
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11-12-2006, 01:09 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Another great update and more wonderful memories. My goodness, Tara was a screamer on that ride - I'm sure you must've heard from shore! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
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11-12-2006, 01:30 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Thanks for the great pics and update! As I am a less than stellar photog, maybe I can hire you to follow around my crew and take all the pics! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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11-12-2006, 01:37 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
More great photos! Keep the terrific updates coming, Bill!
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11-12-2006, 02:29 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
I can't wait for the IOA imstallment since we are planning on spending a day there in JAn!!
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11-12-2006, 02:35 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Great updates Bill!! Hilarious captions to the pictures!!! Wonderful photos!! Can't wait for more!!
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11-12-2006, 02:43 PM
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
Great pictures Bill. Can't wait for more.
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11-12-2006, 03:32 PM
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The Original BagMan
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Re: Halloween Trip 2006: Fun, Friends, and Spooks Part 1
[b] Saturday 10/28 @ Universal Orlando: After Lunch… Islands of Adventure…
After lunch, we headed for IOA..
And (of course) a few pics…
Jan and the fire truck [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Jan and Donna headed for the Hulk, so I did a little wandering and picture taking…
They’re headed out, and the rest of the group were on the way…
They skipped this one this time, we were headed for water [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Sorry for the sun flare…
Jan giving Mark instructions…
Jan’s pic…
The rest of the group went on the Jurassic Park River Adventure. Cheryl and I headed out to take a few pictures…
We headed inside the Discovery Center…
Then we headed out back and shot some more…
The group got back together…
Jan’s pic…
Mark attempting to drop Tara over the rail…
Jan’s pic of Tara fixing to reciprocate…
Mark and Cheryl left, they were doing the Party of the Senses at EPCOT tonight, and the rest of us headed for Dueling Dragons…
On the way… Jan’s pic
I shot a few pics while they rode…
This one cracks me up [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
After the ride, we headed to Seuss land, then over to Universal Studios for the Halloween Horror Nights…
Tara Room Stop…
On the way out, we stopped at one of the shops while I tried out some new hair… Jan’s Pics…
Donna told me to “look this way”, and that’s how she looked as she held her camera…
How do you like it… I didn’t get it [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
NEXT: Pics on the way back to Universal Studios and Halloween Horror Nights… |
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