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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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04-17-2006, 03:55 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
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I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Okay, this is so bad. And it makes me even more evil b/c I cried from laughing so hard when I told DH about it...
I just went to the grocery store and came out to find a buggy slammed right up against our NEW CAR!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] That makes me sooooo angry!! So, here I am in the pouring rain (it always decides to storm when you have a buggy full of groceries)... fuming over this stupid buggy with the little car for your kid to drive in the front rammed up against my passenger side door. I grab the buggy, slam it around, and hurl it into it's correct place, the buggy corral. I notice that it slams into the pole at the other end, and I hear a buggy shift around on the other side, but I'm still so mad that I don't look back. I put my groceries in the car, I get in, and as I'm starting to pull out, I see another buggy, another buggy with the stupid little kiddie car on the front, rolling down the parking lot. I think, "it'll stop when it hits the curb", nope, it hangs a right at the end of the parking lot. Oooookay. Then it hangs a left and makes its way onto the ROAD [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] I swear, if you had seen it, you'd have sworn that there was a kid in that little car driving that buggy around, b/c there is NO WAY this could have happened on its own again. So it rolls out into the lane and some poor girl has to stop her car and get out to move it out of her way so she can keep driving and turn into the parking lot. And for some reason, I thought all of this was hysterically funny. I think it was all the stress of the weather, my soaking wet feet and jeans, and finding a buggy slammed into my car... whaddya think?? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Ever done anything embarassingly awful like this??
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04-17-2006, 03:58 PM
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Holy Smokes! I wish I could have seen it, that sounds funny as all heck. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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04-17-2006, 04:03 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mooresville, NC
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
It was an evil buggy! Melissa called me crying hysterically...it was too funny, I quickly joined in.
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04-17-2006, 04:05 PM
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
Melissa that is one of those moments when you look around and say "It wasn't me!" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img]
I called the office manager on Saturday in a panic. I turned in an unmarked client key on Friday. When I got to the home where I had a pet care I realized I turned the WRONG key in! The key I had was the one that I was suppose to have dropped off and the key in the office was the one for the house I was standing at! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] I was thinking it was Sunday and the outside doors to where our office is would be locked so I called the office manager to get the number for security so I could call them before I got to the building so they could let me in. She calmly says, "Robin it is Saturday, the door should be open!" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img] Oh opps! I was in Sunday mode because we had a day baseball game and I had Friday off from work! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]
I got the key and everything worked out fine!
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04-17-2006, 04:18 PM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Something like that has happened to evry one of us at some point in our lives. You're just honest enough to admit it. It is funny btw
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04-17-2006, 04:23 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
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Location: Mahopac, NY
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
that is a very funny story!!!!!!!!!
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04-17-2006, 04:52 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Oh my goodness Melissa!! I wish I could have seen that. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
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04-17-2006, 04:54 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Maybe Kasey was driving the buggy while he ate one of his happy meals [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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04-17-2006, 05:36 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
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Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Bahahaha - glad it didn't hit any other cars, though [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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04-17-2006, 05:37 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Texas
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Hehehe That is too funny! I'm sorry about your car though!
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04-17-2006, 05:41 PM
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Batman's Gal/Mickey's Pal
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] Beware the evil cart!
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04-17-2006, 05:42 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Sounds too dang funny!!!
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04-17-2006, 05:58 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Nice one Melissa! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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04-17-2006, 06:19 PM
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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04-17-2006, 06:50 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
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Re: I am a horrible person (but this is funny in a way)
Too funny!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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