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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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10-09-2006, 06:47 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: LI N.Y
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Hugs your kids when they leave the house....(a side note)
because you never know... this morning my ds 17 left for early morning football practice, 10 minutes later my cell phone rings it was my ds.. he just totaled his truck. the sound in his voice was the worst sound to hear, he was so shaken up. but thank god he was ok, he was wearing his seatbelt. we were lucky. he must have a gaurdian angel watching over him.. a 17 yr old boy in a few neighborhoods over wasn't so lucky this saturday he didn't make home, [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] so please hug your kids, tell them to be careful, and that you love them every time they leave the house, I'm glad I do. (p.s I just relized that a yr ago today while he was at football practice I got a call from the school that a ambulance was on the way to take him to the hospital because he dislocated his shoulder, [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] so I just told him that this time NEXT YR he's not allowed to get out of bed!!!LOL [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img])
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10-09-2006, 06:52 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] how scary! Glad he is ok though and [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] for the family that lost their ds.
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I always hug and tell my mom i love her before i go anywhere.
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10-09-2006, 06:57 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a Buckeye living in Connecticut
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] to you and your family! Thank God your DS is ok, shaken, but ok!
I'm always giving my DDs hugs and kisses and telling them how much I love them...even if they try to squirm away from it[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]
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10-09-2006, 07:00 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Volunteer State - Tennessee
Posts: 12,203
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
So thankful your DS is ok. How scary. If my kids go with DH or I go by myself I ALWAYS give them a big kiss and a hug and tell them I love them. You are right, you just never know.
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10-09-2006, 07:01 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Philadelphia sub- burbs
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
Thank goodness he is okay and only shaken up. I think your right he must have an [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/angel.gif[/img] on his shoulder.
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10-09-2006, 07:13 PM
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Wishing I was at WDW!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Southwestern Florida, USA
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
Oh no - thank goodness he is ok. I know exactly what you mean - I hug, kiss and tell them I love them everytime before they leave.
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.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] [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] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] Pixies and prayers for both you and your son!
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10-09-2006, 07:17 PM
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PassPorter and WDW Addict
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Texas
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Posts: 12,489
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] and [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] to your DS...thank goodness he is okay. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] to the family that wasn't as fortunate as yours.
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10-09-2006, 07:31 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 2,183
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.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] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] Thank God he was ok. I just love those gaurdian angels. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/angel.gif[/img]
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10-09-2006, 08:20 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Maryland
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
Glad to hear that the DS walked away from the accident. Our kids are such precious gifts, I am so thankful to have them in my life. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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10-09-2006, 08:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Tulsa, OK
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
Glad your son is OK...I agree we can never tell them enough times we love them.
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10-09-2006, 08:26 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Jersey
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
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10-09-2006, 08:34 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....
Very scary!!! I am glad your DS was ok.
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10-09-2006, 09:29 PM
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Go Red Sox!! :D
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Rhode Island - Red Sox Nation
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....(a side note)
[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]
I agree with your advice. We have a rule in our family, that kisses and/or hugs must be had prior to separating!! (I secretly call it "kiss & run")
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10-09-2006, 09:30 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Foothills of the Adirondacks
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....(a side note)
Wise words!
So glad your son is ok! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
My heart goes out to the other young man's family.
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10-09-2006, 09:37 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Maryland
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Re: Hugs your kids when they leave the house....(a side note)
I've had one of those calls before and just the first word out of their mouth is enough to tell you something is terribly wrong! But then you are just so glad that they are actually talking to you! Glad your DS is ok! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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