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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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05-29-2002, 08:55 PM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
Concierge Level: 6
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Your biggest laugh at WDW
I've been sitting here reminiscing about our trips to Disney, and a few things stand out as being the biggest laughs:
1. Hoop De Do
2. Muppet Vision 3D
Where did you get your biggest laugh at Disney?
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05-29-2002, 08:57 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Wakefield MA
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
Twilight Zone Tower of terror-no question about it!
but only during the dropping parts [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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05-29-2002, 09:19 PM
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Magic Happens!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: E. Stroudsburg, PA
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
1. Hoop de Doo
2. Adventurer's Club
3. Comedy Warehouse
4. Buzz Lightyear (Dh and I get pretty competitive here.)
Sue
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05-29-2002, 09:36 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
Concierge Level: 8
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
My biggest laugh was when Friend Carey & I were making up our own list of "celebrities" for the Candle Light Processional. We got to laughing so hard at one point I thought we would fall down! We were coming up with all these obscure celebrities like the entire cast from Different Strokes, Dwayne Wayne from Different World, Oliver from the Brady Bunch, K.I.T.T. (the car) from Knight Rider...we were rolling with laughter!
[ 06-14-2002, 12:40 AM: Message edited by: DebiDebiDebi ]
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05-29-2002, 09:57 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
My biggest laughs actually involved my wife Susan on a 1996 and our 2001 trip!
Spetember/October 1996: At the time we just had our older two (she found out she was pregnant with our third like 2 weeks before our trip!) and we were staying at the Caribbean Beach Resort. This was the first time either of us had stayed in a resort where you enter the room from the outdoors rather than an indoor hallway - and somehow late one night a creepy crawly managed to enter the room! It was very early, around 4:00 am or so and she jumped up out of bed with a start saying she thought something was in her hair. I told her she was dreaming and go back to sleep before she woke the kids up in the bed next to us. Well, maybe a minute goes by and all of a sudden a blood curdling scream comes from beside me and she is jumping out of the bed up and down all over the place - I'm thinking mad killer in the room or something. Well, the kids immediately jump up with me, lights go on and sure enough that creepy crawly ended up in her long hair somehow and just the sight of her trying to get it out still makes me roll! I laughed for the rest of the night and I'm giggling now as I write this thinking of it! LOL!
Flash forward to November 2001 at the AKL. Same scenario - it's very early in the morning, around 4:00 am or so and Susan has to get up to use the restroom. Well, if you've stayed at the AKL you know that the door to the restroom has a full length mirror on it. So, I wake up because I feel Susan get up and I'm laying there in a daze when I hear a blood curdling scream. I'm talking that same mad killer scream from the CBR back in 1996 - but not nearly as extended. Everyone pops up - lights go on and I run over to see her on the floor in hysterics by the bathroom. I'm like "What the hell?!?" She manages to tell me she saw her reflection in the full length mirror and thought an intruder was in the room! I immediately joined her on the floor. The kids didn't think it was nearly as funny as us and I think I laughed for the rest of the trip! ROTF!
So quite the interesting things happen in the middle of night with us at Disney resorts! Hands down much funnier than any attraction or show! LOL!
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05-29-2002, 10:08 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
ROTFL... Hey Steve, I wonder what lies in wait for ya'll at WL? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-29-2002, 10:21 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
ROTF!! We should be okay! We had two trips b/t 96 and 01 so if we are on "schedule" nothing should happen for the next two trips but oh boy, I can't wait for the third one from now!
I'm sitting here just giggling thinking about those two incidents! Maybe ya had to be there, but I just thought they were hysterical!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-29-2002, 11:09 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Robbinsdale, MN
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
In July 2000, we -- that is, Mom, Aunt Debbie, my niece Ashley, and I -- split our trip between two resorts: the Polynesian and the Wilderness Lodge. It was HOT (July in Florida!), and this was Mom's first trip to WDW, so she was determined to see everything ("commando" is an understatement [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] ). The bottom line is, she was a mite loopy by the middle of the week. Dehydration, lack of sleep, you name it.
So on the day we switched from the Polynesian to the WL, we happened to have dinner reservations for the Luau. No problem there -- we knew we just needed to catch any bus that was headed from the WL to one of the parks and get off at the Polynesian.
So Mom, in her tired/loopy state, is sitting in the bus sort of half-asleep (I have to admit, we all were pretty tired at that point). As we were pulling through the Polynesian parking lot, I was thinking, "I can't believe we just checked out of here this morning," and remembering everything we'd done that day ... and Mom says with a smirk and a sigh: "Remember the time we stayed here?"
I nearly fell on the floor laughing.
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05-30-2002, 07:10 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
LOL!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-30-2002, 07:39 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
Mine was definately on both Men In Black(not Disney, I know, but on the same vacation) and Buzz Lightyear! My dad accusing me of cheating because I beat him and saying his gun didn't work was a reminder of the pure,childish delight a person can't help but have on this vacation!
Tara
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05-30-2002, 07:56 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
Hoop Dee Do! Both times I have had some good belly laughs there. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-30-2002, 08:32 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Rockville, MD
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
I'll have to admit that we laughed our hardest at the Adventurer's Club over at Pleasure Island on our recent trip. We only stayed for one event but it was hysterical!!
Heather [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-30-2002, 08:46 AM
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Yeti Chaser
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Way down south
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
Dadtojbj, we had an incident with creepy crawlers last year. My kids were obsessed with catching all the lizards that run around WDW. So while we were waiting in line for Alien Encounter they caught one and it got released inside the theater. We laughed at the thought of the extra scare somebody would be getting inside there!
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05-30-2002, 10:27 AM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Warrenton, VA
Posts: 81
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
My best laugh was on our June 2001 trip. It was only the second day of our 14 day trip and we boarded a bus for EPCOT. It was one of the newer buses that have the seats in the back which are raised on a platform facing each other. Well, we (DH, 2 DS and myself) are enjoying the trip and talking a storm when we pull up to the stop at EPCOT. I stand, turn to exit the bus as I am talking and forget that I have to step down. I fly across the isle, arms flailing, and land thigh first on the seat. Thankfully, there was no one else on the bus. My DH and kids are hysterically laughing at my graceful exit and when I look to the front of the bus, the driver is also in hysterics. I laugh it off, but I notice the next day a grapefruit size bruise on my thigh that was a beautiful shade of purple. Needless to say, this "landmark" on my thigh turned out to be the trigger for hysterical laughter for my family for the remaining 12 days of our vacation.
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05-30-2002, 11:38 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Geogia
Concierge Level: 5
Posts: 2,549
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Re: Your biggest laugh at WDW
This isn't in the same league as Steve's experiences, but I like it. I took my 9-yr-old niece to MK a couple of years ago. We went on Splash and afterwards ran to the photo display to see the picture. It was priceless -- the two of us with identical mouth-open, buggy-eyed expressions, screaming our heads off. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] I keep that picture handy for when I need a chuckle.
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