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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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05-02-2002, 06:03 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Silly question of the day 5/2/02
What was your favorite Halloween costume growing up as a kid?
Mine was a boxed skelton costume when I was 5 years old. Cheesy, but I thought I was the scariest thing to walk the face of the earth that year! The funniest was when I was 11 - I was a zombie and my mom teased my hair out - I ended up looking more like Heat Miser from "The Year without a Santa Claus"! HA!
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05-02-2002, 06:18 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: St. Louis
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
LOL Steve, I would have liked to see the Heat Miser look!
My favorite costume was Casper the FRIENDLY Ghost. I was about 9, and thought I was soooooo cool, and then I fell down in the neighbor's yard because I couldn't see out of the mask. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-02-2002, 06:30 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
A bum! Year after year I put on an old black hat, blackened my face with brunt cork and ripped jeans.
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05-02-2002, 06:49 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
My Mom amde me a Little red Riding hood costume once I won an award for it. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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05-02-2002, 06:56 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Firestone, CO
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 1,017
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
This was more of a teenager, but once I dressed up like Wednesday Adams (I had a dress made). My mom thought no one would know who I was trying to be, but everyone knew.
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05-02-2002, 07:06 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Nowhere
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
I was a rabbit once. The only thing I remember was the mask had really big tall ears.
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05-02-2002, 08:03 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Sacramento, CA
Concierge Level: 2
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
My mom made this really cool Dumbo head out of paper mache. It was pretty big, about the size of the walk around characters in WDW. I have a picture of me in this outfit in my Freshman year book. It was really cool...I think it might still have a home in the garage of my parents house.
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05-02-2002, 09:36 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Parsippany,NJ
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
I have a couple favs. One year I was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz - I even carried my neighbors little "Toto" around in a basket! A couple of friends were the Cowardly Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow.
When I was really little, like 5-ish, I had a store bought costume of Dennis the Menace - it was a TV show back then. Everyone thought I was a boy. The year after that I was Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. Very comical looking like a little old lady.
Wow, I haven't thought of those costumes in years! Thanks, Steve!
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05-02-2002, 09:38 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Richfield, Minnesota
Posts: 135
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
When I was in 5th grade, I dressed up as a Juicy Fruit Wrapper - my mother LOVED making the costume!!
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05-02-2002, 09:39 PM
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Community Rank: Wayfarer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Richfield, Minnesota
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
When I was in 5th grade, I dressed up as a Juicy Fruit Wrapper - my mother LOVED making the costume!!
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05-02-2002, 09:43 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Rochester, NY
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
My mother NEVER let me have an "ordinary" costume- she always had to make the gaudiest thing she could come up with- usually embarrasing [img]graemlins/pout.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] . The only one I like was a neon pink satin clown suit, black polka-dots, and a fluorecent green ruff(hat to match!). I wore it, and all 3 of my kids have too!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-02-2002, 10:45 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
I remember that one year I was a bride. My mom bought me the costume and it was soooo nice!! Not like today where unless you spend some serious $$$ they are cheap!!
I also had a witch's costume my mom sewed for me!! That one was awesome too!!
My mom rocks!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I have two favorite costumes now: A hippie and a flapper. I have this patchwork like caftan that I wore with a long black wig, sandals, mood rings and blue glasses and it was awesome!!
The flapper costume is my senior prom dress!! It is knee length with fringe (remember, we're talking 1989 here) and is sleeveless. I made a headband with feathers and a choker out of stretchy black sequined trim and I have a great fringed shawl and a cigarette holder.
I love dressing up for Halloween and costume parties!! In case you didn't realize!! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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05-03-2002, 03:05 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: San Diego
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
It was a boxed Cinderella costume. (of course!) lol I saw one like it in decent condition on eBay recently. It seemed a lot more glamourous back then. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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05-03-2002, 08:39 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
Growing up in New Orleans, our Halloween costumes got double duty since we always wore them again at Mardi Gras. My favorite was a Raggedy Ann costume that I wore in first grade, and my two older cousins also had the same costume. My 2 year old nephew was Raggedy Andy, but he wouldn't keep his wig on.
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05-03-2002, 09:12 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 1,959
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Re: Silly question of the day 5/2/02
Dad made me a Statue of Liberty costume...
I loved that costume. I won best costume in the Halloween Parade and everything.
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