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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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06-13-2002, 06:40 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: the Jersey Shore
Posts: 824
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Another silly car question of the day
Since we are having so much fun posting about our "dream" cars and the cars we currently drive, I thought it would be fun to learn about our first cars.
I bought my first car (with some help from my parents) in 1984 when I turned 17 (legal driving age in NJ). It was a 1979 Mustang II hatchback in Carolina Tarheel blue. I had my rainbow decal in the back windshield and a huge WMMR - Philly classic rock station - bumper sticker proudly displayed on the bumper. Sure did love that car. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
[ 06-13-2002, 08:27 PM: Message edited by: 2Princesses ]
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06-13-2002, 06:52 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
The first car I ever owned was a grad present from my Dad (I know, now everybody hates me) It was a 197-something Mercury Monarch. Ivory with a burgundy roof and burgundy interior. I hated the colour of the interior and to this day won't drive a car with a reddish interior. But it was a pretty reliable car and it got me back and forth 100 miles each way between university and my parent's farm when I went home for the weekends.
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06-13-2002, 07:05 PM
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PassPorter Guide
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Pine Bush, New York
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 1,900
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
I n 1982 my Boyfriend asked me to marry him and gave me a car instead of a ring. It was a Candy Apple Red 1966 Ford Mustang. She had Pony interior and a woodgraine steering wheel. By the way he had restored it himself.
I married him.
Susan
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06-13-2002, 07:27 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
My dad was a mechanic and worked at a car dealership and when I turned 16 (in 1978) he brought me home a '70 dark green 4 door Chevy Impala, I hated it! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] So he said that he would keep an eye out for something else, well low and behold he comes home with a '72 DARK GREEN 4 DOOR CHEVY IMPALA! DAD!!!!Well he thought that it was such a nice car, he even had it repainted. One day I was backing out of our driveway and hit the garbage cans (back then they were not plastic) and scraped the whole side of the car. All my dad said to me when he got home was quote "what did you hit dummy" and that was it. He later brought me home a 74 blue Nova that I loved! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 07:50 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 23,859
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
My first car was a 1970 something orange Hornet station wagon. I paid $300.00 for it and I loved that car!
Tara
[img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 07:53 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
I also got a car for high school graduation - a bright red 1985 Toyota Corolla and I was one of very few Freshman at Virginia Tech that had a car - I had to park like 2 miles away from the dorm! The first car I ever bought was after college graduation - a 1989 Nissan 240SX. That car ROCKED and I actually bought it about a month before graduation so I was the envy of my whole fraternity. I remember getting it up to about 125 mph on some back country roads in Blacksburg! It had a heads up display of the speed on the windshield and was just sooooo cool! [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img] I LOVED [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] that car!
[ 06-13-2002, 07:54 PM: Message edited by: Dadtojbj ]
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06-13-2002, 08:00 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
Posts: 2,615
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
My first car was the ugliest thing God ever let man make, a 1975 plymouth volare station wagon! [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] It was cream colored with the typical "fake wood" laminate or whatever the heck it's called and literally drank gas! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] I was MORTIFIED when my Dad brought that thing home and told me it was my brand new car. [img]graemlins/achoo.gif[/img]
[ 06-13-2002, 08:04 PM: Message edited by: ILuvDisney ]
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06-13-2002, 08:02 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: the Jersey Shore
Posts: 824
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
for Tara -
OMG your first car was the same car I traveled in for my first trip to WDW. My parents had a new '76 AMC Hornet station wagon and the color was a beautiful 70's Burnt Orange!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 08:07 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Newtown Square, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 23,859
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
Yup, that's the one! Ugliest car I've ever seen-LOVED it!
Tara
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06-13-2002, 08:10 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
Concierge Level: 3
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
I didn't have my first car until I was 23, in 1989! Goodness, was I slow (that's what you get when you live in Chicago and have all that public transportation at your disposal). It was a 1990 Plymouth Laser...beautiful blue! The speedometer went up to like 160 or 180, but I never went over 120. She was a cute car until the engine melted four years after I got her.
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06-13-2002, 08:22 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 1,574
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
My first car, also from my parents, was a Chevy Vega (no idea what year) that my Dad got from work as it had been a company car with very few miles on it. After it had an accident (nope not my fault!) it never ran quite right so Dad drove it and I got to drive the Nissan.
The first car that I purchased after graduating college was a 1986 Chevrolet Camaro! Much cooler car [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 08:30 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,259
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
My first car was a used 1970 aniversary model Mustang in a metalic green (light) color. I loved this car but my heart was set on a Capri... which I never got [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img]
Now I am happy with my Honda CRV [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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06-13-2002, 08:55 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
First car, let's see (scratching my head) Oh yeah: In summer 1969 with my own money I bought a white 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne 2 door sedan for $400. It had a inline 6 cylinder engine and a standard transmission (3 speed on the column). It had rubber floor mats, no carpet at all! I wrecked it, fixed it up sort of and sold it to my sister. Then I got a 1963 Chevrolet Impala SS. Now that car I loved. [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
[ 06-13-2002, 09:29 PM: Message edited by: Disnydad ]
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06-13-2002, 08:57 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Schenectady, NY
Posts: 787
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
Um, how can I put this delicatly?
I had a 1966 Chevy Impala that I spray painted <yes, with spray cans> GREEN!
I had an 8 cylinder engine, but only 7 worked. One piston had a hole in it. A whopping $300 and that baby was all mine. Of course this was when gas was 29.9 cents per gallon too.
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06-13-2002, 09:15 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Duluth, Ga. , U.S.A.
Posts: 844
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Re: Another silly car question of the day
My sister and I are only 15 months apart, so my parents bought a car for us to share. It was a 1966 Mustang convertible with white pony seats(Mustang lovers will know what I mean). It was pale blue with a white soft-top. Of course, leave it to me to mess around and not get my license until after my sis. I'm the older one but the chicken of the two! She ended up getting to keep the car and they got me a 1978 Mercury Cougar(a real boat!)It was still cool though because it had an electric moonroof. All my friends had fun opening it and waving at people.
Laura
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