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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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03-28-2003, 02:40 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Suddenly this ....
thought occured to me on the way home from the gas station. I wondered what the other PassPorters had on their key chains to let others know it's theirs? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]
Mine? I knew you'd ask. It's a DVC tag. A little replica of the blue van that picks people up for their DVC tours. It says "Own a Piece of the Magic".
Did you wonder too but were afraid to ask? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
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03-28-2003, 02:48 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Orlando....5 mins from Mickey!
Posts: 721
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Re: Suddenly this ....
Don, How do you always know exactly what we're wondering [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
I have a PeterPan [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] keychain that holds my keys to house and PO, and a Fort Wilderness keychain for my hated Astrovan [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Again, it is just amazing where your mind wanders to [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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03-28-2003, 02:51 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 2,172
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Re: Suddenly this ....
Fourteen keys (I don't even know what four of them belong to [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] ), a remote for the van, and a link of a chain.
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03-28-2003, 03:01 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: Suddenly this ....
I have a black furry puffball that matched the purse it came with 6 years ago, a big brass "R" for when DBF asked me to move in with him, a red Happy Wheels Skate Center keychain, and some of those keychain cards.
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03-28-2003, 03:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 16,825
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Re: Suddenly this ....
A DCL key chain I won paying Match Your Mate! (We also won a bottle of champagne, and 2 DCL mugs.) [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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03-28-2003, 03:31 PM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Thornton, CO
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,087
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Re: Suddenly this ....
Up until 5 minutes ago, I had a Tigger chain and an Eeyore chain but now I only have Tigger. Eeyore broke and fell off some where. [img]graemlins/pout.gif[/img]
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03-28-2003, 03:34 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 9,619
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Re: Suddenly this ....
A Wheaten Terrier (not a live one of course)etched in wood. Sheila
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03-28-2003, 03:50 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Evansville, IN
Posts: 590
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Re: Suddenly this ....
A pewter 1997 7 Time Winston Cup Champion Dale Earnhardt Keychain, A CVS Pharmacy Extra Care Card (which never gets used....nevermind, I took it off) and BAM Card...the most used discount card I own. I get my 5 bucks back from BAM every year, and then some.
[img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img] (3 for Dale)
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03-28-2003, 04:04 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
 PassPorter Guide Author
Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Quote:
Originally posted by Fortissimo:
Up until 5 minutes ago, I had a Tigger chain and an Eeyore chain but now I only have Tigger. Eeyore broke and fell off some where. [img]graemlins/pout.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Oh no! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] I suppose at least it wasn't just his tail this time, but everything... [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] You won't be surprised to know my keyring has an Eeyore on it. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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03-28-2003, 04:08 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 15,346
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Re: Suddenly this ....
A tiny sandal printed with little yellow flower-power daisies - a gift from DH.
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03-28-2003, 04:16 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 2,077
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Re: Suddenly this ....
Universal Studios - Bugs Bunny with my name on it, MGM Grand Hotel from Vegas, Save On Foods reward tag so you don't have to carry your card all the time, house key and some old luggage keys.
Work one has a Disneyworld H with Mickey on it and 19 [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] keys to offices, filing cabinet, lock boxes....and some I have no idea. Time to clean house.
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03-28-2003, 04:24 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: South Elgin, IL
Posts: 1,043
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Re: Suddenly this ....
My identifying mark is a smiling Mickey head, bought at the Disney Store last fall. DH has a 100 years pewter keychain we got at WDW during our November trip.
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03-28-2003, 04:28 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 697
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Re: Suddenly this ....
I have a boring Mini Cooper keychain and 3 keys. That's it!!
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03-28-2003, 04:32 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Suddenly this ....
I have a "Celebrate the Future Hand in Hand" silver metalic disk keychain with a key to the house, my Explorer, my P.O. Box for my business, and that's it! 3 keys and a WDW disk! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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03-28-2003, 04:57 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,343
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Re: Suddenly this ....
I have a "Mom" keychain and I have to keep it on a strap because I was always losing my keys. [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
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