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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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07-17-2003, 01:24 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Katy, Texas
Posts: 2,416
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Re: Class of 1985
I am a big fan of class reunions!
We had a 5 year that was a blast as we were all just getting out of college and starting our careers. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
The 10 year was tons of fun - especially meeting everyone's kids! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
The 20 year was also lots of fun - getting together and listening and dancing to "our" music!
Our next one will be the 30 year - coming much too fast - its right around the corner. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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07-17-2003, 01:42 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: the Jersey Shore
Posts: 824
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Re: Class of 1985
I'm another member of the High School class of '85. I did attend my 10 year reunion with my two best friends from high school - my DH was the designated driver and graciously agreed to stay home since my 2 best friends were single at the time. Well we thought it was a big dissapointment; lousy food, all the people we really wanted to see were not there - it just felt weird.
Now as far as the 20 year goes in 2 more years, I would love to go. I would hope more members of our class would attend and can't wait to compare pix of our kids!
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07-17-2003, 02:12 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: York, PA , USA
Posts: 2,022
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Re: Class of 1985
Interboro High School class of '89 here! [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
We did go to my 10 year reunion a few years ago. It was fun, but not as much as I'd hoped. Basically, everyone I really wanted to see, I still talk to at least occasionally. Plus, it was VERY informal (at the VFW in jeans!), so I felt like we overpaid for our tickets. I would prefer something much less casual next time. I can be casual every day, but I don't get to dress up very often...
Just had my 10 year college reunion (Elizabethtown College!) in April! That was fun! It was great to see how the Campus had changed, almost more than how the people changed... [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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07-17-2003, 02:27 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Class of 1985
I've gone to one, which was my 15th back in 1990.
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07-17-2003, 02:43 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Class of 1985
I have only been to my 15th in 1986. I had heard the 10th was a blast. Not much fun as the folks I wanted to see did not show up. Played a round of golf with one classmate who only wanted to talk about how much his shoes cost, how much his vacations cost, how much his car cost. Sorta low turnout. There was a 20th but I did not hear of it till after it was over. The 25th & 30th were canceled.
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07-17-2003, 04:41 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2002
Location: georgia
Posts: 2,818
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Re: Class of 1985
i had no interest in my 5yr and not much interest in my 10th. my 15th would be this year, but i haven't heard of anything being planned yet. i doubt i'll ever be very interested in going, though. i'm not exactly the big partier, and my best friends in school were not in my class. actually 2 of my best friends didn't even go to my school. perhaps curiosity will get the best of me someday and i'll go. who knows.
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07-17-2003, 06:03 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Re: Class of 1985
Something to make Steve feel better.
I remember 1985. That was the year my big boy went to 3rd grade and my baby started kindergarten. Feeling better now Steve????
To answer your question. We went to my 15th. Didn't have a lot of fun. There were still the cliques. My 35th (yes, I'm that old) is next year. When the info comes I'm tempted to send it back unopened. On the envelope I plan to write no longer alive. Dead. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
We have gone to several of DH's. His 35th was last year. Can't wait for his 40th. His class is so friendly. Same town same school. Different people.
My Mom went back to her 60th last year. She and her girlfriend crashed DH's class after the dinner party. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Mom was invited by a couple in the class. This past year the 2 ladies went to the friend's 60th. They had to go home after dinner, no parties to crash.
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07-17-2003, 06:09 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,343
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Re: Class of 1985
I went to my 10 years reunion a couple of years ago. It was interesting and neat to reminesce w/ old friends. The most ackward moment was seeing an old boyfriend I dated in high school while my DH and I were on a break.
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07-18-2003, 12:18 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Sasquatch Territory, Pacific Northwest
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 17,166
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Re: Class of 1985
OLD FOGIES!?!?!?! Hey, I am just youth challenged, OK?!?!? [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
Yes, I have attended both my 10th and my 20th!
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07-18-2003, 12:25 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Class of 1985
Do you or have you gone to your high school reunions?
We've only had one really big organized one - our 10th and I missed mine because we were on a cruise and we missed me wife's because we were on a ski trip.
Have a high school friend who is begging us to go to our 20th in 2 years. Not sure. For those who went - what was it like? Seems like it would be strange.
Signed,
Watched Romi & Michelle's High School Reunion and it freaked me out.
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07-18-2003, 12:28 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Posts: 302
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Re: Class of 1985
Yep, I went to my 10th two years ago. It was like being in high school all over again! The cliques still hung together. I took my little sister with me as a date because a lot of her classmates had married someone in my class. Plus, she was going to miss hers the next year due to being out of the country.
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07-18-2003, 12:30 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Class of 1985
No. Our 10-year was last summer, about 20 minutes away from where I live, but I didn't go. The only people I would have cared to see again I got together with apart from the reunion. Our school was way too clique'ish, a lot of us still live around here and I see them sometimes, and they really haven't changed much!
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07-18-2003, 12:30 AM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Class of 1985
Class of 1987!! I went to my 5 year, which was really fun because we were all still young, most were still in college or had just graduated, and you still remember everyone since it wasn't that long ago. I took my DH to my 10 year. It was ok, but not as fun. I couldn't get my other friends to go, so I was kinda solo from the group that I had hung out with. And, some people that I had wanted to see, didn't end up coming anyway. They didn't have one for our 15th. I guess I'll have to wait for the 20th. I'd love to go to see what everyone looks like, and where everyone is in their lives, but I'd like the group of friends that I still keep in touch with to go as well!!
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07-18-2003, 12:38 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Class of 1985
Never been to mine - no desire! We did go to John's 15th - wasn't much fun! He did talk to a few of his old friends, but we see them anyway, and no one else there we wanted to talk to.
It was funny being a fly on the wall in the ladies room however! Some of these "Ladies" had come without their husbands, and were there to try to pick up old boyfriends! The things coming out of their mouths [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
I pointed them out to John later in the evening, and he said they were like that in high school too!
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07-18-2003, 12:41 AM
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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: Class of 1985
Nope. Never! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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