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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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10-20-2003, 01:39 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: BURLESON TX (near Ft. Worth)
Posts: 5,589
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Real or fake?
For those of you who put up Christmas trees, do you have real or artificial?
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10-20-2003, 01:43 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
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Re: Real or fake?
Real pine trees don't naturally grow pink. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Signed,
Fakey
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10-20-2003, 01:44 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Chicago
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Re: Real or fake?
I'm a tree-hugger so I have an artificial one.
Maggie
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10-20-2003, 01:45 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Real or fake?
Most of the time one of each, but last year due to construction in the house we only did the artificial tree. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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10-20-2003, 01:45 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Boston, MA USA
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Re: Real or fake?
Real. I love the scent of a Christmas Tree. But then, there's not much I don't love about Christmas.
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10-20-2003, 01:51 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Real or fake?
We have two phenomenal artificial trees that are beautiful - a main formal tree in the front room of our home and the family tree in the family room. Front tree is all white lights and gold/silver and heirloom ornaments. Family tree is lights of color with all the family ornaments. They are both amazing and we're often asked are they real or "fake"? [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I miss the real tree aroma, but love the convenience of the artificials.
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10-20-2003, 03:39 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Real or fake?
Both. Real one upstairs, fake one downstairs.
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10-20-2003, 03:41 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 4,695
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Re: Real or fake?
I'm with Matt on this one, its just not Christmas without that tree smell in the house. And the needles on the floor......and the cat drinking from the tree stand.......and arguing over which tree at the lot is perfect........and watching DH try and bring the monster in the house.......and get it back out again.
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10-20-2003, 03:44 PM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: Real or fake?
I had a fake one when I was in my apartment, but since we've had the house, it's only been real. I love going to pick out a tree at the tree farm and cuttting it down!! And the smell [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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10-20-2003, 04:04 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: Real or fake?
Artificial - I remember all the needles falling all over the floor at my parents' house! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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10-20-2003, 04:15 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Chicago
Posts: 4,812
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Re: Real or fake?
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Buy some pine scent air freshener to get that real tree smell.
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10-20-2003, 05:27 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: BURLESON TX (near Ft. Worth)
Posts: 5,589
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Re: Real or fake?
I forgot about this when I first posted. One year our tree wasn't drinking water. The tree place we got it at told us to cut the bottom off.
You haven't lived until you see your husband in the middle of the living room with a chain saw. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
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10-20-2003, 05:53 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Real or fake?
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Originally posted by maggieworkman:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial"> I miss the real tree aroma, but love the convenience of the artificials
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Buy some pine scent air freshener to get that real tree smell.
Maggie </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">LOL Maggie! Was the irony intentional? I love it! I'm going to have to borrow that line, but I promise I'll give you credit.
I have to agree with my pal Matt. It's gotta be real! If you buy from a tree farm, the tree is so fresh you won't have the messy needles. Messy needles = tree that was cut down way before you bought it.
Fake trees are cool too! I'm planning to get one, but if it's gonna be fake, I want it really fake. I don't like fake trees that look like real trees. I like fake trees that are Retro Kitsch. Now that is fun! |
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10-20-2003, 07:14 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Real or fake?
We always have a fake tree cause I hate the smell of pine.
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10-20-2003, 07:22 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Corona, New York
Posts: 3,436
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Re: Real or fake?
I've had an artifical one for about 8 years now. I didn't want to have to worry about watering and then throwing away. But the artifical ones are just as much trouble! I get dry cracked hands pulling the branches apart and those fake pine needles hurt! 
And then to have to put it away, UGH! I think I'll be getting a real one this year. I'd also love the "real scent" instead of some home spray! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] |
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