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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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09-02-2003, 11:55 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 21,228
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There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Adventures: LilMarcieMouse (Me),Sue (My DSIS)
Date: 8/20/30 to 8/31/03
Celebrations: Sue’s Birthday
Resorts: AS-S(should have been ASMo)/Poly/Wonder/AKL
Day 1 - 8/20/03
First #1 Leaving the Night before
I woke up about 6:30 am by 7:30 I had logged on to say good bye to all of you. Sue worked till Noon. I had the day off. In the morning Mom and I brought some dry cat food to Sue at her work, she had forgotten it for their cat Greeseball. My brother Dennis came over and rode drove us to the Airport. We arrived around 2:30pm. He let us off at the door and we said goodbye to him and Mom. There was no line to check in so it was very quick. We stopped at the Food Court to have launch. We had Long John Slivers chicken. [img]graemlins/yuma.gif[/img] $7.00 and change. At about 3pm we headed to the gate and got through with no problems. I help pass time I bought 2 Invisible Ink books. One was a Mickey Mouse one that you colored. I did that in about 20 min. I did 2 pages in the 2nd one called Arm Chair Detective. Then I started my diary.
Finally we boarded and Sue let me have the window seat. When we hit the right altitude I pulled out the tape player and started listening to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This was the best thing I did yet. It kept me entertained till we started our decent. We got into MCO about 9:05pm. We made a Pit Stop then headed to baggage claim. Our TTC driver (Sid) was waiting for us and asked what took us so long to get there. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] I told him we had to go to the bathroom! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] Our bags were on the floor NOT on the carousel. [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] Sue thinks Sid pulled it and left it there. Sid grab the garment bag and left the big bags for us to take and then took the escalator and NOT the elevator. Sue and I had trouble getting our bags down it. [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img]
First # 2 staying at a Resort for one night
We got to All Star Movies (ASMo) paid Sid and he told us he would pick us up at AKL at 7:30pm on the 31st. we dragged everything in and there was no line. We gave our name and Sean the CM started looking. Then he gets on the phone to talk to someone tell them he had 2 guests that need a room. We had prepaid for our room, it should not have been a problem. Sean then explains that they do not have a room for us but All Star Sports (AS-S) dose and it is by the pool. (Ok I was stupid in thinking he was talking about the Surfs up pool. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] ) Sean asked if we had a car and we told him we took a Town car. So he arranged transpiration for us. German would meet us out side. He was very nice and took good care of us.
When we got to AS-S they acted as if Sean had never called them. They also gave us a room in East Oshkosh land. That would be Baseball #9 room 9106. Sue was so shook up from it all and to top it off my brother left a ton of voice messages on her phone that gave her a scare. We called home and she was in tears. I had to get on the phone and explained it all to mom who had no clue we book the extra stay. Then I phoned DebiDebiDebi to let her know we got in safe and sound. I told her the story while we wait for our Pizza to cook. We took it back to the room and got some rest. It had been a long day.
Tune in Next Time when I play tag.
[ 10-15-2003, 12:12 AM: Message edited by: LilMarcieMouse ]
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09-03-2003, 12:20 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: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Wahoo! Keep up the great report! Go Marcie, Go Marcie!!!!
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09-03-2003, 05:18 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, PA , USA
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Alright Marcie - been looking forward to this one!!! Doesn't sound like TTC has been doing so well on the customer service end as of late! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] And what was up with no rooms when you had a paid reservations - sheesh!
I totally understand Sue's being anxious - I am this way at the start of every trip.
Sorry you had a bit of a rough start, but I know things picked up from there - great beginning, and looking forward to hearing more! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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09-03-2003, 05:21 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: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Great start Marcie [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] Wow, what a mixup on their part [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Looking forward to the next installment [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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09-03-2003, 06:59 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Sorry for some of the early snafus you had. Thanks for starting the report! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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09-03-2003, 10:40 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 2,873
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Thanks for starting your report, I've been looking forward to it. Sorry TTC and ASMO let you down. Sounds like it gets better from here on though.
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09-03-2003, 11:11 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
I've sure enjoyed reading about your first day. (What a headache, though. UGH!) Can't wait for the next installment! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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09-03-2003, 04:30 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 9,619
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
I cant wait to hear more!!!!!! Sounds like a long tiring day but I bet it gets better [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Sheila
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09-03-2003, 07:33 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Staten Island, NY
Posts: 1,330
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Marcie, I am sorry your first day was so frustrating. I hope the rest of your vacation was better, I can't wait to read all about it.
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09-03-2003, 07:42 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Wow, rough start Marcie, but I'm sure it gets better! Looking forward to the next installment!
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09-03-2003, 08:28 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Chester County, PA
Posts: 6,404
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Definately a rough start - hope it's all smooth sailing after that! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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09-03-2003, 09:28 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Louisiana/Mississippi
Posts: 2,300
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Great Report. More please
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09-03-2003, 10:34 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 5,790
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Sorry about those snags at the All Stars...hoping the remainder of your trip (especially the cruise) were a much more pleasant experience.
Looking forward to hearing more about your trip! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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09-04-2003, 03:01 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: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Sorry for your rough start, Marcie! [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] I hope the rest of your trip is wonderful!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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09-04-2003, 08:49 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Re: There’s a First Time for Everything*Day 12 The Finally*
Sorry things got off to a rocky start. Looking forward to reading the rest.
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