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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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01-22-2004, 08:34 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
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Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
mmmmmmm..........LOL!!
Last night I was flipping through the channels when I caught Food Network doing a show on the absoloute best chocolate company on the planet(in my opinion of course!LOL!!) and that is SEES Candy!!!!!!!! YUMMMYYYYYY!!!!!!
I immediately called my grandmother and begged her to stop at Sees on her way to the museum(where she volunteers) today and to PULEEZE pick me up a box!! She just laughed and laughed and said she would indeed feed my Sees fix!LOL!!
Sooo, whats your favorite brand of boxed chocolates?
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01-22-2004, 08:36 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sad to admit, I've never heard of Sees! I feel deprived! For boxed candy I like Whitman's.
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01-22-2004, 09:30 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bethlehem,Ct 06751
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
See's is definitely good! We only get it here around the holidays- they set up a stand in Lord and Taylor. It can also be ordered on-line.
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01-22-2004, 09:55 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Louisiana
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
Godiva or Ghirardelli!!  |
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01-22-2004, 10:29 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
The best ones I can afford are Turtles!
However, the best chocolates I've ever tasted are made by Bernard Callebaut. But they're about $1.50 per chocolate so I've never had more than a couple at a time!
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01-22-2004, 10:39 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 3,968
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
<font color="purple"> I like all chocolate
My favorite treat is Godiva. </font>
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01-22-2004, 11:59 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
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01-22-2004, 12:40 PM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
I love any chocolate, but we usually get Godiva or Munson's (a local chocolatier). We get Sees at Christmas time (they have a little stand in our mall) but I've never bought from them. I'll have to remember that for next year  |
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01-22-2004, 01:33 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Wawayanda, NY
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
Perfect timing! We just busted open a 2lb box of Godiva in the office here! I love the Lion of Belgium by Godiva. Milk chocolate crest filled with really running caramel!  |
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01-22-2004, 01:54 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Omaha, NE, USA
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
Ghiradelli for me! But I've never met a chocolate I didn't like.  |
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01-22-2004, 03:00 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: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
Ghirardelli's is good, but I just plain like any chocolate.
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01-22-2004, 03:01 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
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
I love most chocolates and we're so lucky to have many wonderful brands over here - even the everyday ones, like Cadbury. My favourites are probably genuine Belgian chocolates - the ones we bought when we went over there were but over here, my favourites are probably Thornton's Continental. |
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01-22-2004, 03:10 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
We get Cadbury, and Belgium chocolates in our commissary Cheryl....
I LOVE teh Cadbury stick thingies. We also get table wafers, etc... HUGE stock of items from the U.K. and the Phillipines.............
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01-22-2004, 04:11 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,478
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
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but over here, my favourites are probably Thornton's Continental.
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oooh Thornton's....friends from England sent me a box of those (sigh)....
I have to admit, I'm a chocolate snob. I really love the high quality stuff like Godiva, Nirvana, Valrhona and Cowgirl Chocolates. Mmmmmm
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01-22-2004, 04:59 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Let\'s talk CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!
Chocolate snob here too - love Lindt, Godiva and Ghiradelli. But for a quick, inexpensive fix, plain old Hershey's will do for me!
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