Once again, it’s time for us to turn to our members for help with fund raising.

We need to raise $150 over the next six weeks in order to renew the following domain names:

SAVEWITCH.COM
MISSIONKIMPOSSIBLE.COM
KIM-POSSIBLE.ORG
SDSFORUM.ORG
SAVEKP.COM
SAVEKP.ORG
SAVELILOANDSTITCH.ORG
SAVEOURSTITCH.ORG
S-D-S.US
SAVEDISNEYSHO.WS
LEROYANDSTITCH.COM
SAVELS.COM
FIXDISNEY.ORG
ROBERTIGER.ORG
SAVELS.ORG

One of the members of the PotF Island forum one suggested: “For kids it might be easier just to send in small amounts of cash to you, then you could report how much money you’re getting. Then you could use the money for ad space, the website or anything else that would help the movement.”And that’s exactly what we plan to do.

If you’re old enough to have a PayPal account, you can make a donation directly to paypal@savedisneyshows.org. If you want to ensure that your donation helps a specific show, you can add a comment like “donation for KP ” so we know your intent. (You can use the paypal donate button on SDS Main to donate from a Credit Card without a paypal account.)

Or, you can mail a check, money order, or cash to me at this address:

SDS Fundraising
C/O Gregory Isaac
PO Box 893211
Temecula, CA 92589-3211

If you also include your email address in your letter, I’ll let you know when I’ve received it.

We know times are tough, but please give what you can, we can’t make this work without all of you.

D23, launched earlier this year, is the Official Community for Disney Fans.

The name “D23″ pays homage to the wonder and excitement that began in 1923 when Walt Disney opened his fledgling studio in Hollywood. D23 is the first official community for fans in Disney’s 85-year history. D23 gives its members a greater connection to the entire world of Disney by placing them in the middle of the magic through its quarterly publication Disney twenty-three; a rich website at www.disney.com/D23; a new collectibles line, The Walt Disney Archives Collection; and special events for D23 members throughout the year, highlighted by the D23 EXPO in Anaheim, California, September 10-13, 2009.

The D23 EXPO will give Disney fan unprecedented access to never-before-seen movies, TV shows, park experiences, collectibles and more from Sept. 10 to Sept. 13 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Tickets to the Expo are now available at http://www.D23Expo.com. Admission includes access to all experiences and entertainment at the D23 EXPO and can be purchased for single days or for the full four days of festivities. Admission is discounted for members of D23.

The D23 EXPO spotlight will also shine on Disney Channel’s brightest stars in a can’t miss-special event.

If you are a D23 member, or are planning to attend the expo, please let us know by completing this form.

SDS Webmaster Greg will be in Anaheim and will be coordinating possible meetings for those involved in our movements!

I would like to thank Jäger-Rose for his help and hard work creating a German language version of Save Disney Shows! As I’m sure most people know, German fans where a huge help in the Save Kim Possible movement, and we would not have gotten Season 4 with out them. When you consider the popularity of many other DC shows in Germany, this seemed like a great way for the movement to expand.

You can check it out now at SaveDisneyShows.de Even if you don’t know German, it’s fun to give it a look. And be sure to forward the link to as appropriate!

Halloween is by far the best recruiting day of the year. All year long we spend a lot of time encouraging everyone to get out there and find more people who don’t yet know about our movements. This might be by posting flyers around town, wearing SDS merchandise, and/or by posting about us online. But on Halloween, kids and their parents come right to your door. What could be easier?

But we need you all to help!

Download and print out the new flyer and post one one your front door, gate, where ever people can read it. If you’re trick-or-treating leave a few flyers with you parents and take a few with you. Give them to anyone who seems interested. If you’re too old for trick-or-treating, you can still give flyers to anyone interested who comes begging for candy.

Download the new flyer here

You can also find many more flyers and handouts here. Or feel free to make your own!

And if you happen to dress up like a DC star or chracter this year, we’d love to see it! And we’d love to see how you make use of our flyers. Send us any photos you’d like to share at webmaster@savedisneyshows.org.

Here’s a photo of Webmaster Wayne with two Lilo & Stitch background paintings at the Hollywood Studios park at Walt Disney World.

And here is another Stitch painting from the park.

There will be more later. Wayne writes “Stitch’s Great Escape ride coming Sun! No KP, but lots of Stitch here at Disney World!”

UPDATE: Here are two more pictures Wayne asked me to post for him.

This first one is of Stitch above one of the entryways of the World of Disney Store at Downtown Disney in Florida.

And here’s one more. Wayne says, “Aloha from the Spirit of Aloha dinner at the Polynesian Resort Disney World!”

UPDATE 2: Here are three more pictures Wayne asked me to post for him.

A Disney Groom at the Magic Kingdom.

Wayne getting ready to go on Stitch’s Great Escape

Stitch’s Great Escape sign

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Webmaster Greg recently re-did the How to Help section of SDS to hopefully make it much more user friendly.

http://help.savedisneyshows.org/

Please give it a look and let us know what you think.

Please be critical - we can only make improvements when we know what users find good and bad.

[Hopefully this correctly posts at 12:01AM Eastern Time]

I would like to take a moment to publicly wish Zei a happy birthday on behalf of myself and everyone involved with Save Disney Shows.

Zei has been a part of our organization for over four years - much longer than most. She was one of the original owners of Mission_Kim_Possible, even before I was! When KP was renewed, she was among the first dozen fans who found out (I think, again, before me!). She has been a global moderator and co-Admin for the SDS forum. And for the week it existed, she was on the SDS board of directors.

She also got Zeipriest to level 70 on World of Warcraft a couple weeks back. I have a feeling she’s probably more proud of that. LOL

While doing some SEO work on our Save WITCH website, I found that the domain savewitch.com was available, so I registered it and pointed it to our existing site savewitch.org.

Back when I was looking for and settled on savewitch.org for our website, savewitch.com was unavailable. I am glad that we have been able to acquire it so that anyone who tried the .com ending instead of the correct .org will still find the site.

It was not nearly as difficult to move the forum as I thought it would be - which is good.

The forum has moved over to the new host and can now be accessed at http://sdsforum.com/. The old url forum.savedisneyshows.org has been set up to forward to the new URL.

There are only a few minor things left to move over before we finally transfer the savedisneyshows.org domain over to the new host.

During the domain transition, the SDS forwards won’t work, so be sure to bookmark either all the new URLs or this blog which contains the URLs.

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The Save Disney Shows forum is currently disabled while I move it over to the new host. I hope to have everything back up Friday night, but it may be Saturday night. Hopefully no later! Updates will be posted here.