LONG LIVE THE FUNMEISTER!
I can't figure out whether I should be sad or resigned to the idea that Pleasure Island wil officially be shuttered this September. The memories of great times are there, but it has been way too much work to pretend that PI was fun for, oh, maybe the last decade. Seriously, how many times can you sit through the same show at Adventurers Club and pretend the old yarns are still funny, or even interesting?
What I do mourn is the fact that Pleasure Island never lived up to its potential and now never will. There was always this nugget inside me that hoped the Mouse would someday see that PI could be "grown up" and still every bit as rich and fanciful as the best Disney attraction.
Instead we say goodnight to Merriweather Adam Pleasure, his idiot sons, the canvas factory, the pigeons from Sandusky, and the Balderdash Awards. We loved you when you were young. But we'd rather see you dead than have you living as some gibbering, drooling old fart.
Monday, June 30, 2008
THE FUNMEISTER IS DEAD!
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Agree entirely. I understand the concern of some in closing down a richly-themed "Disney" experience for more shops, but the Adventurers Club is no longer interesting; it's become an adult Chuck E. Cheese in the corner of a dying strip mall, the spasmodic Elvis lion animatronic creaking on for ever more empty rooms. I also found the Adventurers Club really cool years ago. I also confess to not being there since 1995- it would be hypocritical of me to profess undying love or beg for its salvation.
Now, what would be cool, in my opinion, would be for Disney to claim one corner of Downtown Disney as its own. Shut the Adventurers Club down, rework it to make it fresh and more relevent (heck, toss the whole thing out and put something else in there, but something equally detailed and unique, as opposed to more "Rainforest Cafe/Planet Hollywood" junk) then advertise the crap out of it- a new theme park attraction without the theme park, or the theme park costs. I can make T-shirts at the Ohio State Fair, but I can't find an environment as immersive as the Adventurers Club. Keep a one-of-the-kind "Disney" experience, something new for the majority but intense enough for the geeks, in Downtown Disney. Otherwise, it's just "Downtown", and I've already got one of those a lot closer than Florida.
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