Return of Adventurer's Club?

[MarylandPirate]

Kungaloosh!

 

[MollyTNarwhal]

We climb the highest mountains,
just to get a better view.
We swim the deepest oceans,
cause we’re daring through and through.
We cross the scorching desert,
martinis in our hand.
We ski the polar ice caps,
in tuxedos looking grand.
We are reckless, brave, and loyal,
and valiant to the end.
If you come in here a stranger,
you will exit as a friend.
KUNGALOOSH!


They're bringing back Arrested Development, which tells me that there is still hope in the world.

Let's not let our hopes die

 

[Pumbaa7287]

Marching Along We're Adventurers!
Singing the Song of Adventurers!
Up or Down, North, South, East or West,
An Adventurer's Life is Best!

An Adventurere's... LIFE... IS.... BEEEEEEESSST!

KUNGALOOSH!

 

[Luv2Roam]

I really have my hopes up since they had CW for a week last week. And they used AC for the service awards.
I consider both promising.
Wouldn't it be great to at least have CW and AC switch off shows?
I would be thrilled!

 

[nemofans]

If only...

 

[HeadintheClouds]

Stupid question but Adventurer's Club is like an actual club with a bar?

 

[doconeill]

Stupid question but Adventurer's Club is like an actual club with a bar?

First, it was a club...

Second, it did have a bar, but it was more of an experience - actors playing various parts come out and interact with the patrons and put on a comedy show around the club's theme - a 1930's era adventurer's club where the characters are all great adventurers (or at least think they are...)

 

[lnevo]

First, it was a club...

Second, it did have a bar, but it was more of an experience - actors playing various parts come out and interact with the patrons and put on a comedy show around the club's theme - a 1930's era adventurer's club where the characters are all great adventurers (or at least think they are...)

Aww, that is the first time I've heard it described that way. I've heard all sorts of things about the decor and the comedy element. Made me think of the characters from Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers!

 

[HeadintheClouds]

First, it was a club...

Second, it did have a bar, but it was more of an experience - actors playing various parts come out and interact with the patrons and put on a comedy show around the club's theme - a 1930's era adventurer's club where the characters are all great adventurers (or at least think they are...)

Wow. That actually sounds like a lot of fun. To bad it isn't around anymore.

 

[mcd2745]

Wow. That actually sounds like a lot of fun. To bad it isn't around anymore.

It was great fun, but most importantly, it was a truly uniquie experience. All the other clubs on PI, you can find similar places in every city and most major tourist destinations. However the AC truly was a one-of-a-kind experience you couldn't find anywhere else - and that is why it had/has such a following and is missed so much.

 

[skier_pete]

Stupid question but Adventurer's Club is like an actual club with a bar?

First, it was a club...

Second, it did have a bar, but it was more of an experience - actors playing various parts come out and interact with the patrons and put on a comedy show around the club's theme - a 1930's era adventurer's club where the characters are all great adventurers (or at least think they are...)

It was great fun, but most importantly, it was a truly uniquie experience. All the other clubs on PI, you can find similar places in every city and most major tourist destinations. However the AC truly was a one-of-a-kind experience you couldn't find anywhere else - and that is why it had/has such a following and is missed so much.

Wow. That actually sounds like a lot of fun. To bad it isn't around anymore.

This is a great summary of what AC as much as it can be summarized, a truly unique entertainment experience unlike anything in the world. It was both Disney, and more "adult-oriented" than typical Disney - I usually say it was PG-13 humor. A combination of comedy show, variety show, improv, audience sing-a-long it was just so so much fun.

Although, I am not sure I want AC returning as a stage show at Hollywood Studios. While seeing the 20 minute water-downed sanitized theme-park performance would give me a brief contact high of happy nostalgia, I think when it was over it would make me even more depressed than ever that it was gone. I still get sad at random times when I think about AC. I've only been there half a dozen times in my life, and it was just not enough.

Thanks for getting me all depressed.

SP

 

[KINGBOBOFTHENORTH]

Just pointing out that this thread is over a year old and was resurrected by someone recently.

BobK/Orlando

 

[super mike b]

Yeah, but I made up for them.

We helped out too! I wish they would bring it back.

 

[rebecca06261]

*sigh*

 

[rutgers1]

What I don't understand about the AC is that, if they felt they could generate more revenue from that particular storefront, why couldn't they move it to a top floor of somewhere else, or to an underused portion of a hotel? Perhaps they could have experimented with other income generation strategies first. It just seems like it was here one day, then gone.

 

[KINGBOBOFTHENORTH]

What I don't understand about the AC is that, if they felt they could generate more revenue from that particular storefront, why couldn't they move it to a top floor of somewhere else, or to an underused portion of a hotel? Perhaps they could have experimented with other income generation strategies first. It just seems like it was here one day, then gone.

It was there for 18 years or so. There have been prior rumors about it reopening at DAK but so far nothing has happened. Construction workers spotted inside recently has spurred new speculation but the building remains gutted with nothing announced:

http://www.savepleasureisland.blogspot.com/2012/02/pi-update-is-there-construction-going.html

BobK/Orlando

 

[Jason71]

What I don't understand about the AC is that, if they felt they could generate more revenue from that particular storefront, why couldn't they move it to a top floor of somewhere else, or to an underused portion of a hotel?

Two big reasons spring to mind:

(1) The building was unique, to say the least. Hidden tunnels and compartments everywhere, to make the various effects work.

(2) The humor of the Club largely relied on unsuspecting, slightly tipsy PI-goers wandering in and getting caught up in the proceedings. The Club was never intended to be an all-night destination; it's format was intended to be "wander in, see a show, wander out" and, despite a number of hard core fans, that's what the bulk of its guests were during the first 18 years of its existence.

It just seems like it was here one day, then gone.

As King Bob points out, it stood in the same location for 19 years. I think this shows, though, how horrible WDW was at marketing PI. When people on a Disney message board (Rutgers, you're hardly the only one) never heard of the place until it was about to close, clearly they were not getting word of all the Island had to offer out there.

 

[OldsDr]

Two big reasons spring to mind:

As King Bob points out, it stood in the same location for 19 years. I think this shows, though, how horrible WDW was at marketing PI. When people on a Disney message board (Rutgers, you're hardly the only one) never heard of the place until it was about to close, clearly they were not getting word of all the Island had to offer out there.

Exactly, My brother and I wandered in somewhere in the early 2000s I thought the place was a brand new addition to PI. I had hung out at PI quite a bit befor then. Mostly at RnRBC.

It was a combination of Lack of Advertising (for new guests to WDW), and a lack Re-investment in the area (to keep locals into it).

I am still convinced when they went from Length of stay passes to MYW passes it it had a huge effect on foot traffic through the island.(this was a little befor they opened it up to walk through traffic). I believe when they first came out a 7 day ticket with WPM option only have you 5 visits to the options. So with Length of stay we could go to DQ and close it down, then head over to PI for couple hours and do this everynight of vacation. With that change we could do this only for 2 and a half nights and now if the clubs were still there it would only be 3 and a half nights baecause they now give you 7 options. All those nubers also do not allow for Water Park trips.

I still remeber being shoulder to shoulder on the streets of PI dancing to the outdor DJ playing Black Crows "Hard to Handle" I may have that title wrong. It was awesome. It was crowded.

They also missed the revenue boat on souviniers. Imagine how much stuff WDW guests would by at 1 am after having a few drinks.

 

[doconeill]

As King Bob points out, it stood in the same location for 19 years. I think this shows, though, how horrible WDW was at marketing PI. When people on a Disney message board (Rutgers, you're hardly the only one) never heard of the place until it was about to close, clearly they were not getting word of all the Island had to offer out there.

I think if forums like these, plus all the other social media, had been out there more 6-7 years ago (I know the DIS has been around for more than 10 years, but even it has grown more recently), a lot more people would have known about the finer details of PI and especially the AC, and I think it would have done better, especially when they went to club-centric admission. No one was willing to pony up the cash to just "check it out".

We only discovered it in '99 when one of our group had heard something about it and we decided to check it out. Then we checked it out several more nights that week. But if you had just wandered in and took a quick look, it probably looked a bit like a more brightly lit Fridays with just a bar and quirkier stuff on the walls. And that's if you even looked downstairs...

 

[OldsDr]

I think if forums like these, plus all the other social media, had been out there more 6-7 years ago (I know the DIS has been around for more than 10 years, but even it has grown more recently), a lot more people would have known about the finer details of PI and especially the AC, and I think it would have done better, especially when they went to club-centric admission. No one was willing to pony up the cash to just "check it out".

We only discovered it in '99 when one of our group had heard something about it and we decided to check it out. Then we checked it out several more nights that week. But if you had just wandered in and took a quick look, it probably looked a bit like a more brightly lit Fridays with just a bar and quirkier stuff on the walls. And that's if you even looked downstairs...

I metioned my brother and I wandered in. It was at a point where there was zero activity from the performers. We almost walked out untill we saw a woman in a maids outfit sitting on a couch in a very provocative manner(trying to keep what i was really thinking PG) and we decided to stay a while. I am sure people walked in and out a lot without ever knowing what it truly was