Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Mannequins: Are These Pictures Fakes?

Do you remember the two pictures below that I published on January 31st? If you've been following the debate in the Comments section of the May 10th article below, you know one of our readers has taken the position that these photos were faked. What he is saying is that he knows one of the higher-up employees at Pleasure Island and that person says that Mannequins club has been locked since last October so there is no way someone could have taken these pictures this past January. The reader insists that the revolving dance floor was sold off and removed as well as all the hanging mannequins.

My response has been and remains that these pictures were indeed taken this past January, that the first one shows that the dance floor is still in there and in the background one can see a mannequin still hanging. When first published, one of our other readers wrote me via email and described what the photo headers show and that included the date taken and the camera type. Interestingly, when I point my cursor at the photos as published here, I can't view a header. Apparently some people know how to get that data. But I just pointed the cursor at the photos in the actual email from the person who sent it to me and header information does appear: Both photos were taken on 1-26-10 at 11:11pm with a Kodak camera.

To fake these photos, the provider would have had to have taken them long ago when the dance floor and mannequins were still in there AND have had the foresight to future date his camera to create headers that read 1-26-10, all to create a controversy two years later? That's absurd.

The fact is that on the night of 1-26-10 at 11:11pm, the garage door to Mannequins was open for whatever reasons, photos were taken and emailed to me and I published them. At least as of the end of January, the dance floor was still in there and one or more mannequins were in there. I think most of you would agree. Period.

CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Apparently this may be a sign of "good things" to come.
If they have the revolving floor, and dummies still there hopefully the photos weren't faked.
Maybe a reopening is possible for all the clubs.
The party people can come back to PI,and !!Boogie Down!!

Anonymous said...

a sign of "good things" to come? HUH?
you are still saying that it is impossible to put any date on a Kodak camera and or any camera for that fact? well you don't have a camera and don't know how to use one?
why would someone put out "fake" pics and create a controversy two years later? who knows why do people not tell the truth. this girl said she got raped on sunday or monday night and today now said she did not? WHY?
I think someone just loves to sit back and read how tick off some can get over this? and or can not deal with the closing of PI it keeps alive????? I know that you and MOST of your readers do not believe this and what i am saying but do not care I kind of believe what i have heard from.....

Anonymous said...

Your right we don't believe you Anon. But keep pushing your spin its quite entertaining. lol

Anonymous said...

First of all I do know how to use a camera,if taking pictures with it is what you mean.
It would be stupid to fake pictures and cause controversy.
Also the guy who wrote the article said these were taken Jan-26-010.
Me and my freinds are hoping PI will reopen and we can..
"Party Down"

KingBob said...

Disney has pretty much made it clear that the clubs will be closed forever and replaced with other things. I believe that to be true. But the fact is, as long as the building remains there with the revolving dance floor and mannequins in place, there is still a CHANCE, albeit a tiny chance, that it could reopen. Readers have a great interest in that just because of that slim chance.

Ditto 8TRAX, much of which could reopen in a week if new speakers and lights were installed.

Anonymous said...

3RD Aron
like I said before (if you read any of this) you can keep on believing what ever you want to! you can think this is FUNNY if you want I can not stop you. but some of us have heard other things some do not want to be found out! and yes I do not want anyone to know who I am also then my info might stop coming to me? just like the people who have there info they do not want to be found out as well so don't say i am afraid to reveille my self I know that says i am not telling the truth well then they are not also then?
4th Aron
not all know how to SET the time and date. not how to take pics
if you take out the battier on Kodak you lose the date and time (get a kodak and try it)
and some don't care about the date.
and like i said there is NO date on te pic on this site if so SHOW ME!

Anonymous said...

oh and I hope Disney will not reopen PI clubs because I think Disney doesn't deserve any of our (PI regs) money after how they did this to all of us. (not that they did it) but how. I personally have not been back on Disney. the last time i was there was Spet 27 2008. and even that was hard for me to spend money at Disney. I know that Disney doesn't care (and most of you don't.) so go ahead and laugh if you must. and i know you will.
you have a closed mind and will never open it to.... just keep on believing what Bob and his reporters say than. it's his blog so I guess that means that it is law. and nobody else has and thing else to say and nothing else could be true? like I said before I am sure that not everything I have heard is true.

Anonymous said...

Psssst....Shhhhhh......quiet.....I think I hear the black helcopters coming to wisk off the rotating dance floor from Mannequins. They want to hide it before its magical mickey romance power can be duplicated......hahahahahahaha Let me go refill my bowl of popcorn, this show just keeps getting better. Who knew a floor could provide such grand entertainment along with the kooks who think its gone........

KingBob said...

Yes, this is my Blog however I don't censor comments. I do delete hate speech and advertising but that's about it. You're free to believe what you want and you're free to comment on your beliefs. No ill will here whether I believe you or you believe me.....or not.

Anonymous said...

so tell me then what is true?
you feel you have the answers. so stop sitting back and tell me please. can you? will you?
I have heard what I have heard. I ca not make this stuff up.
Bob has heard what he has heard. he can not make this stuff up.
Bob him self said that there are rumors out there.
said it before I want the truth not the "truth"
if we could see inside Mannequins some will not be happy with what they could see if we could see inside.
now your making me laugh with the "black helicopters" thing.
I would love to have the floor (if I could afford to buy it) I am sure i am not the only one? not for what the "asking price" that was quoted. to be sold for.

Anonymous said...

Bob
thank you.
to me it sounds like some don't want to upset you (I think) maybe not?
some just will not open there minds to the fact this can be true. it is most likely is not but what if?

zulemara said...

heard other things, like that all the mannequins have been removed?

Also a response to your previous reply to me...Any info I provide to Bob has always been under the guise of "rumor." I don't trust any source any more than the other at this point. I do, however, trust pictures taken as proof and at this point, as bob has pointed out, the burden of proof is clearly on you to prove the floor is not there. Someone clearly put themselves on the line to take these pictures and to have them doubted is a slap in the face to that person, IMO

KingBob said...

Well regarding the hanging mannequins in Mannequins, there is absolutely no doubt that at least 2 of them are still in there. I photographed one of them directly inside the upstairs doors and published that here on the Blog last week; if you're at that door and look left you can see a second one hanging in that near corner tower. That's the same one barely visible in the background in the first photo in this article, taken in January.

There are likely others but we've not seen them. One of our readers pointed out that only the mannequins owned by the Entertainment division...the ones that had eyes that lit up....were removed. Those were sold at Disney Property Control and Zulemara owns one of them.