Tuesday, May 3, 2011

PI Update: AC Colonel For Sale at Disney Property Control

Spotted on the Twitpic website, the Colonel from Adventurers Club is now for sale at Disney Property Control! This is not a good sign that Adventures Club is ever going to come back, at least not as we knew it. Not a good sign that AC is going to open up at Hong Kong Disneyland either, as was once reported. PHOTO ©2011 THOMAS MORGAN via TwitPic (http://twitpic.com/4sm7ht)

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a shame that the Colonel from AC is going for sale.
If they do reopen A.C. most likely it will be something else.
I also don't understand why they're opening up an Adventurer's Club in Hong Kong, what do they know about "Kongaloosh".
I think it's pretty silly them doing that.

Anonymous said...

The Hong Kong AC was supposed to be more if just an interactive restaurant rather than a comedy club. But still sad he's being sold. I wish I was in FL so I could put a bid on him.

Anonymous said...

there you all GO!

Bill said...

This really is a needless insult on Disney's part. If the AC is never coming back, the Colonel should have been permanently warehoused, or at least quietly destroyed, rather than rubbing salt in the wound by putting him up for sale.

More proof that the folks in charge have absolutely no clue about the significance PI had in a lot of our lives.

Joe said...

I'm surprised he didn't end up in someone's office like alot of those more specific props from closed attractions.

RIPPI said...

Geez, that kilt he's wearing leaves a lot to be desired!

Anonymous said...

So who wants to bid on it? Will to proxy bid for ya!

Anonymous said...

So how much is he going for?

zulemara said...

1k minimum, silent auction style.

KingBob said...

Zulemara, how much did Manny the Mannequin cost? $1000 for the Colonel seems ridiculous.

Anonymous said...

Just a heads up on Twitpics Terms of Use...

"All content uploaded to Twitpic is copyright the respective owners. If you publish content uploaded to Twitpic on the web for personal and noncommercial purposes you are required to link back to the original content page on Twitpic"

http://twitpic.com/terms

Bill said...

If I thought I could actually get the Colonel for that much, I'd bid on it myself (if I had access.) I bet it goes for five figures.

KingBob said...

Thanks for the terms of use. I have updated the article to comply. Appreciate it!

zulemara said...

200 was starting bid, we bid 250 and won

71 said...

Word amongst the AC fanbase is the Colonel was pulled, auction canceled. No idea why.

zulemara said...

no way!

Anonymous said...

The Colonels model has been used before, I could have sworn I saw him as Shrunken Ned at Disneyland.

Anonymous said...

Colonel Suchbench was pulled from there for a VERY GOOD reason; he was never supposed to be there. Also this is part of a MUCH LARGER developing story that I can not say more about at the moment. KUNGALOOSH!

KingBob said...

WOW.....major developing story about the Colonel and the Adventures Club. Do share when you can!

Anonymous said...

Believe me KingBob I wish I could, but for the moment this is all that can be said. However, now is a very good time for everyone who wants PI back to sends some letters and e-mails to cinch the deal! KUNGALOOSH!

KingBob said...

Send to Staggs or send to someone locally? Who do you recommend comments be sent to? We have hundreds here willing to email someone to bring back PI!

Anonymous said...

You can send letters to Iger, but typically, his office will forward anything having to do w/ WDW back to WDW to handle.
SOMETIMES, his office will become involved.

Walt Disney World Guest Communications
PO Box 10040
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-0040

wdw.guest.communications@disneyworld.com

Or, there's more specific ones here:
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/archive/index.php?t-325622.html

KUNGALOOSH!

Anonymous said...

The person above is quite right in saying that this list is the best one of Disney Executives to send messages to.

Executive Addresses:

Mr. Robert Iger
Chief Executive Officer
The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4873

Peter Murphy
Personal Adviser to CEO Robert Iger
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521

Thomas O. Staggs
Chairman
Walt Disney Parks & Resorts
C/O Team Disney Building
500 South Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-4873

(Halted and reworked the Fantasyland expansion that Jay Rasulo started to keep it from being too girly)

Meg Crofton
President
The Walt Disney World Resort
PO Box 10040
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

(reputed to not have been a fan of Pleasure Island, but loved the Adventurers Club)

Al Weiss
President
Worldwide Operations
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
PO Box 10000
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

Jim Lewis
President
Disney Vacation Club
200 Celebration Place
Celebration, FL 34747

(People's decisions to buy into the Disney Vacation Club's Saratoga Springs were swayed when told that it was in close proximity to Pleasure Island, and the day the last unit was sold was the same day Pleasure Island's closing was announced)

Walt Disney World Guest Communications
PO Box 10040
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830-0040

Walt Disney World Guest Relations
P.O. Box 10000
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830


Executive E-mail Addresses:

Bob Iger, Vice President of Operations, Walt Disney World
Robert.A.Iger@email.disney.com

John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney/Pixar, Principal Creative Advisor of Walt Disney Imagineering
jl@pixar.com (jl@pixar.com)

Meg Crofton, President Walt Disney World Resort
meg.crofton@disney.com

Thomas O Staggs, Chairman Walt Disney Parks & Resorts
Tom.Staggs@disney.com

Al Weiss, President Worldwide Operations - Disney Parks and Resorts
al.weiss@disney.com

Barry Carlson, GM of Operations
barry.r.carlson@email.disney.com

Kris Piser, DTD Finance Manager
Kristine.piser@email.disney.com

Walt Disney World Guest Communications
wdw.guest.communications@disneyworld.com

KUNGALOOSH!

DamnMouse72 said...

Bob, you should repost the names and addresses for everyone one to see. I hope there really is an underlying story here.... Emails and letters will be sent immediately. AND, I never knew the story of DVC and Saratoga Springs..the selling of the last unit being the same day as the closure being announced. I would have been really pissed if I had bought into it then.... I am a DVC member, but at OKW (was always a quick bus ride to the island, and enjoyed it so much down here that I decided to move here 10 years after we bought into DVC.) I would be really upset had I been told as part of the "selling" that it is close to PI, and then they close PI. Thanks for that piece of info...

KingBob said...

DamnMouse, tonight's article posts all the names and addresses and I'll be adding 1-2 more as soon as I secure them. Thanks!