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It was a bit of a drizzly evening in Orlando tonight but since Downtown Disney lies at the bottom of the rainbow, what better place to hang-out than beautiful Pleasure Island! One piece of good news for techno fans: DJ Richie Rich is this weekend's DJ for Sunday night SIN at House of Blues!
Construction around the upstairs Mannequins door has been completed. The small trees and bushes have been replaced with tiny bushes and wood chips. The promised bold new vision is taking place before our very eyes! But get this. Remember when they closed the PI clubs and they said it would take 2 years for everything to be redone? And then do you remember last year when the Orlando Sentinel spotted something in a Disney annual report stating that it would be 2012 before changes are completed; i.e. 4 years? OK, well the latest rumor is that they're giving PI management until 2013 to get things completed. If true, that would be 5 years from the closure! Again, this is just a rumor.
Got to stop by just in time for the 7:30pm edition of Celebrate Tonight. OMG! DJ Hollywood Bob spotted me taking his photo and asked over his microphone, "Aren't you the Save Pleasure Island guy?" So much for maintaining a low profile! He was asking people what ride they were looking forward to riding. He was smart not to ask me since Forbidden Journey at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is probably not an answer they want to hear down there!
8 comments:
Ahhh...that's why it'll take 5 years to complete. They have one person meticulously refurbishing everything, starting with those bushes.
Maybe in a couple weeks, we'll see a few new flower pots.
hahaha that's awesome he called you out on the mic!
I think all most everyone knows you and or knows of you by now!
when are they going to tell us what's going on? this whole situation is preposterous!
Joe, you may very well be correct.
Zule, first time anyone has ever paid attention to me.
Anon at 8:57am, might be true. Had never thought of that.
Anon at 1:21pm, I honestly think that they don't know what's coming. So they can't announce what they don't know. There were plans; many of those rumors discussed on here. But they've all fallen through or are on indefinite hold. I was really looking forward to the HOT DOG HALL OF FAME.
Not that I guess it means anything one way or the other but why would they go thru the trouble of blacking out the 8-trax sign and removing Motions' sign pretty much the day after closing but all the other clubs still have their signage up including that little Mannequins sign in your pic??...not to mention RRNBC which has been closed the longest.
Seems like one of our other readers answered that question a few months ago but I sure don't remember what was said. It's a mystery to me. The Mannequins marquee sign would not be easy to remove yet the Motion sign wasn't exactly easy either. The Mannequins side sign would be easy to take down. The Comedy Warehouse front sign was only taken down when Celebrate Tonight began yet the side sign remains. The RRBC sign was only taken down this past winter.
'Celebrate tonight' looks terrible
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