Ahhh, the memories. Reader ClubMaster wanted you to remember the Colonel so he sent this to us. Who can forget the Colonel! Recently offered for sale at
Disney Property Control, he was quickly pulled from the auction when that fact was posted here on the
Blog. So where is he hiding nowadays?
Disney offices?
Pleasure Island? Hong Kong?
Last November we gave you a link to reader Frank Nosalek's website which has now been updated with even newer
Pleasure Island club photos. Thought you'd like to see the new ones taken right before the club names were removed as well as the old ones taken post-closure but prior to
RRBC and
Motion being demolished:
http://sidetrackers.com/PleasureIsland-Oct31-2010.htm
The Colonel is safe and sound at the WDI offices, awaiting his triumphant return....hopefully...
ReplyDeleteHopefully the clubs be reopend and the Colonel will return.
ReplyDeleteEveryone will be looking forward to nightlife and action back in P.I.
P.S.
Surprise everybody for the New Year, and let P.I rock!
Sigh.
ReplyDeleteWDI?
ReplyDelete>Surprise everybody for the New Year, and let P.I rock!
ReplyDeleteCould happen.
sure it could but i think most would go to see the cut back version of PI clubs! and would be VERY UNHAPPY! and then would stop goin!!
ReplyDeletelook at it this way you have had 54,687 people look at this site! and these people DIDN"T come! if they did it would still be open!
WDI = Walt Disney Imagineering
ReplyDeleteaka the creative team behind Disney Parks & Resorts; they are the project teams that "build the magic"
i don't think the new island is going to be that great so i would hold low expectations...
ReplyDeleteOver 100,000 visitors on this website and 261,415 hits a lot of people care about pleasure island.
ReplyDeleteANON October 11, 2011 10:18 PM
ReplyDeletewhere were they when It WAS open? then? sure there has been over 100,000 look and over 200,000 hits BUT still? they do not come out and support PI clubs back then!
heck PI's capacity is just over 7,000! and couldn't get maybe 2,000 out on Saturday Night the BUSY night!
did you come and support PI clubs?
and again PI WOULD BE OPEN if it was still busy!
There is no doubt that PI was nowhere near as busy during the final few years as it was in the early years, when it could be as packed mid-week as it was on weekends. But not a lot of profits were being put back into the product either to keep it new and fresh. And the marketing budget all but disappeared beyond 2002. But you're correct to some extent; reduced profits near the end got them thinking of other ways they could increase profits for that space. But their plan didn't work out so well.
ReplyDeletethe thing that got me was the time I said the a manager at Mannequins! I told him they need to advertise. he tole me that PI (disney) did not and never did I said what I saw an advertisement for PI on the corner of 436 & 50! on a billboard (back in 2000ish)
ReplyDeleteand in the end they did nothing!
Sure PI advertised, just not much in the end. I used to cut out the 20% Off 1-night Ticket coupons, when we had guests over. Those were in some of the tourist information magazines found in hotel lobbies.
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