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| (CLICK ON IMAGE ABOVE TO ENLARGE) Mannequins & 8TRAX fans have been waiting 5.5 years (yesterday was the anniversary) to find out what was going to happen to their world class night clubs. During that time Save Pleasure Island Blog has delivered to you the latest news and rumors about their fate. Throughout it all there was one constant; as long as the buildings remained standing, there was hope. That hope has now ended. | | | |
Orlando Business Journal is reporting that former clubs
Mannequins Dance Palace and
8TRAX are going to be combined into one facility which will become a restaurant! They refer to the permit filed with Orange County which we located and posted above. The restaurant will be operated by
Patina Restaurant Group of Los Angeles, the company that operates
Tutto Italia and
Via Napoli, both at
EPCOT - Italy. The Company's
website lists all the concepts they currently have and those include the expected Italian concepts but also steak restaurants. You'll recall the
Blog previously reported a rumor that an upscale steak house was going into
Mannequins. No indication yet what this will be but we see it will operate on 2 floors. That alone supports that the hill on
Pleasure Island will remain. Big thanks to
Blog reader MDPfan89 for sending us the link to this story!
It's finally over.
So this is how it ends? Restaurant?
ReplyDelete"Nothing is over until WE decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
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ReplyDeleteThis f@#king sucks. The best thing Disney could do now is move the rotating dance floor to another location on the west side and reopen Mannequins Dance Palace there. Since Disney Quest is geared toward kids and is now out of place in that area this would seem to be the perfect place. We must uphold Disney's promise of nightlife and I can't help but see some more than coincidence timing of this announcement with the Pleasure Island recreate going on at D23. I visited DTD in 2009 soon after the clubs were closed and cast members wouldn't even talk about the clubs. They were told to stay hush hush about them. Now Disney is acknowledging their existence. I really despise anyone in Disney that led to PI being closed but their is still a world of possibility in this latest refurb and a revolving dance floor waiting to be used. Any thoughts on that?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, there's not much left to "save" on "pleasure island".
ReplyDeleteNooooooooooooooooooooooo
ReplyDeletei believe that floor was ripped up shortly after the doors closed on their final operations day.
ReplyDeleteit's about time someone else said something about the floor being gone!I knew i was NOT thee only one who thought this and or HEARD about this!
ReplyDeleteOH also I am sure the NEW Restaurant will have no use for a rotating floor!
ReplyDeleteTold ya! Big shopping mall with big food court.....
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing is pretty pathetic and sad.
ReplyDeleteJust think that place rocked seven years ago, now there's nothing for the adults after 9:00pm.
I guess City Walk will be getting my money to party.
Actually, the floor is there. This has already been officially established by the blog with recently dated pictures. That debate has been settled.
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ReplyDeleteUH NO pics the "date" can be easily changed!
Anon at 9:01pm Here we go again. You're a conspiracy theorist. I suppose Aliens abducted the floor? Since nobody ever saw it being taken out and since pictures of Mannequins long gutted and dusty plainly showed it still there. Disney only had reason to strip expensive electronic equipment that could be stolen. Not a huge rotating dance floor that is only valuable to people like us on this blog.
ReplyDeleteI think the Anonymous at March 29, 2014 at 9:01 PM is also the person who insisted that Mannequins was going to be torn down.
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right. I remember that too now that you mention it.
ReplyDeleteEven if it is a restaurant, they may choose to leave the floor in. I could see Disney advertising a whole 'revolving restaurant' angle. Hell, they could even throw up some curtains or a false removable wall in front of the light wall for meals, then remove the wall/curtains, tables, and chairs and turn it into a club for the evenings. (Wishful thinking, I know. But possible!)
ReplyDeleteIt'd be interesting if they turn the Adventurer's Club into a restaurant. They could still do their whole 'shtick' with little modification and run it as a bar/restaurant.
I'm assuming it will be a nice steak restaurant and the revolving dance floor will be for entertainers during dinner and couples slow dancing after dinner.
ReplyDeleteDisney already has a revolving restaurant in Epcot, but I like your thinking..Lol!
ReplyDelete"I suppose Aliens abducted the floor"
ReplyDeletereally? HOW LAME to say stuff like this! IF you want to STILL think its there GO FOR IT! BUT again if we do not think the same as you or most do I am WRONG!! NOT!! we live in a SO called FREE country! IF u do not like what I say MOVE ON!!
To "Anonymous" obsessed with the dance floor - you will not accept anything which comes from anyone unless you say it yourself. You are impossible to converse with.
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth I had a dream as I slept last night. Michael Eisner came to visit me personally. He told me he went out of his way to save the dance floor because he knew that it meant a lot to you. Then he told me, over and over again, until he faded away into the mist of my dreams, that the rotating floor is still there. He also commanded me to write one word in all CAPS just like you do. Then he started laughing hysterically and faded away...
Holy crap! I think I had the same dream. But in my dream, Mike (that's what he liked to be called in my dream) commanded me to use !! exclamation!! marks in the!! middle of my! sentence.
ReplyDeleteI am the only one "obsessed" with the floor BUT some of you RESPOND!! SO what does this say about you? HMMM! 2 the one WHO claims they had a dream about the floor WOW how convenient! mocking me good MOVE!! AGAIN think what you want! funny how I have opinion and think what?
ReplyDeletenow your making up stuff! GOOD MOVE!! and yes in caps! get over it
I read that the steak restaurant is going into new construction where Comedy Warehouse used to stand. So there are plenty of concepts that could go in there. And we don't know what the leasor plans to do late night, if anything.
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ReplyDelete(I changed this post to clarify a point I was trying to make.)
ReplyDeleteGood points, King Bob. The Mannequins space is very unique, and given the resources who are engaged on this whole project, I think we can expect something interesting, fun, and unique. I really wonder if Disney actually cares about any sort of real night life at this point? There have been no solid announcements about night life as we knew it previously, and they seem to be ignoring those of us who want night life back on property. What I find really strange is that so far I haven't heard of anything which really would draw me into Disney Springs for repeat visits.
If all they build is a bunch more themed buildings with shopping and dining, and that's all there is to see and do, then why not just go to Las Vegas where there is a ton of fun stuff to do with real night life and architecture and great dining?
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