LJ Idol Season 7 Week 2 Deconstruction
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puppetmakerSide note: this topic was a rather difficult one for me to do partially because I was reading other entries that were showing up on my friends list and a number of people said what I was going to say much better. It came down to two. Both involved a lot of back story which I am fine with. I went with this one with a flip of a coin and checking to see if I have written about either topic in my previous entries
There is a place at Disney World that I use to call home. I would walk in and be greeted by the denizens within. A lot happened in my life at that place and it still is our favorite place anywhere on any Disney property. Unfortunately no one has been able to go there in over two years. It was the Adventurers Club.
The empty building still stands on Disney property but not for long according to various permits that have been filed with both the local and state governments. The props are scattered through out Disney properties from Orlando to Hong Kong to France. A couple have been repurposed in shops on the Island. They have slowly been removing the insides so that they can knock the building down.
I went this past January to Disney World to see Ariel sing with her choir and to say goodbye to the Adventurers Club. I went by and took a lot of photos of everything that was still there. Since then they have removed a bunch of pieces including the banner. I sat on the steps and remembered all that came out of that club in my life.
It was there that Peter and I had our first formal date. It was there that we got engaged. It was there that we made some life long friends who have been there for us in thick and thin. It was there that we learned the secrets of the club including the tunnels that allowed the cast members to get from one room to another without having to deal with the crowd. It was there we spent our entire evenings going from show to show. We knew where to be when for everything. And we would stay in the library post show to talk to the actors behind the characters that we had friended.
I think that is one of the things I miss the most. Sitting around discussing all kinds of topics while someone was on their break. Seeing them snap into character if someone opened the door that they shouldn’t and then relax back into themselves. The library has been stripped and the stage we sat on has been dismantled. The scrim that “Fingers” use to hid behind so he could be the ghost playing the organ has been rolled up carefully and is in storage or maybe in Hong Kong where most of that room went.
It was our touchstone. Now we really don’t know what to do with ourselves in the evening after the parks are closed. Well that’s not so true. We tend to get together with our Adventurer’s Club friends and reminisce about the club and talk liked we use to in the library with the topic floating from one subject to another.
Soon not even the building will be standing and with that we will say a fond final Kungaloosh to a club where you would come in as a stranger and leave a little stranger.
Behind the cut are a few photos I took the last time I visited my beloved club this past January.
The Entrance to the Club.
(For the Visually Impaired: This is the front of the club in the left corner there is the head and paws of an Egyptian styled Sphinx. The building is a brown that looks like it would be a Victorian era gentlemen’s club in Egypt. There is half an arch over the revolving glass door that has the words “The Adventurers Club” painted on it. To the right is a stylized primitive statue lying in its side. It looks either South American or Polynesian. To the right of that are a number of boxes and an Egyptian sarcophagus finishes out the frame. In the bushes you can see a long spear with a gorilla skull impaled at the top.)
(For the Visually Impaired: This photo continues the previous photo. On the left is the Egyptian sarcophagus. In front of it are palm bushes and various grasses that you see in arid regions. There are five spears with various skulls on them. In front of that is a small cannon. Behind the cannon is the tail of a small plane with the Adventurers Club logo on the tail fin. To the right is a tiki grass hut where they served drinks during the evening.)
(For the Visually Impaired: The Banner of the club. The Banner read across the top Adventurers club. In the middle it says Open House between the numbers19 and 37(the club claimed it was 1937 every night it was open). At the bottom of the banner is the phrase “Come In A Stranger, Leave a Little Stranger” with a hand under the phrase pointing towards the entrance of the club)
There is a place at Disney World that I use to call home. I would walk in and be greeted by the denizens within. A lot happened in my life at that place and it still is our favorite place anywhere on any Disney property. Unfortunately no one has been able to go there in over two years. It was the Adventurers Club.
The empty building still stands on Disney property but not for long according to various permits that have been filed with both the local and state governments. The props are scattered through out Disney properties from Orlando to Hong Kong to France. A couple have been repurposed in shops on the Island. They have slowly been removing the insides so that they can knock the building down.
I went this past January to Disney World to see Ariel sing with her choir and to say goodbye to the Adventurers Club. I went by and took a lot of photos of everything that was still there. Since then they have removed a bunch of pieces including the banner. I sat on the steps and remembered all that came out of that club in my life.
It was there that Peter and I had our first formal date. It was there that we got engaged. It was there that we made some life long friends who have been there for us in thick and thin. It was there that we learned the secrets of the club including the tunnels that allowed the cast members to get from one room to another without having to deal with the crowd. It was there we spent our entire evenings going from show to show. We knew where to be when for everything. And we would stay in the library post show to talk to the actors behind the characters that we had friended.
I think that is one of the things I miss the most. Sitting around discussing all kinds of topics while someone was on their break. Seeing them snap into character if someone opened the door that they shouldn’t and then relax back into themselves. The library has been stripped and the stage we sat on has been dismantled. The scrim that “Fingers” use to hid behind so he could be the ghost playing the organ has been rolled up carefully and is in storage or maybe in Hong Kong where most of that room went.
It was our touchstone. Now we really don’t know what to do with ourselves in the evening after the parks are closed. Well that’s not so true. We tend to get together with our Adventurer’s Club friends and reminisce about the club and talk liked we use to in the library with the topic floating from one subject to another.
Soon not even the building will be standing and with that we will say a fond final Kungaloosh to a club where you would come in as a stranger and leave a little stranger.
Behind the cut are a few photos I took the last time I visited my beloved club this past January.
The Entrance to the Club.
(For the Visually Impaired: This is the front of the club in the left corner there is the head and paws of an Egyptian styled Sphinx. The building is a brown that looks like it would be a Victorian era gentlemen’s club in Egypt. There is half an arch over the revolving glass door that has the words “The Adventurers Club” painted on it. To the right is a stylized primitive statue lying in its side. It looks either South American or Polynesian. To the right of that are a number of boxes and an Egyptian sarcophagus finishes out the frame. In the bushes you can see a long spear with a gorilla skull impaled at the top.)
(For the Visually Impaired: This photo continues the previous photo. On the left is the Egyptian sarcophagus. In front of it are palm bushes and various grasses that you see in arid regions. There are five spears with various skulls on them. In front of that is a small cannon. Behind the cannon is the tail of a small plane with the Adventurers Club logo on the tail fin. To the right is a tiki grass hut where they served drinks during the evening.)
(For the Visually Impaired: The Banner of the club. The Banner read across the top Adventurers club. In the middle it says Open House between the numbers19 and 37(the club claimed it was 1937 every night it was open). At the bottom of the banner is the phrase “Come In A Stranger, Leave a Little Stranger” with a hand under the phrase pointing towards the entrance of the club)
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Date: 2010-11-12 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 03:41 pm (UTC)There was a big protest but at Disney what's done is done.
Which kinda stinks because the AC always made money for Disney even with the extra operating costs.
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Date: 2010-11-12 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 03:43 pm (UTC)Kungaloosh, indeed.
I only made it there once, but it's a fond memory that I think of often.
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Date: 2010-11-12 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-12 06:10 pm (UTC)Thanks for sharing the memories. Great pics too.
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Date: 2010-11-12 07:25 pm (UTC)I was not aware that it was not there anymore. I am so glad I had the chance to enjoy it years ago. My daughters and I still say Kungaloosh! and laugh.
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Date: 2010-11-12 10:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 05:00 am (UTC)Even someone like me who often doesn't really "get" interactive theater would probably have gotten a lot out of that place. Never got anywhere near WDW by the time it had added amenities like Pleasure Island. (I've been to WDW only once so far, in 1984. EPCOT, too. I got to Disneyland more often by virtue of growing up in Southern California.)
When did you first go to the Adventurer's Club?
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Date: 2010-11-13 01:37 pm (UTC)Also, I really, and always, appreciate the photo descriptions, great job with those.
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Date: 2010-11-13 11:52 pm (UTC)Is this place like the original Jekyll & Hyde's down in the Village in NYC? It sort of looks like it. The Jekyll & Hyde's of course got ruined when they opened the big touristy one uptown.
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Date: 2010-11-13 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-15 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-15 06:02 pm (UTC)Interestingly, most of the cast got together a few weeks ago for an event at Disney Studios. The hubby and I were in WDW the prior weekend, and as much as I wanted to extend my stay to go to the event I couldn't do it! I'm hoping they'll do one again next year though.
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Date: 2010-11-15 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-16 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-16 09:06 pm (UTC)Well it's like Vegas...they tried to make it Family friendly...and it didn't really work out...now they're back to "what happens in vegas stays in vegas"...
So I guess...they did away with it for marketing/sales reasons...
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Date: 2010-11-16 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-17 01:24 am (UTC)