Last call at the Adventurers Club

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:15:18 GMT

You know, my ass hurts from kicking myself. Kicking myself for never staying at the Adventurers Club for an entire evening. I've only dropped by for small visits. I've laughed and enjoyed myself. But I've never gotten the entire experience. For the last month I've been looking at other peoples pictures and videos. I've enjoyed them all, but they started my foot on this month long process of kicking myself. I'll never get to have the full Adventurers Club experience. I figured I'd do it SOMEDAY. As if it was going to be there forever. YOUCH. There goes my foot again. I can't blame anyone for my own procrastination. It isn't Disney's fault that I never hung out for six hours or more. But, I still can't help but wonder about the sense of closing THAT club. Why not charge admission to it? Why not just let it be part of the NEW area? Why not at least TRY it? Well, I certainly hope these last weeks have gotten the Disney suits to realize what a mistake they are making. And I'm hoping their asses hurt even more than my own.

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:27:35 GMT

Last time I went to Disney, in december '99, I was finally old enough and had enough English to enjoy AC. Unfortunately, I knew nothing about it, so didn't care to go in. I chose Comedy Warehouse instead. If I'd known how entertaining it was... Well, here's hoping these last few weeks made some kind of difference for the Suits.

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:25:18 GMT

Friday and Saturday were sad days on property. Lots of tears were shed for the closing of (what feels like) all the shows on property. I don't know, today I woke up feeling pretty strange and dare I say it, empty? Maybe it was because I was in Woody's Cowboy Camp or just really enjoyed AC, but this really has impacted me.

Thanks for taking the time to write such a touching article. I'll miss this era in WDW history.

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:37:07 GMT

Thanks aeronaut,

I plan on writing a much more detailed article over the next few days... that was about all I could muster after multiple days of virtually no sleep and a full day of sunstroke ;-) Watch this space for a longer article coming soon... I also want to figure out somewhere to post the 2500 or so pictures I took over the last few days of the AC so I will hopefully be getting to that soon as well...

- Max

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:53:33 GMT

I have never been the type of person to send in complaints to companies. That was until last week when, after visiting the AC for the last time on Thursday, I couldn't let my anger just die down. I'm not naive enough to think that a letter to Iger or Crofton will do anything, but I just had to let them know that I, an annual passholder, was really pissed off at them and it would be a very long time before I would ever look at WDW the same way.

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:55:35 GMT

You would think that Disney would just move the Adventure Club over to the Animal Kingdom or something. The two go very well together, IMO. Perhaps they might consider this?

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:09:13 GMT

Rumors abound among WDW cast members -- some Mr. Hill may know and have already reported. Of course JHM reported that a new AC was part of the "blue sky" concept for the Night Time Kingdom. Some cast members have said they "heard" the Comedy Warehouse might re-open at the Boardwalk.

Regardless, the closing of TAC is indeed heartbreaking. Night after night the cast put on an extraordinary show -- unlike anything else in Central Florida.

Fare thee well!

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:11:59 GMT

By the way there are already "last nights at the Adventurer's Club" clips on You Tube!

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:20:51 GMT

I've been looking on Youtube and there don't seem to be anything from the final night... I'd really like to find some video from the final hoopla for posterity sake... Does anyone know of any final night videos?

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:51:17 GMT

Hmm...if there's a possibility of the Comedy Warehouse making its way to the Boardwalk, they could always consider putting the Adventurer's Club at the Animal Kingdom Lodge...

re: Last call at the Adventurers Club

Max Schilling — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:31:43 GMT

I've heard talk of moving both to resorts but they're still trying to figure out how they can make money. Lost in all the protests and hubbub is the fact that neither club was making back its operating budget, even after the extra attention.