Originally Posted By HokieSkipper 4 years ago today, Walt Disney World announced they would be closing Pleasure Island. And we're still waiting for a replacement.
Originally Posted By dshyates I say flatten the whole island and put in a bunch of sparkley well themed carnival rides. Give Pleasure Island an overall Victtorian/ Pinocchio theme, Of course there would have to be an old school wooden rollercoaster and a Ferris Wheel. Throw in Goofy's Sky School. And the selling point for the Fanbois? You will have to buy tickets to for the rides. Or you can buy a book of tickets. A tickets for the ankle bitter rides. E Tickets for the Roller Coaster. You get the picture.
Originally Posted By SuperDry ^^^ I doubt very much that they'd ever do anything like that. The main reason being: it creates too direct a competition for actually buying admission to one of the theme parks.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>I doubt very much that they'd ever do anything like that. The main reason being: it creates too direct a competition for actually buying admission to one of the theme parks.<<< Not really, most park tickets are sold in advance and in multiple days. I doubt that PI took any money away from the parks. What it didn't do was provide enough to do to be profitable, focused on party going when most of the current Guests, on property, have families with them, by necessity had to pander to the people that were less than ideal as party guests and could not provide sufficient security to make it a safe place.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Sorry, forget my last post. I was thinking about why the closed PI instead of what was said about changing it. My apology's to Super Dry. I'm apparently not very alert this morning.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<What it didn't do was provide enough to do to be profitable>> Not true. All the PI clubs save for the Comedy Wharehouse and I believe one other were profitable. <<could not provide sufficient security to make it a safe place.>> Aaaannnnndddd also false. PI had a slightly higher "crime" rate as the parks, but not all that much more, especially compare to EPCOT during F&W festival...
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Not to mention that there were almost no problems at PI whatsoever until Disney foolishly decided to open the area to everyone instead of only allowing the 21 and over crowd in.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom What is intresting is that Splitsville a new restaurant to open in Downtown Disney Orlando will have a 21+ policy each day after 10pm (if it maintains the same policy as it's other locations). I think something should be done with the former Pleasure Island area. Return it to its former self as either a nighlife spot or use that space to expand Downtown Disney. I know everytime I hit WDW I frequent the malls. Seems to me Disney would benefit from opening up more shops on property to keep quest onsite. More specifically I frequent the Adidas outlets when I travel. I find that they specialize in clothing for that specific area. For example while in the Northeast I frequent the outlet in Frammingham, MA which tends to have a lot of Boston Marathon clothing. Anyway, just a thought.
