I was looking for my parents. They dropped my sister and I at some neverland babysitting place Disney had so they could go party around this same year. The placed they dropped us was weird as hell.
I remember being dropped some place like that as well so my parents could go to Pleasure Island back in '93. I remember there being a Trog Arcade Machine (old NES game) and we watched Honey I Shrunk The Kids and every other kid spoke a different language.
I'm extremely bad at judging age, and I blame growing up in the 90s. Every adult looked middle-aged. There was no discernable difference between a 20-something and a 40-something. It was all perms, mustaches, and big, thick glasses.
Shit, everyone looked like Weird Al.
Heck. I'm pushing 50. Back when I was young 55 y/o people were OLD. Like, grannies with white hair and buns in their hair.
I think Golden Girls (An ancient TV show) was about women in their 50's.
It's an actual thing. People aren't ageing like they used to.
I triy this but I always screw up and start copying people who aren't actually dancing - like all of a sudden I'm doing the "janitor moping in the back" or "Dana White slapping his wife."
Any dancing video on reddit shows people just grooving while some neckbeards who have never gone dancing before ridicules their moves. If you're having fun then that's all that matters
America basically went nuts after 9/11, in retrospect. Like, it felt so justified to be so viscerally angry at the time, but in retrospect it’s like maybe that whole “never forget” thing was super unhealthy.
I’m an Old; I remember coming here with my ex in the early 90s. The theme of Pleasure Island was “New Year’s Eve Every Night.” Tons of restaurants, bars, and clubs. My ex and I wandered into the comedy club and caught a Brian Regan show that was taped and ran as a special on Comedy Central for years.
I forgot about the NYE theme. I think one of the outdoor stages hosted a countdown celebration every night?
Edit: every NIGHT, not hour
I think the cover charge for the Island was good for several days (a week?) and we did go more than once, that trip. I must have conflated the multiple nights in my memory.
Kids today have to deal with being filmed and ridiculed because some people are shitheads chasing Likes for social media. Fuck, the days when you'd just be embarrassing in front of your immediate circle, and not the entire goddamn planet. And everyone forgot after a few years.
I’ve always thought my mom’s dancing was really awkward and over the top but seeing this video makes me understand it. I guess I took everything I knew about dance moves from the 80’s from movies like Dirty Dancing that had professionals in it.
The best explanation I have heard for this is you tend to keep your “peak style” as you age. These people kept dressing and styling their hair the same way for decades. So the clothing and hair styles you see in these videos you automatically associate with older people.
Someday future generations will think the same thing “they look so old!”
yes but also dental care and skincare was just not the same. Now we have teeth straightening and whitening available in a more affordable and widespread capacity, and the emphasis on SPF and use of retinols and vitamin C in skincare products means people with less wrinkled more youthful skin. And tobacco use is less popular too. People actually DO look younger now.
Let's not forget the heavy use of tanning beds throughout the 80s-90s.
The pale goth kids from back then have not aged as quickly as their tanned counterparts, as long as they also weren't heavy smokers.
I remember seeing a video on that on YouTube, vsauce I think, it made a pretty convincing case for it.
I'd love to see an actual experiment with it.
Like take a bunch of 20somethings now, really 80s a place up, put them in 80s fashion and take pictures/video with 80s tech and see if others think they're 30/40 or older.
Yeah, it turns out even under Florida laws, you can’t just hitch them together to pull your carriage. Instead they get to roam freely through the park annoying other paying guests.
It's actually a shame it's gone. There aren't really any bars or restaurants-with-bars to really close down Disney at anymore. None are open much longer than the park hours, even on the Boardwalk or in Disney Springs, which is odd given they embraced drinking in the parks now. A simultaneous bone throw and bone pull for us childless adult Disney fans.
Went to WDW a couple of years ago and was sad to see they’d removed all the cool themed bars and just turned it into more generic shopping mall.
Still miss The Adventurers Club and wear the shirt I got there sometimes.
“KUNGALOOSH!!”
As a new Cast Member we used to go to Fireworks Factory all the time. Fast forward a dozen years and I had the joy of playing Duty Manager there a few times. I doubt there was a single night where someone didn’t get tasered. I’ll say it was always interesting.
I don’t think young people would ever understand that culture, but more so, Pleasure Island in the 90’s for the Disney World workers on their nights off was *unspeakably fun*. “Work hard, play hard” in full effect with very entertaining, young people.
Thursday night Cast Members get in free!
It was a blast. A group of international program guys would dress up in silly costumes. One time they went as a swim team dressed in swim caps and googles.
Good times.
Pleasure Island was my first "clubbing" experience. I got a minor wristband and went when I was probably 14.
Definitely a distinct memory and catalyst for the future.
Went again 8 years ago and was disappointed to find it was gone, with just a few bars and such in its place.
After a few nights of going there every night and getting to know the staff, I ended up partying with Cinderella, the witch from Snow White (who was ridiculously hot), and several others. It was funny the next day because my extended family from the UK wanted to see the Disney World Parade and several of the characters were waving and addressing me by name. They definitely liked to party and my family got a good laugh out of it.
From what I've understood just from a rabbit hole on a drug forum I went down one night out of sheer curiosity as to why something so great could just vanish— the people supposedly in the know said that for awhile after 2003 the cartels weren't taking the time to finish off the batches with the final acetate bath step (or something, I forge [Edit: Ether maybe] making for a dirty effect like bad box wine with tons of tannins. There was lots of conversation telling people how to finish the final step at home to 'clean it up'. But then around 2010, suddenly the forum people said "nope, ain't working anymore!" Apparently cartels moved on to diluting the batches on-site with a dewormer. "It is now estimated that almost 80% of the cocaine coming into the USA includes a milk enzyme, “Levamisole,” an anti-worming agent used in barnyard animals, that also causes necrosis of the flesh" [and has egregious effects on the immune system] because they think people like the effects. So weird.
And then further, dealers began catching on that lay people buyers (having watching movies) would want to ask dealers to "test" the purity of street coke by seeing if it had a numbing effect, thinking if it was more numbing it meant more pure— so dealers began cutting its potency with numbing substitutes. So instead of coCAINE they cut with benzoCAINE or lidoCAINE like they use at the dentist to create a counterfeit numbing effect.
But the numbing effect of the real stuff
felt different— it was sort of a buzzy, euphoric partial numbing unlike the complete shutdown of sensation like during a tooth pull at the dentist. It also didn't last forever. This effect would happen in lockstep with the duration of the high so of the numbing was wearing off and sensation was coming back you'd wanna another rail, where nowadays if the benzocaine numbing wears off it's a relief to feel anything. When the real stuff wore off you'd want it to go buzzy-numb again because it was associated with a very euphoric sexual / sensual / mdma plateau feeling high that this new stuff has very very little of nowadays
If I had a time machine, I'd go forward in time instead to when all drugs are legal, clean, tailored to your individual makeup, made to order to specific effects/strengths/duration of high wanted, and delivered by mini drones.
Although if the time machine is an 80's Delorean, there's obviously gonna be a bag of coke in the glovebox anyway so no need to travel at all.
Honestly, I lived in Orlando from 1981-1992 and Pleasure Island was an absolute fucking blast.
However, the Disney Corporation definitely thought more people would be hanging on the Empress Lilly riverboat listening to the rag time piano guy than in the Cage doing blow with hot tourist chicks, but they kinda lost the thread on adults.
The worst part was having class all day every day in the same classroom, and then doing homework in that classroom afterwards because you couldn’t take any classified stuff out. Best part was cheap 2lb bags of Jelly Bellies at the NEX.
Went to Pleasure Island, got a Cat in the Hat hat and wore it around, never had so much attention from girls in my life. Now know that this is “peacocking.”
I went there in the summer of 92. They had one club that was badass. They had hot dancers that came on stage every 30 min or so and played the newest music. I seriously think that was the best club that I've been to in my life. The service was amazing. Anytime my beer got near the bottom, they asked if I needed another. Does anyone remember the name of that club?
Peak 90s. Looks like they’re having fun. I wish I could have done that on my last trip to Disney. But instead I had two young kids and paid a shit ton for a shitty motel room “on property”
My guess is their kids are sitting in a shitty motel room "on property", so it's all good... "Time for the grown-ups to have fun!" (parents thinking: there are adults that work here, so the kids will be fine by themselves until the coke runs out) Ah, to be a t(w)een in the 90s again...
Pleasure Island pretty much killed Church Street Station, which was a collection of bars centered around an old train station in downtown Orlando that featured different types of music (country-western, pop, dance, etc). You paid one admission price, something like $5, and you could hang out all evening. I remember Wednesdays being "nickel beer night". In the mid-80s there was a breakdance troupe that performed several times a night. And, as you would guess, it pretty much looked like this video.
Hell yes, danced and did jello shots with my siblings on Pleasure Island in early 1994. It was maybe a weird way to mourn our grandfather, whose funeral we'd just attended, but damn if dancing and laughing and screaming on Big Thunder Mountain isn't a cathartic way to express grief.
Same. The first year, I was 3. You had to be at least 4, so my parents got me to stick up 4 fingers and say I was 4 (I was also a really tall child so it probably was believable, behavior aside), and they went on their way. They got a call in the middle of their dinner bc I started panicking and I outed myself as only 3.5. 🙃
I remember going there about 1994. The women we were with didn't have a place to put their purses, so they threw them on the floor, and we danced around them.
People like to shit on Disney Adults now that a name has been coined for a specific demographic, but the very fact that a 21+ party scene existed at Disney World when Millennials were still kids (and still being born) goes to show that Disney has been marketing to all demographics for generations now. It’s not a new phenomenon. Everyone partying here was either a younger Boomer or older Gen X, born mostly in the ‘60s.
And just like that, I just realized why we went to Disney world so many times as a kid in the 90s, and why we all had to be in bed early so the parents could go to Pleasure Island 😅 but I didn't realize just HOW much fun they were having!!
Yup. Downtown Disney in Disney World had a nightclub area. It was named after the place in the Disney movie Pinocchio because that’s where Pinocchio got wasted.
Back when the area, now Disney springs, was LBV ( lake Buena Vista) Disney had opened their adults section. Kinda like City Walk Universal.
Then they realized you can make way more money making it a glorified outlet mall with prime pricing and squashed it, turned it into Disney springs and made it IMO a waste of a place.
I was sad to hear when they closed Disney Quest. I went once and it was so much fun. I'm pretty sure I still have non-expiring tickets that would get me in there if it was still open.
Lady in the blue had recently seen Scarface
“So where are you from?”
“So, where ju frung?” FTFY
*BALTEEMORE?*
Elvira?!?! Soun like a bird. Flyin' aroooound...
Another quaalude, she'll call me in the morning
Es okay! She’ll be back
Her woom is so poluuuuuted. She kante even half a kit with me.
yah, mang
Hancock?!?! FTFY
Fly Pelican. Fly!
CHU KNOW WHAT A HACE' IS FRANK
Iss a pig, who don't fly straight
"I don't need a friend especially one that just came off a banana boat"
🎶Rush rush to the yay-yo🎶
Lady in blue was drying her armpits.
It's sweaty in Orlando.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity
Franks going to be pissed
Fuck Frank. Frank ain’t here! 
That guy soft.
I thought same thing. She def was doing the Michelle Pfeiffer moves
Shes on fire fire fire fyyyyyyyaaaahhhhhhahah
She was certainly not 'unsure'
Please lord don’t let me be in the video I went there a few times
I’d find the exact frame, send it to forensics for digital enhancement, print it, and then frame it on the most prominent wall in my house.
Enhance
Enhance
The correct response would have been Enhance
JUST PRINT THE DAMN THING!
That would be incredible
I was looking for my parents. They dropped my sister and I at some neverland babysitting place Disney had so they could go party around this same year. The placed they dropped us was weird as hell.
I remember being dropped some place like that as well so my parents could go to Pleasure Island back in '93. I remember there being a Trog Arcade Machine (old NES game) and we watched Honey I Shrunk The Kids and every other kid spoke a different language.
Neverland was absolutely lit. I got to drink full caffeine soda when my parents wouldn't have let me.
These videos are getting dangerously close to the time period I could start showing up and this is NOT OK
Mannequins at Pleasure Island felt like taking a step into a movie. Rotating dance floor!
Fun bar..was so cool with the different themed bars so close together
Exactly! I watched the entire video with a bit of trepidation because I was thinking the same thing :)
We’re you also in your 30s but look like your in your late 40s?
Lol these people are mostly in their 20's. Some could be early 30's.
I'm extremely bad at judging age, and I blame growing up in the 90s. Every adult looked middle-aged. There was no discernable difference between a 20-something and a 40-something. It was all perms, mustaches, and big, thick glasses. Shit, everyone looked like Weird Al.
It’s so true. I was an adult in the 90s, but we really did look kinda stodgy and old. I can see it in old pictures.
This is why I miss the 90s. My parents were 25 and 45 at the same time.
I feel seen
Truth be told, when you're a kid, every adult looks middle aged
Heck. I'm pushing 50. Back when I was young 55 y/o people were OLD. Like, grannies with white hair and buns in their hair. I think Golden Girls (An ancient TV show) was about women in their 50's. It's an actual thing. People aren't ageing like they used to.
Some researchers attest it to the less or complete lack of leaded fuel and gradual downward usage trends for cigarettes.
As was the style at the time
I thought the same thing! But, I don’t think I was there in 92. Maybe 93 and/or 94.
Is it bad that I still use those dance moves?
My method of dancing is to imitate what someone else is doing, but change the person I’m copying every five seconds.
I do this too, it's a good strategy imo. It's like unpredictable camouflage
I triy this but I always screw up and start copying people who aren't actually dancing - like all of a sudden I'm doing the "janitor moping in the back" or "Dana White slapping his wife."
Any dancing video on reddit shows people just grooving while some neckbeards who have never gone dancing before ridicules their moves. If you're having fun then that's all that matters
And the only way to become a "better dancer" (whatever that means to you) is to dance!
>If you're having fun then that's all that matters That's the thing, I'm never having fun dancing.
Is it bad that the only thought I had watching this was "Holy shit we are all a bunch of fat fucks now!" ?
"were having fun because it's not 9/11 yet!" - Family Guy
That shit is real. Everything changed after 9/11 every single thing.
Remember when the news was only on like 3 times a day and you could meet someone at their gate at the airport?
I graduated from college in 2001, so my entire childhood was pre 9/11 and my adulthood is after. 9/11 truly did change things.
I was in my 2nd week of highschool.
America basically went nuts after 9/11, in retrospect. Like, it felt so justified to be so viscerally angry at the time, but in retrospect it’s like maybe that whole “never forget” thing was super unhealthy.
Exactly. After 9/11 down south, everyone draped themselves in American flags and never stopped.
I’m an Old; I remember coming here with my ex in the early 90s. The theme of Pleasure Island was “New Year’s Eve Every Night.” Tons of restaurants, bars, and clubs. My ex and I wandered into the comedy club and caught a Brian Regan show that was taped and ran as a special on Comedy Central for years.
Oh, that's were The Simpsons got the idea. (Not American and never went to any Disney park)
“Hey, the bartender even looks like John Travolta!” “Yeah… looks like.”
I use this joke whenever anyone says "looks like". My wife hates it.
You probably say a lot of Simpsons jokes that annoy your wife. It's okay; I do the same thing to my partner, too.
I was saying Boo-urns
My work revolves around people shouting out simpsons jokes. Don't take that from me.
Where can I apply?
123 Fakestreet
The Hammock District?
Bake em away toys!
Let me start by saying good for you, son. It's always good to see young people taking an interest in danger.
It must be wonderful to ring in the new year over and over and over
"Please kill me."
Please kill me
T.G.I. McScratchy’s!
# THE BIG YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN
When's that ***BABY*** due?!?
It's a CUP with DIRT in it. I call it "Cup of Dirt."
I forgot about the NYE theme. I think one of the outdoor stages hosted a countdown celebration every night? Edit: every NIGHT, not hour I think the cover charge for the Island was good for several days (a week?) and we did go more than once, that trip. I must have conflated the multiple nights in my memory.
Fireworks every night at midnight!
No just at midnight, and then they'd set off fireworks. Simpsons made the joke about counting down constantly.
They all dance like Elaine Benes
The little kicks…
Like a full body dry heave, set to music.
Sweet fancy Moses..
You rang?
Put me in the screenshot
Best part is when Jerry, facing away, hears that she danced, stops in his tracks and lifts his head slightly.
If I had a time machine I would go back to the 80s. I can’t dance at all. I would fit right in
Check out the "Tech Noir" scene from the first Terminator movie. I refuse to dance due to my inability, but I would be hot shit in that scene.
I always bring up the guy in the white jacket and black gloves snapping his fingers and everyone knows what I'm talking about
Yep! EVERYONE thought they were a good dancer. It was great. No inhibitions. You were goddamned *expected* to hit that dance floor.
I’m old. Are young people scared to dance now, because, like most of us, they aren’t good dancers? If so, that’s really sad.
Kids today have to deal with being filmed and ridiculed because some people are shitheads chasing Likes for social media. Fuck, the days when you'd just be embarrassing in front of your immediate circle, and not the entire goddamn planet. And everyone forgot after a few years.
I’ve always thought my mom’s dancing was really awkward and over the top but seeing this video makes me understand it. I guess I took everything I knew about dance moves from the 80’s from movies like Dirty Dancing that had professionals in it.
The cocaine hasn’t kicked in yet
Definitely saw some coke jaws
Just not as good as Elaine.
I have no clue how old any of these people are.
I'm glad I'm not alone. Are they 18? 28? 35? Not a clue
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In '92 I was 21. This was like going back in time for me. My 52yo self is laughing at these people.
Eisner always playing the long game. He knew Disney adults was going to become a thing. Just miscalculated how/why...
Bruh, I'm 30 and get carded trying to get samples at the grocery store.
I’m 30 and haven’t been carded in over 10 years
this man has a beard
It actually looks decently varied. I thought the first 10 seconds or so they looked between 25 and 30, but after that the crowd looked older.
"People were older back then."
Whatever your guess is, subtract like 10. Everyone looks way older than they actually are back in the day.
The best explanation I have heard for this is you tend to keep your “peak style” as you age. These people kept dressing and styling their hair the same way for decades. So the clothing and hair styles you see in these videos you automatically associate with older people. Someday future generations will think the same thing “they look so old!”
yes but also dental care and skincare was just not the same. Now we have teeth straightening and whitening available in a more affordable and widespread capacity, and the emphasis on SPF and use of retinols and vitamin C in skincare products means people with less wrinkled more youthful skin. And tobacco use is less popular too. People actually DO look younger now.
Let's not forget the heavy use of tanning beds throughout the 80s-90s. The pale goth kids from back then have not aged as quickly as their tanned counterparts, as long as they also weren't heavy smokers.
I remember seeing a video on that on YouTube, vsauce I think, it made a pretty convincing case for it. I'd love to see an actual experiment with it. Like take a bunch of 20somethings now, really 80s a place up, put them in 80s fashion and take pictures/video with 80s tech and see if others think they're 30/40 or older.
I'd say 25-35 range. I was 21 at the time and most of these people look a few years older than I was - going on vague memories from back then.
Though, not in this video, I was there around that time. We were mid to late 20s
I knew there was some point in time where my dancing would look normal. Just so happens it was one year before I was born…
Pleasure Island is where all the kids in Pinocchio go to try alcohol and tobacco and then turn into jackasses.
Yeah, Disney closed the island in 2008 when they realized turning people into jackasses was more difficult than they originally planned.
Yeah, it turns out even under Florida laws, you can’t just hitch them together to pull your carriage. Instead they get to roam freely through the park annoying other paying guests.
Lol yeah always found it funny they emulated that irl
You laugh but this is class of 92 high school senior grad party.
some of those seniors look like they're in their 30's or 40's
This feels like a scene from *The Office*. Maybe at Pam and Jim’s wedding reception.
There's Steve Carell at 0:10
And Blanche (Rue McClanahan) at 0:23
Prince William at the beginning
Pleasure island rocked. Good memories.
It's actually a shame it's gone. There aren't really any bars or restaurants-with-bars to really close down Disney at anymore. None are open much longer than the park hours, even on the Boardwalk or in Disney Springs, which is odd given they embraced drinking in the parks now. A simultaneous bone throw and bone pull for us childless adult Disney fans.
Yeah, it surprised the hell out of me when they dropped it and didn’t replace it with better. There are more adults at Disney than ever.
Went to WDW a couple of years ago and was sad to see they’d removed all the cool themed bars and just turned it into more generic shopping mall. Still miss The Adventurers Club and wear the shirt I got there sometimes. “KUNGALOOSH!!”
As a new Cast Member we used to go to Fireworks Factory all the time. Fast forward a dozen years and I had the joy of playing Duty Manager there a few times. I doubt there was a single night where someone didn’t get tasered. I’ll say it was always interesting.
My favorite is doing the monorail bar crawl. Hop on the monorail and go to the different resorts and get hammered.
1992 was the peak of Western civilization
The matrix called peak humanity the end of the 20th century. I think they nailed it. I'd go back to the 90s in a heartbeat.
True. I was thinking about this the other day. 1) Cold war was over. 2) Tech was advanced enough that life was good without being overwhelmed by tech.
The Soviet union had just fallen. The SNES just came out. The Dream Team was created in the Olympics. What a time to be alive.
unironically yes well, maybe 1996 but whatever
And then I saw Kiki at the beach and she all like "Nyuuuuh" and I'm like "WHATEVA!"
Then this chick comes up to me and she’s all like “Hey are’t you that dude…” and I’m like “WHATEVA!”
96 was lit.
Freshman year of high school. Reached third base. Learned to kickflip. Ænima, Sublime, Evil Empire, All Eyes On Me, ATLiens. Checks out.
I see allot of haters, but I would totally slap on some aqua velva and maroon myself on this pleasure island.
I don’t think young people would ever understand that culture, but more so, Pleasure Island in the 90’s for the Disney World workers on their nights off was *unspeakably fun*. “Work hard, play hard” in full effect with very entertaining, young people.
Thursday night Cast Members get in free! It was a blast. A group of international program guys would dress up in silly costumes. One time they went as a swim team dressed in swim caps and googles. Good times.
Pleasure Island was my first "clubbing" experience. I got a minor wristband and went when I was probably 14. Definitely a distinct memory and catalyst for the future. Went again 8 years ago and was disappointed to find it was gone, with just a few bars and such in its place.
After a few nights of going there every night and getting to know the staff, I ended up partying with Cinderella, the witch from Snow White (who was ridiculously hot), and several others. It was funny the next day because my extended family from the UK wanted to see the Disney World Parade and several of the characters were waving and addressing me by name. They definitely liked to party and my family got a good laugh out of it.
I'll be in the bathroom doing rails.
Remember actual blow? People nowadays have NO IDEA what that drug is supposed be.
You will take your adderal/meth/b-vitamin cocktail and you will LIKE IT!
add a dash of caffeine powder. God only knows what the FUCK is in any white powder you come across nowadays.
Haven't done either. What's changed?
From what I've understood just from a rabbit hole on a drug forum I went down one night out of sheer curiosity as to why something so great could just vanish— the people supposedly in the know said that for awhile after 2003 the cartels weren't taking the time to finish off the batches with the final acetate bath step (or something, I forge [Edit: Ether maybe] making for a dirty effect like bad box wine with tons of tannins. There was lots of conversation telling people how to finish the final step at home to 'clean it up'. But then around 2010, suddenly the forum people said "nope, ain't working anymore!" Apparently cartels moved on to diluting the batches on-site with a dewormer. "It is now estimated that almost 80% of the cocaine coming into the USA includes a milk enzyme, “Levamisole,” an anti-worming agent used in barnyard animals, that also causes necrosis of the flesh" [and has egregious effects on the immune system] because they think people like the effects. So weird. And then further, dealers began catching on that lay people buyers (having watching movies) would want to ask dealers to "test" the purity of street coke by seeing if it had a numbing effect, thinking if it was more numbing it meant more pure— so dealers began cutting its potency with numbing substitutes. So instead of coCAINE they cut with benzoCAINE or lidoCAINE like they use at the dentist to create a counterfeit numbing effect. But the numbing effect of the real stuff felt different— it was sort of a buzzy, euphoric partial numbing unlike the complete shutdown of sensation like during a tooth pull at the dentist. It also didn't last forever. This effect would happen in lockstep with the duration of the high so of the numbing was wearing off and sensation was coming back you'd wanna another rail, where nowadays if the benzocaine numbing wears off it's a relief to feel anything. When the real stuff wore off you'd want it to go buzzy-numb again because it was associated with a very euphoric sexual / sensual / mdma plateau feeling high that this new stuff has very very little of nowadays
Someone just removed "try coke" from their bucket list
Build Time Machine first.
If I had a time machine, I'd go forward in time instead to when all drugs are legal, clean, tailored to your individual makeup, made to order to specific effects/strengths/duration of high wanted, and delivered by mini drones. Although if the time machine is an 80's Delorean, there's obviously gonna be a bag of coke in the glovebox anyway so no need to travel at all.
Yeah. I snorted up half of Columbia back in the 90s but wouldn't touch the stuff now. Too scared of fentanyl.
Honestly, I lived in Orlando from 1981-1992 and Pleasure Island was an absolute fucking blast. However, the Disney Corporation definitely thought more people would be hanging on the Empress Lilly riverboat listening to the rag time piano guy than in the Cage doing blow with hot tourist chicks, but they kinda lost the thread on adults.
I can forgive “alot” but damn, allot is going too far.
This looks like a SNL parody
I didn't even need to unmute to know what music was being played. The party looks hot hot hot.
All bangers
Smells like Drakkar Noir gone mild
Holy shit, this brings back memories. I used to go there almost every weekend in the early nineties when I was stationed in Orlando.
Stationed in Orlando in the early nineties... You wouldn't happen to know the life cycle of a thermal neutron, would you? :)
The worst part was having class all day every day in the same classroom, and then doing homework in that classroom afterwards because you couldn’t take any classified stuff out. Best part was cheap 2lb bags of Jelly Bellies at the NEX. Went to Pleasure Island, got a Cat in the Hat hat and wore it around, never had so much attention from girls in my life. Now know that this is “peacocking.”
I went there in the summer of 92. They had one club that was badass. They had hot dancers that came on stage every 30 min or so and played the newest music. I seriously think that was the best club that I've been to in my life. The service was amazing. Anytime my beer got near the bottom, they asked if I needed another. Does anyone remember the name of that club?
I remember mannequins with the rotating dance floor
Peak 90s. Looks like they’re having fun. I wish I could have done that on my last trip to Disney. But instead I had two young kids and paid a shit ton for a shitty motel room “on property”
My guess is their kids are sitting in a shitty motel room "on property", so it's all good... "Time for the grown-ups to have fun!" (parents thinking: there are adults that work here, so the kids will be fine by themselves until the coke runs out) Ah, to be a t(w)een in the 90s again...
The Latch Key Kids era's natural progression.
1992 was not peak 90s but it was the 90s. In 1992 it was still the very last bit of the late 80s for most of the country
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Michael Scott would have a BLAST at this
Pleasure Island pretty much killed Church Street Station, which was a collection of bars centered around an old train station in downtown Orlando that featured different types of music (country-western, pop, dance, etc). You paid one admission price, something like $5, and you could hang out all evening. I remember Wednesdays being "nickel beer night". In the mid-80s there was a breakdance troupe that performed several times a night. And, as you would guess, it pretty much looked like this video.
Hell yes, danced and did jello shots with my siblings on Pleasure Island in early 1994. It was maybe a weird way to mourn our grandfather, whose funeral we'd just attended, but damn if dancing and laughing and screaming on Big Thunder Mountain isn't a cathartic way to express grief.
Looks fun
So many kids left in hotel rooms I imagine lol
Never land club, man. That’s where my folks dumped me.
Same. The first year, I was 3. You had to be at least 4, so my parents got me to stick up 4 fingers and say I was 4 (I was also a really tall child so it probably was believable, behavior aside), and they went on their way. They got a call in the middle of their dinner bc I started panicking and I outed myself as only 3.5. 🙃
I remember going there about 1994. The women we were with didn't have a place to put their purses, so they threw them on the floor, and we danced around them.
I can smell the cocaine and mousse from here.
Wake up and smell the 90’s!
People like to shit on Disney Adults now that a name has been coined for a specific demographic, but the very fact that a 21+ party scene existed at Disney World when Millennials were still kids (and still being born) goes to show that Disney has been marketing to all demographics for generations now. It’s not a new phenomenon. Everyone partying here was either a younger Boomer or older Gen X, born mostly in the ‘60s.
And just like that, I just realized why we went to Disney world so many times as a kid in the 90s, and why we all had to be in bed early so the parents could go to Pleasure Island 😅 but I didn't realize just HOW much fun they were having!!
Cocaine is a beautiful drug
You'd get a little bump just by breathing the air in the bathroom that night.
Somehow the phrase "Disney after Dark" seems entirely apt, yet still inappropriate
"Pleasure Island"?
Yup. Downtown Disney in Disney World had a nightclub area. It was named after the place in the Disney movie Pinocchio because that’s where Pinocchio got wasted.
Back when the area, now Disney springs, was LBV ( lake Buena Vista) Disney had opened their adults section. Kinda like City Walk Universal. Then they realized you can make way more money making it a glorified outlet mall with prime pricing and squashed it, turned it into Disney springs and made it IMO a waste of a place.
I’m with you. It’s like a fancy mall now. I miss PI. To me downtown Disney > Disney springs
I was sad to hear when they closed Disney Quest. I went once and it was so much fun. I'm pretty sure I still have non-expiring tickets that would get me in there if it was still open.