The Adventurers Corner

2010-02-18T06:33:00.000-08:00

“Welcome to Adventurer’s Club
You who crave danger and snicker at fear
Will find most agreeable company here
Thrill seekers, nomads, high-flyers and low
Rovers, explorers and getters of go
From every far corner, you’ll meet at this hub
The world is your oyster, the pearl is our club!
Tonight!”
--sign posted outside the Adventurer’s Club

Source: mouseplanet.com

Parade from the Unisex Bathroom

2009-12-08T09:07:00.000-08:00

On some message board somewhere I heard a gag from the club that I have never come across before:

Parade from the Unisex Bathroom
This refers to guests exiting the Library after a show. The term comes from the fact that guests were (at least when the Club was pretty crowded) ushered out the rear door of the Library, past the bathrooms and back into the Salon. It could thus appear that there was a large crowd exiting the bathroom(s) all at once. It would often be referred to as "The 10:15 Parade from the Unisex Bathroom" by castmembers in the Salon, changing the time as appropriate.

Another fanmade adventurers meet

2009-10-06T05:16:00.001-07:00

Adventurers Club 2009 (9 of 17), originally uploaded by gleefulgecko.

I've asked the poster for details, but haven't heard back yet...
Click Here to see the rest of these photos by flick user gleefulgecko.

UPDATE: I have heard back from Brett (gleefulgeeko) and he says:

The Adventurer's Club meets annually in the Washington DC area as a tribute and homage to the now extinct Adventure's Club that used to be in Walt Disney World's Pleasure Island. We hold the annual Balderdash Cup there, a contest of improvisational story telling and normally there is dancing as well.

A video of a fan's Balderdash Cup competition

2009-10-06T05:10:00.000-07:00

At Congaloosh 2009 they had a kind of contest like the Balderdash Cup. They called it the Dress For The Hunt Competition to avoid angry club-wielding Disney lawyers (I think). Here is the winner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA_xmO5TOUs

I didn't embed because it is HD and too wide for this blog.

Contributors to the original Advenuturers Club

2009-10-05T10:35:00.000-07:00

This list is incomplete, leave comments to help me out...

Joe Rohde - Imagineer, designer, artifact contributor
Roger Cox - Head Writer, Show Producer and Show Director
(Rohde and Cox are generally considered the patron saint imagineers of the AC)
Tom Sherohman
Chris Oyen - Show writer, director
Mel Green - Writer ?
Rock Hall (Technifex) - special effects
Monty Lunde (Technifex) - special effects
Lynn Hart - writer
Craig McNair Wilson -
Chris Carradine - Architect
Susan Cowan - WDI production designer

Bruce Bowes - Sound Designer

Actors/Actresses (many also contributed writing and helped create their roles):
Tim Goodwin - Invented the word Kungaloosh
Kristian Truelsen
Karl Anthony
Angela Napoleon
Sheila Smith Ward
Jay Becker
Eric Pinder
Allison DeCaro
Glen Gover
Simon Needham
Joe Reed
Steve Watson - Fingers Zambezi
Karel Wright
Andrea Canny
Joy Anderson
Jennifer Brassard
Terry Mike Acord
Phil Card
Donna Charles
Andy Clark
Phran Gauci
Phil Johnson
Mike Leopard
Kerry Long
Frank O’Brian
Paula Pell
Mary Schickling
Darin DePaul
Jennifer Goodwin
Art Dohany
Doug Mackey
Ken Thiboult
Sue Peahl
Cullen Douglas
Bob Dutton
Jim Howard

Kirk McDaniel - Not sure what his role was, traffic controller?

The Adventurers Club, 5189 Hill St., Lake Buena Vista, FL. 32830

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The Adventurers Club: Lower level floorplans

2009-03-01T07:47:00.001-08:00

The Adventurers Club: Lower level floorplans, originally uploaded by sakraft1.

A drawing or doodle of the club's layout. I saw some blueprints on ebay soon after the Adventurers Club closed, but they were going for wat too much money. My drawing is not to scale or proportion, but it gives you an idea of where things were/are.

Vector Adventurers Club Logo

2009-02-26T18:25:00.001-08:00

Vector Adventurers Club Logo, originally uploaded by sakraft1.