Randomly assigned at Disneyland?
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Speaking as a recovering one myself, these guys seem a bit like alcoholics. Anything to avoid admitting you have a problem. Including blowing your retirement.
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Their Disney+ login doesn’t seem to be working either.
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Bongo the gorilla seems pretty capable but still, I would have thought that Tigger would be a shoe-in for that job.
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Hmm, it does say right here on the Scottish Rite website that Disney was a member of a Masonic youth organization, but wasn’t a member of a lodge. They address the subject of number 33, but they claim that the influences probably came from multiple sources.
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Does Mirror Universe Groucho have a goatee made out of black tape and makeup?
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They want the status?
With the money they blew, they coulda gotten WuTang to record another secret album.
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Wutang is for the children, not those asshats
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It’s the only bar on the planet where you can get their signature cocktail, the veblentini.
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Disney should reinstate their membership to Club 33 (with the annual membership fee) while simultaneously banning them permanently from all Disney theme parks. The couple gets their status symbol participation trophy, Disney gets their money, and other Club 33 members get to have their meals without (I’m assuming) this couple’s drunken antics.
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One of the greater maladies on the current timeline.
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So much to dig into there. The guy owns a golf course in one of the most drought-stricken areas of the country? What are the membership standards / code of conduct for members of his club? How and why are Arizona residents making a trek to Anaheim 80 times a year?
At this point this is all just good PR for Disney. The publicity surrounding this lawsuit has established that the club membership
- Is highly sought after
- Considered to be worth any price by the members
- Has high standards for the behavior of its members
- Is perhaps even more “exclusive” than many people realized. (These rich assholes own a golf course and are willing to sell kidneys and they still can’t get back in.)
All of this will only drive up demand for club membership. Nothing makes this kind of people want something more than telling them that they can’t have it.
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Not for nothing but it’s not a bar, it’s a restaurant that also serves alcohol - this is a big deal because for a long time, it was the only place that served alcohol in Disneyland, so I get where the “bar” label might be misconstrued.
FWIW Disney didn’t want alcohol in the park for this very reason, and made concessions for his investors who were the first members of the club. There’s a sweet irony in the fact that these two were ejected for the very reason that Disney didn’t want booze in there in the first place.
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I was a DeMolay member as well, but didn’t make the jump to Masonry; as I was firm in my atheism by the time I was old enough.
Can’t remember 33 being at all significant in our Order; and I was pretty deep into it, as a State level officer.
Club 33 is now a bar/cocktail lounge AND a restaurant. They are 2 locations and I believe ONLY Members or with a Member can get into the Bar/Lounge, but anyone with a Member made reservation can dine at the restaurant without the member being present. I am not certain, as such lofty stuff is above a mere mortal.
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I wonder if the drinks or atmosphere are really that much better than what you’d find at the Carthay Circle Lounge or the Hearthstone Lounge in the Grand Californian Hotel. Maybe the allure is just about the proximity to Pirates of the Caribbean.
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My understanding of the difference between Carthay Circle and the upstairs private club is that isn’t not worth the price of admission at all, and I think is the same chef. The Club 33 chef is a superstar, but so is the Chef at Napa Rose?
A big thing about Club 33 is the Walt-ness of it. Supposedly the obvious microphones embedded in chandelier and cameras in stuffed deers head-eye were things he did to spy-to-improve-service? They are cute but not well done, from my vist in the 1990s. I don’t know where the new bar/lounge is or how they’ve made it special.
There is a podcast about the park I enjoy, Disneyland 4 Ever – I think, where the two hosts recently joined Club 33 and its a pretty funny adventure. I’d say WORST TIMESHARE EVER, but they are thrilled.
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Comrade First Secretary feels their pain:
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The slightly more mundane explanation that I’ve heard about the microphones in the chandeliers is that it was so that the remote operator of the vulture animatronic that was in the dining room could hear and interact with people at the different tables. But maybe that was just the cover story and it really was all about eavesdropping and stealing industrial secrets from the corporate members.
The new bar has a few little special details such as paintings on the walls that occasionally come to life through projection effects, and instruments that play themselves. But as always the main special feature is just the exclusivity.
One thing that bugs me about the expansion is the new large window that I’m sure looks great from inside the restaurant but is painfully asymmetric from the point of view of people outside the building:
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Figures, their livers probably are not worth selling…
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