Arizona Couple Expelled from Disney's Club 33; Wife Would Sell Kidney to Get Back In

Disney people are losers at best. But these hardcore hard losers should be locked up in the booby hatch.

The lawsuit is more about their inability to accept being told 'no' than their love for Disney, but this is just as embarrassing:

[quote]As a couple, they went on the Haunted House ride nearly 1,000 times.

[quote]The club’s yearly dues were $31,500, and with travel and hotel expenses, the Arizona couple were spending close to $125,000 annually to get their Disney fix.

What's wrong with people like this? OCD?

It's clearly a mental illness.

WHAT?!?! They spent $125 thousand annually to go to a tacky amusement park and be infantilized by a nefarious corporation that is always on the verge of collapse? These people deserve to be banned from society. What an embarrassing pair of mentally deficient freaks.

A stab in the kidney!

Something is very strange here. I worry for the safety of whoever they feel is keeping them away. If I were the judge, I would DELIGHT in telling them, they will NEVER be able to be in Club 33. Ever. So grow up, move on and SHUT UP.

Is this the club for Disney swingers?

There’s a decade-long waiting list to pay Disney $31,500 per year for access to a club? I weep for my country.

poor unfortunate souls.

From the FAQ:

Q: I emailed my interest in Club 33. Why haven't I heard back?

A: We are pleased with the interest we’ve received in Club 33 at Walt Disney World Resort. As membership opportunities are evaluated, Club 33 may contact you for further information.

Ouch!

Many Bothans died to bring us this information

I'm with Aunt Ida on these fools- the world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life!

Priorities

Fun fact, even if you get accepted into Club 33, you still have to pay for food and drinks there! (Annual dues are $15,000 plus $35,000 initiation fee.)

The damn Disney attractions is like crack for some Americans. Shit is wild yo.

Disney shaped the confines of the average American imagination for decades. Kids without a drop of art or culture in the house had Disney as their only window to something more... magical. It's sad, but it could be much worse.

The Club 33 elevator, as seen at R11's link, just needs Olivia de Havilland.

R16 You hit it on the nail. I am so glad I grew up in big cities with free museums that my mom would take us to often.

Nothing beat the exclusive Poseidon Adventure dining experience at Universal Studios. The entire restaurant flipped for dessert.

[quote]The entire restaurant flipped for dessert.

My pineapple upside-down cake flipped right side up!

Someone who claims to be the husband is leaving comments on the LA Times story. It's wild.

[quote]We kept on them about a predictor sexual assaulted and they didn’t care. We fought the fight but they didn’t care. They protect pedophiles but not women. Just amazing.

Given the choice, I'd rather join the 27 Club.

r3 this is child's play!

At Geauga Lake, an amusement park in northeast Ohio, an adult man with developmental disabilities used to ride the Rotor. Every day. From the time the park opened in the morning until the time it closed at night. At the end of the ride, he would hide behind the door. He started in the 1980s and continued until Geauga Lake shut down operations in 2007.

If you don't believe me, Google "Rotor Man"

I don't miss having so many adult friends into Disney when I lived in LA. I'd go every now and then but I knew people in their 40's who went weekly.

They enjoy waiting on lines full if screaming children and confused elderly people?

R24 Wow. Now I see why the Brits make fun of us.

My best friend is a member. It only took him 6 months on the waiting list to get invited. Membership is almost always referral based. Other members have to recommend you for membership. The onboarding process is pretty intensive. They do background checks, check social media, and ask about your knowledge of the park and Disney. They want Disney fans as members, not someone just looking to use 33 as a networking tool. Additionally, you have to be invited back every year. It's not a "once you're in, you're in."

I have an annual pass, and my friend and I go twice a week in the late afternoon/evening weeknights (we live in Long Beach), and walk both parks. We park in the structure, and walk the mile and a half from the structure, through Downtown Disney and into one, or both of the parks. Usually we'll get in about 10-12k steps. At some point during our visit we'll pop into Club 33, or 1901 (California Adventure's version of Club 33) and have a diet coke, and relax.

I wouldn't call myself a "Disney Adult" - hell, I don't even own anything Disney related clothing or memorabilia. My Club 33 friend (And his wife) though - he's full-on Disney adult and proud of it. I probably won't renew my pass in January, after only having it for a year. It's fun and all, but not worth th money if you're not totally gung-ho Disney. I can get my steps in on the beach path.

[quote] He said the lawsuit has cost him about $400,000. “My retirement is set back five years,”

But they have 125K to spend on Disney a year?

[quote] I wouldn't call myself a "Disney Adult"

You ARE a Disney Adult, darlin’

What is the average Disney adult like? I’d imagine very condescending to anyone who isn’t as knowledgeable as they are.

From where I'm sitting it seems heavily about personal experience, e.g., going to the parks all the time and buying lots of Disney merch. Or tapping into a child-like joyful appreciate of all things Disney. It doesn't really seem to be about lording knowledge over others. Feel free to correct this impression.

People with more money than sense.

One of my friends is a busy lawyer, a corporate partner. She would never go this far but goes to Disneyland a lot because she can just shut her brain down there.

You don’t gave to give money to Disney to shut your brain down.

I don't get it.

Is there some kind of secret Disney sex dungeon?

"Honey can you take the kids I've got a headache and need to lie down"

[quick]Or tapping into a child-like joyful appreciate of all things Disney.

To think I hesitated a moment before pushing POST at my R1. I was being kind. These arrested development sorts are sick fuckers.

So you get access to a lounge, a dining room, and a ton of passes and valet parking. $35,000 to join, plus $15,000 annually. I guess if you're hardcore you want it.

Meanwhile, there's private members clubs with actual celebrities for a lot less. I have no idea how you're getting in and you don't just walk up to Meghan Markle but San Vicente Bungalows is "$4,200 a year, or $1,800 for those 35 and under. The initiation fee will be $1,800." It's not attached to an amusement park or anything I suppose.

I’m still kind of amazed at the “not-a-Disney Adult” with the annual pass who goes to Disneyland twice a week to stroll.

Most people consider the parking lots and crowds at Disney resorts hell on earth. Yet he seeks them out for relaxation.

This is in [italic]California[/italic]?

Ah -- that explains it.

members of Club 33 get invites to secret screenings of Song of the South, after which get to meet with a vintage Uncle Remus animatronic. He is large and dripping with motor oil and smells like ancient leather, but it must be bowed to.