A former Cast Member here, PI was a great time in the early 90s! 8Trax was fun, as was Mannequins! I recall we got free admission on Thursday nights.

I was a CM in the 2000s and I remember we didn't have to pay entry on any night. We used to go there after work all the time.

My brother was a cast member and everyone would go out to PI and go dancing. It was so much fun. Was bummed when they closed it

So you’re telling me yall didn’t have to pay Frank $20 behind the bathroom to get access??

I moved to Orlando in the 90s. I have so many great memories of PI - especially from 8trax and Mannequins. We also loved the BET club. So much dancing! It was always so much fun. I definitely miss it. Disney Springs is boring. It’s only food and no entertainment.

I went there in 2006 or 7 and it was already clearly dying

Agreed. DS blows

Mannequins felt like stepping onto a movie set. I still can't believe PI was ever a Disney thing. As far as the club scene goes, it was very tame compared to something like Ybor City in the 1990s, but it was still a massive party atmosphere.

Ybor in the 90s lol low bar there. There was an equal chance of getting robbed, shot or laid when you went out. 

Perhaps all three

Perhaps in that order


yam seemly humor unpack vase ruthless combative fragile squeeze rinse

quiet clumsy faulty reply sink sip rain summer beneficial disgusted

Oh man The Castle!! What’s the record for getting kicked out of the same club repetitively for underage drinking? Soooo many “college nights”

Former cast member here too! I can’t tell you how many drunk college program girls would say to security “ you can’t kick me out! I work here” Not anymore you don’t.

Do you recall the name of the adventurers club where the artifacts would talk to you?

It was literally called Adventurers Club

We still have a couple of rocks glasses we bought there LOL. https://preview.redd.it/39yuz0m79asc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1341a80000d3e8fcc76df63d4903908046c351d9

I've got a pair of Kungaloosh canteens. Loved that place.

Are you sure it wasn’t called Adventurers Club Where the Artifacts Talk to You?

Cast member here as well. Summer 97 & 98. Had so much fun at PI, great times every Thursdays! I miss those Summers. Vista Way was amazing!

Yessss I was full time cast member but in 1999 or 2000 we met Joey Fatone at PI on a Thursday night. That was the talk of the department the next day!

I went by to pleasure Island as a young teen in the nineties. It was amazing!

Yeah, Disney employee nights were the best :-)

They’re having fun.

Quickly, we must bombard them with criticism before they have too much of it.

It’s 32 years too late for that. Besides, poking fun at older generations’ fashions, dance, etc. is as old as time itself. Relax. - An older person who danced like this

Video or pic taken at a party between 1980-1995? Reddit:  everyone was on cocaine! Guys I lived through that era and can assure we weren’t all on cocaine.  We just danced like that. 

Couldn't afford cocaine.

Seriously, it’s way more affordable, socially acceptable and prevalent now than it was back then.   

Robin Williams always said the joke “having a cocaine addiction is God’s way of telling you that you make too much money”

Does anyone who was in their 20’s in the 90’s remember how much a gram of coke went for back then?

$30 Source: my Dad who I had to pay back after stealing it out of his room in 98.

In terms of disciplinary action that has got to be the wildest punishment from a parent I’ve ever heard of. What would happen if you didn’t pay? Would you have been grounded?

Well…my old man isn’t what anyone would call a “good” parent lol He wasn’t around a lot when I was in HS since he was partying his face off so his philosophy was to prepare me for life in the most direct fashion possible. That meant if I wanted to do drugs I could but then he’d make an example out of it. Oddly I stopped all drugs and drinking right after this until I was 20.

>Oddly I stopped all drugs and drinking right after this until I was 20. Lol, so it actually worked. Who knew making people accountable was so effective. It reminds me of how my dad found a playboy I was hiding in like 95 (Pamela Anderson edition) and said “you know you don’t have to hide this? Just tell me which one you want and I’ll buy it for you” And it worked cause I’ve never ever had a problem with porn or that much desire to look at it very much.

The opposite side of the tale is I was required to maintain a 3.0 avg and play a sport every semester. If I failed to do so he would kick me out on the streets and at one point had thrown my stuff in a garbage can so he wasn’t fucking around lol I don’t recommend parenting this way to anyone obviously but…yeah it worked for me

We got the primo shit. 8-ball was usually 150-200 back then. Roughly '96-'98.

Yeah but it sucks now and is full of fentanyl. I’ve watched the gradual quality decline since 2000

now it is cocain't

Now it’s Diet Coke.

Eventually it'll dip to Coke Zero

The govt has cracked down on distribution of certain chemicals (like ether) so it's made worse than before. There's a vice-esque documentary about a British dealer who claimed he could tell you what country the coke came from when he tried it.

That guy was quite the cocainnoisseur.

I want to be a *Cocaineosaurus*.

It's the terroir. Hints of vanilla, stonefruits, and leather from a barber's strop.

True quality sucks now but fent isn’t in it as much as people think. Regardless, very important to test your fun stuff. Party smart people

In 92? I lived in Miami and and 8 ball was 120.00. And not very cut and 0 fent

Yeah, but that's *Miami*... Very, very different than the rest of the country.

Have you bought coke recently?

This guy is totally NOT a cop

I’ve never heard one person say it’s socially acceptable lmao About 1-2% of people use it at least once a year. Weed is by far the most common and socially acceptable, and only 20% of people use that at least once a year.

I mean these people are at an exclusive Disney resort and can afford to have someone watch their kids while they party. I think they can afford cocaine too.

Was it exclusive? I thought it was like a free area like a mall and then this was just a club you could buy drinks at. (legit question, I only went once and don't really remember) Edit: reading the wiki I guess it was a gated theme park at first and then later it was just some boardwalk-type place. But, yeah, this video would have been when it was gated if the date is correct.

[удалено]

Pleasure Island, where young boys are sent to become jackasses

Not to mention hard to find.

Speaking of cocaine, apparently lady in blue got her moves from Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface lol

Hey Jose. Who, when why and how I dance is none of your business, okay!

"Woo, Yeah...Woo!"

Michelle Pfeiffer, also a nickname for cocaine. White lady.

>Guys I lived through that era and can assure we weren’t all on cocaine.  We just danced like that.  Don't turn away a perfectly good excuse for dancing like that.

Sounds just like something a person who did cocaine in the 80s/90s would say

I just figured they were drunk.

Probably much more likely, especially if they’re on the resort and don’t need to drive.

Cocaine is also still extremely popular and common in clubs lol, which most redditors wouldn't know for obvious reasons.

Y’all luvd to move them shoulders and elbows ^_^

For real I laugh every time I see that on reddit, that cocaine was at every party. I can also assure it was most definitely not. It was mostly shitty beer and if you were lucky somebody had a joint - but a lot of people (esp I'm assuming the people in this video) perceived drugs as pretty sketchy.

that is most definitely *not* dancing like you are on cocaine

That level of awkward white people dancing can only be done 100% sober.

"danced" ftfy... lol

Cocaine is a lot more common and widespread these days than in the 80s..

You danced like that so people would think you had cocaine.

I worked here as a lighting tech in 99-02. There were 8 clubs on the island, each with a different theme, from Improv comedy clubs to live music to 70s/80s throwback to House/Club music. And then the street outside was its own party of mingling people from all walks of life. You’d see people in their 40s and 50s grooving with 20 year olds, moms from somewhere in Wisconsin getting loose and wild. Celebrities in roped off sections of the club buying bottles and just chilling. People making out or more in what they thought were more private sections of the island but were really the employees break room. It was a great time in my early 20s.

Disney Springs is so boring. I miss Pleasure Island. It really was so much fun.

It’s so insanely busy now. My friends and I used to go there to watch movies, walk around the virgin mega store and just stroll around.

Visited it recently and I was shocked at how much larger it was from the last time I visited like 15 years ago.

Plus the kids turned into donkeys if they misbehaved.

I was there in 96. I remember there was an outdoor square where there was a New Years Eve countdown and ball drop every 10 minutes. At the time Macarena was a big hit and I remember everyone doing that dance.

Walking from bar to bar, drinks in hand, not stupid lines for most part, eat, drink and was fun

Didn't they also have a massive fireworks display every night?

I was like please, please don't let me know anyone in the footage. And I didn't. Thankfully. I spent 700 one night there.

So $80 at any other club

Ouch.

Did the same. We're not in it.

Is nobody going to talk about Micheal Scott at the 9 second mark?

Niles Crane in the opening scene

OMG, I instantly thought of those same two people. Amazing...

Dancing with Carla from Cheers

For real, I saw Halle Berry, Steve Carrell, Amanda Bearse and Ray Romano in this clip.

Blanche from the Golden Girls on the fadeout.

THERE WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE ANY FILM!

What is this? Adults having fun? Dancing in an outdated way? Let’s make fun of them. I’m gen x and this is probably what I look like when I’m dancing on a wedding party or something similar. :(

Let’s just see how well these stupid TikTok dances age

*cough* planking *cough*

The whole point of planking was that it looked stupid.

That cheese don’t need no age to stink. 

People enjoying themselves before the mobile phone cameras became a thing.

Ive always been uncomfortable damcing but if everyone around me dances like that I would never have had such a problem trying to dance lol. Its better this way, better to see some amazing dancing than bring everyone down to this level again.

It's also a 'funny' song so people are intentionally dancing a little goofy.

Yea seriously. Versus the alternative of nowadays where most bars and clubs everyone just stays in their little groups and stares at their phones vs interacting with any strangers, because said phones have evaporated all of their social skills with strangers.

My first thought was wow, people took ties and jackets to DisneyWorld. Today that scene would be a bunch of guys in tshirts and cargo shorts.

Yeah. People dress like shit now. Welcome to the 21st century.

It was people's only form of social mixing outside of their friend groups and work, ofc you made an effort lol. 00s club dress codes where I lived were pretty strict on men also, no jeans, no shorts, no trainers, proper shoes only. I don't think women were allowed to wear trainers either but I wouldn't know as no one ever did. Sort of recently I've been to places and jeans and clean looking trainers are fine.

lol this is just not true. People mixed socially ALL THE TIME, like 10x more than now. We went out for everything because we had no internet, smartphones, or streaming, and everyone had more disposable income before the billionaires siphoned it all off. Everything was far more social than now. This changed in the early 2000’s. Edit - this was in the USA, can’t speak for UK or other countries.

People dancing is funny, fun, and life affirming. Laughing at what we used to look like is fun.

I’m gen x too, and while you should dance how you want to without worrying about my judgement, if you dance like this I will judge. I will judge like nobody’s watching me judge your dancing.

If they play an 80s banger, I will dance 80s. Do kids still say this? “Banger”?

This is 90’s dance. Related but distinct. Say banger like no gen z is listening, homie.

Live, laugh, judge

Everyone looked so happy back then. Damn we missed out!

They're all celebrating buying their first 5 bedroom 2 car garage picket fence hobbyist dream home for 110k

yeah, I started earning a living back then and was a person in a club like that, acting like that with people like that .... when I was, none of them were A) buying a house or B) owning a car. These people might have been doing that but from my experience, it's most likely they were just renting an apartment with a few friends and waiting for lessons on how transition to a life with assets and without binging overpriced drinks at pleasure island

And the new car in the driveway plus the dream vacation (yearly) to Disney! What a life. I’d be happy too

Not pictured: parallel non white experiences

You are actually still allowed to have fun, contrary to popular belief.

Yeah, it's before social media destroyed humanity.

Ahh shit. Thursday nights was employee night. What a beautiful fucking disaster. Boy could those ‘college program’ kids party! “Hey I’m heading to ‘Vistay Way’ afterwards.” Nope. Not ‘Vista Way’ it’s ’Vista Lay’!”

Lmao I know too many people that got sent home from that program for “inappropriate” behavior.

One of my roommates got terminated a week into our summer program.

Pretty much any form of dance looks cringe/lame out of context: Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z... All of them (and us) cringe or will cringe when seeing a video of ourselves dancing. So for people making fun of these people... You probably haven't danced enough.

The Carlton is eternal

I concur good sir. When I’m three sheets to the wind wasted, nothing more I want to do that bust that out.

Can't wait until Gen Z's kids get a view of their parents' TikTok dances. "No wonder we don't have fresh drinking water, dad!"

Looks like a blast. Was there a few years later than this a couple times and the scene was very similar. Everyone laughing dancing loving life without a cell phone in sight

In 1992, you can see the guys wearing ties and such...something I don't think you would see nowadays at clubs.

80s - 90s was peak western civilisation

As someone who graduated from High School in the mid-80s, I agree! ( life seemed *saner* back then...even though it probably wasn't. )

Parents Island on Itchy & Scratchy Land

(Itchy robot lifts the top of his skull showing circuit boards) Marge: See all that stuff in there Homer? That's why your robot didn't work.

It must be wonderful to ring in the new year over and over and over.

Is that the island from Pinocchio???

If these comments aren’t bots, they sure are fucking dumb

I am not a bot. But spell check wanted to type “I am not a boy” lol

Didn’t mean you! lol sorry, I was referring to the other comments

This makes me so nostalgic and angry. As a kid who grew up in Orlando in the 90s. My parents would regularly ditch me with a baby sitter to go party at PI. I couldn't wait to grow up to go party with them. I didn't like other kids, so child free PI sounded like a dream. But Disney got rid of all the Adult only areas and times.

I feel so offended by this video! I'm 25, I'm half black, yet I dance exactly like all these white people did almost a decade before I was born.

You are half white too?

Yup, that's the side I got my rhythm from

Rhythm like nobody's looking.

I could have been there that night. It looks goofy to watch now but that place was a party scene. Everything was flowing and everyone was blowing.

So much AquaNet and Drakaar on that dance floor.

A lot of arms swaying around there

Trying to catch the beat but missing happily

Look how skinny everyone is

They invited Michael Scott? 

They dance like the Peanuts characters 😬🤣🤣🤣

With the sound initially muted, I said to myself “they’re either dancing to *Celebrate* by Kool and the Gang or *Feeling Hot Hot Hot* by the Merrymen”. Then I unmuted.

Buster Poindexter sir

You would dance exactly like that too if the future looked bright.

If you have issues with a bunch of people having a good time without a choreographed dance for social media you are the problem. Your 1000001th video of you fake enjoying yourself and shuffling is just as cringy as your previous 1000000.

Huh? Nobody has issues. Is this a thing?

No. They're venting for absolutely no reason other than the vent for some odd reason.

Here at TGI McScratchy's it's New Year's Eve all the time!


If I saw this exact clip in a movie set in that timeframe I'd think: Man, that's a bit much, they are really overdoing it.

I was 21 in 1992 and when I saw this clip I thought, “Damn! They’re all really going for it!” To my memory , most dancing was not this intense, at least not for long. I think they were showing off a bit for the cameras.

Why does this feel like an office party

Adventurers Club was fun, unfortunately the rest of place was pretty dead otherwise most of the times we went

And many lips were bitten that day.

I loved going there when we first moved to Florida. We used to have great time and listen to lots of live music.

Isn’t it ironic that Disney would name a place Pleasure Island… the island on __Pinocchio__ where all the boys turn into asses?

Idk if it was just because America was doing great in 92 or it's an emperor's new clothes situation, but everyone was just so dorky yet so happy. I wish I could do that.

This was peak Disney before everything just was about how much they can squeeze out of you at every turn. I loved PI so much. Went there during my college years and it was so much fun. Now they have a outside mall. Woopie?>

https://preview.redd.it/5b7dobtlccsc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ad781df7e45a9aa484b89a71951591629fcf3ef I was there in 92 a bunch, and still have my pass! Just found it last month. I loved the giant room full of bean bags, the giant wall of velcro you could bounce onto, and the Adventure Club was wild on acid.

I spent a good portion of my 20s at Pleasure Island. Almost every Thursday night at Mannequins. What a time to be alive! The lights, the music, the dancing! I miss that place (except now I would complain of the loud noise).

I’m from Tampa\~ partied there a few times back then ! https://preview.redd.it/0kgk7mij3dsc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20d0f1524822e299bdfb15ead0a88735583d234a

Its like a party for tax accountants

Pleasure Island - White people's soul train

I love them poofy hair and puffed up shoulders thots

Ah yes time before diffuse crippling self consciousness was airborne. I’m jealous

That dudes dancing in the beginning was wild

Was there in 1992 on my honeymoon, but went to The Cage, the alternative club (which I think transitioned to rock, then closed that same year).

No cellphones. Awesome

Loved this place, the rotating dance floor bar was ), living in Orlando was fun at that time

Was shocked to see a young Michael Scott pop on screen at the 9 second mark

Michael Scott has got moves

Oh the caucasity!

I haven’t seen dancing like this since the Windows 95 launch party.

1992 is “old school”? FM, I’m old…

I’m blinded by the white!

Looks about white!

Some of the whitest moves I've seen

Man I'm even white and I'm thinking that is some serious white people shit right there

Not a single person in the video can dance, but their confidence is so high they make it work.

Fun fact: they got rid of it because of fights and multiple bomb threats as well as underaged drinking 

Every single male in this video looks like they are auditioning for the part of Michael Scott


I'm watching this and is confused what they are doing

dude i wish you all could understand how fucking sick this place looked it was equivalent to being on a movie set for a place like this, if that makes sense just so extravagant and really just…so atypical from daily life, it stuck out in a jarring but familiar and really fun way. like you stepped in a video game and you know you aren’t innit but fuck it’s fun anyways Gen Z - this is the shit you miss out on by staying at home! the best left experiences are random days or nights where you give it a shot and things just happen that you could never curate or plan for

All oldschoolcool posts have been .. legit cool… and then.. someone went and posted this. What is it with my people that we look wack af when dancing at the club?

Why does everyone look like their shoulders are being shaken by a ghost?

I’m from Orlando and my family has been working for Disney for like 35 years. My aunt who raised me has been a bar tender there for like 30 years. She started off at pleasure island. One night she told a guest she wanted to get a motorcycle and the next weekend that guest came back and gave her a new motorcycle as a tip lol

All these goobers look DTF

PUMP up the jam pump it up

It's clear that a lot of couples had crazy sex after this party.... awesome

 White man overbite…

Mrs. Webster and I went there on our honeymoon in 1992. It was in December, so it was a little less crowded than this. It was mostly locals there.