Carthay Circle Club
 

So is anyone toying with the idea of joining the club?


(I'm secretly hoping that I've scooped all you Disnoids and you have no idea what in the hell the "Carthay Circle Club" is yet).

I know and can't afford it!

Yeah, ummmmm... no.

Assuming this "private" club keeps the same hours of DCA, they'll be a lot of early bird dinners...

I don't want it. But what is it???

A possible Club 33-type place in DCA. Rumored fees will include a 10K sign-up fee and 3K annual dues.

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Ah, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha !

Dreamkiller.

The admission media you get for dinner at Club 33 is park hopper I assume?

I could see the possibility of something that would appeal to me but it would have to be something better than Club 33. It is nice in the kitschy/nostalgia department but in terms of a pure dining experience it is merely ok for the prices being charged on top of membership.

Are they going to put it right there in the Sunshine Plaza then?

Rumored to go into the Carthay Circle Theatre. Sunshine Plaza will be in Yesterland.

And, no, not interested in a membership the way I would be in Club 33. Might be nice to be invited, but I can have a really nice meal at the Napa Rose, no membership fee required.

Give it a year or two. They'll either lower the membership fees, or turn it into a regular restaurant.

No way will it ever have the cache of Club 33.

Give it 50 years, you never know. Many of us associate our childhood and nostalgia with Disneyland. For kids growing up today, they may someday feel the same way about the Carthy Circle Theatre.

No, that can't be so. I'm pretty sure that nostalgia plays no role in how we view the quality of new things versus the similar things that have been there a long time.

Well, I think something has to first be enjoyed immensely before attaining nostalgic status.

Disneyland, yes. DCA, no.



There's a brand of nostalgia for the craptacular, but no one pays $10K for that kind of memory lane travel.

Unless the nostalgia is chowing down on fast food, in a car parked in a crowded Disneyland Parking lot, otherwise - no thanks.

So far, unless some of you are 7 and I wasn't aware, you seem to reinforcing DreadPirateRoberts point.

Not unless kids today miraculously start to enjoy DCA, and remain enjoying it till they are adults.


That describes the modern Club 33 membership. I won't be around to gloat, so I'll just do it now. It Will NEVER happen with DCA.

I think you'll find there are plenty of kids that do enjoy DCA quite a bit and will look back fondly.

I think the bigger thing that's missing and can never be added is the cache that club 33 has being connected directly to Walt. Who cares about another room they've built in DCA to charge people to enter? What makes Club 33 extra special is that it was a private space for Walt and his close associates, you're paying for the privilege of entering that, and DCA can surely never have that.

This is the point I was going to make - C33 also has the connection to being an exclusive lounge for backers & sponsors, which then made public access [semi] available.

A room built intended for public access (albeit expensively) doesn't have the same backstory. It's more of a kudos thing. AND I bet they don't have a stuffed vulture. What movie props are they going to showcase. Do they have another elevator lying around from a movie set? (well, maybe - but a Californian one?)

Yes, but I don't know what they're calling the Sunshine Plaza after they build the Carthay there, so I defaulted to the known name :)

Why don't they just build a second exclusive club and roll it into the C33 membership benefits. They could even use it as reason to up the price of membership. But, sell a whole different product is ridiculous. "I'm not a C33 member, I had to take the short bus to Carthay Circle."

Probably because then there'd be too much demand for Club 33 space.

How to make a second club successful? Make it a prerequisite for getting a Club 33 slot. Change new membership process so a new opening is offered to Carthay Club members in order of seniority.

Then to fill out Carthay Club go down existing Club 33 waiting list and say "join Carthay now and eventually get Club 33 or you're off the list."

Thanks a LOT.

The same corporate jokers who came up with the "Carthay Circle Club" in the first place have the attitude "If we slap the name 'Disney' on it, the rubes will eat it up" -- you know, the same attitude that built DCA in the first place -- and it would never occur to them that the rubes wouldn't eat up the latest groupthink stupidity that they cobbled up to fill an unused space at the N*E*W I*M*P*R*O*V*E*D D*C*A, now with Disney characters.

This threat would motivate people to actually join this BS space filler.

I have a club I belong to already. I can drive to it in 15 minutes and I dont have to elbow my way past mobs of tourists to get in.

Some also-ran "club" at DCA I don't need.

--t