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Boo To You and Kungaloosh!

Keith — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:57:52 +0000

My wife and I went to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween party yesterday, and had a fantastic time. We dressed up as Hathaway Browne and Natasha nee Samantha Sterling of Disney’s dearly departed Adventurers Club, may it rest in peace. Little did we know the bonus our costumes would net us in our candy safari.

People kept trying to guess who we were.

“Amelia Earhart?” I heard multiple times.

Grasping from my pilot costume, Natasha got, “…and another…pilot…?” numerous times.

But 10 lucky people during the night did, in fact, give us high fives or club salutes (“Kungaloosh!”).

The best one was at the candy station in Frontierland. We walked up to one of the hosts handing out the candy, bags out, and he said, “Let’s see…what are you? Don’t tell me…let me guess…”

Thinking he looked young enough to be a new Cast Member or a College Program intern, I pointed to the Official Club Pin on my tie.

“What’s that?”

His eyes got bigger than Mickey’s in a cheese shop.

“Oh my god! BEST COSTUMES OF THE NIGHT!”

We shared club salutes.

“Oh…oh, wait a second.” He turned from dumping the handful of candy he had into my bag to the candy barrel. “I need to take care of my fellow adventurers!”

He then took a giant armful of candy and dumped it into my bag.

I held the bag up to gaze into the path to diabetes he had dumped in.

“Wait, wait, I’m not done with you yet!” He turned the path into the highway to diabetes.

“Oh, oh…Samantha! Fantastic!” He followed up with a similar highway for my wife.

“I so mourn the loss of that club,” he said. We commiserated. Everyone mourns the loss of one of the most unique and fun places on Disney property.

But the spirit lives on. As one of the performers said, “You guys have to take care of each other. When the club is gone, and we’re gone, all you’re going to have is each other, your fellow adventurers.”

So the spirit of Kungaloosh lives on in all the high-fives, shouts of “Hathaway!” and “Samantha Sterling!” and “Kungaloosh!”, and two gigantic bags of candy we got that night.

Star Tours Update

Keith — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:03:12 +0000

As I previously mentioned, Star Tours is getting an update. You can read about it (and see a really kewl clip from the updated attraction) here:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/09/darth-vader-storm-troopers-invade-d23-expo-for-star-tours-announcement.html

Star Wars Weekends 2009, Week 4

Keith — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:27:26 +0000

Pics from the final weekend of Star Wars Weekends 2009.

Star Wars Weekends 4

Star Wars Weekends 2 & 3!

Keith — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:33:48 +0000

Posting pics from Star Wars Weekends 2 & 3! Enjoy!

Week 2:

From Star Wars Weekend #2 2009

Week 3:

From Star Wars Weekends 3 2009

Disney Star Wars Weekends 2009, Week 1 Pics

Keith — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:43:42 +0000

Went to the first Disney Star Wars Weekends this weekend. Fantastic fun, as usual, with the best guest mix I think you could ask for. Jay Laga’aia, the host this year, welcomed Warwick Davis and Ray Park. In the “And now you know, and knowing is half the battle” category, Ray is playing Snake Eyes in the new G.I. Joe movie, which looks like an absolute feast of adventure and action.

From Star Wars Weekends 2009 001

The highlight of Sunday’s Q&A was all the guests re-enacting the climactic lightsaber battle from The Phantom Menace. Check out the pics to see more!

Star Wars Weekends 2009 “Backstage” Posters

Keith — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:59:42 +0000

Yep, I’m a Cast Member and I haven’t seen any of these “backstage” posters. I want them on the wall behind my desk at work:

Darth Vader! Only he would be so bold.

http://www.starwars.com/fans/events/news20090427.html

Star Wars Weekends 2009 Guest List is Up

Keith — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:14:09 +0000

Fabulous Jay Laga’aia is hosting Disney Star Wars Weekends again, trading off with Warwick Davis, who is a guest the first weekend. The weekends each have a star from the new animated series, “The Clone Wars”. Check out the guest list at the Star Wars site.

What I’m truly excited to see is what they come up with to top the Hyperspace Hoopla from last year.

The Snappiest Maid at the Adventurers Club

Keith — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:19:53 +0000

Here are a couple of videos of everyone’s favorite Adventurers Club maid, Sugar Snapp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvVkQI9ujuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGUq-0gZOwI

Adventurers Club Video from the Final Days

Keith — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:49:10 +0000

Adding more video from the Adventurers Club closing days. Here’s Yvette, the French-Canadian maid, doing her final maid show, along with the first new member induction ceremony from the final night.

There are some very teary moments in both shows for real fans of the club.

Adventurers Club Christmas Show-Ho-Ho

Keith — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:32:40 +0000

Here are some excerpts from the final Adventurers Club Holiday Show. I thought I recorded the whole Christmas show, but there seems to be a chunk missing on the tape, which is a bummer. I still have some other tapes to encode and upload, and I know there’s more holiday stuff there, so hopefully I’ll find “Dominic the Donkey” on one of those….