Disney-obsessed couple loses lawsuit to get back into exclusive Club 33

[Zorro]

As members of Disney’s exclusive Club 33, Scott and Diana Anderson visited the two Anaheim theme parks 60 to 80 times a year.

The private club, with its wood-paneled trophy room and other amenities, was the center of their social life. They brought friends, acquaintances and business associates. As a couple, they went on the Haunted House ride nearly 1,000 times.

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.

All of it came to an end in 2017, when Disney revoked their membership in the club after an allegation that Scott Anderson was drunk in public. Diana Anderson, a hardcore Disney aficionado since childhood, called it “a stab in the heart.”

The Andersons, both 60, have spent the years since then — and hundreds of thousands of dollars — trying to get back into Club 33. On Tuesday, an Orange County jury rejected their claim that Disney ousted them improperly.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-04/disney-obsessed-couple-loses-lawsuit-to-get-back-into-exclusive-club-33

[SheltieLover]

1. Not satire?

[malaise]

17. They need a life

Seriously😂😂

A life

[Kid Berwyn]

19. They get them young.

[malaise]

21. Clearly

😂😂

[Kid Berwyn]

22. Then there's the regular tourists.

The Waybac still keeps a copy of what I consider among the most finely-drawn portraits of humanity, ca. 1898 to the present:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101212003140/https://bizbag.com/click/click.htm

[SheltieLover]

20. Someone please pull the plug on their life support!

[Walleye]

2. Because the economy is so bad they can't afford food and rent

[MiHale]

3. One more example of this 'failing' nation...

Very heavy,

[PJMcK]

4. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at Disney?!

They should have spent the money on therapy.

[chouchou]

5. He said the lawsuit has cost them 400,000 dollars.

“My retirement is set back five years,” he said. “I’m paying through the nose. Every day, I’m seeing another bill, and I’m about to keel over.” He said he will appeal.
“I’ll sell a kidney,” Diana said. “I don’t care.”

Correct me if I'm wrong..are they just a little, itsey, bitsy Obsessed?? Boy...hard to tell..

[MichMan]

12. They would have spent $800k over six years by going.

Seems like if anything, even with the $400k spent on legal bills still means their retirement balance should be up $400k, not down.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Same Thing I Thought

I saw the numbers and thought "How could spending less money put them behind?"
My guess: they spent the money going somewhere else that is expensive.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I thought that my family was obsessed with Disney

[Happy Hoosier]

10. Man, I hear ya!

I transform my house into my own version of the haunted mansion every year... and hey, I'd love to be "Club 33" if I were megarich, but this seems a LITTLE intense!

[Oopsie Daisy]

7. A Disney-Gang hand gesture?

[Keepthesoulalive]

8. It makes you important

Some folks just need to feel special and taking friends and family to the mouse house satisfies that need.

[ecstatic]

9. Wow! That's crazy. I'm sure they can find something else

to spend 125k per year on. The possibilities are endless, just don't be drunk or obnoxious. Nobody wants to deal with that.

[MineralMan]

11. They could have bought a membership at Merde a GoGo for that.

[irisblue]

16. Maybe not trumpers, just ha ve too much time on their hands & money?

[JuJuChen]

13. they were probably hella annoying to be honest

[lindysalsagal]

14. I'm wondering what a few hundred K could buy you in therapists.

[irisblue]

15. Rich people, rich people can be very odd

[Aristus]

18. A classic example of more dollars than sense.

n/t