| rdfs:comment | - Pleasure Island was a giant orbiting holiday camp in space above Mega-City One. It could accommodate 34,000 people. It was managed by a director and Star-Coats acted as hosts for the campers.
- Pleasure Island can refer to two separate articles: PleasureIsland.jpg|Pleasure Island, a location in the 1940 animated feature, Pinocchio. Disney pleasure island.jpg|Pleasure Island, an area of Downtown Disney at Walt Disney World Resort.
- Pleasure Island is an unofficial Duran Duran live album, recorded during The Ultra Chrome, Latex and Steel Tour at Pleasure Island, Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL, USA on 27 November 1997.
- Pleasure Island is the place in Pinocchio. This is where The Coachman use to put the kids for fun, and then the kids will turns into donkeys.
- Pleasure Island was an amusement park in Scooby-Doo's dream as he slept through the movie Pinocchio.
- Pleasure Island park is a strip of land that is only a few tiles wide, yet its length extends from one edge of the map to the other. Note that you have a few tiles of construction rights extending out into the water all the way down the island. Your mission, which is to build ten exciting coasters (of any length) is actually fairly easy, because you'll have to keep it tight to even build ten coasters, and that drives up excitement. The hard part is cramming in a lot of stuff into a little space. Other scenarios that similarly have limited space are Dinky Park and Urban Park.
- This would be an event or activity that is presented to one or all of the protagonists as being extremely enjoyable. This event or activity never has any redeeming social value; it's just for fun. It's usually presented as being completely innocuous and not at all objectionable - except, of course, in those cases where the basic selling point of the "fun" thing is that it's something the "unhip, uncool" people of the world would never allow one to do. After perhaps some initial reluctance, the protagonists decide to give it a shot. Bonus points are awarded if some "nerdy" character suggests that it's not a good idea, and everyone either ignores or laughs at this person.
- Pleasure Island was a cursed amusement park seen in Pinocchio. The park was owned and operated by The Coachman, who made a fortune from his crooked deeds, and is seen in the film when the Coachman brings Pinocchio, Lampwick and a coachload of other boys to the park. It is implied to be an illegal theme park, hinted by Honest John during the meeting in the Inn. Also, the evil influence of the island seems to wear off if the visitor is lucky enough to escape in time. Pinocchio's transformation stopped after he fled the island.
- The Pleasure Island (in Italian: "Piacere Isola") is a cursed amusement park on an isolated isle and the most infamous location in the 1940 animated Disney film Pinocchio based on the classic Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi which it is a fictitious location in and known by it's original name "Land of Toys" (in Italian: "Paese dei Balocchi").
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| abstract | - The Pleasure Island (in Italian: "Piacere Isola") is a cursed amusement park on an isolated isle and the most infamous location in the 1940 animated Disney film Pinocchio based on the classic Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi which it is a fictitious location in and known by it's original name "Land of Toys" (in Italian: "Paese dei Balocchi"). Located within the fictitious land of Cocagne, the Pleasure Island serves as a haven for wayward boys, allowing them to act as they please without recrimination. However, the truer and more sinister purpose of Pleasure Island is eventually revealed as it begins to physically transform the boys into donkeys, apparently by means of a curse.
- Pleasure Island was a cursed amusement park seen in Pinocchio. The park was owned and operated by The Coachman, who made a fortune from his crooked deeds, and is seen in the film when the Coachman brings Pinocchio, Lampwick and a coachload of other boys to the park. It is implied to be an illegal theme park, hinted by Honest John during the meeting in the Inn. On its surface, Pleasure Island seemed like any other amusement park, except that it was one where the young boys brought there by the Coachman were encouraged to behave badly. Among the places where the boys could misbehave were the Roughhouse, where they were encouraged to fight, the Model Home, which was open for vandalism and destruction, and food, alcohol and tobacco was made freely available. The park was designed so that little boys would "makes jackasses of themselves," and quite literally so. After enough time in the park, the boys would gradually transform into donkeys; still with their human minds, but donkeys in every other way. These donkeys were then stripped of their former clothing by the Coachman and placed into crates where they would eventually be sold to the salt mines, the circus and other places. Some of the donkeys did not immediately lose their human voices, and were placed in a pen by the Coachman - what happened to them next was unclear, although presumably they were either kept there until they finally lost their ability to talk, killed by the Coachman, or were used to pull his stagecoach. The curse apparently only affected little boys, as the Coachman, his minions and Jiminy were not affected. Also, the evil influence of the island seems to wear off if the visitor is lucky enough to escape in time. Pinocchio's transformation stopped after he fled the island. Pinocchio narrowly avoided being transformed into a donkey, and escaped with just a donkey tail and ears. However, Lampwick and all the other boys were not so lucky, and transformed into donkeys in one of the most notably terrifying sequences in Disney history.
- Pleasure Island was a giant orbiting holiday camp in space above Mega-City One. It could accommodate 34,000 people. It was managed by a director and Star-Coats acted as hosts for the campers.
- Pleasure Island can refer to two separate articles: PleasureIsland.jpg|Pleasure Island, a location in the 1940 animated feature, Pinocchio. Disney pleasure island.jpg|Pleasure Island, an area of Downtown Disney at Walt Disney World Resort.
- This would be an event or activity that is presented to one or all of the protagonists as being extremely enjoyable. This event or activity never has any redeeming social value; it's just for fun. It's usually presented as being completely innocuous and not at all objectionable - except, of course, in those cases where the basic selling point of the "fun" thing is that it's something the "unhip, uncool" people of the world would never allow one to do. After perhaps some initial reluctance, the protagonists decide to give it a shot. Bonus points are awarded if some "nerdy" character suggests that it's not a good idea, and everyone either ignores or laughs at this person. When the protagonists finally get involved in the alleged fun, it turns out to be either entertaining beyond their wildest dreams or... well, rather boring. In any case, it certainly doesn't seem to be harmful. But that all changes as the story progresses. Maybe the idea of "fun" being offered up goes way over the line, ultimately breaching the frontiers of good taste or sanity. Maybe the entertainment is actually being used as a cover for some nefarious or destructive purpose. Or maybe the event or activity involves a level of near-suicidal danger that no one could have ever seen coming. The Trope Namer, of course, is the amusement park in Pinocchio that causes boys to turn into donkeys (which, chillingly enough, shares its name with a "fun zone" at Walt Disney World). Often overlaps with The Game Plays You, A Fete Worse Than Death, and/or Crap Saccharine World. Broader than Amusement Park of Doom, because it can involve just about anything that is ostensibly entertaining. Examples of Pleasure Island include:
- Pleasure Island is an unofficial Duran Duran live album, recorded during The Ultra Chrome, Latex and Steel Tour at Pleasure Island, Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL, USA on 27 November 1997.
- Pleasure Island is the place in Pinocchio. This is where The Coachman use to put the kids for fun, and then the kids will turns into donkeys.
- Pleasure Island was an amusement park in Scooby-Doo's dream as he slept through the movie Pinocchio.
- Pleasure Island park is a strip of land that is only a few tiles wide, yet its length extends from one edge of the map to the other. Note that you have a few tiles of construction rights extending out into the water all the way down the island. Your mission, which is to build ten exciting coasters (of any length) is actually fairly easy, because you'll have to keep it tight to even build ten coasters, and that drives up excitement. The hard part is cramming in a lot of stuff into a little space. Other scenarios that similarly have limited space are Dinky Park and Urban Park.
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