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PopMonger

PopMonger

Los Angeles, CA
June 2006

OCT 09, 2006 02:57 PM

Once upon a time, Playboy bunnies roamed free and served drinks. Then, much like Betamax, they vanished. A nation wept.

Eighteen years later, the Playboy club is back and in Las Vegas. The Palms Casino and Resort has opened the first Playboy club in the U.S., bringing back an era of casual sex, playful nudity and men ogling satin-eared, fluffy-tailed waitresses.

"A post-feminist generation is thinking back to the 1970s and wondering what they missed," said Hugh Hefner, Playboy's 80-year-old founder and editor in chief, at the club opening. He was flanked by his three live-in girlfriends. "It's a great time for me."


Unlike the Playboy clubs of yore, the new nightspot isn’t managed by Playboy Enterprises but by the casino. Even the 50 bunnies working there were selected by the Palms.

Led by casino operator George Maloof, the family spent $650 million on the "Fantasy Tower" that houses the Playboy club, a nightclub, a restaurant, a Playboy store and a Hugh Hefner sky villa.

Guests can rent the two-story suite for $40,000 a night, which will buy them, among other things, a night in a rotating bed, surrounded by a collection of artwork by Hugh Hefner.


Additional Playboy clubs are expected to open at casinos in London and Macao.


Employees being schooled in bunnydom


Inside the private villa but, sadly, without the rotating bed


A Playboy club back in the day

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Melbourne, FL
February 2003

OCT 09, 2006 08:21 PM

Hello!

sabishii_debiru

sabishii_debiru

Jacksonville, NC
July 2006

OCT 09, 2006 08:21 PM

ok, guess it's time to save up about 200 grand. what a load of crap, everything is always for the rich and never the common man.

Ferretbite

Ferretbite

Mexico
September 2006

OCT 09, 2006 08:24 PM

I'm scared of bunnies anyway so even if I could afford it I wouldn't.

Yeah right.

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Melbourne, FL
February 2003

OCT 09, 2006 08:25 PM

sabishii_debiru said:
ok, guess it's time to save up about 200 grand. what a load of crap, everything is always for the rich and never the common man.



Actually, isn't that why Larry Flynt started Hustler? I bet you would enjoy one of the many Hustler clubs or stores around the world.

photoline

photoline

Edmonton, AB
January 2005

OCT 09, 2006 08:46 PM

Beware the hairy Palms!

Lloyd_Arcesia

Lloyd_Arcesia

Golden, CO
December 2004

OCT 10, 2006 12:54 AM

It just won't be the same with out Quaaludes...

Cassiel

Cassiel

Aurora, CO
September 2004

OCT 10, 2006 01:18 AM

good to see em back, but sad to see it's not opped by PBE

rdpixie

rdpixie

United Kingdom
January 2006

OCT 10, 2006 01:35 AM

Woohoo! Bring on the London club!

octoberallover

octoberallover

Albuquerque, NM
June 2003

OCT 10, 2006 02:00 AM

wow so we're POST-feminist era now......

*whew* glad you women got past that whole equality thing..... it was really puttin a crimp in the fun

tongue oink bok tongue

octoberallover

octoberallover

Albuquerque, NM
June 2003

OCT 10, 2006 02:00 AM

so go make me a sandwich now

don't make me ask twice

quietlythere

quietlythere

USA
June 2004

OCT 10, 2006 03:17 AM

i remember there used to be a Playboy Club in Atlantic City. my father always used to bring me back shirts from their gift shop, which i promptly wore to school, elementary school biggrin

Wren

Wren

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

OCT 10, 2006 05:56 AM

Paris Hilton is about to puke on some Bunnies.

Get ready for it.

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

OCT 10, 2006 05:57 AM

If this is anything like Return of the Sith, you might as well shut them all down.

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

OCT 10, 2006 06:19 AM

sabishii_debiru said:
ok, guess it's time to save up about 200 grand. what a load of crap, everything is always for the rich and never the common man.



That's part of the draw. Why did people want to get into Studio 54 so badly? Because they couldn't.

BarryJive

BarryJive

Washington, DC
December 2004

OCT 10, 2006 06:30 AM

Playboy is such a joke, a caricature of what it used to be. This was my favorite quote of the article, "The company that once provided a generation of men with a blueprint to a swinging lifestyle got stuck in middle age".

Hef is now a reality TV star, pawing his 3 blonde girlfriends with those gnarled, sepulchral hands of his, a Viagra-powered Crypt Keeper trying to hold the shambles of his empire together. What's next? The "accidental" release of a sex tape featuring Hef, his 3 blonde girlfriends, and a goat?

Even the magazine isn't worth a crap anymore (and yes, I was a subscriber up until Hurricane Katrina). The pictures of the parties @ Hef's Mansion feature a lot of Z-Grade stars. It's full of "Check out this program on Playboy TV", or "Subscribe to the Cyber Club". With the exception of some still great interviews and fiction excerpts, the magazine is mostly just a sad reminder of the glory that was the Playboy Lifestyle.

Paisley

Paisley

USA
September 2006

OCT 10, 2006 09:51 AM

BarryJive said:
Even the magazine isn't worth a crap anymore (and yes, I was a subscriber up until Hurricane Katrina). The pictures of the parties @ Hef's Mansion feature a lot of Z-Grade stars. It's full of "Check out this program on Playboy TV", or "Subscribe to the Cyber Club". With the exception of some still great interviews and fiction excerpts, the magazine is mostly just a sad reminder of the glory that was the Playboy Lifestyle.



*cry* I've wanted to be a Playboy Playmate since I was 13, until I openned a modern Playboy and realized that I wanted to be the 1960's/70's version. Alas!

desidia

desidia

Reunion
September 2002

OCT 10, 2006 02:36 PM

good for them. no really. I'm serious.

Mark_plus_Beer

Mark_plus_Beer

United Kingdom
August 2005

OCT 10, 2006 02:38 PM

if it opens over here i'm going biggrin

undershaker

undershaker

Milwaukee, WI
November 2004

OCT 15, 2006 12:17 AM

Paisley said:

BarryJive said:
Even the magazine isn't worth a crap anymore (and yes, I was a subscriber up until Hurricane Katrina). The pictures of the parties @ Hef's Mansion feature a lot of Z-Grade stars. It's full of "Check out this program on Playboy TV", or "Subscribe to the Cyber Club". With the exception of some still great interviews and fiction excerpts, the magazine is mostly just a sad reminder of the glory that was the Playboy Lifestyle.



*cry* I've wanted to be a Playboy Playmate since I was 13, until I openned a modern Playboy and realized that I wanted to be the 1960's/70's version. Alas!



Check out Miss August -- not to pimp another nudie publication, here, if that's a faux pas, though -- because she has real, live pubic hair. A lot. I was enthralled upon glimpsing it.

Miss April did as well; grown out, even if shaved down (like a close-crop haircut, but for your pubis).

quagmirething

quagmirething

I'm lost
June 2005

OCT 15, 2006 01:22 AM

I find this is a little sad. Perhaps unreasonably. Safe, corporate decadence. Better that Le Sphinx returned.

rdpixie

rdpixie

United Kingdom
January 2006

OCT 15, 2006 04:04 AM

Paisley said:

BarryJive said:
Even the magazine isn't worth a crap anymore (and yes, I was a subscriber up until Hurricane Katrina). The pictures of the parties @ Hef's Mansion feature a lot of Z-Grade stars. It's full of "Check out this program on Playboy TV", or "Subscribe to the Cyber Club". With the exception of some still great interviews and fiction excerpts, the magazine is mostly just a sad reminder of the glory that was the Playboy Lifestyle.



*cry* I've wanted to be a Playboy Playmate since I was 13, until I openned a modern Playboy and realized that I wanted to be the 1960's/70's version. Alas!



Me 2!

Wren

Wren

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

OCT 16, 2006 08:26 PM

Paisley said:

BarryJive said:
Even the magazine isn't worth a crap anymore (and yes, I was a subscriber up until Hurricane Katrina). The pictures of the parties @ Hef's Mansion feature a lot of Z-Grade stars. It's full of "Check out this program on Playboy TV", or "Subscribe to the Cyber Club". With the exception of some still great interviews and fiction excerpts, the magazine is mostly just a sad reminder of the glory that was the Playboy Lifestyle.



*cry* I've wanted to be a Playboy Playmate since I was 13, until I openned a modern Playboy and realized that I wanted to be the 1960's/70's version. Alas!



The retro look is coming back. They are slowly starting to feature girls who have pubes again. ^_-