Post #1075 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Apr 28, 2002 6:04 PM

On 2002-04-28 11:56, bigbrotiki wrote in "my Tiki stuff on e-bay":

The same goes for ripping off Tiki design (Target just did it again with Bosko's Tiki canoe)...
Boy did they ever! Just went to see "Dogtown" with my son this afternoon (the footage of the delapidated Pacific Ocean Park pier [B.o.T. page 196] is awesome, what an urban archeologist's paradise this must have been, one can see the A-frame entrance and volcano of the Beachcomber ride), so afterwards I went to the Target store next door to get Diego some of the aforementioned T-shirts:

This has to be the most democratic of the rip offs I have come across yet. Many of the prominent TABOO artists of the first generation are represented (without their knowledge, I bet), with some alterations off course:
The "Watertaxi" is from Bosko
The "Twin Tikis" sleeveless T is early Shag
There's also an Aloha shirt/shorts pattern that has a mutated shag mask woven into it.
The "Uncle Tiki's" (I think that's what it's called) is straight House Industries' Tiki Font
The "Aloha Lanes" bowling pin faces are from the Poster Pop sticker by Alan Forbes
The pineapple Tiki I have seen somewhere before, too..

They must not have my book, cause I did not recognize anything swiped from it. I'm gonna have to complain. I think!