Post #152811 by ikitnrev on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 6:54 PM

I just got back from Spencers too, where I ended buying a set of each of their mugs - 6 in total. I love the colors of them, and how it looks like the paint has worn out around certain features.

I was tempted to buy their rotating tiki head chip holder, which comes with 4 plastic cups. Push in the bowl's tiki nose, and the chip bowl spins around and around while a fuzzy recording of some exotica drumming plays. Then the bowl stops rotating, and the tiki starts talking - the mouth actually opens up and down, and the eyes light up red. There are various things the tiki chip bowl says - things like 'Tiki says people who do not at first succeed, should not try skydiving' It is truly bizarre and wild.

At the time I couldn't bring myself to buy it - it was priced at $20, as the material was plastic and the colors were garish Party Store. Plus the sound quality of the voice and music wasn't the best, not to mention it wouldn't really go with the more natural feel of my tiki room.

But now as I'm thinking about it, I think I should have got it - it reminds me a bit of a cheap animatronic version of Disney's Enchanted Tiki Land .... and then there is the whole 'spin the bottle, where will the tikis gaze fall' mysterious angle to it (a future tiki drinking game?), not to mention a tiki head taking the place of the 'Confuscious say' fortunes.

They also had some large sized, dark brown, plastic tiki heads - I thought they looked fairly decent, but not as good as a real carvings, or those colored translucent ones that they used to sell that lit up within.

Let's see, they also had tiki shot glasses, that you could wear around your necks as a pendant - these were in style of the tiki mugs above. They had some plastic tiki signs - one with a hula girl on it was kind of neat, and they also had flip-flops with vintage hula girl graphics on the surface that the foot sits - I debated buying some of these for wall decor.

There was a 3-D tiki face that had a n open mouth where the fake flame cloth flickered, but the face was a cross between tiki and a hat wearing voodoo figure, and something just seemed a bit odd about it all.

Vern