Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room update (some rumors included) - General Tiki

T Tangaroa Tiki Socialite Joined: Apr 25, 2002 Posts: 1566	T Tangaroa Posted posted on Sun, May 22, 2005 9:29 AM Hmmm - interesting how some of this is growing in Rolly's mind.... I conducted an almost 2 hour interview with Rolly (his son used to be my boss at Imagineering) about the Tiki Room, and I find it surprising that he's currently claiming to have sculpted about 80% of everything (including the birds! which were done by Blaine Gibson) - even though he strongly set the style for the Garden Gods - it really was a group effort by many, many people - including John Hench, Marc Davis - and many others... Rolly DID do a lot of sculpting & design & installation - but certainly not 80%! Also - many of the tales he told me are a bit more "salty" - but this was for a Disney function - so I understand him making things a little more "PC".....

Hmmm - interesting how some of this is growing in Rolly's mind....

I conducted an almost 2 hour interview with Rolly (his son used to be my boss at Imagineering) about the Tiki Room, and I find it surprising that he's currently claiming to have sculpted about 80% of everything (including the birds! which were done by Blaine Gibson) - even though he strongly set the style for the Garden Gods - it really was a group effort by many, many people - including John Hench, Marc Davis - and many others... Rolly DID do a lot of sculpting & design & installation - but certainly not 80%!

Also - many of the tales he told me are a bit more "salty" - but this was for a Disney function - so I understand him making things a little more "PC".....

Post #160707 by Tangaroa on Sun, May 22, 2005 9:29 AM