Post #239291 by Cammo on Fri, Jun 23, 2006 1:39 PM

I got some of the same style necklaces as late as 1985 or so. One now oversees my shaving stuff in the bathroom. They were cool because they had fake gemstones implanted in their heads, and little cards attached describing what kinds of Gods they were. (Lono; God of Truth, etc.) The necklaces were the same as you'd find in Hawaiian tourist shops, imported from Hong Kong.

They seemed to vanish when the South Seas Floorshow/Dinner was turned into Aladdin's Storytime Theater next to the concession you're talking about. There was also a pro-Christian movement within the Disney organization that seemed to sweep through the entire park (in about 1992?) getting rid of anything that suggested voodoo, pagan religions, skulls, drugs, and debauchery. I'm not kidding, an imagineer tipped me to this, there are lots of examples of things they took down; the most obvious was a New Orleans shop called the "Bat & Rouge" that sold a lot of real voodoo materials. The bat-sign is still there if you look for it.