Post #265512 by Humuhumu on Thu, Nov 9, 2006 11:51 AM

These were in Jody's office when we visted them last spring. My memory is very fuzzy about these -- my quite-possibly-faulty memory is that Kevin wasn't involved in them, and Jody was not thrilled to be involved in them. They were a sort of "Hey, those tiki mugs we made for the Tiki Room sold like hotcakes! Let's make them for places all over the park!" thing that the higher-ups came up with.

An it-would-be-funny-if-it-weren't-tragic story about Kevin & Jody's (now former) higher-ups:

When we met Kevin & Jody's boss at Disney, it was when we were helping out with their presentation of the great Enchanted Tiki Room merchandise to the NFFC (national Disneyana group). Their boss, in an attempt to make small talk with us, said "is the Tiki Room still open?" And not in a "hey, if we pop into Disneyland later, will it be too late to catch a show?" kind of way, it was in an "I haven't set foot in Disneyland in a decade, even though I'm responsible for creating merchandise targeted exclusively to people who love it, and I honestly had no idea that the attraction hadn't been removed years ago" kind of way.