Post #38117 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Mon, Jun 9, 2003 1:17 PM

Last night, Tikibelle and I were enjoying a relaxing evening out at Disneyland. We stopped in at the New Century Timepieces store on Main Street to watch artist Eric Scales working at his light-table on some new watch-face artwork. On a nearby display-case was a small placard announcing a limited-edition Tiki Room wristwatch to be released in conjunction with the 40-year anniversary of the attraction. We quized Eric on the watch and he happily answered our questions and was generous enough to give me his prototype artwork of the yet-to-be-released brochure, if I would be so kind to post it on Tiki Central.

The watch will be released on June 20th, (three days before the actual anniversary), and will be sold only at Disneyland. A print of the artwork will also accompany each watch. They will sell for $200 and only 50 will be produced. Mr. Scales said that usually a limited edition watch like this takes about a month to sell out, but I told him that if the tiki-community at large got wind of it, it might sell out quite a bit faster.

I'll probably try to pick one up at our Sunday outing with my Tiki Centralite compadres on the 22nd and thought maybe some of the rest of you might be interested as well. It's a nice design and I don't know of that many tiki-style wristwatches out there. I'm also guessing that quite a a few of them are going to end up on Ebay right away. Here's the announcement:

And here's a close-up of the watch-face design:

Sabu

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy on 2003-06-09 13:23 ]