Post #463091 by AlohaStation on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 3:56 PM

Back to the past...

As many of you saw at Hukilau, the Big Barney West tiki in the Mai Kai gardens finally surcame to the ravages of time (and bugs and water). On either Monday or Tuesday the big guy fell in the middle of the night. There is a picture out there of the fallen idol, but someone (wink, wink) needs to post it. If you saw the tiki recently you know that it was in really bad shape. Well the maintenance guys quickly proceeded to chop it into manageable pieces and tossed him into the dumpster!! The Mai Kai quickly responded to the empty space in the garden by reaching into their warehouse and retrieving one of their buried treasures.

This tiki is one of their originals and is pictured in one of the original artists renderings (in the BOT). The current theory is that the tiki had a bird that was attached to its head and somehow the bird broke off taking parts of the head with it. It was removed and stored for several decades to be resurrected this past week.

Got archive pictures? Please post if you have anything! I need an original image of this tiki. Please help.