Post #535201 by Zeta on Wed, Jun 9, 2010 11:32 AM

A gift I recently got from a sweet wahine

4 tiki plastic shots by "Tradewind Bay"

I did a search and only two mentions came out, this is the oldest one:

On 2004-03-23 18:39, Kono wrote:
Where do you think these came from? For what purpose were they originally made? I can't imagine these fairly intricate molds were created just to churn out one dollar tikis for the Dollar Tree. The sticker says "Tradewind Bay" and "DOLLAR TREE DIST." Maybe they were made for someplace like Target or Hilo Hatties or the ABC stores and the deal fell through so they wind up at the Dollar Tree?

What's the story with the story with this brand? who designed them plastic neo-tikis? Is there a thread about them? something like "new cheap plastic tikis made in china" thread? Where can I see more? There's no pictures on this thread... I also have a plastic brown neo tiki pitcher... I have contradictory feelings about tiki stuff like this. I bet many of you too... is there a topic about this? "Tiki ethics" or something...