The Enchanted Tiki Room, Orlando, FL (other) - Locating Tiki

K Kenike Tiki Socialite McKinney, TX Joined: Jul 24, 2003 Posts: 1207	K Kenike Posted posted on Thu, Oct 16, 2003 12:19 PM Name:The Enchanted Tiki Room Type:other Street:Disney World City:Orlando State:FL Zip: country:USA Phone: Status:operational Description: Last week I visited Disney World in Orlando and stopped by The Enchanted Tiki Room. Here is what I thought of it and a brief description. Hopefully I’m remembering things correctly as I didn’t have a pen and paper to write everything down at the time. The whole show was about 15 minutes long and my description below is very brief and general. I’m sure there’s plenty I’m leaving out…I just wanted to make that clear because there are a few Enchanted Tiki Room aficionados at TC who I’m sure can write a much better description. My visit to the Enchanted Tiki Room definitely had a positive start. You enter the area just outside facing a small waterfall, lots of greenery, a couple of tiki’s and Martin Denny coming through the speakers. Very nice mood…this was probably my favorite part of the whole thing. Suddenly the waterfall stops and out come these two birds. They turn out to be agents for a couple of movie stars and begin to argue over whose client is the new owner of TET. The voices sound remarkably like Phil Hartman and Don Rickles (that would take some doing). Before they finish their silly debate, everyone is directed into the Tiki Room which is still dark. Then we see Zazu (from the Lion King) and Iago (from Aladdin) introduced to us and we immediately see them begin arguing over who exactly is running the Tiki Room. Iago wants to make lots of changes and Zazu is warning him not to anger the tiki gods by making big changes. Eventually, Iago begins demeaning the tikis by calling them “wood for brains” and some other not-so-nice things just before we hear thunder and see lots of smoke. Suddenly all the tikis come alive singing “In The Still Of The Night”, complete with all the “shooby-doo-wops” very out of character for any tiki. Then the BIG tiki god shows up and orders Iago done away with. He disappears into the ceiling but later comes back (after a serious ass beating by the tiki’s) and proclaims the tiki room is fine just the way it is. This is the end of the show. All of the tikis were painted in different colors in true Disney fashion. Still, the grounds and architecture were pretty cool. What wasn’t cool was the complete lack of Enchanted Tiki Room memorabilia in any of the gift shops throughout Disney. I was disappointed I couldn’t even find shirt or a pin that said Enchanted Tiki Room. There were plenty of grass skirts and lei’s all over the place though, but they didn’t have my size. Definitely check out The Enchanted Tiki Room when in Disney World (located in Adventureland) and DO complain to the gift shops about the lack of Tiki Room stuff. Here's a few more pics: [ Edited by: Kenike 2009-01-12 13:23 ]

Name:The Enchanted Tiki Room
Type:other
Street:Disney World
City:Orlando
State:FL
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:operational

Description:
Last week I visited Disney World in Orlando and stopped by The Enchanted Tiki Room. Here is what I thought of it and a brief description. Hopefully I’m remembering things correctly as I didn’t have a pen and paper to write everything down at the time. The whole show was about 15 minutes long and my description below is very brief and general. I’m sure there’s plenty I’m leaving out…I just wanted to make that clear because there are a few Enchanted Tiki Room aficionados at TC who I’m sure can write a much better description.

My visit to the Enchanted Tiki Room definitely had a positive start. You enter the area just outside facing a small waterfall, lots of greenery, a couple of tiki’s and Martin Denny coming through the speakers. Very nice mood…this was probably my favorite part of the whole thing.

Suddenly the waterfall stops and out come these two birds. They turn out to be agents for a couple of movie stars and begin to argue over whose client is the new owner of TET. The voices sound remarkably like Phil Hartman and Don Rickles (that would take some doing).

Before they finish their silly debate, everyone is directed into the Tiki Room which is still dark. Then we see Zazu (from the Lion King) and Iago (from Aladdin) introduced to us and we immediately see them begin arguing over who exactly is running the Tiki Room. Iago wants to make lots of changes and Zazu is warning him not to anger the tiki gods by making big changes. Eventually, Iago begins demeaning the tikis by calling them “wood for brains” and some other not-so-nice things just before we hear thunder and see lots of smoke. Suddenly all the tikis come alive singing “In The Still Of The Night”, complete with all the “shooby-doo-wops” very out of character for any tiki. Then the BIG tiki god shows up and orders Iago done away with. He disappears into the ceiling but later comes back (after a serious ass beating by the tiki’s) and proclaims the tiki room is fine just the way it is. This is the end of the show.

All of the tikis were painted in different colors in true Disney fashion. Still, the grounds and architecture were pretty cool. What wasn’t cool was the complete lack of Enchanted Tiki Room memorabilia in any of the gift shops throughout Disney. I was disappointed I couldn’t even find shirt or a pin that said Enchanted Tiki Room. There were plenty of grass skirts and lei’s all over the place though, but they didn’t have my size.

Definitely check out The Enchanted Tiki Room when in Disney World (located in Adventureland) and DO complain to the gift shops about the lack of Tiki Room stuff.

Here's a few more pics:

[ Edited by: Kenike 2009-01-12 13:23 ]

Post #55427 by Kenike on Thu, Oct 16, 2003 12:19 PM