Post #611767 by tigertail777 on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 11:13 PM

John-O are you angry about the whole Disney thing? Did you really expect Disney not to do some kind of "Hawaiian Fantasy"? After all everything they even remotely get involved with is laden with fantasy and story it's what they do. To Disney's credit though they toned their usual over the top fantasy down and consulted with and listened to locals for the final design of the place. To me it is really nothing all that new even pushing Disney aside, ever since tourists started arriving Hawaii has always catered a fantasy version of itself to them. Honestly even the Polynesian Cultural center is more theme park than true tradition in how it is presented, especially the big finale night show which is something worthy of Las Vegas. Personally I was hoping to see the fantasy side of Hawaii that I constantly ached to see that was presented in the Elvis movie "Blue Hawaii". Much to my sheer disappointment there is little to nothing in Oahu even remotely like in that movie it seems to have all been swallowed up by a concrete jungle of commercialism except the windward side of the island.

Hell, the whole idea of Poly-pop in ANY form is really just a fantasy version of cultural tradition. Nothing wrong with that, just in the degree to which you take it away from its roots and how much respect you give those original roots.

On a side note again: I am dying to know if there is absolutely ANY Tiki whatsoever in this whole joint? Anyone know?