Post #638767 by msteeln on Thu, May 31, 2012 7:52 PM

Recreating the Hawaii theme in Hawaii is very necessary because the true Hawaiian architecture, culture and motif are, sadly, being lost. The International Market Place is to be gutted and the Hula Hut is gone.

The vast majority of people that will ever go to this particular and expensive Disney resort are from elsewhere and have little to no clue about Hawaii's multi-glorious past, and very few will be interested enuf or have time to find out to even the slightest degree. Even in it's cool '60s hey day the IMP was largely a caricature of Hawaii, and The Hut was just a neat dining bar. Sadly both are going/gone, but mere fluff compared to what used to be and actually mattered, and Disney is just more fluff. Hawaii has thrown it's incredible history and heritage away, and no developer today will be doing anything to bring back a single worthy lick. You can tiki, rebuild, motif, theme, and reenact into infinity, and it means very little. Vital Hawaii now resides solely within the individual, and that's fading fast as well. Facts and reality are a bummer.