Post #733771 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Dec 26, 2014 11:00 AM

So good to see that this iconic statue is being properly maintained, not just painted over! It went through some horrible changes in the 80s and 90s…

...until in 2001, Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily took it upon themselves to travel down to San Diego and invest their own time, labor and materials to restore him as close to the original as possible. Quote:

"...All his characteristic grain was covered up and he began to resemble a fiberglass playground statue. We counted 6 layers of different colors that he has been over the years (We all remember him being green several years back, but did you know that he has been three DIFFERENT shades of green over time? And for awhile his pupils had been bright orange!)…"

See the progress here:
http://tikimodern.com/pages/bali.html

The iconic branding value of such a logo Tiki is priceless - as this thread's photos show, generations have posed with it!