Walt Disney Enchanted Tiki Room Gods & Tangaroa Babies - General Tiki

J joshua_w Member Venice Beach, CA Joined: May 20, 2014 Posts: 21	J joshua_w Posted posted on Wed, Feb 4, 2015 12:53 PM This thread is great! On 2015-02-02 06:20, EPCOTExplorer wrote: That's awesome! And yeah, Rolly Crump took a lot of inspiration from actual south seas art when he helped carve the Tiki Room deities. True, however the tiki baby figures were not designed or sculpted by Rolly. Rolly took many liberties with his designs and I don't think he based them very heavily on any real-world representations of the various gods the way some of the other imagineers did, they were mostly products of his own style and imagination. I know that his Maui figure was 100% his own idea and design, it was inspired by Japanese bamboo fountains he had read about, it was not created with a specific god in mind. He only came up with the name for it and matched it to a real god later on when Walt asked him what it was supposed to be. All kinds of interesting stories behind these figures and designs.

This thread is great!

On 2015-02-02 06:20, EPCOTExplorer wrote:
That's awesome! And yeah, Rolly Crump took a lot of inspiration from actual south seas art when he helped carve the Tiki Room deities.

True, however the tiki baby figures were not designed or sculpted by Rolly. Rolly took many liberties with his designs and I don't think he based them very heavily on any real-world representations of the various gods the way some of the other imagineers did, they were mostly products of his own style and imagination. I know that his Maui figure was 100% his own idea and design, it was inspired by Japanese bamboo fountains he had read about, it was not created with a specific god in mind. He only came up with the name for it and matched it to a real god later on when Walt asked him what it was supposed to be. All kinds of interesting stories behind these figures and designs.

Post #736654 by joshua_w on Wed, Feb 4, 2015 12:53 PM