Attention WDW Tiki Room experts! - General Tiki

HL Hot Lava Member Saint Petersburg, FL Joined: Aug 01, 2003 Posts: 190	HL Hot Lava Posted posted on Fri, Feb 6, 2004 9:13 PM Luis, I recently wrote and produced two audio segments for another Tiki Room audio fanzine on the WDW version (known as the "Tropical Serenade"). https://tikicentral.com/viewtopic-new.php?topic=4654&forum=5 Walt Disney World's original barker bird (a toucan) had yellow feathers, blue wings, and a red beak. The Walt Disney World Forever version of his spiel is accurate except for a two-second dropout that cuts out a small portion at the beginning of one sentence. It sounds as if parts of it were definitely edited from the Disneyland version, but as you know there are portions of it that were not used in California. I speculate that Wally Boag recorded a lot of material at the original session that ultimately didn't get used until the Florida park was built. Why else would they edit the Disneyland audio when they just could have brought him in for a new session and recorded it all again from scratch? This version of the barker bird ran from opening day in 1971 until 1992, when he was replaced by a Jamaican-accented blue toucan named Artemus with a different spiel. He lasted until 1995. The tiki drums are located across "the street" from the Tiki Room just before the sloping walkway down to the Jungle Cruise. They are not part of the Tiki Room per se, but help to tie the two areas together thematically. At one point, the drums were arranged in a complete circle, so that you would stand in the middle and be surrounded by the music (each drum has a speaker which plays an individual sound). They were rearranged possibly sometime in the 1980s into the semi-circle pattern found today. In the 1990s they started squirting water instead of playing music. Now they do both, I think, although I haven't been squirted by them during my visits in the past two years. The preshow features two more toucans perched on a tiki. I have no way to confirm this, but I believe both birds were voiced by Dal McKennon. One definitely was -- I'm guessing on the second. The revised preshow uses Don Rickles and Phil Hartman.

Luis,

I recently wrote and produced two audio segments for another Tiki Room audio fanzine on the WDW version (known as the "Tropical Serenade").

https://tikicentral.com/viewtopic-new.php?topic=4654&forum=5

Walt Disney World's original barker bird (a toucan) had yellow feathers, blue wings, and a red beak. The Walt Disney World Forever version of his spiel is accurate except for a two-second dropout that cuts out a small portion at the beginning of one sentence.

It sounds as if parts of it were definitely edited from the Disneyland version, but as you know there are portions of it that were not used in California. I speculate that Wally Boag recorded a lot of material at the original session that ultimately didn't get used until the Florida park was built. Why else would they edit the Disneyland audio when they just could have brought him in for a new session and recorded it all again from scratch?

This version of the barker bird ran from opening day in 1971 until 1992, when he was replaced by a Jamaican-accented blue toucan named Artemus with a different spiel. He lasted until 1995.

The tiki drums are located across "the street" from the Tiki Room just before the sloping walkway down to the Jungle Cruise. They are not part of the Tiki Room per se, but help to tie the two areas together thematically. At one point, the drums were arranged in a complete circle, so that you would stand in the middle and be surrounded by the music (each drum has a speaker which plays an individual sound). They were rearranged possibly sometime in the 1980s into the semi-circle pattern found today. In the 1990s they started squirting water instead of playing music. Now they do both, I think, although I haven't been squirted by them during my visits in the past two years.

The preshow features two more toucans perched on a tiki. I have no way to confirm this, but I believe both birds were voiced by Dal McKennon. One definitely was -- I'm guessing on the second. The revised preshow uses Don Rickles and Phil Hartman.

Post #74934 by Hot Lava on Fri, Feb 6, 2004 9:13 PM