Post #780038 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Mon, Sep 25, 2017 10:04 AM

Honestly... and this feels weird to say... I could care less about Moana. It was an okay film, but didn't really leave a mark on me, which is weird to me considering that, y'know, here I am on a Tiki forum. I'm more mixed about the Enchanted Tiki Room.

On the one hand, the version in Florida is slightly sub-par of the version in California. They weirdly edited out the part inviting you to sing like the birdies sing, it lacks the Tiki god lanai, you can't eat your Dole whip or citrus swirl inside, and the building somehow feels wider but smaller because of its lower ceiling. I've heard the truism that WDW's "house show" is really the Country Bear Jamboree, whereas the Enchanted Tiki Room is Disneyland's "house show". So in those respects, I suppose WDW could bear losing the Tiki Room.

But on the other hand, it's still the Enchanted Tiki Room. One of the things that annoys me the most about how Disney is mutilating the Disneyland Resort is that there is still plenty of stuff I love at Disneyland that I can't get at WDW, like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Snow White's Scary Adventure, Alice in Wonderland, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, Primeval World and Grand Canyon Diorama, and the original Small World and Fantasmic (though they mutilated those too). Granted there's plenty at WDW that isn't at Disneyland either, but I don't want to have to be making a choice over the Tiki Room now too! I already felt the absence of the Tiki Room in Disneyland Paris.

If the rumours are true and they are intent on doing something, the only thing I could really see satisfying me is if they went with that dinner show idea (maybe at the Polynesian... replace/supplement Spirit of Aloha?) and it still had enough callbacks to the original show that I felt more like something was added rather than taken away. I'm getting tired of Disney taking away things I've loved.