New mug from Trader Sam's? - General Tiki

E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Thu, Nov 30, 2017 1:57 PM It makes sense for Trader Sam's to crossover, because it's based on Adventureland, which itself crosses over. The Jungle Cruise is supposed to be the great rivers of Africa, Asia, and South America rolled into one, looked over by the Enchanted Tiki Room, across from which is a bazaar in the North African mold. It's a huge, romantic, tropical, jungle pastiche. The Tiki and the Safari "scenes" are a pretty heavily overlapping Venn diagram. We've had this discussion a million times, though, haven't we? Each of those circles on the Venn diagram - Tiki and Safari - have their strong nucleus... Their "pure" form of South Pacific romance on the one hand and African romance on the other. The beach and the jungle. The beachcomber and the great white hunter. Tiki masks and tribal masks. We could complicate it even more if we wanted, by adding a third circle for the Caribbean. Another for Latin America. It's around the edges of those circles where it gets fuzzier... They fuzz into each other where they overlap, and fuzz in their own unique ways on their own edges. I like fantasy Tiki or tropical fantasy or whatever you want to call it, replete with mermaids and sea monsters and Jules Verne-style adventure. Disney works well for me. That said, I can feel a strong difference between Adventureland in Disneyland USA and Adventureland in Disneyland Paris... Disneyland Paris' has much more of a European colonial vibe and lacks any Tiki stuff, whereas Disneyland USA's feels more Tiki even through the attempted colonial aesthetics of the Jungle Cruise. It's like the Jungle Cruise takes place on whatever ecologically impossible South Pacific island the Swiss Family Robinson found. I dunno'... Isn't there enough room for good people to hold down the nucleus of Tiki's purity and for others to jive around the edges, and all have a good time? Honestly, it's not like this was the first shitty mug that Trader Sam's has made. And no one is holding a gun to anyone's head to buy Geeki-Tiki mugs.

It makes sense for Trader Sam's to crossover, because it's based on Adventureland, which itself crosses over. The Jungle Cruise is supposed to be the great rivers of Africa, Asia, and South America rolled into one, looked over by the Enchanted Tiki Room, across from which is a bazaar in the North African mold. It's a huge, romantic, tropical, jungle pastiche. The Tiki and the Safari "scenes" are a pretty heavily overlapping Venn diagram.

We've had this discussion a million times, though, haven't we? Each of those circles on the Venn diagram - Tiki and Safari - have their strong nucleus... Their "pure" form of South Pacific romance on the one hand and African romance on the other. The beach and the jungle. The beachcomber and the great white hunter. Tiki masks and tribal masks. We could complicate it even more if we wanted, by adding a third circle for the Caribbean. Another for Latin America. It's around the edges of those circles where it gets fuzzier... They fuzz into each other where they overlap, and fuzz in their own unique ways on their own edges. I like fantasy Tiki or tropical fantasy or whatever you want to call it, replete with mermaids and sea monsters and Jules Verne-style adventure. Disney works well for me. That said, I can feel a strong difference between Adventureland in Disneyland USA and Adventureland in Disneyland Paris... Disneyland Paris' has much more of a European colonial vibe and lacks any Tiki stuff, whereas Disneyland USA's feels more Tiki even through the attempted colonial aesthetics of the Jungle Cruise. It's like the Jungle Cruise takes place on whatever ecologically impossible South Pacific island the Swiss Family Robinson found.

I dunno'... Isn't there enough room for good people to hold down the nucleus of Tiki's purity and for others to jive around the edges, and all have a good time? Honestly, it's not like this was the first shitty mug that Trader Sam's has made. And no one is holding a gun to anyone's head to buy Geeki-Tiki mugs.

Post #781966 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Thu, Nov 30, 2017 1:57 PM