Unpopular Tiki Opinions - General Tiki

A AceExplorer Grand Member (8 years) Deep in the Jacksonville Flori-duh jungle. Joined: Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 2566	A AceExplorer Posted posted on Sun, Apr 29, 2018 6:56 AM On 2018-04-28 22:54, EnchantedTikiGoth wrote: With any subculture, you don't want to keep solid boundaries. What you do want to keep is a solid core, because that anchors the subculture. Then you can have the fuzzy edges that overlap with other subcultures and interests... Keep the "pure Tiki" at the core and at the edges have burlesque, hot rods, classic Vegas, Disney, vintage monster chic, surf, pre-war Polynesian romanticism, actual Polynesian culture, Jimmy Buffet, Route 66, whatever. You want to have flexibility, individuality, and innovation, but still have a central common reference point. Oh yeah, I got another one... Volcano Bay is too Party City for me. I like Typhoon Lagoon better as a tropical escape-themed waterpark. Very well said. I think this is really thought-provoking, especially about keeping a solid core of tiki aficionados. No matter what we think or do, others will continue to adapt and innovate. Btw, the water park at Wild Adventures in Valdosta GA (the park where the ending scenes from Zombieland were filmed) is also Party City tiki. Nobody there knows any better, and they don't care, because it is a colorful and fun environment. (It was sold to them that way by their concept developer after they went through a public opinion survey selection process - people who were annual passholders chose that theme in an online series of surveys.) It's not truly tiki in a pure sense, but definitely tiki-influenced. I'll take that over nothing at all, and definitely over some lame cartoon character theming which others have done. Oh, one more thing... How many of us, as a direct result of true tiki, will ever come to settle for lousy cocktails in our lifetimes? Thanks to tiki, many of us have discovered a whole new super high quality cocktail world above what the general population is often stuck drinking. Thank you TIKI. I am keeping an open mind though, and I like to look for contributions from other side-genres. (Examples: Surf rock = fun music. Burlesque = boobs - haha!)

On 2018-04-28 22:54, EnchantedTikiGoth wrote:
With any subculture, you don't want to keep solid boundaries. What you do want to keep is a solid core, because that anchors the subculture. Then you can have the fuzzy edges that overlap with other subcultures and interests... Keep the "pure Tiki" at the core and at the edges have burlesque, hot rods, classic Vegas, Disney, vintage monster chic, surf, pre-war Polynesian romanticism, actual Polynesian culture, Jimmy Buffet, Route 66, whatever. You want to have flexibility, individuality, and innovation, but still have a central common reference point.

Oh yeah, I got another one... Volcano Bay is too Party City for me. I like Typhoon Lagoon better as a tropical escape-themed waterpark.

Very well said. I think this is really thought-provoking, especially about keeping a solid core of tiki aficionados. No matter what we think or do, others will continue to adapt and innovate.

Btw, the water park at Wild Adventures in Valdosta GA (the park where the ending scenes from Zombieland were filmed) is also Party City tiki. Nobody there knows any better, and they don't care, because it is a colorful and fun environment. (It was sold to them that way by their concept developer after they went through a public opinion survey selection process - people who were annual passholders chose that theme in an online series of surveys.) It's not truly tiki in a pure sense, but definitely tiki-influenced. I'll take that over nothing at all, and definitely over some lame cartoon character theming which others have done.

Oh, one more thing... How many of us, as a direct result of true tiki, will ever come to settle for lousy cocktails in our lifetimes? Thanks to tiki, many of us have discovered a whole new super high quality cocktail world above what the general population is often stuck drinking. Thank you TIKI. I am keeping an open mind though, and I like to look for contributions from other side-genres. (Examples: Surf rock = fun music. Burlesque = boobs - haha!)

Post #786387 by AceExplorer on Sun, Apr 29, 2018 6:56 AM