Things to see
Tiki Gardens was a home-grown tourist attraction started by Frank and Jo Byars which used to be located on Florida’s west coast. Developed over the course of a decade in the 1960s, the attraction closed in 1990 and was eventually demolished and turned into a beach access parking lot.
One of the more interesting souvenirs to [...]
Gnomeo and Juliet,” a CGI-retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet starring lawn gnomes, has an odd Enchanted Tiki Room cameo. As seen in this clip, “The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room” song starts playing when the character Gnomeo accidently sets off some kind of backyard decoration.
Gnomeo and Juliet will be released in America on February 11, [...]
Unofficial damage assessments of the fire “in the attic” that hit Walt Disney World’s Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management have been trickling out during the week and things do not look as rosy as hoped, or are even better, depending on your view of the 1990s update to the 1971 show.
Unofficial sources told The [...]
The Orlando Sentinel and local television stations are reporting that a small fire broke out in the “attic” of the Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management attraction at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Wednesday evening. The cause of the fire and the extent of the damage is still under investigation.
The Reedy Creek Fire Department [...]
The Los Angeles Times’ travel blog has a nice walk-through of the new Mystic Manor attraction being built at Hong Kong Disneyland.
Scheduled to open sometime before 2013, Mystic Manor is the park’s version of the Haunted Mansion. Rather than copying either of the U.S. version’s of the mansion or France’s Phantom Manor, Hong Kong’s attraction [...]
Back on April Fools Day, I ran a prank story about Tokyo Disneyland’s Stitch-themed Enchanted Tiki Room show coming to Orlando. Truth is often stranger than fiction, and rumors are now swirling through the Utilidors and across the internet that such a scenario may be true. Even stranger (and more blissful for some) is the [...]
I wouldn’t have believed it unless I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, but the controversial Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management show in Florida’s Magic Kingdom has closed, to be replaced by a new show featuring Stitch.
I received a frantic cell phone call from a friend this afternoon tipping me off — a [...]