Tiki Room Under New Management Dec 14 1998

Tiki Room Under New Management

[@johnmarkee3857]

Although I'm like most Disney park fans where I don't like this incarnation of the Tiki Room, I am always intrigued whenever videos are uploaded of UNM from the year it originally opened, mainly for comparing and contrasting how it was from when it first opened until it's abrupt closure a little more than a decade later. For example, the new animatronics here for Iago & Zazu are very fluid and impressive versus how they were by the end of the attraction's lifespan where so little care and upkeep was done beforehand that Iago looked as though he was wearing a hoodie (and he normally wouldn't recede back into the ceiling in time before the smoke effect went off) while Zazu develop a lazy eye! The audience's reaction to "Smokin'!" is also a pretty good example of how dated the attraction became as most of the earliest videos I've seen of this attraction has everyone laughing at the line, and dead silence in all the ones from it's final few years.

[@xavierdallenmusicuniverse6304]

“HUNKY TUNA TOSTADA?” LMAO