The best Enchanted Tiki Room Brochure is this green one with fantastic graphics of tikis, birds and the fountain as well as the description of the unique attraction. This is one of the first public places where the WED logo was seen and also features the head of Walt on the reverse. Always a popular brochure when one comes up for sale.
This has always been one of my favorites
ReplyDeletePopular, rare and pricey! I love this one, thanks for posting it since I don't have it!
ReplyDeleteThe disembodied head of Walt is always fun to see - no wonder there were so many rumors about this head being frozen!
That WED logo is the coolest logo ever!
Wow! I've never seen one before! What a treat!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great one, I've always loved that tiki illustration.
ReplyDeleteI notice it says that tickets are NOT included in the DL ticket books. So did the Tiki Room have it's own separate ticket when it first opened instead of taking an "E" ticket?
ReplyDeleteWalt was a wise business man. The Tiki Room was originally not owned by Disneyland but by Walt (and/or WED) for the first few years you needed a special ticket, not available in the ticket books - here's a link to a post I did about the original tickets.
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P.s. I got my two original Tiki Room tickets in a big lot of tickets I purchased on Ebay years ago for $5!!!
Instead of pulling the Bird Mobile out of the attic, I think the enchanted fountain should summon Walt's disembodied head a la the Wizard of Oz to remind people what makes for good show.
ReplyDeleteSet it to the Offenbach tune, and it will seem less preachy.
I never missed the Tiki adventure every time we visit Disney World... It is always a great idea to create brochures hand distributing it to visitors not just for souvenir but as a guide in the Disney World. Great Job!
ReplyDeleteInteresting that it's dated 1963 and Walt's spiel says that they have been working on the technology for 10 years. That puts it two years before Disneyland opened that he was thinking that far ahead to new shows. He really was a forward thinker.
ReplyDeleteI went to that link and really enjoyed Katella Gate's story about Thurl's phone call. That story was GRREEAT!
Vaughn: I think Walt was referring to a "secret project" he was tinkering with over the years called Project Little Man. It was a way to control sophisticated puppets electromechanically. There's a nice write up of it here:
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Thanks also for the complement regarding my "meeting" with Thurl. One of those totally unexpected moments that will never be repeated.