Enchanted Tiki Room

This article is on the fictional location. For the attraction of the same name, see Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room.

The Enchanted Tiki Room also known more simply as The Tiki Room is the fictitious setting for Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room and by extension, the Tropical Hideaway.

Description[]

The Enchanted Tiki Room is a tropical hideaway on an unidentified Polynesian island. The tiki room is composed of two main structures, both on a Pacific beach overlooking mountains and volcanoes. The Tiki Room was also located nearby a tropical river which had docks at the Tropical Hideaway. The secondary structure of the Tiki Room was located in the, "Sunshine Pavilion", a pavilion affiliated with the health god Citrikua. The outside of the tiki room was decorated with tribal artwork such as wooden carvings of water-buffalo.

The building is enchanted by various Māori deities or, "Tiki Gods" who embedded magical properties within the tiki room. This allows for the birds of the Tiki room to communicate in human language, tikis to come to life, and the flowers to be able to sing. The Tiki Room is a place of international celebration however too much celebration is known to anger the Gods, causing disasters. The tiki room is also, of course, decorated with wooden architecture and sculptures depicting, "Tiki" humanoids.

Points of interest[]

Enchanted Tiki Gardens: The Enchanted Tiki Garden was a garden outside of the Tiki Room which was decorated with sentient tikis of several gods.^[1]
Fountain: This fountain was located in the Sunshine Pavilion, outside of the Tiki Room. It had a waterfall which held a secret chamber containing a totem of Citrikua.
Jungle Navigation Company docks: These were docks along the river used by the Jungle Navigation Company. This area also featured a riverside mailbox for the Jungle River Post Office.
Tiki Juice Bar: This was a straw-hut juice-bar located outside of the Enchanted Tiki Gardens.
The Tiki Room: The Tiki Room was the main show-room used by the Tiki Room's performers. It was a ground-level, in-the-round theatre with several windows overlooking the waters and jungle. Within the centre of the room is the Enchanted Fountain which a bird-mobile lowers over, used by the room's Showgirl Bird performers. Suspended from the ceilings were various perches used by bird singers to perform and sleep, along with baskets and pots of flowers which sing. The room was supported by wooden columns with animate tiki faces, and also various animate tiki drummers.
Tower: This was a tower located in the Sunshine Pavilion which had nine floors.
Tropical Hideaway: The Tropical Hideaway was a plaza overlooking the river which was located behind the Tiki Room. It held a dining-service, the bird-houses of the tiki room's birds, and a wall of oars commemorating different members of S.E.A..
- Dole Whip, I Presume: An outdoors area which served, "Dole Whips", using fruit and ingredients from the Dole Fruit Company. The name of the area was a reference to the words, "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" said from Sir Morton Stanley to David Livingstone.
- Marketplace: There is an area within the hideaway which seems to function as a small bazaar.

History[]

Origins[]

The Enchanted Tiki Room is a structure in the Pacific Ocean, having been predated by a tropical oasis. At some point in time, the Tiki Room became enchanted by Māori deities. This would lead to the Tiki Room being home a large assortment of talking birds, flowers and tiki totems. These entities would host musical revue performances in the Enchanted Tiki Room though not so much as to anger the gods.

At some point in time, the Tiki Room came to be affiliated with the Society of Explorers and Adventurers. This was an international secret-society of aristocratic colonists and globe-trotters who used the Topical Hideaway to commemorate many of their river-expeditions. The oldest dated of these expeditions was Camellia Falco's 1831 mission on the Zambezi river. One member of the Tiki Room in particular was named Rosita, a white cockatoo who around 1880 was imprisoned by S.E.A. member Barnabas T. Bullion to be used as a mine-canary at his operation mining the stolen land of Big Thunder Mountain (though it is unknown if she originated from the Tiki Room or only worked there after the event). Fellow S.E.A. member Dr. Albert Falls would also decorate the family parlour of his jungle mansion with a chandelier modelled after the birds José, Pierre, Michael and Fritz.

Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room[]

In the year 1911, S.E.A. member Dr. Albert Falls established the Jungle Navigation Company, an international business aimed at transporting cargo and passengers throughout the jungles of the world. One of the JNC's outposts was the Tropical Hideaway which held docks used by the Tiki Room's residents. By this time, the Enchanted Tiki Room had burst in popularity for entertainment with its show being hosted by four parrots named José, Pierre, Michael and Fritz. The show also had a connection to Walt Disney who became the namesake of the Tiki Room's revue, "Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room".

By around 1936, Rosita who had worked in the Tiki Room as a, "Showgirl Bird" up-and-left the Tiki Room in order to seek out a solo career. New performers were brought into the Tiki Room through casting-calls made by Walt Disney's Disneyland Casting Agency and by the mid-1930s with a magazine called The Bird Call which was run by the likes of humans Tiki Kiki Serbano and her sister Rita Serbano. At some point, the Tiki Room was given an expansion of the, "Tahitian Terrace" run by humans of the nearby Polynesian village hired by José as an agent of the Disneyland Casting Agency.

According to resident masters-of-ceremony José and Fritz, the Tiki Room would establish a routine in 1963 that went unchanged for decades. By this time, the Tiki Room and/or its surrounding residents would also develop a relationship with the Florida produce-service of the Sunshine Tree Terrace brand of the Bay Lake Produce Company and WED Enterprises, Inc.. The brand's mascot the Florida Orange Bird would spend time within the Tiki Room's vicinity because of this. Presumably around the 1950s/1960s, Disney Pictures filmed a movie at the Tiki Room called, "Mouse Pacific" starring the likes of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and the Orange Bird.^[2]

Later history[]

At some point around the 1990s (implied to be after the June of 1994), the Tiki Room was purchased by Hollywood and Disney executives and sold by the agent birds William and Morris to the birds Iago and Zazu. Iago was a devious parrot which was formerly the henchman to the ancient Arabian sorcerer-turned-genie Jafar, while Zazu had served as majordomo of the African Pride Lands under the lions of Pride Rock. Iago intended on transforming the Tiki Room into a revue centred around himself, only to anger the goddess of disaster, Uh-Oa. Uh-Oa maimed Iago as punishment and it is likely that following this, the two birds revoked or reduced their management of the Tiki Room.

By the 2000s, the position of masters-of-ceremony changed to the parrots Hanoli, Manu, Mahina, and Waha Nui. Around 2002 or later, the Tiki Room was visited by the alien Experiment-626 AKA Stitch after he crashed there in a spaceship. Stitch's human caretaker Lilo Pelekai travelled to the Tiki Gardens in-order to try and find Stitch.^[3] The birds of the Tiki Room went on to misidentify Stitch as a tiki god called, "The Big Kahuna" and let him lead the Tiki Room's musical revue. After breaking the Tiki Room's fountain, Stitch and the birds came to an agreement where Stitch could lead one more musical number if he left the Tiki Room in peace.

The tiki room was lead by the masters of ceremony Danno, Scats, Buddy, and Lava presumably likely at some point following these events.^[4] This incarnation of the Tiki Room had the tone of a Los Vegas musical revue. Birds employed as performers were mentioned as coming from locations across the world such as New York City, Las Vegas, and Shinjuku Station.

Jungle Cruise appearances[]

Adventure Trading Company[]

The Bird Juju mission had guests assisting Tiki Kiki Serbano in finding new talent for the Tiki Room in-return for a Bird Juju. In the Daily Gnus newspaper was a talent-spotlight by Lilikoi Humuhumunukunukuapuaa on the Tiki Room's singing flower, "Flora". The newspaper also had a missing post for Rosita, an audition call for The Bird Call and Tiki Room, an interview with José and Tallahassee Glover on the topic of Tarzan's Treehouse and advertisements for the Tiki Room.^[5] Decor for this attraction involved an Adventure Trading Company crate headed for the Tiki Room labelled as containing, "Tiki Drool".^[6]

Jungle Cruise[]

At the end of Disneyland's Jungle Cruise, the boats pass by the docks of the Tropical Hideaway. Birdhouses belonging to several of the birds are located on the walls and a parcel addressed to José is along the JNC's docks.

Skipper Canteen[]

In the Mess Hall of the Skipper Canteen is a letter addressed to Rosita in the Tiki Room from the Lost River Delta. Said letter is marked to be returned to sender due to Rosita's absence. There are also assorted references and connections to the Tiki Room throughout the Skipper Canteen. In the Falls family parlour is a chandelier with bird-shaped lights modelled after José, Pierre, Fritz and Michael.

Books in the library include Songs of the Tiki Bird by Prof. Boag, Crooning Flowers by Sherman & Sherman, and Tiki, Tiki, Tikis of the South Pacific by B. Baker. Another book in the library is A New Way to Manage Birds by I & Z Management Publications which references Iago and Zazu who ran the Enchanted Tiki Room for a time. Two other books in the library are Birds of Song and Rongo's Right by Tiki Kiki Serbano, a Tiki Room affiliate from the Adventure Trading Company.

Trader Sam's[]

The likenesses of the tiki gods, tiki drummers and tiki totems are found throughout Trader Sam's bar. The bars also contain a drink called the, "Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Rum" and another called, "Rosita's Margherita". There is also a post-card asking Sam on the location of Rosita, mentions to Sam's history with Rosita in the menus, and a shell-mobile with Rosita's name on it. Trader Sam's Grog Grotto has the totem of Uh-Oa mounted within it and she springs to life when a drink called, "Uh-Oa" is ordered. The grotto is also allocated in Disney's Polynesian Village Resort which has the tiki gods scattered throughout it. It has been theorized that Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar and/or Disney's Polynesian Village Resort are located on the same island as the Tiki Room.

Tropical Hideaway[]

The Tropical Hideaway is a dining-service overlooking the Jungle Navigation Company's Polynesian docks which is located beside the Tiki Room. Birdhouses belonging to several of the birds are located on the walls and a parcel addressed to José is along the JNC's docks. The hideaway also contains oars for members of S.E.A. such as Dr. Albert Falls, Sango Shio, and Chef Tandaji. Rosita waits along the docks for a JNC boat, sometimes acknowledging Jungle Cruise passengers.

Other connections[]

Aladdin[]

There is a mosaic of Aladdin's magic carpet in the pavement of the Tropical Hideaway and one of the establishments in the marketplace sells lamps and magic-carpets. In Under New Management, the Tiki Room was put under the ownership of Iago, a character from Aladdin. In the Tropical Hideaway, Rosita brings up the defunct restaurant Aladdin's Oasis by saying the tiki room was predated by, "A real oasis" (likely separate from the dining-establishment in-universe) and references a, "Bizarre" area across from the Tiki Room, a reference to the Adventureland Bazaar (though again possibly in-universe referencing the tiki room's market).

Disney's Polynesian Village Resort[]

Tikis from the Enchanted Tiki Garden are scattered throughout the village.

Jungle Cruise (film)[]

Rosita appears in this film as the pet cockatoo of Nilo Nemolato, an enemy of Frank Wolff in the Amazon settlement of Porto Velho in the year 1916.

The Lion King[]

Zazu co-owned the Tiki Room with Iago.

Tarzan[]

Tikis from the Tiki Room appear at Professor Porter's Trading Post. José was interviewed on the subject of petroglyphs at the base of Tarzan's Treehouse by the Daily Gnus.

Tropical Imports[]

Tropical Imports is another business run by Trader Sam. Atop the structure is one of the tiki drummers from the Enchanted Tiki Room.

Tropical Serenade[]

In the Magic Kingdom's Tiki Room (formerly known as the Tropical Serenade), the pre-show has birds Clyde & Claude describing having first encountered the Tiki Room after passing through various locations from the Jungle Cruise.

Other appearances[]

Disney's Hollywood Hotel[]

The poster for Mouse Pacific is in this hotel.

Magic of Disney Animation[]

The Tiki Room appears on a poster for a Minnie Mouse film titled, "Mouse Pacific". Both Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom's Tiki Rooms are shown in a close vicinity to one-another.^[7]

Main Street, U.S.A.[]

The poster for Sunshine Tree Terrace shows the Tiki Room.

Main Street Cinema[]

The Disneyland Casting Agency has postings which work as casting-calls for the Tahitian Terrace and Enchanted Tiki Room. The casting call for the Tiki Room asks for bird performers while that of Tahitian Terrace is managed by José.^[8]

Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom[]

Merlin and Emperor Kuzco attended the Tiki Room alongside Michael in this attraction after defeating Yzma. The room was featured on Merlin's map of Adventureland.

Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room[]

The Tiki Room is the setting for this attraction and its variants found throughout the Disney Parks.

The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)[]

In this overlay, the Tiki Room was purchased by Zazu and Iago via the Hollywood agent birds William and Morris.

The Enchanted Tiki Room: Get the Fever![]

The Enchanted Tiki Room: Stitch Presents Aloha e Komo Mai![]

In this overlay of the Tiki Room, the Tiki Room is visited by Stitch after crashing the ship he got from his creator Jumba into the building. The birds misidentify him as a tiki god called, "The Big Kahuna" and he leads a celebration.

Trivia[]

There are multiple connections which the Tiki Room has to Aladdin. As previously stated, Iago from this film became one of the Tiki Room's owners and referenced several other Aladdin characters while having done so. Additionally, a mosaic of the Magic Carpet from Aladdin decorates the ground of the Tropical Hideaway. Additionally in the Tropical Hideaway is a small market selling, "Exotic Lamps" and, "Magic Carpets" in brass and silk.
The water-buffalo totems adorning the Tiki Room are there so that when seen from Frontierland, they can be identified as wooden carvings of bison as to not break theming.