What Was So Bad About Tiki Room "Under New Management"?

[slappy magoo]

It'd be like trying to plus Space Mountain with Buzz Lightyear. He doesn't fit. Everything about Space Mountain is: This is a "real" space station and you're about to take off on a rocket into outer space!

And this is why everyone who rides Space Mountain simultaneously asphyxiates and freezes in the absolute zero of space.

Under New Management was the "Itchy and Scratchy...and Poochie"...of theme park attractions, an addition that didn't really add anything, an improvement that didn't really improve anything, just made it different. Not as egregious as Stitch's Great escape, but it smacks of people who put more attention into the AAs than the script, giving these awesome technological feats nothing interesting to do. The one sad thing about losing it was losing the stellar voice work by the late Phil Hartman. But their 90s spin on this classic attraction, to me, felt instantly dated, even more dated than the original which IMHO feels more timeless than dated.

 

[ProfSavage]

It took two characters from beloved IPs, made great AAs for them, and instead of giving attractions worthy of those movies, they shoehorned them into an existing ride.

Not only that, but it wasn't done with grace like Pirates, but more like a wrecking ball.

Had it been done better, maybe people would have liked it. I liked the Iago and Zazu AAs, hated their use in Tiki Room.

 

[Brad Bishop]

It took two characters from beloved IPs, made great AAs for them, and instead of giving attractions worthy of those movies, they shoehorned them into an existing ride.

Not only that, but it wasn't done with grace like Pirates, but more like a wrecking ball.

Had it been done better, maybe people would have liked it. I liked the Iago and Zazu AAs, hated their use in Tiki Room.

Now that I think of it, they could have just as easily shoe-horned them into Pirates. Put Iago on Jack Sparrow's shoulder making wise cracks. Have Zazu across the canal trying to reason with him. Put an "Under New Management" banner across the entrance.

If didn't have a problem with UNM for Tiki, then you shouldn't have a problem with this idea. It's basically the same. We'd likely have all the same arguments, too.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

It was a badly realized attempt to add IP from Aladdin and The Lion King, Gilbert Godfrey screeching (as Iago) was just horrid. The original show was lighthearted and the updated show just not...

But yet again, that is only your opinion. Many people, including us, enjoyed it, and also enjoy the newest incarnation. Just because you don't think it was right, doesn't mean you are right.

 

[ford91exploder]

But yet again, that is only your opinion. Many people, including us, enjoyed it, and also enjoy the newest incarnation. Just because you don't think it was right, doesn't mean you are right.

I think the majority of WDW fans disagree with you, The Iago and Zazu AA's were frankly amazing but the attempt as I said was badly realized Zazu and Iago really needed their OWN show.

 

[Matt_Black]

I do think the Tiki Room does need a bit of an update. The stereotype host are a bit tacky nowadays. Granted, they're national stereotypes as opposed to ethnic (though the Spanish one is a bit iffy), but it still comes across as a bit... It's like how in the X-Men comics, the first Irish X-Man was an alcoholic raised by leprechauns whose superpower was yelling. It was seen as progressive at the time.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

I think the majority of WDW fans disagree with you, The Iago and Zazu AA's were frankly amazing but the attempt as I said was badly realized Zazu and Iago really needed their OWN show.

Yet every time we went, the show was packed. It is only in places such as this forum that people disagree, because they think they are better than the average guest, and know better than anyone what is good or right with an attraction. If it fits their ideal, it is good, if it doesn't, WDI did it wrong.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I'm not saying this as a supporter of the attraction, because I don't really have many recollections of it, but I see it get a lot of dislike on these forums. What made this attraction so terrible?

Because it wasnt the original, classic attraction.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I do think the Tiki Room does need a bit of an update. The stereotype host are a bit tacky nowadays. Granted, they're national stereotypes as opposed to ethnic (though the Spanish one is a bit iffy), but it still comes across as a bit... It's like how in the X-Men comics, the first Irish X-Man was an alcoholic raised by leprechauns whose superpower was yelling. It was seen as progressive at the time.

..... There's a Food and Wine joke in there somewhere.....

 

[JohnD]

I'm not saying this as a supporter of the attraction, because I don't really have many recollections of it, but I see it get a lot of dislike on these forums. What made this attraction so terrible?

Not Walt's show.

 

[Doug Means]

are any of the AA's down for referb that have not moved or been fixed in awhile?

 

[danyoung56]

Yet every time we went, the show was packed. It is only in places such as this forum that people disagree...

I think you're absolutely correct. I think the vast majority of guests finished with the show, and on exiting were mentally on to their next attraction without ever giving what they'd just seen much thought. I don't think many people needed to see it again on any given vacation, but I don't think there was much in the way of hatred like you see in forums like this.

 

[xdan0920]

Hmm, the bad? It didn't fit the AdventureLand theme. Birds from disparate parts of the world, from two different movie worlds, shoehorned in.

That said....

I did laugh at it, mainly because I am an idiot and laugh at idiot things.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

Because it wasn't the original, classic attraction.

So? Just because you may not have agreed with the change, doesn't make it a bad one.

 

[PhotoDave219]

So? Just because you may not have agreed with the change, doesn't make it a bad one.

Yes it does.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

Yes it does.

Nope, sorry. You're wrong.

 

[Yert3]

It was just a dumb idea. Don't know what they were thinking.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Nope, sorry. You're wrong.

That's my argument exactly. You're wrong.

 

[MichWolv]

I'm not saying this as a supporter of the attraction, because I don't really have many recollections of it, but I see it get a lot of dislike on these forums. What made this attraction so terrible?

It wasn't terrible. But it did have Gilbert Gottfried yelling a lot. And that's not good.

I enjoyed UNM, but prefer the original. As for the cut down version of the original that's running now...still pretty good. I actually Disney should run multiple versions of the Tiki Room show at different times of the day.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

That's my argument exactly. You're wrong.

So who made you the attraction monitor that gets to decide what is good or not??????