Dammit. AS mentioned in another thread, I went to Disneyland today with Brian. One of our visits was the Enchanted Tiki Room (“where the birds sing words and the flowers croon”), yes, the tiki tiki tiki tiki Tiki Room.
I remember being quite, well, enchanted by this show when I was a child. Brian had never been to it before, so it mildly exciting to share this experience together. Of course, we aren’t children anymore, so the show did seem a bit cheesy (and surprisingly short).
Yet, what bothered me most was how little of the attraction still worked. The animatronics just weren’t well. This is not just one or two items–this was about a third of them! The flowers above us had two working members (out of about a dozen). The drummer across from us had just one working arm. And, most amusing (and depressing) for me, the totem poles were seriously screwed up. Out of the 9 faces on each pole, maybe 2-3 worked. Several of them would move erratically–starting to open the mouth for a word, not close it, etc–and some others were frozen, completely inoperable. One face was stuck in an odd position–one eye half opened, the other wide open, the mouth partially ajar. It looked like a death mask
I’m jsut stunned that Disney would let an entire attraction go to crap like that. I know that it is an old show and probably isn’t worth paying to repair–it’ll likely be scrapped and completely renovated, if not replaced–but geeeeeeez! If it works as crappy as it does, just close it down. I thought Disney was anal about things like that.
Ah, well. Let’s all sing like the birdies sing, cheep…cheep cheep…cheep cheep…