The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)

Opening Date: 1998

The Enchanted Tiki Room was a classic show that featured over 150 Audio-Animatronic performers, including birds, flowers, and tiki totem poles. Today, it’s known as much for its Dole Whip pineapple desserts as the show itself; the juice and yogurt stands outside the attraction are some of the most popular concession stands in the entire park.

But in 1998, the brain trust at Florida’s Walt Disney World decided to revamp the attraction as The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management), which now featured oversized figures of Iago (Aladdin) and Zazu (Lion King) as the new owners of the Tiki Room. Iago loudly and obnoxiously branded the current show as out-of-date and old-fashioned, which angered the Tiki God Uh-Oa. This also confused younger guests, who had never experienced the original attraction, and thus had no basis of comparison to know what had changed or what was being parodied.

The show brimmed with mid-90s How-Do-You-Do-Fellow-Kids energy. And when an accidental fire wrecked the attraction in 2011, it felt like an act of mercy. Walt Disney World reverted back to an abbreviated version of the original Tiki Room show, and it’s stayed that way ever since.