This podcast as well as all others are brought to you by Performance Journeys, which celebrates its 20th year as a training and development group bringing best in business ideas through keynotes, workshops, seminars and amazing benchmarking programs to organizations in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Join Jose, Fritz, Michael, Pierre and more as we celebrate one of only two attractions that carries the name of its founder, Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room. We see how this attraction has played out for generations of audiences over the years, and has evolved into entire resorts like Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort and Disney’s Aulani. We pay homage to this amazing attraction–Simple in concept but never simplistic in execution. Six decades of Abraham Lincoln, swashbuckling pirates, singing dolls, Big Al, Dinosaurs, Mark Twain, Figment, Extraterrestrial Aliens, Avatar Shamans and Dancing Baby Groots all take their roots from a thatched hut.
Opened on June 23rd of 1963, The Enchanted Tiki Room represents Walt Disney’s first foray into Audio-Animatronics, a new “space age” technology that allowed inanimate characters to perform on cue–and even talk. Sixty years of the Enchanted Tiki Room doesn’t just mean a lot of decades of bird shows, although that number is enormous.
