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08/17/11 - Enchanted Tiki Room

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4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2011

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Kathy talks about the newly reopened Enchanted Tiki Room at the Magic Kingdom.

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0:00.0

From the Bob Barley studio in Orlando, Florida, you're listening to the Diz Unplugged.

0:18.0

Hello and welcome to the Diz Unplugged Roundtable discussion for the Devlog 2016-2011.

0:23.0

I'm John Neci, and I'll be your host this week, and I am joined by Teresa Eccles, Kathy Whirling.

0:29.0

Julie Martin, Cory Martin, Kevin Close.

0:33.0

Maxie interns running around here somewhere, feeding munchkin' holes to Grace or Stella.

0:41.0

Stella.

0:44.0

In case you're wondering, Pete and Walter have just finished up a Disney Cruise Line Alaska vacation,

0:49.0

and they are getting off the boat as we speak, and whisking their way back to Orlando.

0:54.0

So they'll be joining us again next week for the show.

0:58.0

For this segment, Kathy Whirling is going to tell us about the newly reopened in Janet Tiki Room at Walt Disney World in the Magic Kingdom.

1:05.0

This seemed fast to me. It seems like they turned us over pretty quick, didn't the wire happen recently?

1:11.0

Happened back in January, so they did do it fast, but if you walk inside, you'd never know, there had been a fire.

1:20.0

I mean, they changed some things, but it looks like how it looked before the fire.

1:28.0

You couldn't see a new piece of the thatching or anything in there. It's like they spifted it up.

1:35.0

I've never been so happy about a fire.

1:38.0

So it's like everything looks like it was put in at the same time, not like, oh, look, there's a board that's been placed.

1:44.0

Yeah, they really knocked themselves out, I think, on this one.

1:48.0

It seemed to be, we got there, I was there at nine o'clock, and there was about a dozen of us that were there at nine, and it opens at 10.

1:58.0

And by the time ten o'clock came, there was a very long line of people trying to get into the Janet Tiki Room.

2:06.0

Of all the things that I've ever covered, this seems to be the one attraction that like the old, tiny Disney fan that was sitting there going, well, I remember when they had this, and I remember when it was like this, and they knew the words, and they knew everything.

2:24.0

Like at a loss because I didn't get to Disney to the middle nineties. So I didn't see the original.

2:32.0

At Disney World, I've seen it at Disney Land, but it's not like I paid attention between the two.

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