Disney World Files Permit for an Opening Day Attraction at Magic Kingdom

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Disney has filed a new construction permit for one of the Magic Kingdom’s oldest attractions: The Enchanted Tiki Room.

Let’s go in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room!

Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, an East Coast take on the classic Disneyland animatronic show located in the Magic Kingdom’s Adventureland, is set to see some construction, according to the latest permit Disney has filed with the Orange County, Florida, Comptroller’s Office.

The permit provides for “labor, material, and electrical” construction work at an address that matches up with the Tiki Room building. The listed contractor for the work is the Buena Vista Construction Company, Disney’s in-house construction company.

Enchanted Tiki Room

While this project doesn’t seem too in-depth, Disney fans can’t be blamed for being a bit antsy any time they think about construction on the Tiki Room. After all, in the late 1990s, Disney decided that the Disney World version of the Walt-era classic — which had been known as the Tropical Serenade since opening day — needed a makeover. The new take on the show, which opened in April of 1998, was known as The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management), and featured Iago and Zazu (from Aladdin and The Lion King, respectively) “taking over” the show from the original Tiki birds, and running afoul (or I guess “a fowl”) of Uh-Oa, the Tiki Goddess of Disaster.

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The show was, uh, certainly something. Iago and Zazu, lovable as they are in their respective films, didn’t fit with the show, and it didn’t help that so much of their dialogue was written to take potshots at the classic show. To put it mildly, the new version was unpopular among Disney fans. However, it ran until 2011, when a fire destroyed the Iago animatronic and forced the show to close. In a move that was greatly appreciated by many, Disney reverted the show to something much more akin to the original version during the post-fire refurbishment.

Tiki Room!

A new construction permit indicates work is coming to Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, though it certainly doesn’t seem likely that Iago and Zazu are coming with it. Stay tuned to DFB for more on Disney’s latest construction permits.

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