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Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room finally opened to guests on June 23, 1963. In total the attraction featured a stunning 225 Audio Animatronic characters performing a 17 minute tropical revue.
===Walt Diseny Disney World===Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room proved to be a smash hit for Disneyland, and thus it was an obvious choice for inclusion in Walt Disney World. The In the Magic Kingdom’s version of Kingdom, the Enchanted Tiki Room was renamed the “Tropical Serenade”, "Tropical Serenade" and housed inside the attraction opened Sunshine Pavilion sponsored by the Citrus Florida Growers. Opening with the rest of the park on October 1, 1971. Although the show itself , Tropical Serenade was essentially of a carbon copy of the Disneyland version, show. With that being said there were major differences in the queue and attraction building were quite different. Instead of having a large waiting lobby (as Disneyland did) the For starters, Tropical Serenade featured three separate covered lines, giving the queue more orderthen its Disneyland counterpart. Also unlike Furthermore, while Disneyland (which had limited space) Walt Disney World’s version 's preshow centered on Tiki god statues, the Tropical Serenade preshow centered on two birds named Clyde and Claude having a conversation with each other. Also of note is the Tiki Room fact that the Tropical Serenade was shown housed in a large much lager theater then the Disneyland version of the show, and the attraction was topped with a large pagoda, making it much more noticeablethat drew guests to the Sunshine Pavilion.
The Tropical Serenade remained unchanged until 1997, when the show closed for renovations. Due to lack of popularity, Disney decided to retheme the show, adding popular the characters Zazu (from Disney’s The Lion King) and Iago (from Disney’s Aladdin). The attraction reopened as the “Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management) on April 5, 1998. The premise of the new show featured Zazu and Iago as the new owners of the Tiki Room, and although the show briefly included the original show’s theme song, “The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room”, Under New Management featured an all new soundtrack. Under New Management quickly proved to be unpopular with guests however, and attendance problems once again plagued the attraction. In 2011 a small fire broke out in the attic of the theater, causing the sprinkler system to be activated. Although no one was injured in the fire, the Audio Animatronic Iago was badly damaged and the attraction suffered some water damage. Due to both the fire, and the increased popularity of a refurbished Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room in Disneyland, Disney decided to restore the attraction to a version of the original show. The attraction reopened as “Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room” on August 15 2011, in time for the Magic Kingdom’s 40th anniversary. The “new” show is six minutes shorter than the original 17 minute version, as the Offenbach number and some dialogue were removed.
