Enchanted Tiki Village

**The Enchanted Tiki Village** is the conjectural name for an unidentified village-setting for parts of the *Disneyland Hotel*.

## Description

The Enchanted Tiki Village is the conjectural name for an oceanside Polynesian village on an unidentified isle of the Pacific Ocean. The village is one of the many regions across the world connected to the, "Wilds of Adventureland", a composite realm interconnected via the supernatural *Rivers of Adventure*.

### Features

* **Beach**:
* **Tangaroa Terrace**:
* **Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar**:

## History

### Background

#### Origins

This was a seaside Polynesian village, active by the 1930s. The peoples of the island practiced hula-dancing and seemingly worshiped a variety of Māori gods, represented as, "Tikis". By the 1930s, the village would be colonized by European powers such as the Jungle Navigation Company.

#### Trader Sam's

The Enchanted Tiki Bar was opened in the mid 1930s by the ancient South American magic-user, "Trader Sam" with assistance from the colonial Jungle Navigation Company. Sam was originally a magical trader and salesman of shrunken heads who following being bitten by a, "Bartending Bug" would travel the world studying liquor brews in locations such as the Amazon rainforest, Caribbean, Congo Basin, Mystic Point, Polynesia and Vulcania. Sam was a prominent figure in the local Polynesian village where he often womanized and commit serial-murders for shrunken-heads and cannibalistic urges. He also seemingly was taught hula-dancing by a woman named Karen around this time.

The bar was enchanted by the magics of various, "Tiki Gods" who also blessed the Polynesian Adventureland feature of the *Enchanted Tiki Room* which the Enchanted TIki Bar was potentially (but not confirmed to be) on the same island of. The bar would be decorated with many belongings of Sam which he obtained over the years, post-cards and letters from his countless contacts, and various photographs of his adventures. Fellow bar-owner Marion Ravenwood and several members of Sam's friends in the *Adventurers Club* sent Sam gifts to commemorate the bar's opening.

Around the summer of 1936, Sam was contacted by one Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir of the *Lost Delta Archaeological Expedition* which was excavating the Temple of the Forbidden Eye in the Lost Delta of India, a region connected to Adventureland. The expedition was being pressured by their patrons in *British Colonial Affairs* to bring more tourists to the temple with Sallah believing Sam could bring patrons over. Around 1936, Sam used his bar to commemorate the arrive of the colonial *Adventure Trading Company* in Adventureland, crafting a brew called, "Juju Juice" named for their jujus. When Sam's staff lost the recipe, they relied on new recruits of the company to track down the location of Sam's spare recipe and gave them a *Tiki Mask Juju* for their work.

Sam's friend and ally Indiana Jones would frequent the bar and leave behind a bullwhip and fedora as a gift to Sam. After the year 1937, the Adventurers Club sent many of their belongings from their headquarters in Pleasure Island to Sam while they went on expedition. By 1940, Adventurers Club member Hathaway Browne often stopped in the bar to purchase enchanted liquor which he used as plane-fuel. Following 1941, Sam's best customer became one Walt Disneywho befriended Sam on his vacation to South America.

#### Tiki craze

By the 1950s, the manager of the bar from the JNC was one Skip Dockmonkey. During the Holiday seasons, Sam put the bars through Christmas themed overlays coinciding with paranormal, "Tropical Snowstorms" which engulfed the island region with a blizzard from the nearby volcano (possibly Krakatoa). By this point in time, notable artifacts in Sam's collection included the bottled pirate-ship *The* *Wicked Wench*, the idols of several Tiki Gods, the lamp belonging to the Genie of Agrabah, a vintage plush and carving of Donald Duck, the bronze bust of one Dr. Albert Falls, a figurine of the Orange Bird, the propeller from Hathaway Browne's plane, a coin jar labelled, "Paradise Falls", and a mask dubbed, "Joe".

Around the year 1960, Trader Sam, Skip, and Sam's cousin Chief Nah-mee opened a sister-location to the Enchanted Tiki Bar. This was built in an, "East Coast" Polynesian village, likewise connected to the Tiki Gods.

## Jungle Cruise appearances

### Adventure Trading Company

This was the setting of the Tiki Mask Juju mission. Guests had to assist the crew-mates of Trader Sam's in avoiding Sam's murderous wrath.

### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

The village is the setting of this bar in the Disneyland Hotel. There are also several references to villagers who Sam has interacted with: mostly hula dancers who he womanizes and men who suspect him of his serial-killings.

### Other connections

#### Disney's Polynesian Village Resort

The depiction of Maui from this resort is used in the village and many of the tiki gods depicted in the village are scattered about Disney's Polynesian Village Resort.

#### Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room

The Enchanted Tiki Room is often assumed to be set in the same village or on the same island as Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar though this has yet to be confirmed. Regardless, the people of the village seemingly worship the same gods in the same tiki forms as those of the Enchanted Tiki Room. If true, this would also implicate the village as holding an incarnation of the Sunshine Tree Terrace connected to the Orange Bird, the uncharted tributary dock of the *Jungle Cruise* and *Tropical Hideaway*, and be setting of overlays connected to *Aladdin*, *The Lion King* and *Lilo & Stitch*.

## Trivia

* The Daily Gnus newspaper in the Adventure Trading Company referenced the village holding the, "Disneyland Hotel", possibly implying an in-universe Disneyland Hotel which the bar is located within. This is however complicated by Sam having canonically first encountered Walt Disney in 1941, roughly six years after the events of Adventure Trading Company when the hotel is referenced. The reference was also there mainly to direct players to the bar's real-word location outside of *Disneyland Park*, making it more unreliable.
* A removed sign from the Enchanted Tiki Bar read, "*Would you folks please remove your watches and jewelry? The natives have been complaining of indigestion*", recycling a racist joke used for the Umbala Tribe of the Jungle Cruise which seemingly implicated the villagers as practicing cannibalism. It is also possible that the serial-killer Trader Sam fed them human meat without them knowing the meat's origin.

## Gallery

One of the volcanoes overlooking the villageThe Tropical Snowstorm
## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CRm0XY9hNqo/
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3. ↑ https://www.disneytouristblog.com/trader-sams-backstory-details/
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