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2024 TikiLand Mug Society Members:
- PRICE IS ARTIFICIALLY HIGH at $999 TO DISCOURAGE PURCHASE FROM NON-TMS 2024 MEMBERS.
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TMS 2024 MEMBERS, You will not be shipped a mug unless you do this:
- Select the "Ready to Ship" option.
- USE SECRET CODE: TMSGARDENMUG during checkout for it to be $0.00.
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Garden of Tiki
Introducing “Garden of Tiki”, the exclusive mystery TikiLand tiki mug for the 2024 members of TikiLand Mug Society.
If you’re a fan of the Enchanted Tiki Room in Anaheim, it’s likely you’re familiar with the Tangaroa Babies that hang from the Tangaroa Tree in the Enchanted Tiki Garden (the pre-show waiting area). And of course, most people are familiar with the Tiki Juice Bar as well.
In 1976 Dole took over sponsorship of the Enchanted Tiki Room from United Airlines. At the juice bar, the menu back then was limited to pineapple juice and fresh pineapple spears, but eventually Dole Whips and Dole Whip Floats were added in 1984 and 1986 respectively. Dole’s involvement as a sponsor was a massive marketing payoff as Dole Whip and Dole Whip Floats would become a phenomenon of their own, and for many years were sparsely available outside of the parks.
It’s with these points of inspiration that we designed “Garden of Tiki”. Continuing the theme of our of our last two TikiLand Mug Society mystery mugs, which is the intersect of Tiki and art in popular culture and advertising, Jeff Granito brought to life a rough concept which
Lost Tiki had of a Tangaroa Baby emerging from a pineapple.
This mug follows its two TikiLand Mug Society mystery mug predecessors, from 2023 "Gateway to Tiki”, and from 2022 “Journey to Hawaii”.
“Journey to Hawaii” was inspired by the United Airlines “HAWAII” advertising campaign, and “Gateway to Tiki" mug is transitional in the story - moving from United Airlines, to the crossover of United Airlines’ sponsorship of the Enchanted Tiki Room when it first opened in 1963 until 1975. The third and current mug, “Garden of Tiki”, picks up in 1976 with the sponsorship transition of the Enchanted Tiki Room from United Airlines to Dole.
Lost Tiki’s inspiration for each of the mugs created for TikiLand Mug Society is to tell part of his, and many other’s, story and journey of “falling down the Tiki rabbit hole”. This is the 4th mug in the ongoing TikiLand Mug Society series.
This mug is only available to members of TikiLand Mug Society.
About this Tiki Mug:
- Mug photos show the mug in indoor light using lighting that emulates outdoor light. No filters or editing has been used on these photos besides cropping.
- Concept by Lost Tiki and Designed by Jeff Granito in sunny southern California. Imported.
- These are ceramic mugs.
- Each mug is hand made. Each mug is hand cast, hand cleaned up seam lines, then individually hand glazed! As a result, each mug will be unique and have variations in glaze, color, cleanup, etc.
- Hand wash only!
- Please familiarize yourself with our policies.
What are “Whoopsies”?
This only applies to those who select 'Whoopsies' as an option when ordering.
During production, sometimes 'Whoopsies!' happen. These mugs we still consider sellable and usable, but we’ve previously held them back from shipping for often very small and obscure reasons that most people wouldn’t notice/care about. While all of our mugs are hand made and unique, some are a little more unique than others. We’ve had many people inquire about mugs that we’ve not had in-stock for awhile, so we thought this could be a good way to get some mugs that we no longer produce into the hands of those who really want them, and to make room on our shelves for new mugs that we’ve got in the works.
Each of these tiki mugs will have one or more of these, or other, small issues: glaze somewhere unintended, glaze smudges, superficial cracks that don’t affect the integrity of the mug, variation in color or glaze texture, cleanup issues, etc. As each mugs issues vary and are unique, they aren’t reflected in pictures here. Mugs are being sold in as-is condition. While we reserve the right to permanently mark mugs on bottom, out of sight, to indicate they're part of this group, this set will not be marked. Exchanges for alternate 'Whoopsie!' mugs will be allowed if buyer pays shipping costs. Mugs will not arrive cracked (excludes superficial ‘cracks’).
“Whoopsie” mugs are offered at discounted price.
About TikiLand Trading Co.:
Tiki Mugs by TikiLand Trading Co. are a collaboration between TikiLand Trading Co. and Tiki tOny.
Credits for this tiki mug:
Concept by Lost Tiki
Designed by Jeff Granito
Sculpted by TikiLand Trading Co.
Support and production by the team at TikiLand Trading Co.
