If you’ve ever wanted to own a historic Disney Park attraction, now’s your chance. An unusual Zillow listing for a mansion in Utah includes a replica of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, which first debuted at Disneyland Park in 1963.
Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room was the first-ever Disney Park attraction to feature audio-animatronic technology, which later became a hallmark of the Disney parks. Disney originally imagined it as a dinner show, and its “magic” fountain still includes a storage area as part of plans to build a coffee station. Because the computers that ran the singing bird animatronics and other technology generated so much heat, Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room was the first air-conditioned building at Disneyland Park.
The Tiki Room became an instant hit after opening, leading Walt Disney Imagineering to create versions for Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort and Tokyo Disneyland at Tokyo Disney Resort. Tokyo Disneyland eventually rethemed its version to The Enchanted Tiki Room: Stitch Presents Aloha e Komo Mai!, inspired by Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Lilo & Stitch (2002).
As it turns out, there’s actually a fourth Enchanted Tiki Room hiding in a ten-bedroom, eighteen-bathroom home in Utah. A video from the Instagram account @seth.hollingsworth, showcasing the unusual mansion’s Zillow listing, recently went viral:
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For an estimated $34,500,000, you can own this 70,000-square-foot home complete with a movie theater, a strange concrete basement, and an area that looks just like the entrance to Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, complete with several resident birds. In an even stranger twist, much of the rest of the house is relatively normal…
In the Instagram comments, many people claiming to be from Hyrum, Utah, where the home is, said it was intended as a family reunion vacation destination. Locals allege that the family ran out of money during construction due to unforeseen circumstances, forcing them to sell.
“[It] was going to be a retreat for their entire extended family and each individual family got to design their own ‘wing’ of the house,” @thedaileekaylee claimed. “The basement was going to be Star Wars themed. Very big Disney fans hence the theming of the finished areas.”
“My brother helped build this,” said @josilynrose. “He did most of the staircase. He said the basement situation was creepy asf. He says, ‘It has a tunnel around the entire basement circumference that you could drive a golf cart in, and the tunnel also goes to the unfinished ‘pool barn.'”
View the Zillow listing, complete with more than 100 photos, here.
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