Hello, new Facebook follower! Welcome to the official social media feed for Pele's Polynesian Playground, Waikiki's latest and greatest themed amusement park home to Hawaii's only roller coaster. Pele's Polynesian Playground, named after the traditional Hawaiian volcano goddess, is a new family entertainment center opening outside Honolulu near Waikiki Beach, the epicenter of Hawaii's unfathomably large tourism industry. With the only other amusement industry in the state being a waterpark and the shear scale of the effort that it will take to build even a small family entertainment center like Polynesian Playground, we can ensure a monopoly on what we have for likely ten years at the very least.
Polynesian Playground is an approved project that is currently going up, but since we don't expect it to be finished for another few months, we thought we'd count down the time until it opens by showing you the renderings of what it will look like!
First walking up to Pele's Polynesian Playground, you'll round a curved promenade inspired by the Hawaiian fish hook club and end up on this plaza. The buildings on the right are the two ticket booths where you can purchase ride tickets and wristbands, the left is the actual park gate.
The park gate will be the first of many rockwork fixtures present around Polynesian Playground. We don't have much to work with for land in crowded Waikiki but we definitely have the passion and funds, so while this park will be closer to the size of a Timber Falls Adventure Park-style FEC, the theming will be on an extremely grand scale.
Once through the rockwork, you'll be on a plaza simply known as The Roundabout to us. This small ring of path will have a whopping eight access points to other things, two being the park entrance paths. Once here, our approach to the theming will become clear: a combination of traditional Hawaiian elements and the Americanized tiki culture that it inspired.
The park's centerpiece is this water feature known as The Blowhole. Inspired by the coastal rock formations in Samoa known for jettisoning waves sky high, this watery, misty rock ring will periodically shoot a burst of water forty feet in the air! We wanted to pick a cynosure for this park that wasn't a volcano, aiming for originality while still staying true to the theme.
This Tiki Club is one of two restaurants on property, it's an upstairs island bar that serves alcoholic mixed drinks and Polynesian-inspired appetizers.
Next time we post you'll see the relaxing atmosphere take a wild turn as we unveil the most twisted machine to ever rock the South Pacific! As the only coaster in Hawaii, this is the work of a longtime trusted manufacturer of wooden roller coasters taking on the unusually difficult challenge of building something so far from the mainland they call home. Taking one of their most proud coaster designs in a state that couldn't be more different and downsizing it to take its essence to the Aloha State!
Polynesian Playground is an approved project that is currently going up, but since we don't expect it to be finished for another few months, we thought we'd count down the time until it opens by showing you the renderings of what it will look like!
First walking up to Pele's Polynesian Playground, you'll round a curved promenade inspired by the Hawaiian fish hook club and end up on this plaza. The buildings on the right are the two ticket booths where you can purchase ride tickets and wristbands, the left is the actual park gate.
The park gate will be the first of many rockwork fixtures present around Polynesian Playground. We don't have much to work with for land in crowded Waikiki but we definitely have the passion and funds, so while this park will be closer to the size of a Timber Falls Adventure Park-style FEC, the theming will be on an extremely grand scale.
Once through the rockwork, you'll be on a plaza simply known as The Roundabout to us. This small ring of path will have a whopping eight access points to other things, two being the park entrance paths. Once here, our approach to the theming will become clear: a combination of traditional Hawaiian elements and the Americanized tiki culture that it inspired.
The park's centerpiece is this water feature known as The Blowhole. Inspired by the coastal rock formations in Samoa known for jettisoning waves sky high, this watery, misty rock ring will periodically shoot a burst of water forty feet in the air! We wanted to pick a cynosure for this park that wasn't a volcano, aiming for originality while still staying true to the theme.
This Tiki Club is one of two restaurants on property, it's an upstairs island bar that serves alcoholic mixed drinks and Polynesian-inspired appetizers.
Next time we post you'll see the relaxing atmosphere take a wild turn as we unveil the most twisted machine to ever rock the South Pacific! As the only coaster in Hawaii, this is the work of a longtime trusted manufacturer of wooden roller coasters taking on the unusually difficult challenge of building something so far from the mainland they call home. Taking one of their most proud coaster designs in a state that couldn't be more different and downsizing it to take its essence to the Aloha State!
