Not to be confused withTiki Tong Terror.

Tiki Tong Tower
Concept artwork of the Tiki Tong Tower
Species	Tiki
First appearance	Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
Latest appearance	Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (2025)
Member of	Tiki Tak Tribe

Tiki Tong Tower is the giant and sentient tower in the center of theVolcano inDonkey Kong Country Returns and is home to the leader of theTiki Tak Tribe,Tiki Tong. After the volcano erupts in the game's opening, the tower rises from it and roars. The Tiki Tong Tower can be seen from anywhere on the World Selection Screen, rising above the haze that normally shrouds the Volcano. Its lower jaw is always in motion. It appears to be an observation point; on the World Selection Screen it turns to face the camera though it cannot look up or down.

The tower is prominently featured in the final level of the game, the Volcano levelTiki Tong Terror. In it, the Kongs have to use aRocket Barrel to fly up the tower. Obstacles include drums extending from the left and right sides of the screen,spiked shafts that extend to collide in the center of the screen, grinding saws on the ends of wider versions of the aforementioned drums that scroll across the screen but leave an opening between them,Tiki Goons ridingballoons, and square blocks sticking out from the tower. This is to reach the inside of the tower, whose mouth opens up and stays open in a cutscene preceding the Rocket Barrel launch.

At the top, the Kongs land inside the tower's mouth, which closes behind them. The walls turn into a moving pattern that changes color and the Kongs must fight Tiki Tong. When Tiki Tong is defeated, he explodes and launches the Kongs up through the tower and past themoon. At this point, the story splits depending on which Kongs are present, but the gist is thatDonkey Kong punches the moon down and onto the tower, with or without Diddy Kong's help;Diddy Kong on his own accidentally crashes into the moon. The moon falls out of orbit and crushes the tower, at which point it is pushed back into the volcano. After completing the game, the tower no longer appears on the World Selection Screen.

Gallery[edit]

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  The Tiki Tong Tower looming overDonkey Kong Island

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  Model of the tower

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  Promotional artwork

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  Storyboard of the tower's destruction

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  The tower as seen in the background ofJungle Hijinxs

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  The tower's interior, where Tiki Tong is fought

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References[edit]

• Tiki Tak Tribe
• Towers
• Animate objects
• Donkey Kong Country Returns

• Articles with unsourced foreign names