Gone are Arnold Schwarzenegger’s "Terminator" jacket and Michael J. Fox’s "Back to the Future" DeLorean, and in their place at the old Planet Hollywood are bears, bears and more bears.

Seven months after the Waikiki theme restaurant closed its doors, Teddy Bear World Hawaii opened last Saturday with more than 500 bears occupying two dozen audio-animatronic scenes.

The attraction is more varied than the name implies, perhaps the result of cultural translation, as the self-proclaimed teddy bear museum is the first Teddy Bear World franchise to open outside of Korea.

Ray Kim, president of Teddy Bear World Hawaii, said that when opening the original museum and theme park in Jeju, Korea, officials aimed not to reproduce the stuffy, traditional teddy bear museums of England and Germany.

"We thought if we make it bigger and better and funny and more (educational) and historical, then it’s going to be a big hit," Kim said.

In the 10 years since starting the teddy bear museum venture, the company has opened four Teddy Bear Worlds in Korea.

Teddy bear picnic? Got that in a "Brideshead Revisited" scene.

Teddy bears on parade? They’re here, too, in the New York City Thanksgiving parade scene.

Bear hugs? Plenty of those.

The $5 million, 17,000-square-foot complex includes a retail store that opened street-level on Kalakaua Avenue on Wednesday, drawing pedestrians into the bearfest upstairs.

Once ascending the escalator, visitors are greeted by a 5-foot-tall bear riding a motorcycle. Look closely and you can spot a tiny version of the biker bear in each exhibit in the 8 Wonders of America section of the museum. Billy Chang, marketing director of Teddy Bear World Hawaii, said the idea is that the bear is cruising through each stop on a cross-country trip.

The wonders feature 11 robotic dioramas depicting the surprising lineup of New York City, Mount Rushmore, the Rocky Mountains, NASA,i San Francisco, Hollywood, Sports and Washington, D.C. Videos playing on monitors hanging over the exhibits give them real-life context for visitors unfamiliar with the monuments.

The self-guided tour continues with Dinosaur Park, where relatively realistic dinosaur figures interact with quirky bears, some of whom attempt to feed a Tyrannosaurus while others swing joyfully on the neck of a Brontosaurus.

The Save the Planet area mixes facts about endangered bear species on digital posters with scenes of the at-risk bears cavorting.

"We try to incorporate everything back to bears. So the polar, the panda and the grizzly, we incorporated that into protecting the environment," Chang said.

The Teddy Bear Museum section covers a hodgepodge of museum interpretations, from the tale of the teddy bear’s namesake, Theodore Roosevelt, to scenes of historical events (the Russian Revolution, World War II) with accompanying stories that explain the role a teddy played in the event, such as the bear created for the families of those lost on the Titanic.

"These exhibits explain something from history that is significant that relates back to bears," Chang said.

There is a display of antique bears, ranging from a 1905 mohair bear to more recent creations, such as Teddy Ruxpin, the Care Bears and Yogi Bear. The museum area also features a portrait gallery where famous pieces of art are given 3-D bear faces. The "Mona Lisa" is decidedly more kid-friendly than the rendition of Edvard Munich’s "The Scream."

There is a strong pop culture pull throughout the exhibits, from the bear offering a blue crystal heart necklace to another on the Titanic, to the bears representing Forrest Gump and Jenny kissing in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to the Harry Potter bear.

The pop-culture blitz ends at the Elvis theater, where film clips of Elvis in Hawaii are combined with lip-synching bears and flashing lights for a seven-minute show.

Visitors can bide their time until the next show by snapping photos with an oversize sumo, surfer or Obama bear.