With the opening of the Skipper Canteen, I can't help but wonder how much fun it would be to tweak Magic Kingdom's Adventureland a bit. Not all of it - unlike Disneyland, Florida's Adventureland is broken into a couple of distinct parts, what I call the "jungle bit," and the "Spanish bit" that houses Pirates and transitions to Frontierland.
Wouldn't it be fun, though, to tweak the "jungle bit?" Not much. Just sort of gently drape an Adventurers' Club sensibility over it. You've already got the Canteen, which has more than one nod to the Society that ran that Adventurers' Club. Why not tweak Jungle Cruise itself, so that we're all joining the Society on a cruise through the jungle? Keep the corny jokes (well, maybe some new ones), and let each skipper adopt a character and persona from the Society's era. Maybe let each skipper have some of their own, approved, unique-to-them jokes. It's the same adventure - but we're not taking it as tourists, we're taking it as new inductees into the Society. Maybe subtly re-dress some of the characters - one of the gents in a pith helmet, for example, could almost be a dead ringer for a Colonel we all know. And maybe that rhino is why the Colonel was last seen bolted to his chair...
Make the Treehouse less of a walk-through exhibit, and more of an Adventure. Maybe a scavenger hunt of some kind, with maps you pick up at the entrance. But take the whole area back to the early 1900s of the Adventurers' Club. Remove the "Swiss Family" branding, as it's all but irrelevant today, and maybe make it fun-spooky.
The Tiki Room can of course stay the same, but maybe tweak the pre-show a bit to bring it into the right era. Tweak the attraction's backstory so that, perhaps, it's a discovery of the Adventurers' Club members, who've brought back these magical tikis and singing birds from an expedition through the islands of Polynesia.
It'd open some nice opportunities for streetmosphere players, obviously - maybe we could meet Samantha again for a quick selfie!
It needn't be obtrusive. There's no reason the sub-area couldn't have its own backstory, and like most Disney backstories, guests who don't know it won't be bothered in the least. But it would be a really neat unifying theme, and provide a lot more background logic. It becomes the reason the land exists, not so much the attraction itself.
Wouldn't it be fun, though, to tweak the "jungle bit?" Not much. Just sort of gently drape an Adventurers' Club sensibility over it. You've already got the Canteen, which has more than one nod to the Society that ran that Adventurers' Club. Why not tweak Jungle Cruise itself, so that we're all joining the Society on a cruise through the jungle? Keep the corny jokes (well, maybe some new ones), and let each skipper adopt a character and persona from the Society's era. Maybe let each skipper have some of their own, approved, unique-to-them jokes. It's the same adventure - but we're not taking it as tourists, we're taking it as new inductees into the Society. Maybe subtly re-dress some of the characters - one of the gents in a pith helmet, for example, could almost be a dead ringer for a Colonel we all know. And maybe that rhino is why the Colonel was last seen bolted to his chair...
Make the Treehouse less of a walk-through exhibit, and more of an Adventure. Maybe a scavenger hunt of some kind, with maps you pick up at the entrance. But take the whole area back to the early 1900s of the Adventurers' Club. Remove the "Swiss Family" branding, as it's all but irrelevant today, and maybe make it fun-spooky.
The Tiki Room can of course stay the same, but maybe tweak the pre-show a bit to bring it into the right era. Tweak the attraction's backstory so that, perhaps, it's a discovery of the Adventurers' Club members, who've brought back these magical tikis and singing birds from an expedition through the islands of Polynesia.
It'd open some nice opportunities for streetmosphere players, obviously - maybe we could meet Samantha again for a quick selfie!
It needn't be obtrusive. There's no reason the sub-area couldn't have its own backstory, and like most Disney backstories, guests who don't know it won't be bothered in the least. But it would be a really neat unifying theme, and provide a lot more background logic. It becomes the reason the land exists, not so much the attraction itself.
