Jungle Cruise Update

[Californian Elitist]

I’m in. 100%

Shall we get a little group together then. Would anyone else be interested in this? We could talk about other things as well, not just Jungle Cruise animatronics lol.

 

[mickEblu]

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Don’t want to fuel the fire and I’m getting tired of this convo.

 

[mickEblu]

just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse. McDonalds stopped giving peanuts with their Sundaes?

I don’t care what anyone says though. Their soft serve Vanilla is world class

 

[Californian Elitist]

just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse. McDonalds stopped giving peanuts with their Sundaes?

I don’t care what anyone says though. Their soft serve Vanilla is world class

They still serve sundaes? I thought they discontinued them years ago. Oops.

They to sell hot fudge brownie sundaes back in the early 2000s and they were . Wish they’d bring them back.

 

[mickEblu]

They still serve sundaes? I thought they discontinued them years ago. Oops.

They to sell hot fudge brownie sundaes back in the early 2000s and they were . Wish they’d bring them back.

Never had one but it sounds wonderful. I’m just going to have to go with the Vanilla cone now since they axed the peanuts. Do you ask for “fresh” fries. Does everyone know that hack?

 

[PiratesMansion]

I can only speak for myself on this. From personal experience it isn’t overstated. However, the claims come from other, more easily accessible platforms, with virtually zero claims on here. So, after my experience with receiving by all that on the other platforms, I came here to vent about it on here, where the people with opposing opinions are generally more respectful and avoid attacking one’s character. Perhaps it would be more suited to take my concerns to those platforms, but I have, in the most mild form possible, and I was mocked for it.

I want people to learn from my experience. Not just the fact that those people that bully others with that rhetoric actually do exist, but also the fact that I handled myself remarkably poor. Even someone like myself can recognize my mistakes, recover, and handle future discussions in a more tactful manner.

It is becoming incredibly common for people to “false flag” others with overused/inappropriate terms solely due to a difference of opinion. It is up to us to call that out, even if they use it in a way that supports our opinions. None of that stuff encourages intellectual discussions, and it certainly doesn’t make our argument any more convincing to those that disagree with us.

Generally speaking, I would agree with you.

That said, there are clearly people here who have been, at best, disrespectful and have been, in my view, posting in bad faith (not you in any instance that I can recall).

The ride change threads aren't the only ones where this is happening, but the covid threads, reopening threads, anything that's been tagged political-that's where you'll see the rhetoric. It's not hard to find. To me-and I'm sure to many others-there's a certain point at which "difference of opinion" has a tendency to become "active antagonism" by a certain segment of this site's users.

Just as there are people willing to listen and offer different perspectives, there are also a number of pot-stirrers on here who thrive on pouring the gasoline and lighting the match, and then are quick to blame people who call them out on it for "inflaming the situation" or "not being able to take a joke."

I have no doubt that Twitter and other socials are worse, which makes me greatful that I've never tried to engage in serious theme park conversations on those platforms. Too many stories of other people getting burned.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Never had one but it sounds wonderful. I’m just going to have to go with the Vanilla cone now since they axed the peanuts. Do you ask for “fresh” fries. Does everyone know that hack?

Besides actually freshly cooked fries? No lol.

 

[Disney Analyst]

They still serve sundaes? I thought they discontinued them years ago. Oops.

They to sell hot fudge brownie sundaes back in the early 2000s and they were . Wish they’d bring them back.

When I was a child McDonald’s pizza was my thing. Oh those were the days.

 

[Californian Elitist]

When I was a child McDonald’s pizza was my thing. Oh those were the days.

I never got to experience the pizza! I miss their chicken (mighty) wings.

International McDonald’s are better than the ones in America.

 

[mickEblu]

Besides actually freshly cooked fries? No lol.

Hahah yea it just means make sure their hot. Sometimes that means you might wait a little longer but it’s worth it. It even pops on the screen when I ask for it so it’s a “thing.”

 

[SuddenStorm]

Never had one but it sounds wonderful. I’m just going to have to go with the Vanilla cone now since they axed the peanuts. Do you ask for “fresh” fries. Does everyone know that hack?

Get the Mcdonald's app. They've been doing $1 large fries daily, so I end up going more often then I should.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I never got to experience the pizza! I miss their chicken (mighty) wings.

International McDonald’s are better than the ones in America.

I think Canada and US McDonalds is pretty similar. Only thing is we lost our $1 menu like eons and eons ago. I remember when I lived in Florida I could get two McDoubles and a chicken nuggets for $3.00...

and for the first time I understood the obesity problem.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I think Canada and US McDonalds is pretty similar. Only thing is we lost our $1 menu like eons and eons ago. I remember when I lived in Florida I could get two McDoubles and a chicken nuggets for $3.00...

and for the first time I understood the obesity problem.

Yes, I figured that. I was thinking more of the European McDonald's. I experienced one in Italy and one in Germany and both had better options than the one's here. The McDonald's in Hawaii might be an exception.

The best and funniest part of this post is your description of unhealthy foods you could get for just a few bucks. It's funny, but sad as well. Like you insinuated, no wonder we have an obesity and lack of healthy eating problem in this country.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Isn't it more racist to have the monkeys-running-amuck scenes added to the ride? A subtle jab at the BLM riots from this summer, yet they think we're too stupid to figure out what they're referencing? A prime example of trying to fight racism, while making something far more racist and offensive. Just remove the tribal attack scene and keep the other scenes as they are.

LOL. No.

 

[AnonymousStitch]

Well not my best effort but here's an example for you.

Sorry, did I keep you waiting too long for this?



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Most likely the one that says Save SPM might win because of how they outnumber the haters. Rumor says that Disney might reconsider putting Johnny Depp back as Jack in a 6th Pirates, because of the number of fans who want him back.

https:///2021/01/johnny-depp-in-pir...ail&utm_term=0_a98380eccc-1ed6a9c378-96031217

Even it is true, which might be, they might do the same for the ride or others if they must. You never know.

 

[BubbaisSleep]

Isn't it more racist to have the monkeys-running-amuck scenes added to the ride? A subtle jab at the BLM riots from this summer, yet they think we're too stupid to figure out what they're referencing? A prime example of trying to fight racism, while making something far more racist and offensive. Just remove the tribal attack scene and keep the other scenes as they are.

Perfect example of how you see things can reveal who you are in nature.
And to answer your question, no I'm sure most of us don't always relate monkeys to black people.
Your post is the not-so subtle jab.

 

[networkpro]

 

[BasiltheBatLord]

Shall we get a little group together then. Would anyone else be interested in this? We could talk about other things as well, not just Jungle Cruise animatronics lol.

I'd be down for a Discord chat group. Not to talk about PC stuff though.

 

[Ellen Ripley]

And before anybody says anything about me not realizing how offensive Splash Mountain is because I'm not black. I'm not Indian, but I find Raj from The Big Bang Theory an offensive caricature of Indians. I understand why the Indians from Peter Pan are considered racist. As I've said multiple times, I understand why people find the headhunters in the Jungle Cruise offensive. I'm just not seeing what's so racist about Splash Mountain (aside from the whole "Song of the South exists" thing).

The story was taken from African slaves, without credit or compensation.

Origins and Influences
Two-thirds of Harris's celebrated trickster tales—which constitute the largest gathering of African American folktales published in the nineteenth century—derive their deep structures and primary motifs from African folktales that were brought to the New World and then retold and elaborated upon by African American slaves living in the southeastern United States. The remaining stories have their roots in European and Native American folklore.

Eatonton's other famous literary personality, however, Alice Walker, only begrudgingly acknowledges Harris's influence, arguing that he in effect stole a major part of the black folk legacy from its authentic African American creators.

The Brer Rabbit Stories
Harris's fictionalized storyteller, Uncle Remus, was a "human syndicate" whom he had admittedly "walloped together" from several black storytellers he had met while working from 1862 to 1866 as a printing compositor on Joseph Addison Turner's Turnwold Plantation, outside Eatonton, in Putnam County. Although Uncle Remus's name has its ultimate origins in Rome's Romulus and Remus legend, its more immediate antecedent was an elderly black gardener Harris met in Forsyth, Georgia, where Harris had served from 1867 to 1870 as an editor for the Monroe Advertiser.

Uncle Remus Tales - New Georgia Encyclopedia

The Uncle Remus tales are African American trickster stories about the exploits of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and other “creeturs” that were recreated in Black regional dialect by Joel Chandler Harris. Harris, a native of Eatonton, was a literary comedian, New South journalist, amateur folklorist...

www.georgiaencyclopedia.org

 

[Californian Elitist]

I'd be down for a Discord chat group. Not to talk about PC stuff though.

I guess you won't be there then, huh?

Maybe we can plan another one where we talk about strictly Disneyland and maybe sprinkle in a few other topics. I'm up for that, too.