Jungle Cruise Update

[Homemade Imagineering]

Kinda reminds me of the monkeys from the original Temple scene at DLR.

 

[mickEblu]

I hate it because it reminds me of the POTC chicken auction fix for whatever reason. Half baked, dumb and born from political correctness.

The new on going park wide joke apparently is that people and Disney like to sell stuff. What a knee slapper! And yay more meta please!

 

[mickEblu]

Just sitting here racking my brain trying to think of the last time I really liked anything new. Grizzly Peak Airfield? The new Hungry Bear sign...which may or may not be on borrowed time.

 

[Mickeyboof]

I hate it because it reminds me of the POTC chicken auction fix for whatever reason. Half baked, dumb and born from political correctness.

If it means children don’t have to see themselves primarily as savages, let it be.

 

[mickEblu]

If it means children don’t have to see themselves primarily as savages, let it be.

Oh geez.

Ok I’ll play along. Chicken auctions and a meta gift shop in the Jungle is the best they could replace these things with?

 

[Mickeyboof]

Oh geez.

Ok I’ll play along. Chicken auctions and a meta gift shop in the Jungle is the best they could replace these things with?

gift shop gag sounds fun, lots to look at on repeat trips round the river!

I always asked myself, geez, is the Trader Sam figure the best thing they could come up with?

 

[britain]

The new Hungry Bear sign...which may or may not be on borrowed time.

What makes you say that?

 

[mickEblu]

gift shop gag sounds fun, lots to look at on repeat trips round the river!

I always asked myself, geez, is the Trader Sam figure the best thing they could come up with?

No you didn’t.

 

[mickEblu]

What makes you say that?

Tiana’s Place

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I hate it because it reminds me of the POTC chicken auction fix for whatever reason. Half baked, dumb and born from political correctness.

The new on going park wide joke apparently is that people and Disney like to sell stuff. What a knee slapper! And yay more meta please!

I wish they'd leave things alone even when the changes have nothing to do with political correctness. I had such mixed feelings about the Matterhorn redo because the yetis were neat, but the original was far more charming. When they put the old junk vehicles into the crystal chamber as a meta reference to extinct rides, I wish they'd just left the old scene because it was charming.

 

[DavidDL]

I like it. Lost and Found converted to tacky, theme park ride gift shop will work well for the JC Skippers. -and I like that they're keeping the name "Trader Sam" but leaving the actual person ambiguous for the shop and bar. That way, Trader Sam can be whoever you want them to be.

The monkeys fighting over the underwear are giving me serious Compsognathus vibes.

 

[SSG]

Trader Sam must be off with Oga, who also runs an establishment in Disneyland, but we never get to see her.

 

[mickEblu]

If everything at Disneyland was done to the low standards of the chicken auction or a meta jungle gift shop we wouldn’t have Disneyland. Modern Disney can only get away with it because of what they inherited.

 

[mickEblu]

Trader Sam must be off with Oga, who also runs an establishment in Disneyland, but we never get to see her.

That was “genius” when they did that. They wrote a backstory to explain why there is no AA.

 

[SSG]

That was “genius” when they did that. They wrote a backstory to explain why there is no AA.

You will never see Oga or Sam, but if you did, you'd say 'that's them.'

 

[Mickeyboof]

No you didn’t.

oh? No? Okay!

In all actuality, I always (and still) don’t understand why the bar was named after him, nor why he was holding a ball of fur (turns out it was a shrunken head, but the face more often than not is turned away from the boat). He’s way too cartoonified, he doesn’t fit in the memorable characters of Disneyland.

But sure! You know me best, hun!

 

[mickEblu]

oh? No? Okay!

In all actuality, I always (and still) don’t understand why the bar was named after him, nor why he was holding a ball of fur (turns out it was a shrunken head, but the face more often than not is turned away from the boat). He’s way too cartoonified, he doesn’t fit in the memorable characters of Disneyland.

But sure! You know me best, hun!

I liked him better with a mask. Either way, masked or mask-less he was better than a meta gift shop

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

It's storage containers, WDI's favorite theming elements

 

[NobodyElse]

I wish they'd leave things alone even when the changes have nothing to do with political correctness. I had such mixed feelings about the Matterhorn redo because the yetis were neat, but the original was far more charming. When they put the old junk vehicles into the crystal chamber as a meta reference to extinct rides, I wish they'd just left the old scene because it was charming.

Wen you say "the original (Matterhorn)", can you describe what you're referring to? I think we may be picturing two different things.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

The 1970s redo with Jim Henson-esque yeti, glowing red eyes in the dark, a strobe light and a crystal chamber that looked like the Fortress of Solitude.