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The genesis of what would eventually be known as the Jungle Cruise is a slow moving boat tour located began with Walt Disney's True Life Adventures in Adventurelandthe 1950s. While Walt wanted to create an attraction for his Disneyland park that would take inspiration from the films series, particularly from the "African Lion" installment. Disney enlisted the help of Harper Goff (who had worked on the boat guests will travel through rivers in Asiafilm 20, Africa and South America000 Leagues Under the Sea) to help design the attraction. Goff used not only the True Life series for inspiration, but also the 1951 film, "The attraction features dozens of Audio Anamatronic Animals as well as African Queen, which featured two main characters traveling down a cast member Skipperriver in Africa, aboard a steam boat. The Jungle Cruise opened with Goff took the park movies basic premise, and expanded it to also include rivers in 1971South America and Asia.

The During the Jungle Cruise was personally developed by 's early stages, Walt and his team of Imagineers for the opening of Disneyland. It was later recreated in Florida for the grand opening of the Magic Kingdom. It was one of three opening day attractions in Adventureland. Walt originally wanted Disney had hoped to use live real animals for in the attraction . After researching the issue and consulting with animal specialists however that idea , it was later scratched. Live decided that live animals would not be garunteed feasible for a number of reasons. For starters, Disney decided that the animals would be too unpredictable to stay in designated areascenter a scripted show around, and practical issues such as eating and sleeping made that the passing guests would agitate the idea impractical. Instead of live animals. Furthermore, it was would cost Disney a lot of money, land, and man power to take care of the animals. After weighing these issues Walt decided that to use artificial (Audio Anamatronics would be more manageableAnimatronic) animals instead of real ones. The decision to switch to Audio Anamatronics allowed Animatronic animals used in the Imagineers to control attraction were sculpted by Chris Mueller and built at the scenes making Disney Studio in Burbank (although some of the attraction more predictableanimals were built on site). This allowed Engineer Bob Mattey was responsible for the Skippers to develop a routine and reuse jokes. Imagineer Marc Davis created jokes within each scene effects that could be recognized immediately- a necessity when only a short time was given to each individual scenemade the animals move.

The In order to landscape the Jungle Cruise queue , Disney turned to Bill Evans, who was reworked and expanded in 1994 providing more room and more shadecharge of gardening all of Disneyland. Improvements were also made Evans used foliage from nurseries all over California, as well as displaced vegetation from the Santa Ana Freeway construction for the ride.  The Jungle Cruise opened with the rest of Disneyland on July 17 1955, to rave revues. Although the pre-show props attraction was popular, one day Walt heard a guest say (referring to the Jungle Cruise), "we don't need to go on that ride, we've already seen it.” Horrified, Disney realized that he needed to update Disneyland's attractions in order to better set keep the attention of return visitors. To accomplish this, Walt asked Marc Davis to refresh the Jungle Cruise. Davis changed the tone of the attraction, making it a humorous trip as opposed to the danger filled adventure that it had previously been. To this end, Davis created the Indian Elephant Pool scene (which opened in 1962) as well as the African Veldt and Lost Safari scenes (which opened in 1964). At this time, the script for the Jungle Cruise was rewritten, giving it a much lighter (and pun dependent) narration.  Due to its popularity in Disneyland, the Jungle Cruise was an obvious choice for inclusion in Walt Disney World's Adventureland. Under the watchful eye of Marc Davis, Disney World’s Jungle Cruise featured more "sight gags", and a longer ridetime then its Disneyland counterpart. Scenes including: Inspiration falls, the gorillas in the safari camp, pygmy war canoes, the Bengal tiger and the especially the Cambodian Ruins, gave Disney World's Jungle Cruise a unique feel. Construction began on the Jungle Cruise in the spring of 1969 and the attraction was ready for the Magic Kingdom's opening day on October 1, 1971.