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The Jungle Cruise is an attraction located in [[Adventureland]]
The Jungle Cruise was one of the opening-day attractions at Walt Disney World. It is featured in Adventureland in Disney World as well as California's Disneyland and Disneyland Tokyo. The ride is a slow-moving boat's journey through several rivers in Asia, Africa and South America. It features dozens of audio-animatronic animals as well as jokes by the Skipper.\attraction.
==Attraction History==
The Jungle Cruise is a slow moving boat tour located in Adventureland. While on the boat guests will travel through rivers in Asia, Africa and South America. The attraction features dozens of Audio Anamatronic Animals as well as a cast member Skipper. The Jungle Cruise opened with the park in 1971.
The Jungle Cruise was personally developed by 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 to use live animals for the attraction however that idea was later scratched. Live animals would not be garunteed to stay in designated areas, and practical issues such as eating and sleeping made the idea impractical. Instead of live animals, it was decided that Audio Anamatronics would be more manageable. The decision to switch to Audio Anamatronics allowed the Imagineers to control the scenes making the attraction more predictable. This allowed the Skippers to develop a routine and reuse jokes. Imagineer Marc Davis created jokes within each scene that could be recognized immediately- a necessity when only a short time was given to each individual scene.
The Jungle Cruise was personally developed by 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 to use live animals for the attraction however that idea was later scratched. Live animals would not be garunteed to stay in designated areas, and practical issues such as eating and sleeping made the idea impractical. Instead of live animals, it was decided that Audio Anamatronics would be more practical. The decision to switch to Audio Anamatronics allowed the Imagineers to control the scenes making the attraction more predictable. This allowed the Skippers to develop a routine and reuse jokes. Imagineer Marc Davis created jokes within each scene that could be recognized immediately- a necessity when only a short time was given to each individual scene. The Jungle Cruise queue was reworked and expanded in 1994 providing more room and more shade. Improvements were also made to the pre-show props in order to better set the scene for the ride, to the props that set the scene for the ride.
==Attraction plot==
The ride's final river is the The Macong River in Cambodia. While on this river the boat travels inside a temple. The boat then moves inside a temple, a departure from the Disneyland version which is all-outdoors. Ruins, treasures, shrines, a white tiger, cobras and monkeys are featured inside the temple.
After the temple the boat passes an is the Indian Elephant bathing pool. The final scene shows Chief Namee who is willing to sell shrunken heads, "two of his for one of yours/"
==Queue Radio==
*The temple scene is not found on the Disneyland version of the Jungle Cruise.
*Harper Goff, an Imagineer suggested that the ride be based on the African Queen, a 1951 film staring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.
*The Jungle Cruise is known as having one of the most well-themed attractions in Walt Disney World.
*Each ship has a name:
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