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taking a trip on the world famous jungle
cruise is a must-do attraction when
visiting magic kingdom the iconic
adventureland attraction opened with the
park on october 1 1971 and like its
disneyland counterpart the ride was a
major hit
the jungle cruise takes you on a journey
down several major rivers in asia africa
and south america and this is the ride
where the jokes and puns can go on for
niles and niles you'll find some of the
best cast members on this ride and since
each of them puts their own personality
into the script you'll always get a
fresh and unique experience every time
you ride now since opening in 1971 the
ride has built up a pretty impressive
history and there's a lot of little
hidden secrets and facts about the ride
that not many people know about i mean
it's kind of a big deal but this is the
only disney ride with an actual jungle
book
so make sure to keep your hands arms
feet and legs inside the boat at all
times as we count down the top 10
secrets and facts of magic kingdom's
jungle cruise
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number 10
right on track
ever wonder why your skipper sometimes
lets a little kid steer the jungle
cruise boat well that's because the boat
rides on a track and the skipper isn't
actually steering the boat
now the skippers do a pretty good job
convincing you that they're steering and
some can even control it telepathically
without ever using their hands the skill
right there
although the skippers don't physically
steer the boat they can however control
the speed and move the boat forwards or
backwards
so next time your skipper might not be
looking where they're going or for that
split second they don't have their hands
on the steering wheel no need to worry
you'll stay right on track
number nine that's not dirt
the water in the jungle cruise doesn't
exactly look like the cleanest water but
that's done on purpose and it isn't
actually dirty disney uses a special
water soluble dye to tint the water a
brownish greenish color so you can't see
the inner workings of the ride this
hides the boat's track and other
mechanical components of the animatronic
animals in the water tinting the water
also gives the illusion that it's much
deeper than it actually is but in
reality most of the areas along the
river are only about four feet deep and
areas with the animatronics such as the
hippopool that's about eight feet deep
number eight a giant blender
so the jungle cruise is pretty much a
giant blender how so well since the
water is tinted that brownish greenish
color they needed a way to dispense the
dyes evenly and the solution starts
right at switzer falls well sort of
behind switzer falls nope even further
back
so behind the falls there's a pumping
station that supplies all the water for
the jungle cruise disney places the dye
into the water and it's dispensed into
the river through the waterfall as the
jungle cruise boats make their way
around the river first thing in the
morning they act as the blender and mix
the dye through the water so it's not
concentrated in just one area
number seven can you see it
about a minute and a half into your boat
tour you'll see three canoes along the
shore on the right hand side and they
actually belong to three very important
characters can you see it huh
well the one in the middle with the beak
that's donald duck the one to the left
with the pointy horns that's goofy and
the one on the right with the curved
horns and the blue face well that's the
one and only mickey mouse
at first glance it's kind of hard to
make that connection but once someone
points it out you'll only see those
three characters in those abstract
carvings from now on so you're very
welcome
number six
crashed
did you know there's a little piece of
the now extinct great movie ride on the
jungle cruise well kinda sorta
so in the great movie ride there was the
scene from casablanca that had the real
lockheed electra aircraft well when
building the great movie ride disney
only used the front half of the airplane
for the ride so on the jungle cruise as
you pass switzer falls on the right hand
side you'll find the back end of that
airplane crashed into the foliage disney
placed it on the jungle cruise in 1994
and who knows
now that the great movie ride at
disney's hollywood studios has closed
maybe the front half of the plane could
make its way somewhere into the dense
foliage of the jungle cruise
number five nomadics
when designing the world famous jungle
cruise walt disney originally wanted to
use real animals on the ride well after
consulting with animal specialists he'd
learned they'd be very unreliable so the
solution was to use audio animatronics
now the animatronics are a big part of
the jungle cruise they add a lot of
humor to the ride and are the butts of a
lot of the skipper's jokes and with that
said all the animals on the jungle
cruise are animatronics
and that includes the giant python
apparently a lot of people think it's
real now disney animatronics usually run
off hydraulics or electric actuators
that control the figures well since the
animatronics on the jungle cruise are
all in direct contact with water they
use a pneumatic system that pushes
compressed air through a cylinder which
then creates the animation in the
animals when you're passing by the
hippopool if you listen closely it's not
the sound of hungry hungry hippos
they're actually doing that to stay warm
they're just trying to prevent catching
hypothermia that's the compressors
releasing air to move the animatronics
number four
fogged out
one major difference between disneyland
and walt disney world's jungle cruise is
that disney world has the indoor temple
scene and disneyland does not it's
something that imagineer mark davis
decided to add when designing the ride
for magic kingdom well inside the temple
there used to be a fog effect similar to
what's seen here at the beginning of
your boat cruise well the problem with
the fog is that it ended up wearing down
the fur very quickly on the animatronic
tiger the fur began to look horrible
because of the moisture so disney shut
the effect off in favor of maintaining
the animatronics so if you remember
there being fog at one point you aren't
wrong you can just blame this little guy
number three
the laser
everything on the jungle cruise always
seems to be perfectly timed with the
skipper's dialogue right well that's
because there's laser sensors hidden
along the river so when the boat passes
it signals a specific effect to go off
this includes certain sound effects and
water elements so when you're passing by
those elephants with their trunks on and
it looks like one might just spray you
well that is not the case because as you
approach your boat just slowed down to
signal the sensor for the elephant to
stop spraying the water
you know the ride does like to keep its
dry humor
number two
i love disco and we aren't talking about
disco yeti
when you're passing the ambushers on the
left hand side one of them actually says
i love disco now between the skipper
talking the music guests reacting and
the other audio tracks that play during
the scene it's kinda hard to hear but
it's definitely there take a listen
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a case to the kingdom tour guide did in
fact confirm that one of them does say i
love disco but the disco era didn't
really peak until the mid 70s which was
after the ride had opened so the rumor
is that it was a play on words of the
disney company disco disney company i
love disco yeti
number 1
trader sam
from 1971 into the early 90s the jungle
cruise boats used to be white and had
striped canopies that were red and blue
well when they upgraded to the current
boats we know today the striped canopies
were no more or so you thought
at the end of the ride trader sam pays
homage to the original jungle cruise
boats since his skirt features the same
red and white striped pattern
now multiple cast members have said that
when the original canopies were removed
disney used the old material for trader
sam's skirt but after looking at our
home video footage the stripes on the
old canopies were spaced much further
apart than the stripes on his skirt then
looking further into it he's had that
striped skirt well before the early 90s
when the boats were changed so his skirt
has always been a direct tie into the
boat canopies it's just probably not the
old material that was left over
well that's the end of our tour of the
world famous jungle cruise what's your
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