Patch Notes // latest change 2021.08
Adventureland · Magic Kingdom · Walt Disney World
Ride · opened 1971 · Magic Kingdom · 5 changes on record
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Completed a phased reimagining that reframed the ride around proprietor Alberta Falls and the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. with a continuous comedic story, a sunken launch in the hippo pool, chimps on a wrecked boat, and a re-themed Jungle Navigation Co. queue; an Alberta Falls mural marked the project's completion.
New comedic scenes were added: a 'Trapped Safari' tableau of five new expedition characters stuck up a pole (debuted June 4) and a 'Boats & Baits...and Bites' stand (June 7), replacing scenes that negatively depicted native populations.
The original 'Trader Sam' (Chief Nah-mee) shrunken-head merchant animatronic and tableau were removed, beginning the reimagining's phased removal of dated depictions of Indigenous peoples.
A reimagined Trader Sam's Gift Shop finale scene was installed, in which the river's lost & found 'reopens' as a shop being ransacked by monkeys while the now-unseen Trader Sam is away.
Jungle Cruise opened in Adventureland as a Magic Kingdom opening-day attraction, adapting Disneyland's 1955 boat ride with a punnier, sight-gag-heavy script.
That's every change on the record on Jungle Cruise since 1971.
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Per the documented record, Jungle Cruise at Magic Kingdom opened on Oct 1, 1971.
The latest documented change (documented Aug 2021): Completed a phased reimagining that reframed the ride around proprietor Alberta Falls and the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. with a continuous comedic story, a sunken launch in the hippo pool, chimps on a wrecked boat, and a re-themed Jungle Navigation Co. queue; an Alberta Falls mural marked the project's completion.
5 documented changes, dating back to 1971 — the fan-kept ride changelog nobody else keeps.
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