This is a list of the characters referenced in Trader Sam's as friends or otherwise acquaintances of Trader Sam from the Jungle Cruise. This would not necessarily include characters who in some way make physical appearances within the bars or characters original to the bars.
Description[]
Background[]
Trader Sam is an ancient magic-user who has been active since at-least the early 1700s. Over his centuries of life, he's made connections with many notable figures of his universe's history.
Film characters[]
Image | Name | Description | Film | Attraction (if applicable) | Other Jungle Cruise connections | Notes |
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Angelica Teach | Angelica Teach was a Spanish pirate during the golden age of piracy. She was the daughter and later first-mate of the historic Blackbeard whom Sam traded with. | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Captain Jack's (Blue Lagoon Restaurant) |
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Anna Mary Jones | Anna Mary Jones was an adventurous woman whom was wife of Professor Henry Jones, Sr. and mother of Indiana Jones. On one occasion, Sam saved her life and would become a family friend before her death in 1912 to Scarlet Fever. | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | ||||
Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter | Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter was a British professor who studied gorillas. He and his daughter Jane would move to a treehouse in the Congo Basin where Jane was wed to the, "Ape-Man" Tarzan. Sam kept a photo of Porter and Jane from the beginning of their 1882 gorilla studying expedition where they first met Tarzan. | Tarzan | Professor Porter's Trading Post |
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Captain Nemo | Captain Nemo was the morally ambiguous inventor and captain of The Nautilus, a victorian era submarine. Sam travelled to Nemo's island base of Vulcania, owned many relics from Nemo's journeys. | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage |
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Carl & Ellie Fredricksen | Carl and Ellie Fredricksen were a married couple with a love for adventure and exotic locales. They saved up their entire life to move to Paradise Falls in Venezuela with Sam having had one of their jars. | Up | Pixar Pier |
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Charlie Allnut | Charlie Allnut was a riverboat captain in the early 20th century. He and his wife Rose Sayer were active in the same vicinity as the Jungle Navigation Company with apparent connections to its affiliated characters. | The African Queen | Jungle Cruise (influence) |
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Captain Jack Sparrow | Captain Jack Sparrow was the infamous and cunning pirate captain of The Black Pearl during the golden-age of piracy. Jack's mother frequented Sam's bar and both he and Sam spent time on Isla de Pelegestos (presumably prior to 1721). | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Pirates of the Caribbean |
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Captain Jack Sparrow's mother | This woman was the lover of Captain Edward Teague, the Pirate Lord of Madagascar and keeper of the Pyrate's Code. She and her illegitimate son Jack Sparrow frequented Sam's up to her demise when she had her head shrunk. Jack left this head in Sam's possession. | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | ||||
Genie of the Lamp | This was a genie who was bound to a magic lamp in the Cave of Wonders before being freed by the hero Aladdin. | Aladdin | Magic Carpets of Aladdin | Sam's relationship with the Genie is not overt or referenced but Genie's presence is implied via the presence of his lamp | ||
Indiana Jones | Indiana Jones was a world-renowned adventurer and archaeologist. Sam was involved and otherwise connected to many of Jones' adventures, most notably the Lost Delta Archaeological Expedition made to excavate the Temple of the Forbidden Eye. | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye
Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull |
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Jane Porter | Jane Porter was a British woman who was daughter of Professor Archimedes Q. Porter and wife to the, "King of the Apes" Tarzan. Sam kept a photo of Porter and Jane from the beginning of their 1882 gorilla studying expedition where they first met Tarzan. | Tarzan | Tarzan's Treehouse | |||
Mr. J. Thaddeus Toad, Esquire | Mr. J. Thaddeus Toad was an English aristocrat and anthropomorphic toad in the early 20th century. He was a patron of Sam's Grog Grotto where Sam confiscated his keys. | The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad | Mr. Toad's Wild Ride |
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Lampie | Around the turn of the century, Lampie was the alcoholic lighthouse-keeper in the town of Passamaquoddy. When Lampie encountered a dragon named Elliot, he informed Sam on the subject via messages in bottles as the rest of the town didn't believe him. | Pete's Dragon |
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Lincoln Costain | Lincoln Costain was a texan cowboy in the 19th century who was, "Shanghai'd" onto the Hawaiian island of Kauai. He often sent messages in bottles to Trader Sam. | Castaway Cowboy | Frontierland (Magic Kingdom) | |||
Marcus Brody | Marcus Brody was a historian, archaeologist, museum curator and dean of Marshall College in the 1930s. He would send a message to Trader Sam, asking for the whereabouts of Indiana Jones. | Raiders of the Lost Ark |
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Marion Ravenwood | Marion Ravenwood was an old frame of Indiana Jones and proprietress of a bar called The Raven in Nepal. She sent Sam a seltzer bottle from the Raven as a gift for opening up his bar. | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar |
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Ned Land | Ned Land was a Canadian harpooner in the 1860s. He and Sam were close friends with Land telling him all about the Nautilus, Captain Nemo and Vulcania following Land's own encounters with them. | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Discovery Bay | |||
Pelegestos tribe | This was a tribe of cannibals on the island Isla de Pelegestos. Sam and Jack Sparrow encountered them presumably prior to 1721. | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island | |||
Rick Blaine | Rick Blaine was proprietor of, "Rick's Café Americain", a, "Politically-neutral" café in Casablanca, Morocco. Rick was friends with Sam and held him in high regards. | Casablanca | The Great Movie Ride |
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Lt. Robin Crusoe | Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. was an American military aviator who was stranded on a Hawaiian island along with a space-chimp called Floyd. Robin made makeshift machines for himself and had conflict with the local tribe before being saved by the US navy. During his stay on the island, Robin sent letters in bottles to Sam. | Lt. Robin Crusoe USN | The Adventureland Treehouse makes has the original book Robinson Crusoe appear. | |||
Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir | Sallah was an excavator from Cairo who was close friends and frequent collaborators with Indiana Jones. Sallah contacted Sam during their excavation of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye for Sam to bring tourists to the temple as a means to satisfy the demands of British Colonial Affairs. Sam seemed to also have some affiliation with Sallah's business, "Sallah Tours" which operated in the Lost Delta of India and Amazon rainforest. | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye
The Great Movie Ride |
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Wan "Short Round" Li | Short Round was a Chinese boy who acted as assistant to Indiana Jones in the 1930s. After 1935, Short Round sent Sam a kryta doll of Indiana made by the priest Mola Ram for Sam to destroy (though Sam kept it instead). | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar |
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Man with a wooden-leg named, "Smith" | Smith was a peg-legged sailor. He lost his peg-leg and discovered Sam had obtained it. He later sent Sam a post-card reading, "Trader Sam ~ Heard you came across my peg leg. I'll pick it up next time we make port. ~ Smith" | Mary Poppins | Walt Disney World Railroad |
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The Robinson family | The Robinson family were a Swiss clan sent to New Guinea only to be attacked by pirates and stranded on an East-Indies isle on the July 17 of 1805. Here, the family would create a treehouse, name the island, "New Switzerland" and be deemed governors of the isle by the Swiss government. Sam was friends with the family and kept in contact with him via messages in bottles. | Swiss Family Robinson | Swiss Family Treehouse |
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Uku & Lele | A pair of sentient volcanoes in the Pacific who loved each other and became an island. Sam seemingly travelled to their island at some point.[3] | Lava |
Theme park characters[]
Jungle Cruise[]
Image | Name | Description | Notes |
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Alberta Falls | Alberta Falls was president of the Jungle Navigation Company in the 1930s and founder of its service, the Jungle Cruise. She and Sam were apparently friends, leading to Alberta putting him in charge of the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Gift Shop. | ||
Dr. Albert Falls | Dr. Albert Falls was a British colonial explorer who mapped the Rivers of Adventure in 1891 and founded the Jungle Navigation Company in 1911 before disappearing in 1928. Sam kept a bronze bust of the doctor and brewed the doctor's favourite drink, "Schweitzer Falls", named for the waterfall named for Dr. Falls. | ||
Dr. Leonard Moss | Dr. Leonard Moss was an esteemed Canadian botanist who left plants in Trader Sam's care. | ||
Chief Nah-mee | Chief Nah-mee is the cousin of Trader Sam. He assisted Sam in opening up the Grog Grotto. | ||
The Daily Gnus | The Daily Gnus newspaper was the resident newspaper for the Wilds of Adventureland. | They are referenced as, "The Evening Gnus" | |
Indian elephants | This was a group of Indian elephants which met in a sacred bathing pool behind a flooded shrine in Cambodia built by the Khmer Empire. The reason this pool was inhabited by elephants was the result of Sam having accidentally dumped his first liquor brew in the waters, attracting the pachyderms by the next day. | ||
Jungle Navigation Company | The Jungle Navigation Company is an international British colonial company which was founded by Dr. Albert Falls. Sam frequently worked alongside the company along with being a member of the business, having run their lost & found and his bars having been managed by the JNC. | ||
Jungle Navigation Company board | This was the board in charge of the Jungle Navigation Company with them potentially referencing Sam as having been a member. | ||
Cap'n Kevin | Cap'n Kevin was a Jungle Navigation Company skipper who seemed to have a romantic relationship with Trader Sam. | Kevin is based on Kevin Kidney. | |
Nigel R. Prescott III | A world renowned botanist who was employed by the Jungle Navigation Company. | ||
Pat | Pat was an asian woman who had a flirtatious relationship with Sam and at-least one skipper of the Jungle Navigation Company. | ||
Prof. Harper Goff | Professor Harper Goff was an employee of the Jungle Navigation Company in the 1920s turned banjo-instructor and tattoo-artist during the 1930s. Sam kept a banjo adverting Goff's services at Dock 54 and also had a major role in his film, "The Jungle Cruise". |
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Skipper Bill | Bill was the Jungle Navigation Company's skipper of the Congo Connie and head of Plant Studies. When Bill's boat got lost in the Congo, he contacted Sam about his missing anchor which Sam kept in the bar. |
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Skipper John | John was an eccentric skipper for the Jungle Navigation Company who Sam kept a photo of in his bar. |
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Skip Dockmonkey | Skip Dockmonkey was a charming but negligent and inept employee of the Jungle Navigation Company who was made Sam's manager at his bars. |
Others[]
Image | Name | Description | Attraction | Other Jungle Cruise connections | Notes |
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The Adventurers Club | The Adventurers Club was a joy-loving group of globetrotters founded by Merriweather Adam Pleasure and splintered-off from the Society of Explorers and Adventurers. Up until a massive hurricane in 1944, the club was based out of Pleasure Island in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. | The Adventurers Club | |||
Adventure Trading Company | The Adventure Trading Company was a colonial trading-company, best known for trading out, "Jujus". When they arrived in Adventureland, Sam created, "JuJuJuice" to celebrate their arrival and also had jujus in his bar. | Adventure Trading Company | |||
Crew of The Miss Tilly[4] | The Miss Tilly was a shrimping-vessel active in Blustery Bay during the 1950s. The crew was acquainted with Trader Sam, having potentially even had him on the ship. In the 1950s, the boat was caught up in a massive hurricane and impaled atop Mount Mayday in the settlement Placid Palms where it would remain for decades. The crew sent messages to Sam following this incident. | Typhoon Lagoon |
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Colonel Critchlow Sunchbench[5] | Colonel Critchlow Sunchbench was a British military-colonel and official club glee-master for the Adventurer's Club. He was friends with Sam, left his ventriloquist's doll, "Slappy" in his care, enjoyed gin-&-tonics at Sam's establishment, and had a stocking labelled, "The Colonel" hung up in the bar during the holidays. | The Adventurers Club | |||
Colonel Nedley "Shrunken Ned" Lostmore | Colonel Nedley Lostmore was a British colonist, member of the Jungle Expedition Skipper Training School and colonel of the British Empire. While in the jungle, he was decapitated and turned into a sentient shrunken-head. By the 1930s, he was the self-proclaimed witch doctor, "Head Shrink of the Jungle". Trader Sam kept a medallion of Nedley's likeness in his collection and Lostmore seemingly spent Christmases at the Enchanted Tiki Bar. | Bengal Berbecue
Shrunken Ned's Junior Jungle Boats South Seas Traders |
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Disneyland Casting Agency | The Disneyland Casting Agency was a hiring agency founded by Walt Disney in, "'55", and which was based in Marceline, Missouri. "T. Sam" was an agent of the group, being involved in the hiring of skippers for Jungle Cruise services. | Main Street Cinema |
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Prof. Fletcher Hodges | The Adventurers Club | ||||
Graves | Graves was the butler for the Adventurers Club. He spent christmases in Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar. | The Adventurers Club | |||
Hathaway Browne | Browne was a womanizing aviator and member of the Adventurers Club. Trader Sam supplied him with enchanted liquor to use as airplane fuel. | The Adventurers Club | |||
Isabella Domenico Pleasure | The wife of Adventurers Club founder, Merriweather Adam Pleasure. | Pleasure Island
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa |
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Kilimanjaro Safaris | Kilimanjaro Safaris is a safari-company, best known for being active in the Port of Harambe in East-Africa. Sam was part of an elephant-back safari through the wilds surrounding Harambe in the late-19th/early-20th century. | Kilimanjaro Safaris | |||
New York City Preservation Society | This was a historic preservation society founded in 1912 in New York City. Agent Vanessa Capshaw contacted Sam in 1912 to send him a portrait of his alleged grandfather, Billamongawonga which was recovered in the Hotel Hightower. | Tower of Terror | |||
Otis T. Wren | The Adventurers Club | ||||
Pamelia Perkins | The Adventurers Club | ||||
Rosita | Rosita was a sentient, talking cockatoo originating from the Enchanted Tiki Room. She and Sam had some affiliation with Sam's drink, "Rosita's Margarita" being named for her and people seeing Sam as a potential source for her whereabouts. | Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room |
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Samantha Sterling | Samantha Sterling was a bold woman adventurer in the 1930s and member of the Adventurers Club. Samantha addressed Trader Sam as, "Dearest Sam" after the two spent, "5 days & 10 nights" together. | The Adventurers Club |
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Slappy[7] | Slappy was the beloved ventriloquist's dummy of Adventurers Club member, Colonel Critchlow Sunchbench. While on an adventure, the colonel left Slappy in Sam's posession for safekeeping.[8] Slappy also had his own stocking up in the Enchanted Tiki Bar during the holidays. | The Adventurers Club | |||
Tiki Gods | These are a group of deities who preside over Polynesia. Their magics are part of the reason why Sam's bars were enchanted. | Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room | |||
Vesta Gruppen | This as a company affiliated with the Norway Pavilion of EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. | Maelstrom |
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Real persons[]
Image (in-universe; if applicable) | Image (historic) | Name | Description | Attraction (if applicable) | Other Jungle Cruise connections | Notes |
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Albert Schweitzer | Albert Schweitzer was a Nobel Peace Prize winning humanitarian and theologist, referenced as having been a patron of the Enchanted Tiki Bar. | The Jungle Cruise |
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Annette Funicello | Annette Funicello was a singer and actress whose music, Sam was a fan of. Sam kept a sleeve of her 1960 album Hawaiinette in his Enchanted Tiki Bar with Annette being referenced as having attended the Grog Grotto where on one occasion, she was thrown into the sea. |
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Bill Cottrell | A member of The Walt Disney Company who was part of a 1941 South American tour Sam hosted. | |||||
Captain Edward "Blackbeard" Teach | Blackbeard was the infamous pirate captain of The Queen Anne's Revenge. Sam traded with Blackbeard for a spyglass while also lusting after his daughter, Angelica. | Pirates of the Caribbean |
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This specifically references the film version of Blackbeard from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. In said film, Blackbeard was resurrected following his death in 1718, rebuilt the Queen Anne's Revenge and was an active magic-user until his death in the early 1730s. | ||
Frank Thomas | A classic animator and member of The Walt Disney Company who was part of a 1941 South American tour Sam hosted. | |||||
Hazel Cottrell | A member of 1941 South American tour Sam hosted. | |||||
Joe Rohde | "Joe" was the subject of a wooden mask in Trader Sam's possession. | Disney's Animal Kingdom |
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Lillian Marie Disney | The historic wife of Walt Disney. Sam was tour-guide for Lillian and Walt's 1941 vacation to South America with Walt befriending Sam in the process. Lillian's relationship with Sam is unknown. | |||||
Norm Ferguson | A member of The Walt Disney Company who was part of a 1941 South American tour Sam hosted. | |||||
S.S. Denali | The S.S. Denali was a cargo-ship which was piloted by Sam's tiki bar patron, Captain Brody. |
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Ted Sears | Ted Sears was on the 1941 South American tour which Sam hosted. |
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Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt was a big-game hunter, president, explorer, and, "Rough rider" in the early 20th century along with being an original member of the Adventurers Club. Roosevelt and Sam were friends with Sam having accompanied him on his 1913 voyage to map the River of Doubt in the Amazon. | The Hall of Presidents
The American Adventure |
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Walt Disney | Walt Disney was an American artist and businessman who met Trader Sam in 1941, when Sam was hired to give him a tour of South America. Walt later became Sam's, "Best customer" and friend. | Disneyland
EPCOT |
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Walt Disney Pictures | Walt Disney Pictures or simply, "Disney Pictures" was the film studio of Walt Disney. Trader Sam was a major actor in their film, "The Jungle Cruise" starring Mickey & Minnie Mouse while directed by Professor Harper Goff. |
Unconfirmed[]
Characters and figures referenced in the Trader Sam's bars whom are not referenced as being part of Sam's history or affiliation (including certain souvenir mugs which may be of dubious continuity).
Image | Name | Description | Attractions (if applicable) | Connections | Notes |
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Calypso | The goddess of the sea and an affiliate of several Pirates of the Caribbean. Sam owned a musical locket which belonged to Calypso or her lover, Davy Jones. | A Pirate's Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas | |||
Captain Barbossa | Captain Hector Barbossa was the captain of The Wicked Wench, a pirate ship which appeared in an enchanted bottle within Sam's bars. | A Pirate's Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas
Barbossa's Bounty Disney Pirates Summer Pirates of the Caribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure Siren's Revenge Tortuga Tavern |
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Charles Addams | A historic cartoonist best known as creator of the, "Addams Family" whose art used to be hung in Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar. | ||||
Charles Lindbergh | A historic aviator who made the first flight over the Atlantic from New York City to Paris in 1927. Sam has a pin which was made to commemorate his historic flight. | Jock Lindsey's Hangar BarSoarin'
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress (mentioned) |
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Donald Duck | |||||
Elvis Presley | A historic singer who Sam was a fan of. | ||||
The Gill-Man | |||||
Jack Skellington | The skeletal Pumpkin King of Halloween Town whose likeness is sold as a mug in Sam's bar. | Haunted Mansion Holiday | |||
The Hatbox Ghost | A ghost whose likeness is sold as a mug in Sam's bar. | Autopia
The Haunted Mansion |
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The Hitchhiking Ghosts | Three ghosts whose likenesses are sold as a mug in Sam's bar. | The Haunted Mansion | |||
Jules Verne | A historic French science-fiction/adventure author. Trader Sam had a copy of his book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and was connected to various aforementioned characters and locations from said book. | Horizons
Skipper Canteen (mentioned) Space Mountain The Timekeeper |
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The Kakamora | Several diminutive Polynesian pirates who resemble coconuts. Various figures of them appear within Trader Sam's Grog Grotto. | Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana | |||
Maui | Disney's Polynesian Village Resort
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room |
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Monstro | A monstrous whale which was active around the 19th century. Tiki mugs in Monstro's likeness have been sold at Sam's bar. | Pinocchio's Daring Journey
Pinocchio Village Haus Storybook Land Canal Boats Voyage of the Little Mermaid |
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Orange Bird | A bird active within Adventureland which Sam had multiple figurines of. | Disney Springs
Magic of Disney Animation Skipper Canteen (referenced) Sunshine Tree Terrace |
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Robert Louis Stevenson | The historic author of Treasure Island (1883) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886). An edition of Treasure Island appears in Sam's bar. | ||||
Submarine Captain | A 20th century submarine captain whose voice played in Sam's bars when the Nautilus drink was ordered. | Submarine Voyage thru Liquid Space | |||
Trapped Safari | A safari expedition which was left in the African veldt during the 1930s. Sam had a photograph of the safari in his Enchanted Tiki Bar. | Bengal Barbecue
Jungle Cruise Skipper Canteen |
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Ursula | An evil sea-witch who tried to take over the Ocean. Sam sold mugs with designs inspired by Ursula. Several sea-shells and a recreation of one of Ursula's contracts appeared out of Sam's bar when this mug debuted.[9] | Fantasmic!
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure/Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid Miss Adventure Falls Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom |
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References[]
- ↑ https://www.mouseplanet.com/11899/Trader_Sams_Enchanted_Tiki_Bar_Review
- ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2021/08/photos-final-additions-arrive-on-jungle-cruise-as-refurbishment-nears-completion-in-magic-kingdom/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ95jjfgEG3/
- ↑ https://foroparquesdisney.foroactivo.com/t2093-trader-sam-s-enchanted-tiki-bar-disneyland-hotel
- ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/inexorabletash/6401366591/
- ↑ https://www.pinterest.ca/RobYeo/_saved/
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CW4Ed5bvAzM/
- ↑ https://onthegoinmco.com/2014/02/10/visit-trader-sams-enchanted-tiki-bar-part-ii
- ↑ https://dlnewstoday.com/2023/10/photos-ursula-tiki-mug-now-available-from-trader-sams-enchanted-tiki-bar-at-disneyland-hotel/