Continuity between Jungle Cruise film and attractions

The Jungle Cruise film and Jungle Cruise attraction have references to one another and integrated elements of shared lore. The film is technically a prequel to the attraction, set in 1916 while the American rides are set in 1938 (though the Disneyland version was previously set around 1936 to correlate with the story of Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye).

Film[]

The unseen British colonial explorer Dr. Albert Falls who uncovered the Arrowhead of Lukarina is actually a major character from the attraction. In the attraction, Falls was an English colonial explorer who is best known for the, "Discovery" and naming of Schweitzer Falls in/near the Indigenous Umbala territory of North Africa.
While likely incidental, the Royal Anthropological and Diverse Adventures Society has a name strikingly similar to the Royal Anthropological Society mentioned in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise. In the attraction, Nigel Greenwater brought up how Marcus Brody was given the society on the excavation of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye in the Lost Delta of India.
The colonial boating company which Frank Wolff is a member of is the Jungle Navigation Company. This is the central fictional organization from the Jungle Cruise attraction where it is explained to be a British company founded in 1911 by the aforementioned Dr. Albert Falls.
- On his tours, Frank uses a fake waterfall which he describes as, "The 8th wonder of the world" and, "the backside of water", both terms used to refer to Schweitzer Falls in the attraction.
Nilo Nemolato's pet cockatoo Rosita is a character originating from Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, an Adventureland attraction which has close continuity with the Jungle Cruise. Rosita was originally referenced as an inexplicably absentee bird of the Enchanted Tiki Room which became a running-gag in the parks, eventually leading to Rosita physically appearing at the end of Disneyland's Jungle Cruise and at its Tropical Hideaway restaurant.
- Nemolato's business Nilo's River Adventure also references thee attraction due to having red/white striped canopies which were previously used on the Jungle River Boats and which are often showed in-universe.
The Puka Michuna tribe's chieftain, "Trader Sam" shares her name with an ancient Indigenous cannibalistic trader from the attraction who originates from the Amazon rainforest and was close affiliates with the Jungle Navigation Company. The top hat which Lily Houghton trades with Sam is also a reference to this character's cousin Chief Nah-mee from the attraction, a character who by the later 1930s was chief of an Amazonian tribe while being distinguished by his top hat, umbrella and red-striped skirt.

Attractions[]

Disneyland[]

The map which Houghton and Frank Wolff used to find Lagrimas de Cristal is framed in a hallway of the Jungle Navigation Company's Lost Delta boathouse. The conquistador helm of Lope de Aguirre is also hung up in one of the corridors.
Hung up in the office of JNC president Alberta Falls are the clothes of Frank Wolff and Lily Houghton. Alberta is also the granddaughter of the aforementioned Dr. Albert Falls referenced in the film as the colonial explorer who was a member of the Royal Anthropological and Diverse Adventures Society and who took the Arrowhead of Lukarina from the Amazon.
While difficult to perceive on the Disneyland version of the ride, the map from the Mekong Maiden which the chimpanzees examine was actually made by Frank Wolff for Dr. Albert Falls.

Magic Kingdom[]

Alberta Falls' office in the JNC's Amazon River Base contains the map to Lagrimas de Cristal, Lope de Aguirre's conquistador helmet, and Frank Wolff's hat. There is also a crate labelled, "A. Falls Botanical Expedition", likely a reference to the, "A. Falls Expedition" which her grandfather Dr. Albert Falls took in the film while searching for the Tears of the Moon tree.
On one of the walls is an, "Old map" detailing the Jungle Rivers of Adventureland which Alberta updated (the same map aboard the Mekong Maiden in the Disneyland attraction). This map is identified as having been made by Frank Wolff for Dr. Albert Falls and has messages from Frank such as, "To Albert, Here's to many more adventures of a life-time- F.W." and, "Here is adventure, here is romance, here is mystery". This map identifies Wolff as having travelled to several attraction locations including: The Amazon River Base, gorilla territory in the Congo, the African veldt of North Africa along with its neighbouring Hippo Pool, Chimp Country and Schweitzer Falls, the ruins of Shir Lee Temple in Cambodia, and the neighbouring Indian Elephant Bathing Pool.
- This map also has a compass from the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, a secret-society of colonial globetrotters and aristocratic collectors of which Jungle Cruise characters Dr. Albert Falls, Dr. Kon Chunosuke and Prof. Garrett Reed were members.
On a shelf over the door for The Pach's room is a small bookshelf. One of the books is titled "My Interests Happily Lay Elsewhere" by MacGregor Houghton. This alludes to MacGregor's quote implying his homosexual attraction from the film.

Jingle Cruise[]

Amongst the cargo which the Jungle Navigation Company dumped in the African veldt near the lost Jungle Cruise was a crate addressed to Nilo Nemolato.

Trivia[]

The book Jungle Cruise (Disney Classic) shows Frank and Lily piloting the Amazon Belle.
Both the film and the attraction include settings of the Amazon rainforest though it is unknown if the parts of the jungle are within proximity to one another as the film is expressly identified as occurring in Brazil while the ride is not identified to a nation which the rainforest overlaps with. Brazil is referenced in Walt Disney World's Jungle Cruise when Albert Awol identifies his broadcast's music as coming from the Library of Lost American Melodies in Manaus. Brazil was also indirectly referenced during the Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden Mysteries overlay of Disneyland's Jungle Cruise, when Trader Sam possessed a stone tablet depicting the Crystal Skull of Akator.
Loose historic continuity comes from how Prince Joachim is great-grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, characters referenced in the Jungle Cruise; most explicitly by the Prince Albert School.