R.V. Laust is an unseen character from the Jungle Cruise.
History[]
Background[]
R.V. Laust was presumably an explorer in the 1930s who ran a jungle surveying and mapping service active called, "R.V. Laust Surveying & Cartography". In the December of 1938, the business was active in the Congo Basin where they used a base camp along the river, where their base camp was overrun by a group of gorillas who flipped their jeep and ransacked their cargo.
Development history[]
"R.V. Laust Surveying & Cartography" is a service which was added to the Jungle Cruise of Walt Disney World in 2022 by the time of the Jingle Cruise. A map was added to the scene. The group's name is a play on saying, "Are we lost?", a gag ironic for a group of cartographers. It may be an additional joke on how the scene includes a flipped jeep, also known as an R.V..
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
The Congo Base Camp is identified as belonging to R.V. Laust's service.
Trivia[]
- R.V. Laust's camp uses explosives from Lytum & Hyde, the same fictional dynamite company used by the Big Thunder Mining Company in Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.