Colonel Nedley Lostmore better known as Shrunken Ned is a character originating from the defunct Shrunken Ned's Junior Jungle Boats outside of the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise. He is an audio-animatronic character who is voiced by Eddie Sotto and Brandon Kleyla.
History[]
Biography[]
Colonel Nedley Lostmore was an English colonist (presumably in the 19th century) who travelled to the jungle. At one point in time, Nedley was awarded with a, "Treehouse Juju" by the Adventure Trading Company for his virtues of, "Discovery". Lostmore had some connection to the Jungle Expedition Skipper Training School which trained skippers hired by the Jungle Navigation Company.
While in the jungle, Lostmore was decapitated and had his head transformed into a sentient shrunken-head. Nedley later became known as, "Shrunken Ned" and worked as the jungle's first and only, "Self service witch-doctor". Lostmore's head was hung up in a booth within a market-place which was active around a Jungle Navigation Company outpost. Lostmore most notably worked within the restaurant, "Bengal Barbecue" which sold meat food-items made by rare, exotic and endangered animals.
Appearances[]
Adventure Trading Company[]
In the Daily Gnus newspaper, Tallahassee Glover interviewed Ned on the subject of Treehouse Juju petroglyphs found at the base of Tarzan's Treehouse.
Bengal Barbecue[]
Shrunken Ned's booth and audio-animatronic
Shrunken Ned's Junior Jungle Boats[]
Ned is the unseen namesake of this defunct attraction, seemingly set in the floodplain of the Amazon rainforest. This attraction was a miniature boating course run by the Jungle Expedition Skipper Training School.
Skipper Canteen[]
Within a bulletin-board in the mess hall of the Skipper Canteen is one of Ned's diagnosis cards. Lostmore's voice can also be heard in the mess hall as a customer of the canteen along with Nigel Greenwater and the Dreamfinder.
South Seas Traders[]
Shrunken Ned's machine used to be located in this area.
Trader Sam's[]
Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar[]
An advertisement for Ned's services are on a newspaper decorating the walls of Trader Sam's bar. Said newspaper has an article detailing tourists going missing within the Temple of the Forbidden Eye during Indiana Jones' excavation of the temple. During the holidays, a Christmas stocking labelled, "Ned" is hung up.[1]
Trader Sam's Grog Grotto[]
A necklace with a carving of Shrunken Ned's head on it decorates one of the shelves in this Trader Sam bar.[2]
Tropical Imports[]
The Adventureland Christmas Tree has an ornament in Shrunken Ned's likeness.[3]
Other appearances[]
Printed-materials[]
Tales from Adventureland[]
Ned is the grandfather of protagonist Andy Stanley in these non-canonical books. He also uses a robotic butler called Boltenhouse as a body and is a member of the Jungle Explorers Society.
Video-games[]
Kinect: Disneyland Adventures[]
One of the safari archaeologists in the Jungle Cruise minigames looks near identical to Ned though as a living person with ginger hair.
Virtual Magic Kingdom[]
Ned runs a shop in this video-game.
Trivia[]
- It is unknown who decapitated and shrunk the head of Lostmore. Possible candidates include Trader Sam and Trader Sam's family such as Billamongawonga or Chief Nah-mee. Shrunken Head creation is traditionally performed by Jivaroan peoples of South America.
- Shrunken Ned is one of three fortune-teller machines in Disneyland. The others are the Great Esmeralda at the Main Street Penny Arcade and Fortune Red in New Orleans Square.
- Lostmore is shown in possession of a pith helmet, an item affiliated with European colonialism.
- The character of Captain X from Pirates of the Caribbean appears in Ned's shop in Virtual Magic Kingdom.
- Boltenhouse in Tales from Adventureland is based on a robot-butler from the defunct EPCOT attraction Horizons.
- In Tales from Adventureland, Ned's grandson Andy Stanley is likely named in reference to 19th century colonial explorer, Sir Morton Stanley.
- Ned's character may be in some part inspired or influenced by a recognizable ghost in the horror-comedy film Beetlejuice (1988) who was a colonial big-game hunter with a shrunken-head.
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