The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions and also The Walt Disney Studio while commonly known more simply as Disney is a real-world American corporation. The company is owner and creator of the Jungle Cruise property and its respective media. In addition to this, a fictional depiction of the Walt Disney Company is often featured in the story of the Jungle Cruise.
Description[]
The Walt Disney Company is a mass media corporation, based out of Burbank, California.
Members[]
Real-life[]
Leaders[]
- Roy O. Disney:
- Walt Disney
Others[]
Jungle Cruise[]
Leaders[]
- Walt Disney:
History[]
Background[]
Real-life[]
Jungle Cruise[]
Jungle Cruise appearances[]
Adventure Trading Company[]
Walt's Merry Menagerie comic-strips are in the Daily Gnus newspaper with writing saying the comics were property of Walt Disney Productions. The Disneyland Hotel was also advertised alongside the Enchanted Tiki Bar to unknown canonicity.
Africa (Disney's Animal Kingdom)[]
Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail[]
A note from Sara K. of the Harambe Wildlife Reserve mentions the, "Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund" as an environmental organization connected to Harambe.[1] The Harambe Weekly Journal mentions getting stories from the, "WDI Newsservice Africa", WDI standing for, "Walt Disney Imagineering". There is also an in-universe reference to, "Disney's Animal Kingdom" and the service, "Wild Africa Trek".[2]
Harambe Marketplace[]
There is a mural of Mickey Mouse in the Harambe Marketplace with the words, "Fichwa! Fellow". Fichwa means, "Hidden" in Swahili, referencing Hidden Mickeys.[3]
Rafiki's Planet Watch[]
The Walt Disney Company is referenced as being active in Conservation Station.
Wild Africa Trek[]
The company is referenced as arranging the Wild Africa Trek service alongside Safari Tours International and the Harambe Town Council.[4]
Jungle Cruise[]
In the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise, Albert Awol mentions his service AWOL Airwaves as being platformed on the Disney Broadcasting Company. Disneyland's Jungle Cruise also references one, "W.E.D." (Walther Elias Disney) as having worked for the Jungle Navigation Company in the 1920s. Also in the Lost Delta boathouse are posters for, "Adventures by Disney" offering Amazon river cruises in Ecuador.[5]
Jungle Cruise: Wildlife Expeditions[]
A book with Mickey and Goofy on the cover is in the boathouse for this version of the attraction.[6]
Magic of Disney Animation[]
A poster in Minnie Mouse's dressing-room is for a Hollywood film titled, "The Jungle Cruise" made by Disney Pictures. The credits on the poster mention the film having been shot in Zanzibar and Calcutta with help from the Jungle Navigation Company while also having included Trader Sam, Skipper Lassetter, Skipper Brennan and H. Goff in its cast and crew.[7] The film is also a parody of the 1951 non-Disney film The African Queen which inspired Harper Goff's development of the Jungle Cruise and which is connected to the Jungle Cruise's fictional mythos.
Other connections[]
The Great Movie Ride[]
Disney films such as Mary Poppins (1964), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989) and Fantasia (1940) were referenced throughout this attraction.
Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye[]
At the Lost Delta Archaeological Expedition's offices within the Temple of the Forbidden Eye is an anachronistic 1938 LIFE magazine with Mickey and Minnie Mouse on the cover. In the mummy chamber is a corpse with souvenir Mickey Mouse ears that have the name, "Bones".[8]
Jungle Cruise Adventure Game[]
In the Jungle Cruise Adventure Game, Walt is shown in his sailor outfit as a member of the Temple and DeNyle families. The hat worn by Walt as a Jungle Cruise skipper is on one of the shelves in the bar.
Main Street, U.S.A.[]
Two fictional businesses run by Disney are referenced on Main Street and connected to Adventureland though unclear if they are subsidiaries of the Disney Company or separate businesses given Main Street's setting. This railroad has been identified as being run by, "W.E.D. Locomotive Works" with president Walt Disney and general manager Roger E. Broggie.[9][10] At the Main Street Cinema, Walt is identified as the head of the Disneyland Casting Agency. Said organization is referenced as hiring skippers through Trader Sam (presumably for the Jungle Navigation Company), in addition to recruiting Tahitian Dancers for the Tahitian Terrace and birds for the Enchanted Tiki Room through José.[11]
Mystic Manor[]
Company founders Walt and Roy O. Disney are shown in a photograph as having attended the public opening of Mystic Point in 1908.
Pleasure Island[]
In the fictional history of Pleasure Island, the Walt Disney Company obtained the land of Pleasure Island, Florida in 1989 and restored it alongside archaeologists. Plaques also stated that Merriweather Adam Pleasure's boat The Cox-Sherohman Floating Arts Palace was renamed The Empress Lilly after Lillian Disney in the 1980s though other plaques stated it was for Pleasure's aunt Lilly, the wife of his eccentric, "Uncle Walt".[12] The Grand Floridian resort shared this backstory with Pleasure Island.
Skipper Canteen[]
Various real-world personnel of the company are given tribute in this restaurant as skippers and authors of books in the library. Walt Disney's signed Merry Menagerie comics from the Daily Gnus are also pinned to the bulletin board.
Sunshine Tree Terrace[]
Crates in this service identify W.E.D. Ent., Inc. as running the Bay Lake Produce Company and Sunshine Tree Terrace Brand of citrus of which the Orange Bird is affiliated.[13]
Trader Sam's[]
There are several photographs of Disney in this bar. Trader Sam is identified as having met Walt when he was Disney's tour-guide on his 1941 vacation to South America that inspired the film Saludos Amigos (1942). Another photograph mentions Disney having been Sam's best customer and in Trader Sam's Grog Grotto there is a photograph of Walt holding the arm of the giant squid which attacked the Nautilus.
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room[]
Walt is the namesake for this attraction and is mentioned during the opening by José. The Disneyland Casting Agency also worked alongside José and the Enchanted Tiki Room. Disney films of the 1990s were also indirectly referenced in The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management). William mentioned the Disney company giving him and his client an exclusive offer to purchase the Tiki Room.
Other appearances[]
ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter[]
One of the screens mentioned, "The Walt Disney Company's Pan Galactic Stock Holders Meeting" with a transmission from "Lunar Disneyland--The Happiest Place Off Earth" at the Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Centre.[14]
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith[]
G-Force Records has Disney company posters in their studio, identifying Disney as being their clientele.
Space Mountain[]
One of the destinations advertised in Starport Seven-Five is Disney's Hyperion Resort.[15]
Trivia[]
- Former/late Disney board-member Shirley Temple Black (1928-2014) is the namesake for, "Shir Lee Temple" and the idol of, "Shir Lee" in the Jungle Cruise.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.easywdw.com/easy/blog/a-walk-through-pangani-forest-exploration-trial/
- ↑ https://www.easywdw.com/easy/blog/a-walk-through-pangani-forest-exploration-trial/
- ↑ https://inkandpaintintheparks.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/harambe-markets-fichwa-fellow-is-a-not-so-hidden-mickey/
- ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2018/02/wild-africa-trek-disneys-animal-kingdom-now-supported-otterbox/
- ↑ https://dlnewstoday.com/2021/07/photos-video-updated-jungle-cruise-with-all-new-scenes-soft-opens-at-disneyland/
- ↑ https://momotraveljourney.wordpress.com/day-2-tokyo-disneyland/
- ↑ https://www.micechat.com/44039-meet-minnie-minnie-at-disney-hollywoodstudios/
- ↑ https://www.parksavers.com/7-hidden-details-from-the-indiana-jones-attraction/
- ↑ https://www.disney-secrets.com/single-post/2015/05/15/wed-locomotive-works
- ↑ https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/02/windows-on-main-street-u-s-a-at-disneyland-park-roger-broggie/
- ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2016/07/now-casting.html
- ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2009/08/estate-suitable-for-someone-of-their.html
- ↑ http://www.omniluxe.net/wyw/stt2.htm
- ↑ https://allears.net/2014/06/30/tomorrowland-part-six/
- ↑ https://insidethemagic.net/2014/10/d-tales-3-space-mountain-is-filled-with-hidden-disney-history-from-walt-disney-world-and-beyond/