Walt Disney World - Magic Kingdom, Part 3
Adventureland
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Adventureland is the setting for Disney's movies and attractions that
are associated with the exotic and adventurous. That's why Pecos Bill's
is in Frontierland. Represented are the immortal classics, Jungle Cruise,
Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Enchanted Tiki Room. A Dumbo clone themed
after Aladdin seems to have snuck in, and there's always a line for it. Well,
except for the occasional camel spitting on you, it's harmless enough and does
fit the theme of Adventureland...
Magic Carpets of Alladin
Magic Carpets of Alladin is a Dumbo type ride which some considered inappropriate for Adventureland, but it's themed correctly, and it's the only attraction loosely based on the popular film in the park.Appropriate or not, it always has a line. A ride is a ride, I guess.
The Enchanted Tiki Room
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room is back. The New Management was tossed out on their... beak... back in 2010 when there was a small control room fire.When Walt first created the Tiki Room and showed it to his friends, no one could quite figure it out. He had created a room that came alive, but it had no story to tell.
So he invites Robert and Richard Sherman to come see it. The show is over, the brothers, confused, turned to Walt to ask what the show was about.
"You're going to write a song to explain what it's all about!" And they did. And it still exists today, along with "it's a small world" and It's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow...
And the Sherman Brothers still don't have a window on Main Street in Magic Kingdom. Something wrong with that.
Here's my video of The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management).
The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
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Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates was supposed to be a walk through attraction, until Disney saw the unprecidented throughput numbers on "small world" at the 1964 World's Fair. Since it's opening, numerous changes have been made to make it more politically correct, but to this day everyone's still waiting for the redhead to go on sale...The only theme park attraction that really made it as a movie (as opposed to a movie being turned into a theme park attraction), Pirates had some major updates in 2007 with the release of Pirates 2, to include the likes of Jack Sparrow, Barbossa and Davy Jones in a special appearance on a fog screen. With the release of Pirates 3, Blackbeard was added to the opening scene, trading places with Cap'n Jones.
(Now you can argue Haunted Mansion had moderate success (and a reboot is being made), but then there's Country Bears...)
This was the last attraction Walt worked on before his death. I think he'd still approve of the ride.
Leaving Adventureland toward Frontierland
End Magic Kingdom - Part 3.
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