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Tribal dancers, a war party waving spears and shrunken head dealer Trader Sam have been removed from the seven-minute Jungle Cruise journey. In the new version, unseen character Trader Sam remains a trader but now dealing in lost-and-found items that fictional guests have left behind on their journeys. During a Disneyland introduction Friday, Disney Imagineers said the attraction has been revamped many times since Walt Disney originally envisioned the 66-year-old ride to reflect Disney s nature documentaries
True-Life Adventures.
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Disney s Jungle Cruise film adaptation starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt is coming soon to cinemas. The new attraction features Jungle Cruise skippers cracking jokes along the ride representing four rivers ranging from the Nile to the Amazon to the Irrawaddy of Southeast Asia and the Ganges of India.
Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland changed to remove racially offensive features
SHARE On board the newly reopened Jungle Cruise at Disneyland after racially offensive depictions of natives were removed.
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Disneyland has revealed its course correction for its Jungle Cruise attraction in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World in Florida, that removes racially offensive depictions of Indigenous people.
The changes to the popular ride, one of the original attractions overseen by Walt Disney himself when Disneyland opened in 1955, will be officially opened in the Florida and California locations on July 16, with visitors able to take the new Jungle Cruise during the soft opening.
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Disneyland has revealed its course correction for its Jungle Cruise attraction in Anaheim, California, and Walt Disney World in Florida, that removes racially offensive depictions of Indigenous people.
The changes to the popular ride, one of the original attractions overseen by Walt Disney himself when Disneyland opened in 1955, will be officially opened in the Florida and California locations on July 16, with visitors able to take the new Jungle Cruise during the soft opening.
Disney Parks announced the changes in January following criticism of the Jungle Cruise portrayal of Indigenous people, vowing a revamped attraction that would reflect and value the diversity of the world around us.
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The Jungle Cruise is getting an update at Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California, and the attraction will better reflect and value the diversity of the world around us, according to a post on the Disney Parks blog.
The ride, which takes passengers on scenic and comedic boat tour of exotic rivers across Asia, Africa and South America, according to its Disney World s description, had been criticized for its depictions of Indigenous people.
According to IGN, the ride included animatronic human characters depicting some Indigenous characters as headhunters and insensitive language that refers to them as savages.