Fun Find Friday
September 27, 2013
Location: Magic of Disney Animation: Disney's
Hollywood Studios
Earlier this week Minnie Mouse
received a new meet and greet area within the
Magic of Disney Animation. While we did a brief
picture update of this in our
Update
section of the website, today we are going
to take a closer look at one of the posters
found within the queue and see what their
connection to the Disney parks entails!

First up is this very cool poster for a film
entitled The Jungle Cruise! Before we get into all the fun details
hidden within the poster, let's do a quick history lesson dealing
with The Jungle Cruise itself. While Walt originally wanted The
Jungle Cruise to be based around real life animals (similar to
Kilimanjaro Safaris today) he always knew that he wanted the
attraction to be similar to a film starring Humphrey Bogart and
Katherine Hepburn known as The African Queen. Keeping
The African Queen in mind, the poster above is actually a
reproduction of The African Queen's poster. Just take a
look:

Keeping the similar format for both posters, The
Jungle Cruise poster makes it known that the producer and director
(as seen in the picture below) is H. Goff and B. Evans. So who
exactly are H. Goff and B. Evans? Harper Goff was one of the main
Imagineers on the project who truly brought to life the elements of
The African Queen within the attraction. B. Evans stands
for Bill Evans who was responsible for the majority of the landscape
techniques found within Walt Disney World and Disneyland and helped
bright the exotic water adventure to life with his plants.

In addition to these two names, you can also find
people like Skipper Lasseter (referencing John Lasseter who once was
a Jungle Cruise Skipper), Trader Sam (who is the head salesman of
the jungle) and a whole lot more!
This is just one of several fun finds found within
this amazing queue and believe me, we will be visiting it again in
the near future to dissect another one of the posters and all the
hidden meanings found within!
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