SorcererMickey
October 18th, 2004, 19:22
Disneyland Attractions Getting Makeovers
POSTED: 8:33 am PDT October 18, 2004
UPDATED: 8:46 am PDT October 18, 2004
LOS ANGELES -- Many Disneyland visitors are cheering now that skippers on the Jungle Cruise ride can pack heat again.
For more than 40 years, the mechanical hippos would lunge threateningly out of the water at every boat that toured the park's Amazon River, only to be repelled by skippers firing their sidearms.
Then, in 2001, political correctness appeared to accomplish what the hippos never could. The skippers were disarmed. Now Disneyland has rearmed the skippers.
It's one of several actions officials say are aimed at recapturing some of Walt Disney's original vision as the park approaches its 50th birthday next year.
The horses pulling carriages down Main Street USA are being given their name tags back.
And plans are under way to put the gut-wrenching twists and turns back into the Mad Tea Party ride's teacups.
POSTED: 8:33 am PDT October 18, 2004
UPDATED: 8:46 am PDT October 18, 2004
LOS ANGELES -- Many Disneyland visitors are cheering now that skippers on the Jungle Cruise ride can pack heat again.
For more than 40 years, the mechanical hippos would lunge threateningly out of the water at every boat that toured the park's Amazon River, only to be repelled by skippers firing their sidearms.
Then, in 2001, political correctness appeared to accomplish what the hippos never could. The skippers were disarmed. Now Disneyland has rearmed the skippers.
It's one of several actions officials say are aimed at recapturing some of Walt Disney's original vision as the park approaches its 50th birthday next year.
The horses pulling carriages down Main Street USA are being given their name tags back.
And plans are under way to put the gut-wrenching twists and turns back into the Mad Tea Party ride's teacups.