Guests (Jungle Cruise)

## The Guests

A group of tourists in the Amazon Belle, passing through the Indian Elephant Bathing Pool

## Background information

### Attractions

Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye
Jungle Cruise (attraction)
Swiss Family Treehouse
Tropical Hideaway

## Group information

### Affiliation

Four Families of JNC
Jungle Navigation Company
Missing Persons
Missing Search Party

**The Guests** refers to the characters whom riders assume the roles of in the *Jungle Cruise*. They represent clientele of the Jungle Navigation Company, taking the company's boat tours of the Rivers of Adventureland.

## Description

The vast majority of these characters were tourists taking the Jungle Navigation Company's jungle river tours of Adventureland during the latter-end of the 1930s. These clients were often met by the corruption, negligence and incompetence of the colonial Jungle Navigation Company (particularly its often comedically crooked and inept skippers).

## History

### Background

#### Origins

The Jungle Navigation Company began organizing tours of the Rivers of Adventure on the October 1 of 1931 as part of president Alberta Falls' plan in getting the company through the Great Depression. The JNC's South American salesman affiliate, "Trader Sam" and his cousin, "Chief Nah-mee" would use this as an opportunity for making business with guests, typically in trading tribal items or shrunken-heads. Many guests were known to have gone missing or outright died along the Rivers of Adventure, often due to animals, ship-wrecks, or attacks from the Umbala Tribe whom the JNC regularly invaded the territory of.

Around November 19 in 1932, the company lost a boat known as the *Ganges Gal* in the *Lost River Delta* of Peru which they tried to cover up before being exposed by the *Daily Colonial Journal* newspaper. On the night of December 8, a skipper and their passengers happened upon the base of evil grave-robber Professor Garrett Reed in his search to steal the mystical *Emerald Trinity*.

#### Business Boom

"*Tourists, why does it have to be tourists?*"
—Indiana Jones[src]

In the June of 1935, the JNC assisted archaeologist Indiana Jones in his excavation of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye near the company's boathouse in the Lost Delta of India. In the December of that year, they held their first inaugural, "Jingle Cruise", a Christmas-themed tour of the *Rivers of Adventure*. Their boat the *Ganges Gertie* had particular significance during this event, having been renamed to the, "Garland Gertie" for the event. The *Jingle Cruise* practice of continuing the Jingle Cruise would continue for the following years, being an event promoted by flyers and *The Daily Gnus* newspaper.

Throughout the summer of 1936, the JNC assisted British Colonial Affairs in exploiting the excavations of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, bringing large amounts of tourists to the temple and Lost Delta. Many passengers of the Jungle Cruise at this time would have also been involved in the jeep, "Sallah Tours" of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, one group of which found Indiana Jones who was missing within the temple and traversed the ruins alongside him. Many of these tourists also participated in surrounding features of Adventureland such as attending shows in the Enchanted Tiki Room or going on Juju based adventures for the visiting *Adventure Trading Company*.

#### The Missing Tour

In 1938, Alberta arranged for a Jungle Cruise tour lead by one Felix Pechman XIII which would transport V.I.P. guests Dr. Leonard Moss, Rosa Soto Dominguez, Dr. Kon Chunosuke and Siobhan Murphy. This tour turned to disaster with the guests being stranded along the African veldt along the Nile river. At-least one Jungle Cruise tour-boat packed with guests passed the lost expedition when they were run up a tree by a black rhino but ignored them due to it being, "Too much paper-work". The fate of this expedition is unknown though the passengers seemingly survived.

## Appearances

### Attractions

#### Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye

In the *Eye on the Globe* newsreel, various guests are shown on a Jungle Cruise boat travelling to the Lost Delta to see the Temple of the Forbidden Eye.

#### Jungle Cruise

Guests assume the roles of these characters in the attraction. They are also acknowledged on various occasions by characters such as the skippers, the radio-hosts or salesmen traders.

#### Swiss Family Treehouse

The Jungle Cruise boats used to be visible with guests riding them, passing by the treehouse.

#### Tropical Hideaway

Guests are seen riding on the Jungle Cruise boats and passing by the hideaway.

#### Virtual Jungle Cruise

In this DisneyQuest attraction, guests departed from Jungle Cruise docks for time-travelling river-rafting through a Prehistoric Jungle with Wayne Szalinski.

### Film

#### Jungle Cruise

In this film, the guests are paralleled via the **tourists** in Porto Velho whom JNC skipper Frank Wolff cons aboard *La Quila*. Lily Houghton and MacGregor Houghton have roughly analogous roles to the guests.

### Printed-materials

#### Disney Parks Presents: Jungle Cruise

This book involves Skipper John taking various guests on a Jungle Cruise tour aboard the *Congo Queen*.

#### Skipper Survival Guide

This non-canonical story made references to how the Jungle Navigation Company boomed in popularity resulting in its tourist clientele.

### Paraphernalia

#### Jungle Cruise Adventure Game

Various members of the Jungle Navigation Company's founding families are made to parallel the guests from the attraction, including various depicting children using anachronistic 21st century apparel.

## Trivia

* It is frequently mentioned that the JNC has offices in London, Zanzibar and Calcutta, meaning that the in-universe histories of some of the guests (at least in employing JNC services) could be tied to these places.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.yesterland.com/treehouse.html