Placid Palms

**Placid Palms**, also known as **Typhoon Lagoon** is the setting of Typhoon Lagoon in Walt Disney World.

## Description

Placid Palms was a tropical resort colony located in the oceanic Blustery Bay. Following a large storm was terraformed into a paradise and renamed to Typhoon Lagoon. The settlement is found around a lagoon near the volcanic Mount Mayday and its respective water-bodies and beaches.

### Features

* **Castaway Creek**: This is a creek that loops around the lagoon and passed through Mount Mayday.
* **Ketchakiddee Creek**: Ketchakiddee Creek is a sandy creek filled with assorted debris from the ships and buildings destroyed in the palms' hurricane. It is predominately used by the Typhoon Lagoon resort as a play area for children.
* **Keelhaul**:
* **Miss Adventure Falls**: These falls held the wreckage of the M.S. Salty IV sailing-ship and served as the base of operations for Captain Mary Oceaneer.

* **Mount Mayday**: Mount Mayday is a volcano found in in the lagoon of Placid Palms' southern coast. It overlooked a tropical volcanic lagoon found near the gates to Placid Palms' Typhoon Lagoon resort. During the hurricane, a shrimping vessel called *The Miss Tilly* was beached on the volcano with its crew aboard.
* **Leaning Palms**: Leaning Palms Resort (formerly known the Placid Palms Resort) is a resort and dining location found nearby Mount Mayday's volcanic lagoon. It was originally named for two symmetric palm-trees outside the establishment but when they were twisted along with the tower of the resort being tilted, it was renamed to Leaning Palms.
* **Shark Reef**: This was a reef holding many forms of sea-life (notably sharks) which was enclosed by a shipwreck following the hurricane.
* **Sliders Bay**: Sliders Bay is a bay along the eastern coast of Placid Palms situated in the general area where Mount Mayday and its lagoon are found.
* **Starfish Landing**:
* **Stern Burner Reef**: The Stern Burner Reef is a coral-reef formation along the eastern coast of Placid Palms along both Mayday Bay and the greater Blustery Bay.
* **Tropical Amity Fruit Exporters Plant**:  Tropical Amity Fruit Exporters was a fruit exporting company which operated in Placid Palms prior to the hurricane and which had a plant used to export their different fruits. The hurricane heavily damaged the plant and caused the company to abandon it. Following this, citizens of Placid Palms renamed it to the Crush 'n' Gusher and used it as a raft attraction.

### Fauna

* **Bull Sharks**: Bull Sharks are documented to have lived in Castaway Creek.
* **Great White Sharks**: Great White Sharks are documented to have lived in the lagoon at the base of Mount Mayday.
* **Sharkus Gigantus**:
* **Tiger Sharks**: Tiger Sharks are among the sea-creatures known to have lived in Shark Reef.

## History

Blustery Bay was a large tropical bay with several settlements and establishments located across it. Several exotic underwater life-forms lived in the bay and its respective water-bodies, possibly including a cryptid shark known as the, "Sharkus Gigantus".

Of these was the tropical resort of Placid Palms which was victim of a massive hurricane at some point in the 20th century. In the original storyline, this was identified as Hurricane Connie in the year 1955 though retcons have made this dubious. Following the hurricane, the residents of Placid Palms renamed the settlement to, "Typhoon Lagoon" and it became a much more popular resort as a result.

## Appearances and allusions

### Blizzard Beach

There is a letter from Santa Claus in the Winter Summerland which reads, "*Going snorkeling at Shark Reef. Be back soon…I hope.-“Santa Jaws”".*

### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

There is a post-card from the crew of the *Miss Tilly* shrimping vessel addressed to Jungle Cruise character Trader Sam with a photo showing the ship impaled on Mount Mayday.  The message contained reads, "*Sam- That was the strongest dark and stormy' we've ever had! What happened? -Crew of the Miss Tilly*" which might imply that Sam was present during the hurricane that hit the lagoon.

## Connections

### Adventurers Club

In the original retconned story for Pleasure Island, the storm which hit the island in 1955 was the same storm that hit Typhoon Lagoon.

### Disney films

* **Atlantis: The Lost Empire**: One of Mary Oceaneer’s diving bells features a phrase of Atlantean printed on the front. When translated, it reads “I come in peace”.
* **The Little Mermaid**:  Ariel's snarflblatt and contract with Ursula were in the wreckage of Mary Oceaneer's ship.
* **Who Framed Roger Rabbit**: Placid Palms resident, "Hammerhead Fred" is shown to rely on the Acme Corporation via, "Acme Taxidermy".

### Miss Adventure Falls

During the storm, S.E.A. member Captain Mary Oceaneer was marooned in Placid Palms with her pet parrot Duncan on her ship the M.S. Salty IV. This resulted in her treasures and artifacts being spread across the bay.

### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

A post-card from the crew of the Miss Tilly beached on Mount Mayday is hung on the wall of Trader Sam's bar, identifying them as being familiar with Sam. Trader Sam here being a character from the Jungle Cruise.  The message contained reads, "*Sam- That was the strongest dark and stormy' we've ever had! What happened? -Crew of the Miss Tilly*" which might imply that Sam was present during the hurricane.

## Trivia

* There is conflicting information as to if Typhoon Lagoon is set in the Pacific Ocean or in Florida.

## References

1. ↑ http://disneyshawn.blogspot.com/2010/06/real-dive.html
2. ↑ https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g34515-d107182-i76718780-Disney\_s\_Typhoon\_Lagoon\_Water\_Park-Orlando\_Florida.html
3. ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2016/03/santa-jaws.html
4. ↑ http://disneyshawn.blogspot.com/2010/06/real-dive.html