Camp Discovery

**Camp Discovery** is a ropes course attraction at Shanghai Disneyland's Adventure Isle.

## Overview

Camp Discovery is an archaeological dig of an abandoned ruin of the Arbori tribe that the League of Adventurers established their base camp on the island around in 1935. Message boards in the area feature news clippings and ephemera chronicling the past exploits of the League of Adventurers as well as some of their current findings on Adventure Isle. From the base camp, the League has established Fixed Ropes Traversal System lines through three different trails around the camp area and along the cliffsides of Apu Taku.

### House of the Ancients

The House of the Ancients is the main excavation site of the archaeological dig, having once been an ancient trading center. Carvings of Q'ai the Watcher, the fanged cat guardian of the Earth realm that the Arbori take their name from, have been found throughout the site.

### Echo Cavern

Echo Cavern is a river gorge home to various carvings and cave paintings accessible by both a rope line and ground trails. Paintings of Q'araq can be found within its chambers.

### Hidden Falls Chamber

Hidden Falls Chamber is a crystalline cave behind a waterfall home to the Temple of the Milky Way. The Arbori believe that this was where the Arbori first entered the world alongside many of the other creatures in the island. Research notes on the properties of the crystals note their unusual properties, adding potential credence to the myth.

## Connections

The message boards at base camp reference a variety of other Disney attractions and films through news stories from the First International News journal.

### Expedition Everest

Photos of the Yeti accompany a news story of the League running afoul of the beast while establishing a Fixed Rope Traverse System through the Himalayas. It is worth noting that this would be roughly concurrent with the events that lead to the Royal Anandapur Tea Company railroad's initial closure.

### Haunted Mansion

A secondary headline on the September 22, 1930 issue has a report on the Johnson family being run out of the Haunted Mansion by the partying ghosts of its ballroom, while also referencing sightings of a faceless man and spectral dog in the four months surrounding the holidays. The article notes that they were the third family to have been routed by the ghosts since the passing of the original owners.

### Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull

A July 15, 1931 headline story tells of how the League of Adventurers joined Indiana Jones's search for the Temple of the Crystal Skull in Cusco, Peru, having discovered two halves of the same ancient map and bringing all terrain jeeps to the site, though Jones was frustrated with the unwanted extra help.

### Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The same front page also features a reference to the Hollywood Tower Hotel, describing how the elite Herman family disappeared from the hotel in an elevator malfunction in the July of 1931, years before the Halloween of 1939 where 5 guests disappeared in a separate incident. There are several indications that these are not the five ghostly victims of the tower (identified in non-cannon materials as "Sally Shine", Emeline Partridge, Carolyn Crosson, Gilbert London and bellhop Dewey Todd) given how there is no mention of a bellhop (Dewey Todd), the young girl is mentioned having had a doll (Sally Shine had a Mickey Mouse plushy), and of-course the erroneous setting.

### Up

A story about the League's expedition to Antarctica describes the use of their airship the New Horizons to deploy the sled dogs to Wilkes Station notes that much of Cooter Carter's "Aerial K-9 Deployment" techniques are borrowed from those of explorer Charles Muntz despite his boasting.

### *Atlantis: The Lost Empire*

Two stories detail a 1932 Whitmore Industries-funded expedition to Atlantis where the League was meant to discover what happened on the "ill-fated" Milo Expedition, serving as Preston B. Whitmore's way of making what happened in 1914 public.

## References

1. ↑ https://disney-universes.tumblr.com/post/163492322316/lafitteslanding-a-few-more-details-from-various
2. ↑ https://disney-universes.tumblr.com/post/163491408941/lafitteslanding-heres-close-ups-on-some-of-the#notes