Florida

The state flag of Florida

**Florida** is a real-world American state, located along the Gulf of Mexico. Florida is the real-world location of *Walt Disney World Resort* which holds the Magic Kingdom's Adventureland and Jungle Cruise and Skipper Canteen, Disney's Animal Kingdom which holds Kilimanjaro Safaris and Na'vi River Journey, and Disney's Polynesian Village Resort which holds Trader Sam's Grog Grotto.

## Description

### Points of interest

#### Orange County

* **Bay Lake**:
	+ **EPCOT**:
* **Disney Springs**:
* **Lake Buena Vista**:
	+ **Pleasure Island**:
* **Sunshine Tree Citrus Groves**:
	+ **Sunshine Tree**:

## Jungle Cruise appearances

### Adventure Trading Company

The nickname of *Daily Gnus* reporter Tallahassee Glover is an allusion to Tallahassee, Florida where her real-world counterpart Erin Glover originates from.

### Africa (Disney's Animal Kingdom)

A flight-board in Disney Springs mentions the town connecting to Harambe.

### Jungle Cruise

The skipper character Felix Pechman XIII originates from the town of Silver Springs, Florida. A removed crate from the boathouse of the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise was addressed to Pamelia Perkins at the "Office of the Adventurers Club at *5189 Hill Street at Lake Buena Vista* in Florida. In Alberta Falls' office within the boathouse of the Lost Delta is a parcel sent to her by Merriam Pleasure at the Adventurers Club of Pleasure Island.

### Skipper Canteen

In the library are the books *Native Orange Birds of the Southeastern United States* by Dr. Sid Truss and *Photos of Florida* by Luana Teixeira. There are also various references to EPCOT and EPCOT characters including the Dreamfinder, Star-Lord and Professor Tom Morrow and the Pleasure Island characters of Pamelia Perkins, the Adventurers Club and Merriweather Adam Pleasure.

### Trader Sam's

Both of the Trader Sam's bars have have a drink called the, "La Florida" with the drink description implying Sam searched for (and possibly located) the legendary Fountain of Youth water-feature of Florida. The holiday drink, "Tropical Snowstorm" might be an allusion to Blizzard Beach where a freak snowstorm hit Central Florida.

#### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

Sam has a photograph of the Adventurers Club's headquarters in Lake Buena Vista. There are various assorted references to Pleasure Island such as Sam being given artifacts from the club and being contacts with the club's members.

#### Trader Sam's Grog Grotto

This bar references Trader Sam having visited many tourist destinations in Florida. Amongst these are Silver Springs, the Sunken Gardens of St. Petersburg, and the Parrot Jungle & Gorilla jungle of Miami. Sam also has the life-preserver, "Vesta Gruppen" from the *Norway Pavilion* of EPCOT, an area of the park set in central Florida.

### Other connections

#### EPCOT

EPCOT or the, "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" is set in Central Florida, being a futurist city-state based on the ideas of Walt Disney. EPCOT has the attraction *Living with the Land* which has connections to the Jungle Cruise.

#### Disney Springs

Disney Springs is set in the fictitious, sleepy town of the same name located on the land of Walt Disney's, "Florida Project" and which has connections to the history of the Disney family and Walt Disney Company. The shop World of Disney is themed to being an old Disney animation studio and features and illustration of the Jungle Cruise's Indian elephants on a table implied to have belonged to Marc Davis. Artwork of the *Congo Queen* is mounted on a shelf in the shop Twenty-Eight & Main.

##### Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar

In the backstory of this restaurant, Indiana Jones and Jock Lindsey went searching for the Fountain of Youth in Florida in the year 1939 though didn't succeed in finding it. In the 1940s, Jock settled down in Disney Springs where he built a hangar that was transformed into a bar with assistance from the Adventurers Club in the 1950s. Within the bar is a map of the word from the context of Jock's adventures with Florida being annotated with a drawing of the Fountain of Youth and Bermuda Triangle. There are also newspapers belonging to the township of Disney Springs that reference *Celebration* and *Lake Buena Vista*.

The bar contains several allusions to the Jungle Cruise such as Jock Lindsey mentioning in his flight-log that he was inspired to make the Safari Sangria after a skipper brought him to see the Backside of Water, a map of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye being in the lost & found, the Eye of Mara marking the Lost Delta on a world map, and the lost & found containing a shrunken-head next to a stack of umbrellas, seemingly referencing Chief Nah-mee as a potential past-patron of the bar. The Safari Sangria also might be named for the lost safari of the African veldt.

#### Pirates of the Caribbean

Florida was originally stated on the Mao Kun Map as the location of the Fountain of Youth before this being retconned to an unidentified Caribbean island.

#### Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island was set in Lake Buena Vista Florida after it was excavated by archaeologists and the Walt Disney Company.

#### Sunshine Tree Terrace

A crate in this dining-service reveals the fictitious company behind the attraction as the Sunshine Tree Terrace Brand of the Bay Lake Produce Company of WED Ent., Inc.. The terrace and its mascot the Orange Bird were created for the Florida Citrus Commission.

#### Tarzan of the Apes

Parts of the Johnny Weismuller *Tarzan* films were shot in Silver Springs, Florida.

#### Wilderness Explorers

This attraction featured several missions in DinoLand, U.S.A..

## Other appearances

### DinoLand, U.S.A.

DinoLand, U.S.A. is set in the Floridian region of Diggs County in the dinosaur-oriented tourist-trap town of DinoLand, U.S.A.. The ride DINOSAUR/Countdown to Extinction sends guests to the Diggs County region of Florida in the late-Cretaceous period.

### Disney's Blizzard Beach

Blizzard Beach is set in a Floridian beach-resort which was hit by a freak snowstorm in the 1990s, causing it to be rebranded as a beach resort.

### Disney's Typhoon Lagoon

Typhoon Lagoon is inconsistently set in Florida by posters though also has allusions to being in the Pacific Ocean.

### Stitch's Great Escape

At the end of this attraction, Stitch crash-landed in Florida after escaping from a *Galactic Federation* prisoner-transport centre.

## References

1. ↑ https://jungleskipper.com/sea/attractions/adventurers-club
2. ↑ https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2021/07/16/photos-new-jungle-cruise-characters-introduced-as-guests-enter-attraction-queue/
3. ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2018/06/countless-tropical-locales.html