The trip with Jungle Cruise to Disney theme parks in California and Florida, long criticized as racist, is making a makeover to remove what the company called “negative representations” of some cultures.
Disney said Monday that the attraction of the river boat would be updated to “reflect and value the diversity of the world around us.”
The Jungle Cruise, which first opened in 1955, has long been accused of having racist overtones in describing some non-Western characters as savages and cannibals.
Disney’s Jungle Cruise voyage has long been criticized for its depiction of natives as savages and cannibals, including the depiction of a man wearing shrunken heads.
Disney said the trip would be updated to “reflect and value the diversity of the world around us.”
Disney said plans to remove these “native” scenes are unrelated to an upcoming Jungle Cruise movie starring Dwayne Johnson
The company will eliminate representations of “natives” who will use them or be wild.
The updated tour will include new scenes and a new story, Disney said on a blog, though the company did not give a release date.
“As part of this story update, we’ll be following a Skipper and his passengers as their journey twists,” imaginary Kevin Lively told Twitter video.
“In fact, the expedition will climb a tree after its sunken ship splits and chimpanzees embark on the wreckage, with the monkeys’ business continuing.”
Disney noted that the changes are not related to the upcoming Jungle Cruise movie, starring Dwayne Johnson and scheduled to premiere on July 30, Variety reported.
The trip will have no characters or links to the added film, according to the media.
‘This is not a review of the whole attraction. It’s the jungle cruise you know and love, with the patterns still at the forefront, and at the same time we face the negative representations of the “natives,” Chris Beatty, an executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, said in an interview.
Disney CEO Bob Iger also tweeted about the “exciting” changes after the announcement.
The changes to the route, which opened in 1955, come after the company said in June that it would review its trip to Splash Mountain.
“The exciting changes we make to one of Disney’s most popular classic attractions, Jungle Cruise, reflect our commitment to creating unprecedented experiences that reflect not only the best in storytelling, but also the values and rich diversity of our world “, Iger he tweeted.
Travel fans continued to be ambivalent about the changes in the beloved trip.
“The only ‘people’ who see racism in attraction are hard core racists and have too much intelligence to realize it. Update, well. Do you want to eliminate non-existent ‘racism’? Ridiculous.” ha piulat @ mikejt1954.
Another warned the company, saying those who visit the theme parks do so out of nostalgia and traditions.
“Adding improvements is good, but in the business of fun, people live by traditions; changes can disrupt the emotional connection. Extreme caution is recommended. Always make decisions from the front line, not from behind. “Desktop. Live the dreams,” tweeted @randy_senna.
Another fan stated that his first reaction was “don’t touch my cruise in the jungle!”
“However, this seems more of an improvement, so I’m captivatingly optimistic about the excitement. Disney did very well with Alice and Peter Pan’s attraction upgrades at Disneyland,” a Twitter account noted. called DisenyworldVacationer.
Disney fans took to Twitter to praise and condemn the company for announcing changes to its Jungle Cruise trip
Others added that they were “in full support” of the Jungle Cruise changes.
“We shouldn’t keep obsolete performances in the name of nostalgia. That said, it would be very progressive for Disney to put The Rock on Jungle Cruise and all the other theme parks, just take a look at the whole table,” he joked @ carlyewisel.
The changes follow a cultural calculation in the United States about systemic racism that has led to the revision of various television and film programs.
Disney said in June that its trip to Splash Mountain was also being revised to eliminate its associations with black stereotypes in the 1946 film “Song of the South,” on which it was based.
The troubled film has not been available on any Disney platform since 1986, when it was re-released for a 40th anniversary theatrical run, according to SFGate.
Fans stayed mixed when the company said it would change the Brer Rabbit theme to replace it with The Princess and the Frog.
Last year, the entertainment giant also released tips on some of its classic animated films, including ‘Peter Pan’ and ‘The Aristocrats’, which warned that they contained obsolete or stereotypical depictions of people from color.