Re: Jungle Cruise - self-parody?

Dillon Pyron wrote:

What do I mean by this? Well, the JC became famous for its one-liners and
puns, when they were set in the context of what seemed on the surface to
look like a simulation of an expedition down the rivers of the world. But
lately it seems that my JC excursions have had all the pretense of any real
expedition removed, and from start to finish it's all jokes, delivered in
the vein of a stand-up comic moreso than a tour guide.


Some of them are good, some sound like that guy doing the warm up for
the headliner.  A good time to go to the john so you won't miss
anything.


Perhaps this is because I almost always ride at the end of the day now, and
the guides are tired of doing the same spiel for several hours. Or maybe at
my age I'm yet again a victim of "selective memory syndrome". Or maybe, just
maybe, the ride really has changed and I'm not the only one to notice it.


Some times the ride is great.  And it doesn't seem to depend on time
of day.  I really think it's all due to the CM.

If you want to get "up close" with "real jungle animals", a little thing just on the other side of property called Kilimanjaro Safaris, with real hippos, seems to have since upstaged their animatronic cousins...

WDW realizes that the Crooz still survives on the 'tronic ride being a part of the old-school Walt-era Dole-Whip-Adventureland Magic Kingdom "feel", and nowadays intentionally aims for young ad-libbing CM's who can work the boat for a "tongue-in-cheek ride", unquote--
And yes, the change probably began as more 90's Pressler-era "Snub the old-school dinosaurs, if we can't tear 'em down for gift shops" petulance, but, unlike the Tiki birds, this bit of nostalgia-tweaking seems to have helped it.

Derek Janssen (who missed it on the last trip, but...)
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