Posted on 02/27/2020 7:58:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge
One Walt Disney World attraction just became a little too immersive for riders.
Around midday on Thursday, one of the boats used in the classic Jungle Cruise ride at the Orlando theme park started sinking while filled with passengers.
Witnesses documented the mishap on social media, showing guests still standing inside the boat as the murky water slowly rose around their legs. All those on board were safely rescued, but later images captured the vessel nearly completely submerged, its canopy roof still visible and what appears to be a lone park employee on board.
“Our boat on the jungle cruise sank today. Fun times! #wdw,” one park-goer tweeted.
“The water in the boat was about a foot and half. Happened about noon,” wrote the same Twitter user. “We went from floating to sunk in about a minute. Everyone was fine and we were rescued in about 20 minutes.”
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It's a Jungle out there in Streamland.
The single hokiest ride in Disney World. It’s so hokie that the “tour guides” make fun of it.
I don’t know.. The teacups were pretty lame, imho.
Now an F ticket ride.
At least it wasn’t “It’s a Small World”.
And that’s why this is Fake Disney marketing.
Who even knew before this story Disney still had the lame Jungle Cruise ride?
A remake of “African Queen”?
Nobody could hope to top Katherine Hepburn for annoyance.
Yahbut, when I first got to Disneyland in my early 20s, that was one of the first rides I did. Partly because it was a cheap ticket and short line, but also because I’d grown up watching it on the Disney TV show...
Surprised they’d a foot and a half of water in that pond!
Hey, whoa! I retched my little brother out on those once. Good times...
The tour guides making fun of it is part of the ride
If it wasn’t for the tour guides and their lame jokes, the ride would be a total bore
Even Weird Al made a funny song about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0cCRRFi1aA
I liked Monsanto where them actual shrunk you down to the size of a speck of dust
ONE DAY after Disney elevated the head of their parks to CEO.
Disneyland 1967 - Adventure Thru Inner Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-4-RUuuqQw
Like a different world.
Lucky the hippopotamus didn’t kill them...
They’re safe as long as they don’t wiggle their ears...
You’d think they’d be CLOSED by now, with the virus ravaging throughout the world.
(((( Shudder ))))
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