The crumbling ruins around an animatronic tiger on the Jungle Cruise that became a little too realistic and left the big cat comically stuffed in a wooden box will soon be updated at Disneyland.
Disneyland has filed building permits valued at $600,000 with the city of Anaheim to replace the audio-animatronic tiger structure on the Jungle Cruise attraction, according to city records.
What used to be a canoe full of skulls is now an expedition’s wrecked boat that was taken over by chimpanzees on Jungle Cruise in Adventureland inside Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, July 9, 2021. The ride was changed to remove negative depictions of native people and instead of sending guests through unrelated scenes in the jungle, the attraction will now operate with a fully formed story connecting each vignette. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
The permits filed in August call for new electrical, footings, steel frame and cement plaster rockwork on the Jungle Cruise tiger structure.
The Jungle Cruise will close Sept. 16 to Oct. 3 for a seasonal refurbishment, according to MiceChat.
A rock shrine arch frames the Jungle Cruise tiger scene before the themed wooden walls were added. (Photo courtesy of MiceChat)
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The Jungle Cruise suddenly closed in November when the infrastructure crumbled around the audio-animatronic tiger across from the Indiana Jones Adventure temple entrance, according to MiceChat.
The tiger scene was hidden behind green scrims until a wooden fence could be built around the animatronic animal to hide the necessary repairs. The temporary fence hid a rock shrine arch that frames the tiger. A quartet of animatronic crocodiles remain on the steps below the tiger.
Walt Disney Imagineering did its best to dress up the odd looking “tiger in a box” as part of an archaeological dig site with a “Restricted Access” notice warning that no items were to be removed without written permission from the “Board of Regents of the Archaeological Department.”
Jungle Cruise skippers occasionally worked the boxed tiger into their comedic repertoire of bad jokes and witty banter.
