PHOTOS and VIDEOS: Our First Jingle Cruise Ride of The Year In Disney World's Magic Kingdom!

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Here is video that Disneyland has shared, with a look at the reimagined scenes and the interviews. …and even a fully decorated office, complete with a silver tree. Looks like one present decided to spend the holidays on the water. Wamba Wanda becomes the Wassail Wanda thanks to a metal panel decorated with Christmas trees. The office seems to be decoration central, adorned with strands of red, white, and pink paper and knitted garlands. Others are decorated with animal horns and red “noses,” resembling Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

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The festive overlay adds holiday touches to the Jungle Cruise attraction and is available daily with your park ticket throughout the holiday season. Now that Halloween is over, Christmas decorations are appearing at Magic Kingdom. In Adventureland, Jungle Cruise has been transformed overnight into “Jingle Cruise,” a holiday version of the classic attraction. This year, the Jingle Cruise is a little different due to the new and altered scenes aboard the ride. While the human characters don’t have any additioanl holiday theming, the rhino does seem to have gotten into the food before running the safari group up the tree. For a detailed look at the “new” characters here, check out our earlier article.

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Jungle Cruise is already one of the most popular attractions at Magic Kingdom, but the holiday overlay makes it extra enticing. If you’re planning on visiting this holiday season, pack your patience or a $100 bill to pay for your family to skip the line with Genie+. It’ll probably average somewhere between minutes this holiday season, with morning waits and very late night waits being below that average and midday waits exceeding it. Guests get their first glimpse of the holiday shenanigans that await as they approach the attraction.

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Originally debuting in 2013, the Jingle Cruise sees holiday props, music, and script changes added to the traditional Jungle Cruise attraction in Adventureland. If you get the chance to stop by, definitely check this ride out in the next few months! Our skipper cracked some great holiday jokes throughout the ride. This is the first chance to see the Jingle Cruise after Jungle Cruise received a bunch of updates earlier this year. Many ride scenes were updated this summer, so we’re sure things will be a little bit different than what we’ve seen in the past. While several boats were out of the rotation when we visited, all of the others already had their holiday names up.

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A wreath featuring a teddy bear hangs near the back of the broken boat. The Boats & Baits kiosk has garland on the counter and a wreath on the side. Santa hats, stockings, and garlands have spilled all over the jungle.

This ride overlay happens annually and features Christmas and holiday decorations scattered throughout the scenes with some festive puns and jokes sprinkled into the skippers’ scripts. We’ve been checking out decorations in Magic Kingdom, gingerbread displays at the resorts, and merchandise online this morning, but there’s one big thing in Disney World we need to discuss…the JINGLE CRUISE! The holiday overlay of Jungle Cruise is back, and we’re excited to share photos from our ride.

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As we make our way to the Nile River, we find our next holiday enhanced scene past the African Veldt and at the trapped safari scene. We didn’t notice any changes at the “Boats & Baits and Bites” beach, but the trashed camp scene is overflowing with gifts and holiday touches. We spotted a big sign wishing everyone a happy “gnu” year as well. The Cast Members are all in on the fun too, with festive, wreath-trimmed hats.

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Ahead of its official reopening on July 16th, we were invited to a media preview of the newly updated ride today in Disneyland. The sign above the attraction’s entrance has been similarly updated. Both sides of the sign hanging over the Adventureland walkway have been decorated.

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Themed wreaths now adorn the streetlights outside Jungle Cruise. Before we got on the ride, there were plenty of Christmas decorations to look at. The result was a small group of perhaps 6-7 skippers whose humor could be described as a mix of Steve Martin, Chris Rock, and a touch of Don Rickles. It was all carefully thought out ahead of time, since a major aspect of our fun and success was audience involvement in our spiel. I personally took every chance I could to involve each kid, grandmother, or family in my spiel to make them feel as special as possible.

The undersides of most birds and the entire bodies of other birds are done in short fur material--the same material used for the former Mine Train marmots, six of which also decorate his office. Taking shortcuts such as these, some birds take little over an hour to attire. Being the first (and only) artificial taxidermist seemed to be quite a trial-and-error job for a while, but there really was little time for guessing with about 210 immediate unfurred and unfeathered customers. New materials had to be ordered and experimented with quickly.

In the Skipper office, there are even more colorful decorations. The skippers are more excited than anyone about the Jingle Cruise. This wreath resembles a reindeer, with antlers and a red nose.

These are brand new for the annual holiday overlay, following the reimagining of the attraction last year. Jingle Cruise is available for all guests during the holiday season from park opening to closing. While you are visiting Magic Kingdom, be sure to check out the holiday fun decor and tasty treats posing up around the park. This fan-fave ride takes the classic Jungle Cruise ride and gives it a fun, seasonal twist with plenty of holiday decor and festive puns.

The wreaths are made of palm fronds and pieces of wood that the skippers may have found during their excursions. Garlands and Christmas lights are wrapped around the Jungle Cruise sign, which has an “i” placed over the first “u” to turn it into Jingle Cruise. Moving on, we come across another scene that doesn’t have any specific props for the Jingle Cruise, but does have a number of reindeer. While the African rock python doesn’t have a festive bow-a necktie (yet), it is often mentioned in the Jingle Cruise spiel by skippers.

But today we saw that the ride got yet ANOTHER makeover, this time for the holidays. We saw holiday decorations up all over the Magic Kingdom, which means the holidays are in full swing. The Jungle Cruise got lots of decorations and even more holiday puns this year. Let’s take a ride and see what’s different about this fan-favorite holiday overlay. The Jungle Cruise holiday overlay is back for the 2023 holiday season at Magic Kingdom.

Just outside the official entrance, guests can see wreaths adorning some of the lampposts, including this one made out of an old lifebuoy. Of course, this being the jungle, the skippers make use of whatever they can get to ring in the season, and that extends to the signage above the entrance. As befits the makeshift look of the Jingle Cruise, a candy cane-colored “I” replaces the “U” on the Jungle Cruise sign. Presents have been scattered across the beach in the next scene. With all the recent changes to Jungle Cruise, we were excited to see how Jingle Cruise would be different from previous years.

The reimagined trapped safari has a little more Christmas cheer with presents and decorations scattered on the ground. There are red bells decorated with white snowflakes and trees. A portion of the nearly two dozen Indian elephants being added to Disneyland's jungle river cruise is viewed here in the artist's sketches. Big ones and "little squirts," the elephants will frolic and splash in the waters of Adventureland beginning in June. At various resorts and EPCOT, guests can enjoy annual gingerbread displays. Disney’s Yacht Club Resort will have a gingerbread display for the first time this year, either in place of or in addition to its usual train village.

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