The crumbling ruins surrounding an animatronic tiger on the Jungle Cruise, which became a little too realistic and left the big cat comically stuffed into a wooden box, will soon be updated at Disneyland.
According to city records, Disneyland has applied for $600,000 in building permits from the city of Anaheim to replace the audio-animatronic tiger structure on the Jungle Cruise attraction.
Permits filed in August call for new electrical, foundations, a steel frame and cement-gypsum rock work on Jungle Cruise’s tiger structure.
According to MiceChat, the Jungle Cruise will be closed from September 16 to October 3 for seasonal renovations.
According to MiceChat, the Jungle Cruise was suddenly closed in November when the infrastructure around the audio-animatronic tiger opposite the entrance to the Indiana Jones Adventure Temple collapsed.
The tiger scene was hidden behind green gauze curtains until a wooden fence could be built around the animatronic animal to conceal the necessary repairs. The temporary fence concealed 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 disguise the odd-looking “Tiger in a Box” as part of an archaeological dig site, with a “Restricted Access” sign indicating that no items could be removed without written permission from the Board of Regents of the Archaeological Department.
The captains of the Jungle Cruise occasionally included the caged tiger in their comedic repertoire of bad jokes and witty sayings.
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