Indiana Jones and the Summer of the Hidden Mysteries - Part 4

This is the final installment of the Indy series.

Part of the brochure they were giving out had some hints about things to look for along the queue in the line for the ride. If you are much a Disney trivia buff, you would probably have been aware of at least a few of them.

Here are a few of the outside of the ride and along the queue:







Hall of Spikes:
"Previous visitors have been caught by surprise on this hideous hallway. See if you can deduce how many victims have met their fate before you." (what surprises some visitors is that if you pull the bamboo pole shown in the picture behind my cousin, the ceiling comes down and spikes come out.)



Obelisk of Doom Chamber:
"The ancient obelisk warns of four dangers that await you during your journey. Two of them are snakes and spears. What are the other two?" (We always go through so fast we've never stopped to figure this out, but you can bet I will next time!)





Indy's Office:
"Just past the projection room, you can peer into Indiana Jone's makeshift office. Can you find Indy's hat, his whip, Sallah's fez, Mickey Mouse and a crated artifact bound for Club Obi Wan?"

Mickey is on the magazine peeking out from under the drawing of Mara.


Indy's hat is in the top center of this picture.


Sallah's Fez is on the statue on the wall.


This is a Hidden Mickey within the ride. His name is Bones (it's on his hat) and he is on the first wall on your left as you come around the corner into the skeleton room.



This was when we got stuck on the ride in June right near the end where Indy is hanging above you on the rope and the giant bolder comes rolling out at you.




It was so cool to see how they did the rolling ball effect. You can see the warehouse behind it and the car in front of us is stuck on the track right below us.


This was what we saw over us for the entire 15 minutes. It was so weird because he just keeps moving like he is holding on for dear life and like he might fall on the car any second.




Indy saves the day again!


Exit Path:
"As you exit the Temple after your adventure, keep an eye out for an excavation mine car from 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' and a military truck from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'"

Here is the mine car.




Here is the truck.









Well, that's about it as far as the Summer Adventures with Indy go. It was a fun promotion and it really was a great thing to do to spice up Adventureland for the summer.

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Indiana Jones and the Summer of Hidden Mysteries - Part III

Part of the Summer of Indy was a show they did in the old Aladdin and Jasmine's story theater next to the Tiki Room. Since they already had the giant tiger head from the Aladdin story as part of the set, they called the show, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Stone Tiger." It was a fun, little show that got the kids involved in solving an archaeological mystery using Indy's notebook and his student archaeologist. They figure out the signs and free Indy from the stone tiger. But just as the cheering begins to fade, the student archaeologist steals the special talisman that Indy found in the stone tiger, making her the most powerful person in the world!! (mwhahahahhaha!) A long fight ensues, including grunts, kicks, the whip, and finally the student runs back into the stone tiger and is imprisoned forever because Indy takes one of the teeth with him so no one will be able to let her out.

Here are some pictures of the show in order.

















































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Indiana Jones and the Summer of Hidden Mysteries - Part II

Continuing with the fun of the Indiana Jones summer promotions, they staged some good ole Indy fight scenes to occur around Adventureland several times a day. with Indy music in the background.

The basic story line was that Indy had found a map and appears above the Tropical Imports snack stand. He is accosted by a "bad buy" and a fight over the map ensues. Of course, he wins the fight, knocking out the bad guy and getting the map. He leans over the railing and tells the kids in the crowd, " When he wakes up, tell him Indy won!"


Indy then disappears and the bad guy wakes up, which the kids have been waiting for and they start yelling, "Indy won! Indy won!" He kind of growls and heads off to find Indy.


Soon Indy reappears and asks crowd members questions about the map and such, then disappears across the "street" into the second floor of the Bazaar.



Not long after he is followed by the bad guy.


Indy reappears on the balcony above the South Seas Traders and holds the map out. He yells out questions to the crowd and responds to their responses.



Meanwhile the bad guy sneaks up behind him and he is barely saved by the screams of the crowd. Another fight ensues and



Indy loses the map! When he comes to he asks the crowd for help. They tell him where the bad guy went.


The crowd tells him they saw the bad guy go up into the tree, so Indy goes in pursuit of him!




Aha! They meet again! A true Indy-style fight occurs on the bridge leading to Tarzan's Tree House. Indy even brings out his whip!


And of course he is once again victorious!



He exits to the cheers of the crowd and tells the kids not to let the bad guy through if he ever wakes up.


When the bad guy wakes up, he tries to get through the crowd and the kids are pulling him and trying to find ways to keep him from following Indy. He grumpily mumbles under his breath, "I hate kids!"


This was a really cute way to spend 15 minutes! We enjoyed watching the little fight scenes and watching the little boys in the Indy hats interact with Indy and the bad buy. Very fun!

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