Blustery Bay is the larger setting for Typhoon Lagoon in the Disney Parks.
Description[]
Blustery Bay is a tropical bay region, sometimes identified as being in Florida though sometimes implied to have a Polynesian setting. The deeper waters of Blustery Bay were located north and known as, "Mayday Bay".
Features[]
Captain Mary Oceaneer's map of Blustery Bay
Assorted[]
- Cape Kowabunga:
- Castaway Canal: Castaway Canal is a large canal located on the land-mass east of the bay.
- Clam Landing:
- Conch Landing: A cove to the south-west of the Bay, south of Keelhaul Cove.
- Humanga Harbor:
- Kahuna Canal:
- Keelhaul Cove: A cove to the south-west of the Bay.
- Mayday Bay:
- Mayday Shore: Mayday Shore is a shore along the land-mass east of the bay.
- Mene Bank: A bank in the waters of the bay.
- Menehunei:
- Palmy Shore: A shore alongside Sliders Bay.
- Sliders Bay: A smaller bay on the western side of the bay, located along Placid Palms.
- Snail Landing and Hideaway:
Placid Palms/Typhoon Lagoon[]
- “A furious storm once roared cross the sea, catching ships in its path, helpless to flee. Instead of a certain and watery doom. The wind swept them here to Typhoon Lagoon”
- ―Story at Typhoon Lagoon's entrance
Placid Palms is a beach resort which had its land and buildings changed by a tropical hurricane. Typhoon Lagoon is located along a section of Blustery Bay known as Sliders Bay. The mascot of Typhoon Lagoon is the surfboarding alligator, Lagoona Gator.
Features[]
- Board Room: The Board Room is a building along the Typhoon Lagoon beach, which serves as the home of the resort's mascot, Lagoona Gator.
- Castaway Creek: Castaway Creek is a creek passing around Typhoon Lagoon and through some of the rock work of Mount Mayday.
- Entrance:
- Getaway Glen:
- Happy Landings Ice Cream: Happy Landings Ice Cream is an ice-cream store located on a landing along Castaway Creek.
- Hideaway Bay:
- High 'n' Dry:
- Keelhaul:
- Ketchakiddee Creek:
- Leaning Palms: Leaning Palms was originally the Placid Palms Resort building. After the hurricane, the building became slanted and was renamed, "Leaning Palms Dining".
- Lowtide Lou's:
- Miss Adventure Falls: Miss Adventure Falls is a waterway and waterfall in the Placid Palms region. The waterways are littered with treasure and artifacts that were scattered about in Typhoon Lagoon's hurricane from the possession of Captain Mary Oceaneer.
- Mount Mayday: Mount Mayday is the landmark volcano of Typhoon Lagoon, overlooking the lagoon beach. On the top of the mountain is the shrimping boat The Miss Tilly, impaled on the peak. Volcanic activity in the mountain regularly causes water to burst out of the smoke-stack of the boat as tidal waves hit the pool below. There are various waterfalls and other waterways passing through and down Mount Mayday.
- Gangplank Falls:
- Humunga Kowabunga:
- Keelhaul Falls:
- Mayday Falls:
- Mountain Trail:
- Storm Slides:
- Shark Landing:
- Shark Reef:
- Singapore Sal's Souvenirs and Sundries: This is a shop located near the entrance to Typhoon Lagoon.
- Snack Shack:
- Stern Berner Reef:
- Tropical Amity Outpost:
- Tropical Amity Fruit Exporters Produce Wash Facility: This was the plant of the, "Tropical Amity Fruit Exporters" company, turned into a makeshift waterslide after the hurricane. The waterslide is known as the, "Crush 'n' Gusher" after Tropical Amity's old slogan, " Our juices are crushed with flavor... Our produce is gushing with taste!".[1]
- Typhoon Boatworks:
- Typhoon Lagoon Surf Pool: Typhoon Lagoon here refers to the dammed off lagoon at the base of Mount Mayday, which has a beach alongside it.
- Typhoon Tilly's:
History[]
Background[]
Origins[]
Placid Palms was a calm and peaceful beach resort, as well as the base of operations for the Tropical Amity Fruit Exporters company. Placid Palms has been present since the December of 1938 at the latest, and in 1938 was scheduled to have Jungle Navigation Company member Colonel Brody travel there for a shift from the company's east-dock in the Amazon rainforest (though he looked to see if someone could take his shift).
Prior to the hurricane which hit the bay, Captain Mary Oceaneer of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers was searching for treasure in the bay on her ship, the M.S. Salty IV along with her parrot, Duncan. At the same time, a shrimping boat called the M.S. Tilly was in the bay where it transported and/or met with the ancient traveller, Trader Sam. Sam may have served them a, "Dark & Stormy" beverage around the time of the hurricane.
Around the 1950s, a large hurricane hit Blustery Bay and changed the land layout of Placid Palms.[2] The Miss Tilly was wrecked atop Mount Mayday, though its crew (or at least members of it) survived. Captain Mary Oceaneer's ship was also wrecked in the bay with much of her nautical equipment, treasures and artifacts getting scattered across the bay.
Typhoon Lagoon[]
Placid Palms was changed into, "Typhoon Lagoon" after the hurricane. Many buildings rebuilt themselves with scrap which was strewn about in the storm. The crew of the Miss Tilly sent a post-card to Trader Sam via the Jungle Navigation Company, asking him what had happened. Meanwhile, Captain Oceaneer turned her wrecked ship into a base of operations for recovering her lost artifacts. The Tropical Amity Fruit Exporters Produce Wash Facility was repurposed into a water-slide, using rafts designed for the company's produce.
Lagoona Gator came to be the mascot of Typhoon Lagoon. Lagoona is a member of a band called the Beach Gators where he provides lead-vocals and works alongside fellow alligators Scarf, Wipeout and Knarly. Songs performed by the Beach Gators include: Two Girls for Every Gator, The Little Old Gator from Pasadena, Gator Vibrations, and Little Surfer Gator, the latter of which is supposedly a favourite.[3]. At some point, Lagoona Gator was on the front-page of the magazine Surfin' Reptile where he was focus on the cover story, "Lagoona Gator Shoots the Curl on the Biggest Wave in Florida history".[4]
Lagoona had a starring role in the beach movie "Bikini Beach Blanket Muscle Party Bingo" as the character Freddie. This movie was shot on location in Typhoon Lagoon and had music provided by the Beach Gators, made available for purchase by Swampywood Records.[5] The movie also had the actors: Annette Crocochello, Bobcat Shaw, Cathy Cayman, Sandra Deer and Troy Greeno'hue while being directed by Croc Buzoo, written by Cayman Lafferty, and produced by Ron Scaly.
Around the 2000s, Typhoon Lagoon appeared to have been visited by surfers Lilo Pelekai and her alien pet, Stitch. Santa Claus also visited Shark Reef for snorkelling during vacation at his summer retreat in Blizzard Beach.
Development history[]
Blizzard Beach was originally planned to have a shared backstory with the defunct Pleasure Island area of Downtown Disney. In the backstory, Hurricane Connie. the same hurricane which caused Pleasure Island to be lost in 1955 would have been responsible for sweeping across Typhoon Lagoon.
Appearances[]
Disney's Typhoon Lagoon[]
Placid Palms is the setting of this park.
Jungle Cruise[]
On a chalkboard in the queue is reference to JNC member Colonel Brody travelling from East-Dock to Placid Palms.[6]
Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar[]
Trader Sam has a post-card from the Crew of the Miss Tilly, showing Mount Mayday and identifying Sam as having been in the hurricane with them.[7]
Winter Summerland[]
In Winter Summerland Santa has a note mentioning Typhoon Lagoon's Shark Reef. It reads, " Going snorkeling at Shark Reef. Be back soon…I hope. “Santa Jaws”".[8]
Trivia[]
- The nautical flag's over the entrance translate to, "Welcome to Typhoon Lagoon".[9]
- Captain Mary Oceaneer's dive-bell has Atlantean writing from Atlantis: The Lost Empire on it, translating to, "I come in peace". Amongst Mary Oceaneer's collection in her ship, is Ariel's Snarfblatt and Ursula's contract with Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989).
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ http://disneyshawn.blogspot.com/2010/07/thanks-for-choosing-tropical-amity.html
- ↑ Hurricane originally intended to be "Hurricane Connie" in 1955. Typhoon Lagoon's hurricane is referenced in Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar, set around the 1950s-1960s.
- ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2011/07/board-room.html
- ↑ https://mickeyblog.com/2022/11/19/remember-the-lagoona-gator/
- ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2017/07/in-gatorvision.html
- ↑ https://allears.net/2023/08/23/25-things-you-didnt-know-about-jungle-cruise-in-disney-world/
- ↑ https://www.disneytouristblog.com/trader-sams-backstory-details/
- ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2016/03/santa-jaws.html
- ↑ https://www.buzzfeed.com/audreyworboys/awesome-little-details-at-disney-world