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Juju Secrets: Juju #10 — Sacred Skull

Friday, August 29th, 2014

The most difficult to obtain Juju is the Sacred Scull juju.

Sacred Skull juju

During the first weeks of the Adventure Trading Company activity, guests could get a Sacred Skull by simply trading “one of theirs for one of yours.” All you needed to do was find something in the park that could be fashioned into the shape of a skull (antenna balls, wadded napkins, and the remains of things executed by feral cats were popular) and trade it at the Company for a Sacred Skull juju (after paying the usual “exchange fee,” of course).

This stopped when significant complaints started. It turns out that even though Disney was using only the highest quality, organic, free-range, locally sourced, hand-painted, artisanally shrunken skulls, certain people have an aversion to using human skulls for any purpose they see as “frivolous” or “blasphemous.”

That is why today the Sacred Skull juju is no longer available in the park, is illegal to bring across state lines, and can be found on eBay selling for upwards of $1,000.

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Juju Secrets: Juju #8 — The Secret Code

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

The Pineapple juju is not the most difficult to obtain, but it can prove to be a bit tricky for guests who do not have either a degree in cryptology or a handy enigma machine.

After paying your fee at the usual place, you receive an envelope on which are instructions we didn’t bother to read and in which is a map.

Pineapple juju map

The map has a message in the top left written in what Disney fans refer to as “AT&T Code.” To obtain a key to the code, you must either visit the Indiana Jones Adventure attraction in 1995 or go to a secret, unmarked place within the queue, put your map against the wall, and rub the map with a colored pencil until the key emerges or you are ejected from the park, whichever comes first.

Once decoded, the message reads:

Pineapple juju code

We aren’t sure what that means either. It’s supposed to lead you to another secret message, but we couldn’t find it. However, we did discover that if you go back to the Adventure Trading Post and say, “I tried to decode the second message and it didn’t make any sense,” they’ll give you your juju, so that must be what the second message says.

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Juju Secrets: Juju #7 — Medicine for the Natives

Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

An important shipment has been lost, and you need to find it! To begin this adventure. purchase a newspaper from the Adventure Trading Company. Within the paper is an advertisement for a 900 telephone number ($5/minute plus international fees since it’s calling Africa) that will give you instructions for tracking down the important crate.

Adventureland newspaper

Normally, you will need to go to Frontierland and play some silly land-trading game for half the day in order to earn enough pretend money to purchase the key to the secret box that holds the map that shows where the crate that holds the lost shipment is located.

We’ll save you the trouble: It’s in the middle of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, just sitting on the rock next to the goat eating explosives.

Find the crate and receive your Snake juju. Why a snake? It turns out that venom from a certain species of deadly snake is a certain cure for Sydenham’s chorea (otherwise known as Saint Vitus dance) — a disease that has infected many Adventureland jungle natives and causes an infected person to constantly dance, sometimes for as long as 60 years.

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Juju Secrets: Juju #6 — Eyeball Cake

Monday, August 25th, 2014

It’s time for a break — try an eyeball cake!

As part of the Adventure Trading Company experience, Tropical Imports has for sale delicious sponge cake covered in pineapple with cherry drizzle and a blackberry in the center that looks uncannily like a human eye! When you purchase one, you will also receive the Eyeball juju (as well as the right the purchase an “I ate an eyeball at Disneyland” t-shirt).

Eyeball juju

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Juju Secrets: Juju #5 — Danger Apples

Sunday, August 24th, 2014

This is another simple juju to earn.

It is a well-known fact that a parrot’s beak has enough raw strength to snap your finger right off. A real, live parrot sits atop a perch in the Adventure Trading Company, ready to test guests who want to earn the Courage juju. To pass the test, you pick up one of five objects from a table and offer it to the parrot. If the parrot likes what you offer, it will take it. If the parrot doesn’t like the gift, it will viciously attack.

The five objects you have to choose from are:

  • A bad-tempered cobra
  • A live electrical wire
  • A poisonous spiny sea urchin
  • A bottle of “Just Right for Fingers” barbecue sauce
  • An Apple

The correct answer is the apple. Give that to the bird and, nine times out of ten, you’ll be fine.

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Juju Secrets: Juju #4 — Treehouse Secret

Saturday, August 23rd, 2014

The Treehouse Secret juju is another exceptionally easy one to earn. After paying the Adventure Trading Company, go to Tarzan’s Treehouse and look for the elephant. Once you find it, you will be given an Elephant juju.

Elephant juju

If you are having trouble finding the elephant, look in Tarzan’s refrigerator. The elephant is the thing with the red-painted toenails that is trying to look like a strawberry.

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Juju Secrets: Juju #3 — Skipper Training

Friday, August 22nd, 2014

Asking the Adventure Trading Company to sign you up for Skipper Training gets you a small handbook that will help you study to take the official Jungle Cruise Skipper Exam.

Adventureland skipper handbook

Most of the information in the book is stuff you probably already know. For example, the main parts of a ship (crow’s deck, gangwayplank, bilgesprit, poopsail, etc.), the most numerous type of animal in the jungle (animatronic), and the minimum allowable humor score of a Jungle Cruise joke (zero).

When you are done studying, present yourself at the Jungle Cruise exit and take your final exam. The exam has three parts: taking a legally binding oath that includes references to undisclosed small print, paying a substantial “tuition fee,” and telling a Jungle Cruise-style joke.

For most guests, the third part is the most difficult. So that you don’t have to go through the stress of trying to come up with something, we have prepared a list of suitable jokes you can choose from:

  • What’s black and white and red all over? A “sleeping” zebra.
  • Why does a lion wear red suspenders? It ate a firefighter.
  • What has four wheels and flies? That jeep and whoever was trapped under it.
  • How do you stop a hippopotamus from charging? Shoot it.

Bonus joke (for experts only):

  • Why does Africa have a veldt? To keep its vandts up.

Passing the test earns you a Tooth juju. The tooth is similar to that encountered in the last moments of many an adventurer who thought a tiger couldn’t harm them because it was only 10 feet away.

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Juju Secrets: Juju #2 — Fish Drink

Thursday, August 21st, 2014

This is one of the two easiest jujus to earn. All you need to do is perform two simple tasks.

First, visit Bengal Barbecue and order the “fish drink special” (it only costs 50% more than the other Adventure Trading Company tasks). You will receive a glass with a strange green liquid in which is floating red spheres. The liquid is a fish-flavored soda (imported from Japan), and the red spheres are salmon roe.

Second, find the “Intestinal Fortitude” testing cast member near the barbecue’s exit and drink the entire beverage in their presence. Half an hour later, if you have managed to keep it down, you earn your Fish juju.

Fish juju

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Juju Secrets: Juju #1 — Bird Photos

Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

The Bird Call is a magazine which, if purchased at the Adventure Trading Company, gives you instructions for earning a “bird talent scouting” juju. In order to receive your prize, you must take photographs of five types of bird and then bring those photos to the Tiki Room.

The Bird Call Adventureland juju magazine

Driving all around Southern California looking for birds can be time consuming. Since you’d rather be standing in a queue tweeting and ignoring the people you’re traveling with than searching for birds, we have prepared links to appropriate photos that you can use. Just present these to the Tiki Room bird judge and your will receive your juju.

The five categories of birds you must collect are:

When you complete your task, you receive a Tree juju because birds live in trees.

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Juju Secrets: Adventure Trading Company

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

For the month of August, Disneyland has a series of special adventures available in (coincidentally) Adventureland. Guests wishing to participate in these adventures make their way to the Adventure Trading Company, identified by these signs:

Adventure Trading Company signs

There, guests are able to learn more about available adventures and purchase equipment and information necessary for their completion (limited availability, while supplies last, no discounts, no returns, proceed at your own risk).

The month is almost over, so for the next few days we will be sharing details of each of the adventures as well as the secrets needed to complete it without having to go to all the trouble to actually do the activities you paid to do.

See you tomorrow!

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