Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of The Forbidden Eye - Queue

Queue

The attraction’s immersive and carefully detailed queue leads guests through dimly lit caverns and eerie passageways containing booby-trapped sections reminiscent of the Indiana Jones movies.

The queue begins outside where guests wind past a 2.5 ton Mercedes-Benz troop transport truck. This is the actual vehicle used in the famous desert chase scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. A small mining car near the truck is a movie prop as well, used in the mine scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Guests also walk by a noisy steam-powered engine/generator set, which appears to power the lights strung deep into the temple.

Much of the queue is inside the temple itself. Throughout the bowels of the temple, petroglyphs in "Marabic" warn temple visitors of the rewards and perils that can be found further within. The glyphs can be translated into English using a simple character substitution encoding. In the early months of the attraction's existence\, guests were given decoder cards; while these cards are no longer distributed, the code is easily solvable as each symbol bears a strong resemblance to its corresponding letter in the English alphabet. The sole exception is the letter I, which, appropriately, resembles an eye. Where the text is painted, vowels appear in red.

The queue contains several interactive features. In the “spike room”, the ceiling appears to be retained by several upright bamboo poles. When the key supporting pole is pushed up into the ceiling, guests are startled by sounds of the ceiling dropping as the spikes begin to descend slowly toward them. In the next area, large stone blocks released from the ceiling (triggered by the diamond-shaped stones below) are barely kept in place by wooden wedges and supports. Further on, in the Rotunda Calendar, pulling on a rope triggers responses from Dr. Dunfor Pullit, an out-of-sight archeologist supported by the rope beneath the sarcophagus stone. Various crates throughout the queue contain some significant features such as one with number "990 6753" referring to the number that marked the crate holding the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark and another one that is marked "Deliver to Club Obi Wan" referring to "Club Obi Wan" a fictional club at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and also a reference to Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars.

Eventually, guests encounter a projection of a newsreel of the discovery, followed by a safety spiel by Sallah.

Part of the attraction extends into what was once the Eeyore section of Disneyland's parking lot. As a tribute, an Eeyore sign is supported by wooden scaffolding at the very back of the projector room. Also, Mickey and Minnie are on the cover of Life Magazine in Professor Jones' office.