Disney Magic Kingdoms

VIDEO GAME
Disney Magic Kingdoms
Developer	Gameloft
Platforms	iOS, Android, Windows
Released	March 17, 2016
Genre	City-building game
Mode	Single-player

Disney Magic Kingdoms is city-building game for desktop and mobile device first released on released on March 17, 2016 which allows players to create their own Disney theme park populated by various characters from brands owned by The Walt Disney Company.

Indiana Jones characters were first released on July 11, 2023 with Marion Ravenwood and Henry Jones, Sr. included as part of a WALL•E content update. Indiana Jones, René Belloq and Sallah were added on August 8 in anticipation of an Indiana Jones event which ran between August 17 to September 1.

Plot summary (Indiana Jones event)

Sent by Indiana Jones to scout a mysterious kingdom for a potential new dig site, Sallah reminiscences about their misadventure with René Belloq surrounding the excavation of Temple of the Forbidden Eye in 1935. Afterwards, the Egyptian digger recalls a few more tales, from 1936, with individual stories for himself, Belloq, Jones, Henry Jones, Sr and Marion Ravenwood.

Appearances

Characters

• Barranca (Mentioned only)
• René Emile Belloq
• Marcus Brody (Mentioned only)
• Capuchin monkey (Mentioned only)
• Walter Donovan (Mentioned only)
• Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir
• Fayah (Mentioned only)
• William Flinders Petrie (Mentioned only)
• Geoffrey of Monmouth (Mentioned only)
• Ernest-Théodore Hamy (Mentioned only)
• Saad Hassim (Mentioned only)
• Ixcuina (Mentioned only)
• Henry Walton Jones, Senior
• Indiana Jones
• Simon Katanga (Mentioned only)
• Kauffman (Mentioned only)
• Charles Kennedy (Mentioned only)
• Jock Lindsey (Mentioned only)
• Merlin (Mentioned only)
• Panama Hat (Indirect mention)
• Pierre Montet (Mentioned only)
• Omar (Indirect mention)
• Abner Ravenwood (Mentioned only)
• Marion Ravenwood
• Reeko (Mentioned only)
• Reggie (Mentioned only)
• Richard (Indirect mention)
• Short Round (Mentioned only)
• Taliesin (Mentioned only)
• Norah West (Mentioned only)

Star Wars

• C-3PO
• Chewbacca
• Luke Skywalker
• Han Solo
• Leia
• R2-D2

The Muppets

• Kermit

Artifacts

• Arnhem Calendar Ring (Mentioned only)
• Chachapoyan Fertility Idol
• Cross of Coronado (Mentioned only)
• Crux Vaticana (Mentioned only)
• Dunlop Collection (Indirect mention)
  • Hermocrates (Indirect mention)
• Headpiece to the Staff of Ra (Mentioned only)
• Holy Grail (Mentioned only)
• Lance of Longinus (Mentioned only)
• Sophia's necklace (Indirect mention)
• Uppsala Scroll (Mentioned only)

Creatures

• Bug (Mentioned only)
• Rat (Mentioned only)
• Snake (Mentioned only)
  • Cobra (Mentioned only)

Cultures

• Byzantine Empire (Mentioned only)
• Chachapoyan (Mentioned only)
• Hovitos (Mentioned only)

Locations

• Adriatic Sea (Mentioned only)
• Barnett College (Mentioned only)
• Belize City (Mentioned only)
• Connecticut (Mentioned only)
  • Marshall College (Mentioned only)
    • National Museum (Mentioned only)
• Egypt (Mentioned only)
  • Cairo (Mentioned only)
    • Cairo Museum (Mentioned only)
  • Tanis / San el-Hagar (Mentioned only)
    • Tanis Dig (Indirect mention)
    • Well of the Souls (Mentioned only)
• French Indochina (Mentioned only)
  • Temple of Peril (Mentioned only)
• Hollywood (Mentioned only)
• India (Mentioned only)
  • Bengal (Mentioned only)
    • Lost Delta (Mentioned only)
      • Temple of the Forbidden Eye (Attraction)
• Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar (Indirect mention)
• Madagascar (Mentioned only)
• Morocco (Mentioned only)
  • Marrakesh (Mentioned only)
    • Gueliz (Mentioned only)
      • Museum of regional art (Attraction)
• Nepal (Mentioned only)
  • Kathmandu (Mentioned only)
• Pacific Ocean (Mentioned only)
  • South Pacific (Mentioned only)
• Panamanian prison (Mentioned only)
• Peru (Mentioned only)
  • Amazonas (Mentioned only)
    • Chachapoyas (Mentioned only)
      • Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors (Mentioned only)
  • Lost River Delta (Mentioned only)
    • Temple of the Crystal Skull (Mentioned only)
• The Raven (Indirect mention)
• The Raven's Nest (Indirect mention)
• Sahara (Mentioned only)
• Tomb of Sir Richard (Indirect mention)
• Yugoslavia (Mentioned only)

Organizations and titles

• Japanese Imperial Navy (Indirect mention)
• Nazi (Indirect mention)
• Professor

Vehicles and vessels

• Bantu Wind (Mentioned only)
• Bus (Mentioned only)
• Flying Wing (Indirect mention)

Miscellanea

• A Connecticut Yankee (Mentioned only)
• Book of the Spells of Merlin (Mentioned only)
• Date (Mentioned only)
• Marion Ravenwood's Magnificent Stunt Cavalcade (Mentioned only)
• Ophidiophobia
• Sallah Tours (Mentioned only)
• Savoy opera
  • "My Gallant Crew"
  • "The Major-General's Song" (Mentioned only)

Behind the scenes

Continuity

While Disney Magic Kingdoms isn't specifically an Indiana Jones title, the Indiana Jones Event 2023 drew heavily upon, and added to, existing lore within the Expanded Adventures.

Main storyline

• Sallah introduces himself by his full name, Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir, which was first revealed in Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror.
• Upon seeing the Indiana Jones Adventure attraction for the first time, Sallah tries to remember what it reminds him of, considering the Temple of Peril and Temple of the Crystal Skull before realizing that it's the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, all of which are all DisneyParks attractions.
• He places their locations in French Indochina, the Lost River Delta of Peru and the Lost Delta of India: "I suppose more than one delta can be lost at a time..."
• For the "Shadows Fall" side quest, Sallah reveals that he is in possession of Belloq's journal. The diary first appeared in the Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook and was expanded in The Greatest Adventures of Indiana Jones. In the side quest, Belloq remarks upon how naive Professor Kauffman was for telling him the whereabouts of the Lost Delta. Kauffman, of Indiana University, was introduced in a letter written to Indiana Jones that was displayed in the queue at Temple of the Forbidden Eye in which the professor, mistaking Belloq for an "old friend" of Jones, tells him that Belloq has called.
• Sallah sings a section of "My Gallant Crew", from HMS Pinafore, continuing his interest in Gilbert & Sullivan first shown with "A British Tar" in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He also mentions that "The Major-General's Song" (The Pirates of Penzance) is particularly challenging for him and doesn't reflect the pirates he knows.
• In the Forbidden Eye ride, set in 1935, Belloq is absent beyond brief mentions in the queue, despite Indiana Jones warning Sallah to watch out for him. 28 years after the attraction first opened, Disney Magic Kingdoms tells of Belloq's participation at the site by weaving it around the events of the ride itself, revealing to visitors of Disneyland that, between their encounters with Indiana Jones, the archaeologist is trying to stop Belloq looting the temple and framing the tourists all while dealing with the temple coming apart.
  • Belloq has stolen a canteen of "Eternal Youth water" and satchel of Earthly Riches but regrets there's nothing tangible he can plunder from Observatory of the Future, all of which are rewards offered to those who avoid looking into the eyes of Mara.
  • Indiana Jones knocks Belloq out cold in one punch which surprises himself: "I gotta fistfight Belloq more often..." However, he takes the time to place him somewhere relatively safe while he helps the tourists.
  • Jones encounters a "bus-sized cobra" and the "Rolling Orb of Implacable Retrib[ution]", both features of the ride, and Sallah notes that they foreshadow similar events in the Well of the Souls and Chachapoyan Temple. That even the rolling boulder has now been given a name may be a playful nod to the elaborate monikers of several chambers and tunnels which are shown in detail on the Indiana Jones Adventure Map.
  • When the tourists escape, much of the temple is lost in the aftermath and the surrounding area rendered unstable. Jones and Sallah go back in to rescue Belloq but find he has already left and had to abandon his loot. Sallah isn't told Belloq's name, allowing his mishearing it as "Bellosh" when learning it ahead of his appearance in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but mentions that the Earthly Riches ended up in the National Museum's India collection.
  • Sallah also mentions that his and Jones's "excavation of the Temple led to many more adventures".

Belloq storyline

• Sallah reveals that he acquired Belloq's journal from his brother-in-law, a character first mentioned in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and retconned to be Omar from Raiders of the Lost Ark in the latter movie's RPG sourcebook. Sallah acknowledges that his brother-in-law "prefers to keep his sources to himself" on how the journal was acquired. His black market ties were noted in Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye.
• Belloq describes his more honest early archaeological career as having "self-imposed limitations" and chastises himself for not simply bribing the Hovitos chieftain when they first met, details which, along with Barranca's gunshot leading him to Indiana Jones, are also from the Raiders sourcebook.
• With the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol in hand, he considers that it has "Possible ties to the depictions of Ixcuina cited by Ernest-Théodore Hamy", a reference to the real Dumbarton Oaks birthing figure which influenced the design of the idol movie prop. Belloq's awareness of its weight carrying some significance hints at the final booby trap within the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors which triggered the structure's collapse.
• As indicated in Raiders, Belloq offloads the idol in Marrakesh. His appreciation for Morocco is new but his reference to some "unfortunate business with the Uppsala Scroll" was depicted in Indiana Jones Adventures: Volume 1. The transaction with Saad Hassim taking place in a museum is also created for the game but Hassim taking it back to his warehouse sets up the events which begin "The Gold Goddess" storyline from The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones storyline

• Indiana Jones acknowledging that Jock Lindsey has helped him escape "Tibetan bandits, the Hovitos [and] at least one Imperial Navy" refer to the events of Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods, Raiders of the Lost Ark and "The Sea Butchers", respectively.
• The aviator wanting to convert a hangar into a restaurant informs the backstory of Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar.
• Jones having a notecard to help translate the Maraglyphics at the Lost Delta is nod to the decoder card that was given to visitors of Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye.
• His angry letter from Madagascar hints at his misadventure on the island first mentioned in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom over what Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide indicated to be the Jewel of Heaven in 1930.
• That Short Round finds a place at a boarding school after Temple of Doom was a detail added to the franchise by "Trail of the Golden Guns".

Henry Jones, Sr. storyline

• Disney Magic Kingdoms provides a hint at Henry Jones, Sr.'s style of professorship at Princeton University (unnamed in the game) in 1936, at least in regard to his students: "Unapproachable." "Inattentive." "Refuses to hold office hours."
• The newspaper articles that he notices - "Epigrapher stabbed in San Francisco" "Starlet Norah West books five-picture deal" - refer to the murder in front of Indiana Jones at the start of "Revenge of the Ancients" and the Hollywood actress securing the Eternal Youth water during the Eye on the Globe newsreel of Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye, respectively.
• Jones' frustration that the paper has no word of the Holy Grail potentially being on the coast of Yugoslavia is research he conducts in the Grail Diary that was included with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure. As is his consideration that the Tomb of Sir Richard may lie elsewhere on the Adriatic. The crypt is found in Venice in the movie itself.
• The professor keeps accidentally receiving his son's mail as a consequence of his office becoming a forwarding address while Indiana Jones is in the South Pacific, a detail introduced in the prologue of 2008 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom novelization. Disney Magic Kingdoms elaborates that this was intended as a one-time offer. Both the book and the game's mentions of Indy in the South Pacific, refers to the events of Indiana Jones and the Shrine of the Sea Devil.
• That Henry Jones reads the letter in case son has "blundered into yet another international incident" is likely a nod to the archaeologist's misadventure in Honduras first mentioned by Chattar Lal in Temple of Doom but depicted (in British Honduras) in Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone.
• The letter to Indiana Jones is from Simon Katanga (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and show that the pirate is assisting Jones's search for the Cross of Coronado. That the artifact isn't in Belize City and rumored to have been taken east by its owner, sets up Jones's reclamation of the cross aboard the Vasquez de Coronado off the Portuguese coast in Last Crusade. The ship being in the Americas was shown in the 1989 novelization of the movie where the prologue was set in Brazil instead of Portugal (which may have reflected an earlier draft of the screenplay).
• Professor Jones tries to place where he knows the Cross of Coronado from, another nod to the opening sequence of Last Crusade, before he realizes he's thinking a medievalists' conference which tied the crucifix back to the Crux Vaticana, a connection that was made in The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones.
• Mentions of Merlin, Taliesin and Book of Spells in the aftermath of Jones's lecture of Geoffrey of Monmouth backfiring, were also referenced in the Grail Diary of the Last Crusade graphic adventure.

Marion Ravenwood storyline

• Marcus Brody has asked Marion Ravenwood for help sorting through "Marshall's museum archive". Her brief employment with the museum was established in The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones storyline "The Fourth Nail".
• On finding that a considerable amount of the archive is stored within baskets, she paraphrases Indiana Jones' ophidiophobia with "Baskets. Why'd it have to be baskets...?", and considers the chore only slightly better than getting yelled at by a monkey and dragged into the middle of the Sahara desert, references to her experience in Cairo from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• She uncovers a "bronze keychain-looking trinket with horns, and a ratty old notebook" which are indicated to have been on loan to Marshall from Barnett College, and pities the next person to go looking for them if they go missing again, foreshadowing the Caswell Hall sequences of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
  • The 'keychain' is likely intended to have been the Horned Statue rather than Sophia Hapgood's necklace as the latter should be with the archaeologist-turned-psychic whereas the statue is stored at Barnett in the game.
  • Barnett College is stated to be upstate from Marshall College which runs counter to Marshall being in Connecticut and Barnett's location in (upstate) New York to the south.
  • Marshall and Barnett having some form of working relationship is new for Disney Magic Kingdoms but provides a reconciliation for instances across Indiana Jones that treat the universities as one and the same.
• Marion finds letters to Indiana Jones from her father Abner Ravenwood, referencing their correspondence from Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye and is surprised to find the two men were communicating to an extent during their decade-long estrangement. She wonders if they were beginning to mend their friendship, addressing the continuity inconsistency the attraction introduced which ran counter to details given in Raiders.
• With Indiana Jones away, Marcus asks Marion to teach Jones's archaeology class as he has a meeting with Dean Kennedy, a character established in The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones.
• That Marion is qualified to teach the class because she is "archaeology-adjacent" is similar to the justification she gives to invite herself onto Indiana Jones's expedition in "Africa Screams!" and how Marcus reasons that she is ideal for the museum's PR agent role in "The Fourth Nail".
• The lecture doesn't go well but Marion's argument that running a tavern outside Kathmandu is a great way to fund an archaeology career hints at the way Abner Ravenwood carried out his Nepal expedition in the Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook.

Preppy outfit storyline

• Marion finds that Indiana Jones is once again running late for their date at the National Museum's annual gala. Similar circumstances were depicted in "The Gold Goddess" and "Good as Gold", the latter of which was the last straw and the event that wrote her out of The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones
• One of the museum donors she mingles with is Walter Donovan, secretly a Nazi, who bores her with theories over the Lance of Longinus, foreshadowing his interest in the Holy Grail depicted in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Nazi interest in the spear shown in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
  • Donovan's contributions to a museum were stated in Last Crusade but his ties to the National Museum were established in Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide. Rob MacGregor's adaptation of the movie mentioned an Old World Museum where Les Martin's book notes that the man is famous for his donations to multiple museums.
• Marion hides from the party guests among the museum exhibits.
  • The Arnhem Ring was first recovered in "The Fourth Nail" but Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood's efforts to reacquire it were depicted in "The Cuban Connection!"
  • The first theft of the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol from Indiana Jones was shown in the opening of Raiders while Marion saving his life during the second happened in "The Gold Goddess".
  • Marion's upset that the replica Headpiece to the Staff of Ra only details her father's accomplishments. Abner Ravenwood's recovery of the original medallion was indicated to be in the 1920s near San el-Hagar in the Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook with the 1926 date coming from the unrealized Indiana Jones and the Lost Horizon comic, a brief summary of which was included in The World of Indiana Jones. Marion herself had to recover the medallion from a thief in Indiana Jones Adventure World.
• That Jones once went "moonlighting as a movie stuntman" likely refers to "The Secret of the Deep", as it's the source for the job in the South Pacific mentioned later in the game's storyline, but the man also had a similar experience during "Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies".
• Marion mentions opening another nightclub, the first was The Raven's Nest in New York City, lost to a fire during "Club Nightmare!"
• Her pitch for Marion Ravenwood's Magnificent Stunt Cavalcade is for an attraction that exists: the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular! at Walt Disney World.
• The misunderstanding from the South Pacific job hints at the ending of "The Secret of the Deep" at a San Francisco airport where Marion goes to meet the returning Indiana Jones only to be greeted by actress Stephanie Windslow suddenly kissing the archaeologist when he gets off the plane.

Sallah storyline

• Sallah indicates that with the "business at the Well of Souls" resolved, the Germans have abandoned their Tanis dig and with that, other excavations reliant on Cario's diggers can now continue. That the enormity of the Nazi Tanis excavation actively suspended other archaeological efforts in the area is a detail added by the game.
• Sallah gets an offer to work with archaeologist Pierre Montet who was a real person. Tempted, he declines as he can't bear the thought of further work at Tanis. Historically, Montet excavated the site between 1929 to 1951, through the 1936 setting of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Although Disney Magic Kingdoms doesn't state that Montet worked at Tanis before 1936, the game's explanation that the Nazi search for the Ark of the Covenant held up other digs does allow Raiders to sync up better with real-world history. The Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook notes that Montet would conduct his Tanis dig further away from Belloq's site in the movie and only mentions his work there from 1939. Sallah adds that he will have to warn Montet about aeroplane debris.
• The game also accounts for real-world history by crediting Sallah for the invention of the retractable seat belts used in Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye which were previously an anachronistic safety feature for the 1935 setting. The digger regrets that his letters to US car manufacturers about them are being ignored.
• At Cairo Museum, Sallah receives a letter from Captain Katanga who apologizes for not being able to keep Marion Ravenwood safe—having been warned in Raiders of the Lost Ark that the Egyptian would hear of it if Marion and Indiana Jones weren't treated well—and explains the delay in his correspondence was because he was in a Panamanian prison, which was shown in "The Sea Butchers".

External links

• Official website
• Disney Magic Kingdoms on Wikipedia
• Disney Magic Kingdoms on Wookieepedia
• Disney Magic Kingdoms Wiki
• Disney Magic Kingdoms at the Disney Wiki