MagicHappens1971
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I believe he is. I forget what he’s doing these days, last I remember either Galactic Starcruiser or Cosmic Rewind maybe
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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etc98
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I mean that’s basically exactly what they did with Tower of Terror in DCA, and there was certainly no online petition to retheme that ride.
Kirby86
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That was done because Chapek while he was in charge of parks wanted two things a new ride that would be able to hit an 8 month deadline for DCA, and he wanted to get Marvel into the parks. Also what makes this a harder pill to swallow is this, you can still ride the original ride with the theme intact in Florida for Tower of Terror. Once the retheming for Splash Mountain is done the only way for fans to ride the original ride is to go to Tokyo which is expensive.
Incomudro
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Really not an apt comparison.
Model3 McQueen
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They would never. They know the fan base will be satisfied with a few soundtrack changes and plenty of references to the PatF film. Just like Mission Breakout and incredicoaster, it'll serve several purposes for the stockholder. Advertisement, merchandising, product placement. Who cares about the quality and care of what was there before, it's all about raiding your wallet as much as possible, cutting back on expenses, at your expense, and filling you (or your child's) head with Di$ney Di$ney Di$ney properties!
lazyboy97o
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He’s portfolio executive for Star Wars and Disneyland Resort.
GimpYancIent
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What does that title mean?
lazyboy97o
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Joe Rohde was portfolio executive of Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The Zach is portfolio executive for Walt Disney World. He is the top creative for all Star Wars projects around the world and all projects at the Disneyland Resort.
erasure fan1
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Oh I know they would never. Disney is all aboard the nostalgia Express. They know that more people than not will show up because it's "Disney". I fully expect this reskin to be a poop show. A small shadow of what came before it. I also expect lines as big as the usual splash lines were. Disney I'm sure expects this as well in my opinion. Do I hope it's great? Of course, I love PatF. Would I put money it's great? Absolutely not. I've said before, Disney is creatively bankrupt at this point.
Kirby86
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That's the boat I'm in. I don't want the ride to change but it's pretty much a sure thing that sometime in the future it will. Now I enjoyed PatF it's not my favorite or anything but I enjoy it enough and sure it can work as a ride. My issue is the team leading this was the team who designed Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway and honestly outside of the Pre show (which was a neat idea) and I saw the picture of Walt in his train after the ride was done nothing about it was memorable.
Disney Analyst
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Todays MiceChat Disneyland update has this little nugget, which was unexpected news to me:
“It was announced last week that Splash Mountain would be going under refurbishment on January 10th and we speculated that this could be the start of the previously announced “Princess and the Frog” overlay since there was no end date and many major Disneyland projects start just after the holiday season. But this will just be a routine 6 week refurbishment. Though, we did learn that the retheme will be delayed a while longer at Disneyland and will actually start first at Walt Disney World.”
“It was announced last week that Splash Mountain would be going under refurbishment on January 10th and we speculated that this could be the start of the previously announced “Princess and the Frog” overlay since there was no end date and many major Disneyland projects start just after the holiday season. But this will just be a routine 6 week refurbishment. Though, we did learn that the retheme will be delayed a while longer at Disneyland and will actually start first at Walt Disney World.”
Kirby86
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So the park that the retheme would better fit isn't getting it first? Granted toon town will be out of commission for a while but still. I really think the upper brass at Disney are just using a magic 8 ball to come up with the schedules.
Midwest Elitist
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So instead of taking down a ride that dramatically needs a full on rebuild (*cough cough* Space Mountain 1975 tracks) after Tron is up, they're going to take down a ride that doesn't need it? I guess this truly is the most important project for the company. >.>
I think the upper brass is on fire right now after the terrible Star Wars Hotel preview that they actually took it down. I don't even know what to believe anymore
Delayed I don’t know but it certainly won’t be ready this year. Or next. Or next.
The retheme never being ready would suit me just fine.
Midwest Elitist
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I just wanted to write an essay during my lunch break (lol). So a couple things:
I'm not incredibly sad about the remake news, except for one thing: the music. I think Splash at MK has some of the best queue music in the whole resort. The country / bluegrass covers of the songs in the movie are fantastic (I love the acoustic Zip version). I would hope Disney would keep the music playing in Frontierland, but it seems like they are going full on stupid and removing all of it anyways. That's the part that hurts the most. The ride is one thing, but the music is what I truly remember. Space Mountain still has the best queue music, but Splash's is so good at setting the theme.
Another thing I hadn't realized, since I haven't been to parks in 3 years (but I will in 2 weeks
), the entrance to Splash Mountain is on the complete other side of the train tracks. This is kind of a theming problem, but what I think could work is if they have two versions of music again, like current Splash between DL / MK. If they actually put in the effort (we know they won't) to cover some of the PATF songs in that same bluegrassy style, that would ease the theme a bit and I can totally see how they can do that as I'm listening to the songs right now.
So they can make this work if they try, but I'm wondering how difficult it will be to basically raze all of the interiors. It's sad that us Disney nerds know so much more about this stuff in comparison to the executives who run the company, I don't think they understand fully what they are doing.
I'm not incredibly sad about the remake news, except for one thing: the music. I think Splash at MK has some of the best queue music in the whole resort. The country / bluegrass covers of the songs in the movie are fantastic (I love the acoustic Zip version). I would hope Disney would keep the music playing in Frontierland, but it seems like they are going full on stupid and removing all of it anyways. That's the part that hurts the most. The ride is one thing, but the music is what I truly remember. Space Mountain still has the best queue music, but Splash's is so good at setting the theme.
Another thing I hadn't realized, since I haven't been to parks in 3 years (but I will in 2 weeks
), the entrance to Splash Mountain is on the complete other side of the train tracks. This is kind of a theming problem, but what I think could work is if they have two versions of music again, like current Splash between DL / MK. If they actually put in the effort (we know they won't) to cover some of the PATF songs in that same bluegrassy style, that would ease the theme a bit and I can totally see how they can do that as I'm listening to the songs right now.So they can make this work if they try, but I'm wondering how difficult it will be to basically raze all of the interiors. It's sad that us Disney nerds know so much more about this stuff in comparison to the executives who run the company, I don't think they understand fully what they are doing.
Kirby86
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That's what I thought as well since they are still playing Zip-A-Dee -Do -Dah and Laughing Place in Florida at the entrance.
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