LittleBuford
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I agree it’s going to happen, but could you clarify how it’s already happening?
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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Disney Glimpses
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I'm not sure why no one's talking about it, but look what has already been done (left side). The color palette of the rock work and grasses are not the same. I expect them to slow play the re-theming like this as much as possible until Tron opens.
EDIT: This could really just be sloppy/slow work as suggested in other threads.
However, everything that's not coming to the new attraction has more or less been untouched; which is a departure from previous annual refurbishments.
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FantasiaMickey2000
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This was talked about quite a bit in the annual refurbishment thread. But it was chalked up to Disney being cheap/lesser quality work as seen all over property these days. I thinks that’s significantly more likely than them deciding to refresh half the mountain and leave the other half untouched in preparation of a retheme that won’t happen for at least a year.
Disney Glimpses
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Yeah, after more thought, this is more likely the plausible answer here.
Dear Prudence
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I think it's just them being sloppy, if I can be honest.
At this point I'm not looking at this as a retheme, I'm looking at it as a mercy kill. There is absolutely no way Splash should be operating in this shape.
How Do You Do?
- Third frog not moving
- First goose on right barely moving
- Mr. Bluebird not moving
- Sweeping bunny 1 not moving
- Br’er Fox barely moving while yelling at Br’er Bear
- Br’er Fox’s jaw stuck closed
- Br’er Bear only bobbing head
- Br’er Bear not moving up and down
- Jumping Br’er Rabbit not moving
- Jumping fish not working
- Br’er Frog not moving
- Br’er Fox speaker still blown
- Br’er Rabbit WAY too loud next to music
- At least 2 spinning beehives broken
- Br’er Bear with beehive barely wobbling
- Br’er Bear speaker still blown
- Laughing Br’er Rabbit barely moving
- Audio not working
- Br’er Fox barely moving with beehive above him
- Only one water stream working in Laughing Place
- Turtle geysers not working
- Neither turtle working
- First frog not working
- Br’er Fox barely moving
- Br’er Fox jaw stuck open
- Black curtain behind vultures removed showing behind the scenes
- Left vulture not moving
- Br’er Fox audio out at top of big plunge
- 3rd Swamp Boy missing
- Boat not rocking back and forth
- Audio still blown in Gator Attack sequence
- Br’er Fox barely moving
- Br’er Bear not moving in and out
- Br’er Gator not moving
- Br’er Rabbit audio at end very statically
- Audio also cuts off part of words
Midwest Elitist
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Not a mercy kill if you're the one prolonging the damage.
gerarar
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This was the show quality on Christmas day last year. Logs were stacked at final lift and at unload, took about 15+ mins after last drop to unload.
But what really caught my eyes was emergency lightning left on before and along the final lift. The inner-me was ecstatic because I got to see things you normally didn't gett to see...but the other me was basically facepalming..
I told the CMs about it after getting off and they said thanks. But this was already around 10:30pm...right around park closing time, so not sure if anything was done about it.
I don't ride SM enough to notice every single detail/effect that's broken, but I did notice a lot of AA's broken or half working. But the biggest one to me was the leaping fountains and/or geysers(?) -- they were all turned off that night.
But what really caught my eyes was emergency lightning left on before and along the final lift. The inner-me was ecstatic because I got to see things you normally didn't gett to see...but the other me was basically facepalming..
I told the CMs about it after getting off and they said thanks. But this was already around 10:30pm...right around park closing time, so not sure if anything was done about it.
I don't ride SM enough to notice every single detail/effect that's broken, but I did notice a lot of AA's broken or half working. But the biggest one to me was the leaping fountains and/or geysers(?) -- they were all turned off that night.
I'd say we're equal to if not worse than the last time Splash was in truly abysmal condition
Midwest Elitist
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The first time I noticed a "broken effect" was the trim brake on the final drop of Space Mountain.
Splash is the easiest ride to see what's broken because the AAs are up close. I'm curious how bad IASW AAs are. Pirates is also pretty bad.
Splash is the easiest ride to see what's broken because the AAs are up close. I'm curious how bad IASW AAs are. Pirates is also pretty bad.
Midwest Elitist
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Actually, I'm kidding about the Space point, because the audio effects are broken / staticy as well on it. As are some lights in the blue tunnel.
MagicHappens1971
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While I agree Disney has and is being cheap, I feel like it's also a combination of the fact that they can't afford to shut down rides for the prolonged times it would require to fix everything. I'm sure there are ways to do these things through third shift work, but I feel like that makes it even harder and would effect show quality as well. I feel like there really is not right answer to this.
Cesar R M
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But think of Disnesys's future!
Chapek says building villas for the ultra rich is what Walt was all about!
Brer Oswald
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Less animatronics and moving parts. That’s a given.
Animaniac93-98
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SplashMountainArchives
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im usually at DL every other week, and the way some of you guys are describing the attractions in wdw falling apart makes me grateful that DL's attractions arent in that bad of shape, except for RSR in DCA. Im gonna be completely honest, i will ride splash over and over again for the last 2 hours before park closing, and comparing what i saw in the wdw video to what i saw on the DL verison, it looks like they care more for DL's. Since september they've been constantly fixing effects from broken speakers to repairing the infamous brer rabbit on the train thing (which was still working great right before it went down for refurb). they even fixed the hound dog in the boat which i have video of! but i will say we are missing one of our swamp boys
MerlinTheGoat
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You underestimate Disney's neglecting capabilities. The ride's scenery and characters are likely to be mostly video based. So instead of frozen robots, you'll get blank or glitchy video.
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