There was only a three year warning to get one's last rides in!!!
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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JoeCamel
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Glad I got that going out of biz merch in time!
MerlinTheGoat
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It's just common sense that once the next "refurb" begins, that is the end of Splash Mountain. The idea was that Splash (at least the version at WDW) would remain in operation until Tron opens for capacity reasons. I assume this is probably still the plan, it makes logical sense to handle it that way. Unless they've pushed the date up for some reason and don't care about the capacity issue anymore. We'll see.
BrerFoxesBayouAdventure
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What do you think will happen to elements of the parks that feature the Br'ers like the portraits in the ride queue, the big statue out front, the costumes and the animatronics? Part of me hopes they'll be going to the archives while another part has a bad feeling they're getting scrapped for parts or tossed in the garbage.
Kirby86
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I think they will be locked away in the vault. Disney is usually really good at archiving its history.
LittleBuford
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It’ll be no more wiped away than Song of the South has been. People will still be able to read about it in literally hundreds of books and on thousands of websites.
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It's believed January is now when Florida is closing with California waiting until Toontown reopens
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Incomudro
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I'm talking about looking for it in official Disney sources.
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LittleBuford
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Disney isn’t going to recall or burn all the books it’s already published that contain references to the ride. Nor do I think it likely that they’ll edit the relevant episode of The Imagineering Story, though I suppose that’s a possibility.
Incomudro
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I'm not talking about literal book burning.
I'm talking about things more along the lines of your second sentence.
I don't believe Disney is going to be much of a source of information for Splash, its props, and its history.
Probably a glance or word of what it was - but little more.
It'll otherwise pretend it never existed.
They're getting rid of Zip a Dee Doo Dah for heaven's sake.
Splash will live on in fan sites, Ebay, etc., outside of the company.
LittleBuford
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Again, I doubt it. I suppose we’ll have to (re)watch The Imagineering Story in a year or two to know which of us is right. Either way, we’re very far indeed from anything approaching totalitarian revisionism (it’s surreal I even have to write such a thing!).
Elijah Abrams
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That’s the worst common sense I’ve heard.
MerlinTheGoat
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How? The PATF overhaul is already going to start before summer next year. Again I was previously under the impression WDW's would remain online until Tron opens, but I suppose it's also possible they pushed it up. You think they're going to pay for another routine refurbishment of the existing ride and reopen it again for such a short amount of time before closing it AGAIN? Hardly. They've already given up on routine day-to-day maintenance of the show elements and it's dying a slow gradual death, even the version in California (Disneyland typically has far better maintenance than WDW). Once it goes down for "rehab" again (not counting the normal daily breakdowns), it's not going to be reopening as Splash Mountain again. Unless by some miracle they cancel the overhaul (which isn't happening).
If they're truly going to get this done in an 18 month window or whatever the time frame is, late December/early January is their best bet to shut down Splash 1.0 and reopen as Tiana in October 24 [That's my best bet]
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matt9112
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I have zero faith in that….that requires going above and beyond the status quo
JoeCamel
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Thank you for using a screenshot rather than a link to the rag
BrerFoxesBayouAdventure
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It's obvious they're letting it rot so they have an excuse to go forward with the retheme, we know this. Everyone knows this. I don't know why ITM feels the need to report on it every time an animatronic breaks down or stops working.
Kirby86
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It still gets clicks.
TrainsOfDisney
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Cause it’s still very bad show for an e-ticket at the worlds most visited theme park.
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