Tony Perkis
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Splash Mountain re-theme announced
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RoysCabin
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It's an academic term, dude. If you just don't want to engage in a conversation like an adult, please do everyone a favor and just say so.
Bairstow
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Panchito Pistoles
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If we start a petition saying Winnie the Pooh is offensive to diabetics, can we get Mr. Toad back?
orlandogal22
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Go on WDW IG page under the post for today's announcement.
ANYONE who is even remotely sticking up for Splash Mountain is being ganged up on and called racist, Karen, and any host of other absolute foul-mouthed terms. It's disgusting.
Tony Perkis
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You read it wrong.
The space... is in the mountain.
BigDlover
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Exactly lol. Disney is a fantasy-based company. Let's not overly dissect it like that. I mean this is all man-made stuff and the ride at hand is in California and Florida lol. We're talking about a movie where frogs talk and cook lol.
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SosoDude
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Earth is in space, thus, so are mountains. Lol
sedati
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Quoting myself to show this isn't a new sentiment, but I'm thrilled that this means the absolute eye-sore that is the top third of WDW's Splash Mountain will finally be re-dressed makes me very happy (honestly, the rest isn't great either in comparison to its cousins.) Hopefully they can also do something that will enable this ride to go without a major refurb every year. I don't see this as a real loss, and can see many ways the IP change could be an improvement. We will have to wait and see of course, but I'm positive.
Brer Oswald
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Let’s see. There’s the horrendous portrayal of African Americans as primitive cannibals in “Trader Mickey” and “Mickey’s Man Friday”. There’s the blackface in Mellerdramer and “The Whoopee Party”. The “mamie” gag returns in several cartoons. There’s also the racist portrayal of a Chinese duck in “The Dognapper”. Not to mention the “alleged” origins of Mickey’s gloves from the Minsrel shows (alleged cause I don’t have an exact source on it).
These are all awful. Way worse than anything in SotS. Yet, in the early 2000s, Disney decided to face these head on, denounce them for their problems, explain why they were bad, and use them as a teaching point. Watching these as a young child, I learned my first lessons in racism and what was not okay.
Yet, if we are to go by this current way of dealing with the issue, Mickey as a whole should be retired. I don’t agree with it, but if we go by one, we go by all.
Da Bird is Da Word
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This petition has more signatures and hasn't even been up 24 hours. There is also an extremist vocal minority calling for the cancellation of Paw Patrol too. There was not overwhelming pressure from anyone to change Splash Mountain. Disney was never going to lose customers for leaving Splash Mountain alone.
Sign the Petition
To Save Splash Mountain and keep it as it is in Magic Kingdom and Disneyland
www.change.org
orlandogal22
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Go on WDW's IG under today's announcement. It's a cesspool of racist attacks against innocent people sticking up for a beloved ride.
RoysCabin
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I'll be fair on this count: Splash Mountain's placement in WDW's Frontierland never really worked in the first place from a thematic perspective.
If we take Liberty Square to Frontierland to be a chronological and geographically moving line, then we're supposed to start at northeast Dutch-inspired colonial with Haunted Mansion, then sweeping our way to far west boom towns and gold mines in the mid to late 19th century by the time we hit Thunder Mountain and Pecos Bill's. By putting Splash where it was, we plopped "the South" right there, breaking both the timeline and the geographic line. Princess and the Frog actually moves us further west, at least, but it does not fit that way, either. Point's more that the damage on that area was already done.
MrMcDuck
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Easy way to fix that problem.
the.dreamfinder
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South American countries that were being courted by the Nazis but whatever.
It’s no longer a ride about Mexico. It’s a ride about the Three Caballeros that happens to take place in Mexico. WS rides should actually be about the countries, not IP/Franchise touchpoints.
Tom Morrow
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AKA "people I know in person" are saying and thinking this.
disneygeek90
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Wait, so I'm not actually in Batuu??
Bairstow
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Has that been confirmed?
...and if it is true, tinfoil hat on has anyone looked into whether the petition started by a cast member wasn't AstroTurf by the company?
Tweren't any hills, much less mountains, or log flumes in any of the animated segments of Song of the South.*
*I'm pretty sure, though it's been a while since I've seen it.
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