Splash Mountain re-theme announced

[BigDlover]

everything should be a cheap overlay... but not sure how they will incorporate the drop... and the brers will have to be removed... i cant think of a drop in the movie... although there is one in fox and the hound

There wasn't one in SOTF either

 

[disneygeek90]

So is Splash Mountain now closed for the re-theme? Or is it still possible to ride it for the timebeing?

I don’t think that’s been stated. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Per the ocregister article, it will.

"A date has not been set for the debut of the Splash Mountain ride makeovers. The Splash Mountain rides on both coasts will return with their existing back stories when Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom eventually reopen following extended coronavirus closures."

Disneyland and Disney World to remake Splash Mountain with ‘Princess and the Frog’ theme

The Splash Mountain log flume rides at Disneyland in Anaheim and the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida will be transformed with a new theme based on the ‘Princess and the Frog&#82…

www.ocregister.com

 

[Da Bird is Da Word]

I don’t think that’s been stated. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

I hope we get some clarity on this soon. If Splash is still open I might have to get a day pass for Magic Kingdom just to ride it one last time...

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Bibbidi Bayou Booty

That sounds like an accurate depiction of New Orleans.

 

[BigDlover]

What makes Splash Mountain my favorite ride is the story. I love that the rabbit goes searching for his "laughing place" ... and the trials and tribulations he has to face to get there before realizing that his laughing place is back home where he's from. I feel like we can all relate to that. To be fair, I've never seen Song of the South, so the ride is the only thing I know, but I will definitely miss the story.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

Twitter says Hamilton is bad too because it's about people who are now considered problematic being portrayed by PoC as a kind of awkward form of "multi-culturalism"

(Whether you agree with that is something else)

I haven’t watched the performance.

 

[InnKpr]

Earlier today...

 

[Animaniac93-98]

They claim they have been working on this since last year......anybody heard of this last year

If a ride as high profile as Splash was considered for change a year ago we would have heard about it months ago.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

Sounds good to me.

Oh no! It’s Tony

 

[MisterPenguin]

Yet still you have Disney your hard earned dollars... hypocrite.

At least I'm no Commie!!

 

[PeoplemoverTTA]

Just flag him as a racist. He clearly is , towards people of different opinions. The movie isn't actually racist at all though. The worst it does is have someone tell African folk stories with a smile on his face. As if any movie that depicts someone happy is racist. How about fried green tomatoes or any other movie from the antebellum south that has a black person smile. They should be removed too right?

You must be making a (poor) joke, right? Please educate yourself. There are several excellent posts in this thread that explain the racist elements of SotS and by default, Splash Mountain.

 

[cursivesailor]

LOL I looked it up and found this article about the "highest point in New Orleans:" https://untappedcities.com/2011/09/09/the-highest-point-in-new-orleans-not-monkey-hill-2/

Yeah monkey hill. It’s at the zoo. It’s actually man made and it’s the only “hill” any New Orleanian knows of other than the levee.

 

[celluloid]

If Splash Down Photos gets replaced with Bibbidi Bayou Boutique, we'll know the real reason why it was changed.

We don't even need to wait for that, we know that is the reason it changed. Something "more immediately Disney" and a princess movie within the last ten years that does not have to get a built from the ground up ride is perfect. The diversity argument and timing of this is what bothers me the most. They are acting like presenting a lot of material with the "Look at these imagineers who are all people of color" leading the way. It is great. Some of those imagineers are my current favorite attraction designers. But the way it is presented are as if the petitions got this going.

 

[Da Bird is Da Word]

...You really haven't read American or world history, have you.

If that's really what you think the basis was (and, no, at times Natives had superior weaponry during the Indian wars; what they lacked was a defense against things like smallpox much of the time), then I don't know what to tell you other than "please read more books."

I’m a political science major and am very passionate about history. I took college level AP history classes all throughout high school and many university classes in history.

 

[UNCgolf]

That doesn’t really matter though. Ask Fallon and Kimmel if things done early on in your career can come back and haunt you. Regardless of the path you’ve been on recently.

If some group decides to take old Mickey cartoons and make an issue with them - you better believe they will. Luckily that hasn’t happened. But it doesn’t mean it won’t.

Those are real people, though. That's a bit different from a fictional character.

I'm not saying there won't potentially be people making an issue out of the old Mickey cartoons, but it's much easier to argue against and it's unlikely much will come of it.

 

[trainplane3]

wait, yall wrote 79 pages in one day?

I came back 3 1/2 hours later and there were 28 new pages. I've never seen a thread move this fast.

 

[BigDlover]

I thought Song of the South was never released on DVD.

I think that person's confused. I cringe at the thought of someone buying a DVD of this movie, esp for their grandkid. What a great grandmother

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

If a ride as high profile as Splash was considered for change a year ago we would have heard about it months ago.

Yeah. How convenient

 

[SirNim]

Um...you do know about the amount of cultural erasure that was carried out on nonwhite populations across American history, right?

I'm talking things like schools that Natives were forced into to convert them from their traditional religions, cut their hair, and make them adopt European mannerisms, all as colonizers built over their land and erased signs of their presence and culture; enslaved Africans being sorted specifically so they could not easily bring their traditions with them after being abducted; Mexican people who lived in the American west suddenly having their legitimacy questioned because the US took the land they lived on from under them but had no plan to accommodate them; Chinese immigrants forced to only accept certain jobs by law, and being made to change their cultural hair and clothing or risk lynchings and race riots; the list goes on.

To call "a few statues designed for no other reason than to inspire racial terror" being taken down an "unprecedented level of erasure" first supposes that the Confederacy was a "culture", and also ignores pretty much the entirety of American history.

You've conflated quotes there - I said nothing about statues.

What I said was, identities were at stake here. This isn't about tearing down statues. This isn't about tearing down animatronic bears and rabbits. This isn't about tearing down offensive dialect reminiscent of the worst stereotypes.

This is about tearing down identities, about pulling the rug out from underneath a nation (a world?) of good men and women. When your very identity is at stake... don't be surprised to see pushback.

 

[MisterPenguin]

If only we had ended pervasive and systemic prejudice and discrimination and repression... even had made a concerted effort in our society as little as five years ago...

...there probably would not have been any call to change Splash Mountain.