News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure

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lazyboy97o

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Brer Oswald said:
How long till they realize Splash, both exterior wise and interior wise, is built very differently from Disneyland? Or perhaps they already accounted for the fact that they’re going to have to put in way more effort than a straight clone job for this one.
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Even if they were the same they would require different sets of work. No clones are actually clones where the same documents are just reused.
 
peter11435

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drizgirl said:
Not many mountains in New Orleans.
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It’s not like the mountain isn’t already there. It is where it is and it’s not physically moving. Nobody questioned a mountain next to New Orleans Square all of these years.


Not many red clay mountains in the American West either but they built the south in WDW’s Frontierland anyway.
 
Movielover

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peter11435 said:
Not many red clay mountains in the American West either but they built the south in WDW’s Frontierland anyway.
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I get what you are saying and I'm not trying to argue with you but...

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Movielover

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peter11435 said:
Yes, those pictures perfectly illustrate why Thunder Mountain fits where it is located. They have nothing to do with the geology seen at Splash Mountain.
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Again, still not arguing with you but...

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That's pretty similar mountain landscaping if you ask me.
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Sure Splash has a bit more green and water but but the cliff side rock work is there.

Here in Oklahoma you can find really similar landscape.
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peter11435

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Movielover said:
It's just clear they took inspiration from all across the southern U.S. to fit Splash in Frontierland, which is why the New Orleans retheme will look drastically out of place.
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Absolutely, they worked hard to pull from various sources to create an environment that “worked” as best it could.

Your Oklahoma image is a great example of the type of landscape splash is representing
 
Animaniac93-98

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ParkerLoLs said:
I still think this is an outrageous retheming with a property that doesn’t fit at all. Not even in New Orleans Square. Unless they call it Levee Mountain, it just — oh, it’s just such a mess.
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They absolutely could have chosen another movie, or original idea, but they went with PatF for specific, obvious reasons, despite it not being the best fit.

I'd give them a pass in California. Florida and (possibly) Tokyo? That's harder to get behind.
 
MisterPenguin

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drizgirl said:
Not many mountains in New Orleans.
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There isn't a mountain in the Splash Mountain ride, either. In the original movie, it's just a pretty low hill and called "Chickapin Hill."

'Hill,' that is, not mountain.

And the outside is mostly just a giant briar patch.

Just because it was named "mountain" buy a Disney exec doesn't make it one. And the actual height of the attraction is not mountainous, either.

And the backstory in the queue contains a ridiculous etymology for it being called "Splash Mountain" (and an etiology for the rivers in the hill):

A backstory explaining how Chickapin Hill became flooded can be seen in a "Rabbit Tales" newspaper story in the queue:​
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Towering up and above everything hereabouts is Splash Mountain. Used to be that once upon a time, when most of us were still critlins, Splash Mountain was called Chick-A-Pin Hill. But that was then and back before a moonshining raccoon named Rackety, made a slight, but potent error. While mixing an experimental batch of brew, his juice producing still ended up being blown sky high. Many who were there at the time speculated that it was an overabundance of blueberries that caused the disaster.​
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This was unfortunate, not only for Rackety, but for the industrious Beaver Brothers, who had only recently finished construction on their new dam. Unknown to the Beaver Brothers, Rackety had built his juice still in the woods that backed up to their dam at the high end of the foothills. When the still exploded, the beaver dam burst forth, and all the water is was holding back, flooded the thousands of burrows, holes and tunnels that crisscrossed the inside of Chick-A-Pin Hill. From that time on, all the critters round here couldn't help but call this place Splash Mountain.​

The revamped ride with PatF doesn't need to call it a mountain. And just like the big drop is representative of being thrown into a briar patch, and not an actual waterfall, so, too, the drop in Tiana's ride can represent something other than a waterfall, for example, riding the cresting waters of a breached levee.
 
UNCgolf

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MisterPenguin said:
And just like the big drop is representative of being thrown into a briar patch, and not an actual waterfall, so, too, the drop in Tiana's ride can represent something other than a waterfall, for example, riding the cresting waters of a breached levee.
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I get your point, but pretty sure Disney isn't going to want to build a ride that involves the levees breaching in New Orleans.
 
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