That's the issue. Paint color not so much.
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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That's the issue. Paint color not so much.
Well, calling it a "mountain" was a marketing decision by the Imagineers. It's no more a mountain than "Space Mountain" or "The Matterhorn"... at under 200 feet, it barely qualifies as a hill.
Brer Oswald
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It being a mountain is much less of an issue than it being in Frontierland. Unless Tiana and Co. are planning to wear Western clothes, living in farmlands, and playing their music in the Bluegrass style instead of Jazz, because those were the modifications they made to the Brer gang when designing the mountain for Florida.
Found this on Instagram. Maybe that could be the riverboat at the end. Naveen plays for the Brers. Brer Rabbit dances with Tiana, Brer Fox is annoyed and Brer Bear dances along. 
Brer Oswald
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I love it!Found this on Instagram. Maybe that could be the riverboat at the end. Naveen plays for the Brers. Brer Rabbit dances with Tiana, Brer Fox is annoyed and Brer Bear dances along.
Animaniac93-98
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Found this on Instagram. Maybe that could be the riverboat at the end. Naveen plays for the Brers. Brer Rabbit dances with Tiana, Brer Fox is annoyed and Brer Bear dances along.
It's a cute idea, but the goal is to eliminate ALL references to SotS. Having "tributes" or "cameos" defeats the main purpose.
Mr. Blue Bird is the only one I see them getting away with if they try something like that.
I actually think either Br'er Frog or Br'er Gator could slip through the cracks [remove BF's outfit and turn BG away from the riders]
LittleBuford
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The Country Bears are Southern, though, and cause no thematic disturbance to Frontierland. As long as the attraction’s exterior is appropriately adapted, I don’t think it’s a problem to have a New Orleans flavour inside.
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Brer Oswald
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The music fits though. It’s a common style between all of the attractions. Maybe MK’s Frontierland just had a Southern theme this whole time?
Tokyo apparently told Disney to go pound sand over the remodel
GoneForGood
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THIS is my big concern. The Laughing Place Scene in particular on BOTH coasts honestly.
At DL it takes place in an underground cavern(Which as a native Louisianian, we don't even have basements due to the water table..how can they go underground during a PATF adventure?)..and WDW is going to be tougher, with the laughing place being themed to a WESTERN mineshaft to match the Fronteirland setting..and both of these have relatively low hanging ceilings/stalactites and stalagmites...
One would have to ask how that is going to work. It WILL cost Disney a lot..I'm honestly curious how they're going to do this.
One word: screens
GoneForGood
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It's one of those questions where you want to remain in denial.
And it might be for the best that I do...
Five words: I know how Disney rollsIt's one of those questions where you want to remain in denial.
And it might be for the best that I do...
Why not give WDW's Splash Mountain a different facelift?
Given it's location and surrounding themes, wouldn't it make more sense to take a page from the beloved Aesop fables and use the AA critters within to continue the themes of tall tales, folklores and legends? You already have Pecos Bill across the way. Continue that treatment with a John Henry-based Big Thunder. Looking at Splash Mountain itself, wouldn't a "Tortoise and the Hare" overlay be ideal? They can keep the morality stories, most of the AA critters, the folktale concepts and even the Fronterland motif.
I think the fable in which ingenuity and trickery are employed to overcome the stronger opponent is a perfect theme for a flume ride - with much of the attractions original scenes remaining unchanged.
Given it's location and surrounding themes, wouldn't it make more sense to take a page from the beloved Aesop fables and use the AA critters within to continue the themes of tall tales, folklores and legends? You already have Pecos Bill across the way. Continue that treatment with a John Henry-based Big Thunder. Looking at Splash Mountain itself, wouldn't a "Tortoise and the Hare" overlay be ideal? They can keep the morality stories, most of the AA critters, the folktale concepts and even the Fronterland motif.
I think the fable in which ingenuity and trickery are employed to overcome the stronger opponent is a perfect theme for a flume ride - with much of the attractions original scenes remaining unchanged.
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Seems to me like they're pretty dead set on PaTG
And it's a perfect IP for Disneyland's Splash Mountain
I think its safe to assume the SOTS theming on both coasts is toast but the question is what does wdw to not embarrass themselves with a sparkly Princess Mountain in the middle of the American West
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