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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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TwilightZone
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Looking at initial concept art, it's more themed to a bayou with a big tree on a hill rather than a "mountain". This should explain why the mountain name is gone. Not sure how much of this has changed since the original announcement, but I bet most of the idea is still intact.
EDIT Here's Splash mountain in a similar angle for fair comparison...interesting to note it also has a tree on top, but this tree is a dead one.
EDIT Here's Splash mountain in a similar angle for fair comparison...interesting to note it also has a tree on top, but this tree is a dead one.
Apparently Mama Odie made it out a molehill.So there’s a mountain in the bayou
Constipated Palpatine
Member
Never question geography when it comes to Disney.So there’s a mountain in the bayou
As we learned in Pocahontas, there are cliffs and waterfalls on the Virginia coast that make Yosemite look small by comparison.
Anything is possible.
Lol good one
If the dead stump becomes a live full-size tree I would imagine it would have to be a lower profile one, maybe a willow or other low swamp variety, because the scale of the concept art is Tree of Life height lol. Adventureland would have its own weenie towering above Cinderella’s castle, and Big Thunder Mountain wouldn’t look very big or thundering.
MagicHappens1971
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That is very very likely based on the concept art/description of the attraction
I would hope they would also keep the song. It’s the all time perfect happy ending song. It also fits the bayou theme.
MagicHappens1971
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I doubt it, based on the fact that it’s been scrubbed from nearly everywhere on property aside from the attraction itself
imagineer97
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
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Looks like they're going to completely change the scale of the mountain. Instead of making it look taller with forced perspective, they'll be trying to make it look as small as possible.
This is a stupid name for a ride that should not be replacing a popular attraction. The name is actually worse because of what it's replacing. I wouldn't mind the name so much if this were being built on an expansion pad.
The fact (if it is a fact) that they filmed the research trip two weeks after the date reveal proves that this was not planned whatsoever prior to 2020. And it kind of seems like they spent the next two years not doing anything. To the retheme apologists, how do you account for this long layoff? Doesn't this bode ill for a well-done attraction?
Not to d mention the ride dynamic is done and would just get a refurb and software overhaul.
Anyone who thinks hardware for this was done before the announcement is kidding themselves.
Disney Analyst
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yensidtlaw1969
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Hate to tell you this, but most of the Alligators didn't play Trumpets either.Uh, that's great, but the VAST majority of women did not wear pants in the 1920's.
BrianLo
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It's a holdover from the Eisner mentality days. When there was more consistent knee jerk reactions to the competition. Mixed with wishful thinking that Disney will pull out another 5 billion dollars investment package.
Disney should do more, but I do agree that they actually had a pretty good recent run of new things that seem to slip people's minds. Some very excellent individual attractions out of Islands of Adventure, but I actually think the last 7 years go to Disney overall. The previous period to Universal.
There will be plenty of Sunshine, you just gotta dig a little deeper!
Blue Ridge.
Disney Analyst
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A genuine focus over the next 10 years of additional attractions / capacity for the four parks (I’m speaking adding, not replacing), and I’d be pretty happy.