Model3 McQueen
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- In the Parks
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As a child, I was far more afraid of the Cobra in IJA, then I was of any animatronic in Splash Mountain. They're not creepy in the slightest.
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Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Disneyland Watch & Discussion
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BasiltheBatLord
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Splash Mountain was probably the only attraction whose AAs I wasn't terrified of as a kid.
Professortango1
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Right? I don't know how people can ride IASW and think the Splash figures are the creepy ones.
CEC started testing no-bot locations back in 2004 with more walkaround presence, and then resumed in 2015.
Homemade Imagineering
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Personally, I’ve never been bothered by AAs, pretty much ever since I was a toddler. In fact, I was more afraid of the Walkaround characters at both DLR and CEC. Plus, being someone who owns, and is currently restoring a Mr. Munch, I’ve gotten used to having him in my house, even if it’s a tad bit unsettling waking up to see him sitting there all alone in the dark at night.
As evidenced by the concept art, the new Splash will have critter AAs once again, even if they’re new AAs entirely. I’m sure there’ll be people out there just as terrified of the new Splash just as they were of the current version.
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TragicMike
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You sleep with that thing in your room?!
Rich T
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Seriously, at this point I don’t care one way or the other about Splash Mtn.’s fate. The Bobs are ruining both DL and WDW in so many ways... They can retheme Splash Mtn. to Howard the Duck as far as I’m concerned. It’s a drop in the bucket compared to everything else that’s wrong with Disney now.
Same. I’m past the point of caring too much. Disappointing, but oh well.
mickEblu
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Not that I disagree but you never really cared about them retheming Splash right? Bobsy or no Bobsys.
Disney Irish
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As far as I'm aware the Phase IV remodels of 2004 still had their animatronics. And so did the "Studio C Cappa" which was introduced in a couple small town markets at the same time period, albeit with only a single animatronic.
The "Live Stage" with live actor and no animatronic, which is what you're talking about, didn't come about until 2015.
No information that I've ever found showed this concept before 2015, though if you have info on that I'd like to see it as I'd be interested.
Brer Panther
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When I was younger, I went to two different Chuck E. Cheeses. One had just the Chuck E. animatronic with the other characters as puppets on a screen, the other had all of the animatronics.
Rich T
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True, but I have spoken up in defense of the retheme logic (and the movie PatF). Now any hoots I once gave about the situation are gone. I think I’m posting as a warning/observation to those who are still all worked up about this; this is nothing compared to what’s going to happen to the parks over the next decade unless the Bobs are, I dunno, visited by the Ghosts of DL Past, Present snd Future or something. Or the Ghost of Walt, which is the plot of a movie I’d love to see get made!
A handful of stores (I think there were like 5 total) opened in 2004/5 without an actual animatronic stage. However there was a Blue Screen, similar to Studio C, and much more emphasis on the walkaround Chuck E. These were referred to as "Small Town stores" and all ended up getting stages after a short while. They would typically get a Studio C Cappa.
Disney Irish
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News to me, so it was a short lived trial that didn't last long. All the Studio C Cappa locations that I'm aware of all had a stage with an animatronic.
All the test stores got a stage within a year and there's like one photo of one of these.
So Disney released a new "Inclusion" video on Instagram and part of it is several "Problematic" clips (Dumbo Crows, Peter Pan Indians, Mickey and Minnie in black face) but surprisingly no Song of the South. I was a little surprised since that's the one they keep trying to highlight as "Problematic"
Disney Irish
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Got it, thanks for the info. Still goes back to the original point that CEC was changing the shows long before FNAF came out, and not as a result of it.
Sharon&Susan
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Even weirder is that they acknowledged Sunflower from Fantasia exists possibly for the first time since the 60's(?)
Brer Panther
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Honestly, Disney shedding light on stuff like the Indians from Peter Pan and Mickey in blackface in today's cancel culture-driven society might not be a good idea. It might lead to petitions to get Peter Pan's Flight and Mickey removed from the parks.