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Isn't Splash Mountain just a hill? Chickapin Hill? There aren't a lot of significant mountains in central Georgia where Song of the South is set, especially heading south from Atlanta, which is where I gather Johnny's grandmother's plantation is located. People making the arguments about no...

Well you have an original Splash character as your profile pic so we can guess your take on any development of this project. Things change. Lots of people are looking forward to this.

I think the newly released concept and inspiration art is great and gives us an idea that this will be a new story (not a book report ride) almost like a sequel to the film. Seems we are looking at a storyline of the search for the lost trumpet guided by fire flies (honestly we call them...

@LittleBuford I would say the country bears play into dialect on a sour level. The show, although whimsical and entertaining, spoofs country music and implies that people (in this case bears) who play and enjoy country music are mostly stupid. I think the bigger problem with the future of...

I will say I believe there was very little historical context for the dialects, it was only a play for laughs.

I'd go as far to say that Splash Mountain is based more on the tar baby sequence than anything else, although the tar baby doesn't appear. The figure is replaced with a honey trap, but the climax of the tar baby story and the ride is the toss into the briar patch...

Does anyone honestly think this kind of dialect would fly in anything made today? People who want some kind of reboot of the characters...I have no idea what you think they would look and sound like.

The animated sequences of Song of the South are essentially animated minstrel shows. The songs dwell heavily in the minstrel idiom as do the characters and especially their dialects. And of course the tar baby sequence is a big cringe, and Br'er Rabbit himself ends up in blackface when he is...

Let's say tomorrow Disney+ adds only the animated sequences of Song of the South, kinda like sing along videos in the 80s/90s. It wouldn't go over well.

The Disney Br'er characters aren't *just* critters, they themselves are racist stereotypes. If you can't see that, it's probably because you don't want to and you have convinced yourself otherwise.

Dollywood has a cute family coaster called Fire Chaser Express where you are in a fire engine, crash into a fireworks stand, a large firework explodes and you shoot backwards out of the fireworks stand back to the station. The queue takes you through a fire department outpost with lots of nods...

I wish I could go back in a time machine and tell Tony Baxter to just...stop. It could have been just "America Sings! The Log Flume"

Mentioning Western River Expedition got me thinking about what could have been problematic about that ride. I think the storyline implied you were also being chased by Mexican bandits. Imagine if this Native American depiction were in an attraction today: 😐

Yeah I'm not saying that would ever be on the table. Mostly my point is that had WRE been built back in the day it would likely be a problem now. But I do like to imagine an alternate timeline where Splash Mountain was originally Robin Hood.

The Disneyworld Splash soundtrack is decidedly more *country western* sounding than Disneyland, likely to relate to the Country Bears and the fact that it's in Frontierland. And let's be real: Critter Country/Bear Country has always been an extension of Frontierland, basically a corner, which...

A restaurant themed to the club where he plays could be neat with live musicians. Rollercoaster called Soul Train? I kid.

I think the concept of a *mine train* is overdone. Big Thunder, Seven Dwarves (does the movie really have a train? I thought it just had carts with a deer pulling. Maybe the Dwarves collected royalties and installed a train?) Expedition Everest gives me mine train vibes. Lots of theme parks...

The Electric Mayhem 😎

Anybody who doesn't sing praises to current Splash and Song of the South, or who makes the expression that they look forward to the Tiana redo, is instantly called a troll on this forum 😑 I believe the inside will continue to rot alla Tales of the Okefenokee at Six Flags until the redo. One...

I saw Breakfast at Tiffany's yesterday at a restored movie palace in my hometown. Of course this film has the controversial Asian depiction by Mickey Rooney. Ushers were handing out slips of paper with a disclaimer that even used Disney+ as an example and quoted the disclaimer Disney uses...