I’m not so broken up over losing Tom Sawyer Island itself, but Rivers of America is something else entirely.
There’s something to be said for the place-making you get as you leave BTM right when the Liberty Belle passes.
Also, the riverboat is the one thing that would actually connect Tiana’s Bayou Adventure to the rest of the area….so much so that when TBA was first announced, we were all under the impression that the Zip A Dee Lady finale would be repurposed.
It works for TBA, it works with BTMRR, it works with Haunted Mansion and Liberty Square…that boat really tied the room together, did it not?
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