Changing Critter Country to Match Frog Mountain

[PiratesMansion]

This is one of those things where the Imagineers up in Glendale were only thinking about Disneyland 40 miles down the freeway, instead of Disney World 2,500 miles east.

Splash Mountain at WDW is in the middle of Frontierland. In theory they've got a lot of work ahead of them to make it fit in Frontierland, but knowing how WDW does things they'll probably not care and just turn it into Tiana' Bayou Bash N' Splash and still leave the cowboys out in front...

We can lay some blame on either MK or whoever the team is that worked on the Florida version of the ride. Their Splash doesn't fit Frontierland either, though they tried and did well enough I suppose that it doesn't register for most people. I don't know if it was ever considered or not, but WDW's is the only version without a Critter Country of any kind, with Tokyo purpose-building an area from scratch that is even situated in such a place that it acts as a transition between Fantasyland and Westernland (as Frontierland is called there).

I would love more insight into their decision-making, frankly.

 

[MisterPenguin]

This is one of those things where the Imagineers up in Glendale were only thinking about Disneyland 40 miles down the freeway, instead of Disney World 2,500 miles east.

Splash Mountain at WDW is in the middle of Frontierland. In theory they've got a lot of work ahead of them to make it fit in Frontierland, but knowing how WDW does things they'll probably not care and just turn it into Tiana' Bayou Bash N' Splash and still leave the cowboys out in front...

A ride set in the South (Splash Mountain) already didn't fit Frontierland. And it's being replaced by a ride set in the South.

It's Big Thunder Mountain that doesn't fit in with a ride based to the South on one side of it and a ride set on the Mississippi on the other side. WDW has already shown decades ago they don't care about the thematic integrity of "The Frontier."

IOW... MK's Frontierland was already messed up chronologically and geographically.

Consider this: Haunted Mansion is neither Colonial nor Frontier.

Frontierland in MK was built from the point of view of a New York snob: Everything southwest of New Jersey is the Great Deep South Western Rocky Plains, aka "The Frontier."

 

[fctiger]

I would be totally fine if CC was done away with and TPAF ride became part of NOS. Yeah you have Pooh and Hungry Bear but no one cares about Pooh. You can shut that down I doubt more than a hundred people will miss it. Hungry Bear is very popular of course so I would hate to see that go. I guess they can retheme it to Tiana's Place or something or just keep it. But I think an extension to NOS would be fine overall.

 

[Phroobar]

I care about Pooh.

 

[Model3 McQueen]

Disney doesn't think like this anymore.

The current attitude is "let's reskin the rides with IP then maybe do something with the surrounding area later".

 

[mickEblu]

Here lies Splash Mountain

You died when Twitter came a shoutin’

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Next to it is Winnie the Poo
20 years without a queue

 

[MisterPenguin]

If Pooh's the only resident of Critter Country, time to rename it Hundred Acre Wood and double down on that theming for the area and make it a mini-land.

 

[mickEblu]

If Pooh's the only resident of Critter Country, time to rename it Hundred Acre Wood and double down on that theming for the area and make it a mini-land.

Bring in the giant honey pots

 

[mickEblu]

Just realized they ll have to get rid of Brer Rabbit on the logs. Leave no trace of the racists.

 

[SSG]

On a new name for Splash, I am strongly in favor of Tiana's Frog Logs and I will die on this hill.

 

[Phroobar]

I want to see an AA of this scene.

 

[CHOX]

Frog Mountain. Oh man, they could have turned Splash into a Kermit ride with the Rainbow Connection...

 

[britain]

Mucus Mountain!

 

[Phroobar]

Frog Mountain. Oh man, they could have turned Splash into a Kermit ride with the Rainbow Connection...

 

[fctiger]

I care about Pooh.

Is your name Paul Pressler perhaps?

It does prove every ride has its fans. I don't hate the ride although once you done Pooh in Tokyo all the others are put to shame; this one at the very bottom of the list.

 

[Model3 McQueen]

Frog Mountain. Oh man, they could have turned Splash into a Kermit ride with the Rainbow Connection...

Brooo seriously.. if they converted Splash for the spirit of the old style Muppets and, especially included the Rainbow Connection song.. I don't think i'd complain.

 

[dmeets]

Hmmm... they could have Kermit and friends take over Pooh. Start in the bayou/swamp with Rainbow Connection, and then in later scenes incorporate the other muppets... some sort of Muppets Take Mardi Gras adventure or something. Plus, they probably still have all those Muppet Vision 3-D lobby props they could use to re-theme the store.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I don't know how Disney greenlights anything with the Muppets anymore. It seems to be one failure after the next.

Jim Henson must be rolling around in his grave.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I don't need them to greenlight anything, but it would be nice if The Muppet Show was on D+.

It's a gaping hole in D+'s lineup IMO.