mickEblu
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Love the idea... just not as a replacement.
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Future Splash Mtn. Re-Theme
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Love the idea... just not as a replacement.
mickEblu
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Also @Dr. Hans Reinhardt , it would still most likely look like a cartoon Mountain next to HM, which has always been my only issue with Splash, it’s location.
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Sure, but I don't think any of this is about our personal preferences.
The OP struck me as more or less an attempt at speculating what Disney might do to swap out an old dead IP for a more relevant and lucrative one for Splash Mountain. At this point in Disney Park history a retheme of Splash Mountain seems so absurd that it might just happen.
mickEblu
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Sure, but I don't think any of this is about our personal preferences.
The OP struck me as more or less an attempt at speculating what Disney might do to swap out an old dead IP for a more relevant and lucrative one for Splash Mountain. At this point in Disney Park history a retheme of Splash Mountain seems so absurd that it might just happen.
So should I start another thread to say that I like the idea, just not as a replacement?
Yeah I understand what the OP is doing. TBH if Disney wanted to replace a “dead” IP in this case I don’t think they would go with Princess & the Frog. It’s not really the most successful IP. Which I why I think a lot of us fans like it (aside from he fact that it’s a great film) because it’s not in your face all the time. Anyway, I don’t think it would be worth the retheme for them. Which is why I see them knocking Splash down before retheming it. Why is why I don’t see anything happening at all for a very long time.
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So should I start another thread to say that I like the idea, just not as a replacement?
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you should be quiet or go away.I'm inclined to agree, but then again I can't ignore the social change happening in the "real world" outside of Disney's resorts either. All it'll take is someone to put a spotlight on the ride and the controversial film it's based on, and the next thing you know some changes will be announced.
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Tony the Tigger
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So should I start another thread to say that I like the idea, just not as a replacement?
Yeah I understand what the OP is doing. TBH if Disney wanted to replace a “dead” IP in this case I don’t think they would go with Princess & the Frog. It’s not really the most successful IP. Which I why I think a lot of us fans like it (aside from he fact that it’s a great film) because it’s not in your face all the time. Anyway, I don’t think it would be worth the retheme for them. Which is why I see them knocking Splash down before retheming it. Why is why I don’t see anything happening at all for a very long time.
It would be the most poetic replacement.
Gitson Shiggles
There was me, that is Mickey, and my three droogs
One ride full of Disneyfied 19th c. American Black folklore being replaced by another Disney adaptation of European fairy tales would be ironic, not poetic.
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George Lucas on a Bench
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SuddenStorm
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I think Splash's location is great. You go from the western frontier, to New Orleans, to the rolling hills of the south.
mickEblu
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In and of itself it’s location doesn’t bother me. It’s what it “does” to the HM experience. It was kind of cool when that was a quiet corner of the park. Made the HM experience that much greater.
bluerhythym
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It's scary that I can see this as plausible. Can't we just wait until after my lifetime to go around making these changes?
I would give credence to this argument if not for the fact that Disney just turned a Hollywood hotel into a giant warehouse / factory / computer chip.
I would give credence to this argument if not for the fact that Disney just turned a Hollywood hotel into a giant warehouse / factory / computer chip.
Tony the Tigger
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Subject matter steeped in at least the stereotyping of black folks being replaced by a strong black princess sounds poetic to me.
BasiltheBatLord
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That won't satisfy them. We're living in a culture of "burn it all down".
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Wow. I assume this would go on the expansion pad where the Indiana Jone Adventure was originally supposed to be built?
Model3 McQueen
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- In the Parks
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George Lucas on a Bench
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At this point, you really can't have Disneyland or World without Zip a Dee Doo dah. A retheme would be disastrous.
You know what was disastrous? How Mickey mangled that song in Soundsational. Zip! Zip! A dee doooooooooooo DAH!!!!!!!