Splash Mountain re-theme announced

[Miru]

I feel more like they had to do this, to a ride already based on an extant movie, than they wanted to.

 

[_caleb]

How is the storyline racist?

The storyline of the ride is not racist, it was changed from the film's story, which certainly is racist. But the switch from "tar-baby" to honey was a loose re-telling in an attempt to cover up the offensive original. As society becomes more concerned with getting rid of symbols of racism, it makes sense to me that Disney would change the story completely.

 

[noodles]

Have you been to the parks lately... packed as ever and lots of younger millennial who are leading the charge with change. So that "screaming minority" has spending & marketing power to TWDC

Let them have it. Enjoy!

 

[Tony Perkis]

Uncle Remus wasn't a slave, nitwit. He was a sharecropper. Duh. Definition: a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent. He was a free man. Try not to paint everything you don't like with the same ignorant PC brush.

And Brer Rabbit was a character invented by blacks, whose tales were transcribed by Joel Chandler Harris, who invented Uncle Remus to related those tales. So what exactly makes Brer Rabbit OR Remus racist characters?

Could you please not use monolithic terms like “blacks”? Thank you.

 

[Epcot_Imagineer]

I mean... I don't mean to be the one to say it... but many people also believe that Princess and the Frog is itself a problematic movie. A black villain who is a voodoo witchdoctor? A movie placed in New Orleans directly after Katrina when many people of color were forced out of the city? A non-black prince who is the love interest of a black heroine? I'm just putting out things I've seen before on twitter...

 

[NateD1226]

Me trying to read each new post that pops up every second

 

[wdwmagic]

High res concept art

Princess and Frog Splash Mountain retheme concept art

Princess and Frog Splash Mountain retheme concept art

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[PrincessNelly_NJ]

And that is their choice but you have a segment that will feel this is also racist as it portrays them bad. They are poor struggling etc. You wont ever win....

But you can try. Thats all that matters.

 

[DAK1928]

Will miss the soundtrack but I certainly support the idea.

Curious how it'll fit in to Frontierland at WDW . Hope the area retheme is high effort!

 

[RSoxNo1]

COP is not good. Older disney fans have emotional attachments to it but even many people here admit they only go there to sleep or rest.

You could also argue that Jimmy is in black face.

 

[DonaldDoleWhip]

Never imagined I'd want this, but I'm actually kind of excited. Bring it on!

 

[tathompson87]

I don’t know why I expected more from some people who use this site. For some, your bigotry is shining like the second star to the right. You’re offended/mad/(fill in the blank) about a ride!?

Nostalgia is a part of the problem that keeps the country from moving forward. Feeling like its owed to you for a company you don’t run to keep things the way they were “back in the day” despite it offending somebody. Yes we give them our money and that means something but if you don’t like it don’t ride or just stop visiting. But they way some of you downplay the affects these type of things have on people is the true disgusting part. I really hope this thread gets closed...

 

[DisneyGigi]

I cannot believe this. This is the stupidest thing I ever even begin to think of that Disney has done. 99.9 percent of people that ride this ride have no clue about the film- because it has been shuttered for years. Nothing in the ride had anything racist in it. It was all removed for the ride.No tar baby, no Uncle Remus, nothing. And if the dialect is racist then everyone that speaks with a southern low country or Gullah accent offends people? Yo Sho’ nuff done lost yo mind.

 

[jmp85]

I'm offended by everything because I said a 30+ year old ride should be updated? Got it.

I also think small world & COP at walt disney world should go too.

No, you're hiding behind the argument that "they gotta update the rides or the people won't come" despite the fact it is one of the most popular rides on property. You're full of it.

 

[trolol123]

Hopefully it gets tabled due to COVID-19 related budget concerns and eventually dropped

 

[_caleb]

Way to find a way to be offended by everything.

I'm not offended. I thought you were the one offended by the announced changes?

 

[M:SpilotISTC12]

First the destruction of EPCOT and Hollywood Studios with its new generic themes and loss of charm, now this... The Walt Disney Company has lost all of its identity and no longer cares about being something else, it´s a regular company that only cares about money and appearances.

But a wise man named @realBobChapek once said, "More Disney!"

 

[tirian]

Well, there you go.

 

[SpoiledBlueMilk]

I get it. I understand the underlying connotations that the ride has with the film. But I am not behind this. I know Walt said the park should always be changing and should never be a museum, but Splash is such an iconic attraction. It's animatronics, flow and design is quintessentially Disney. Should there be a Princess and the Frog ride? Absolutely. I like the idea brought up in the forums to turn the speedway into a new water ride. Leave Splash alone.

 

[HauntedPirate]

again... you can learn from things/history without glorifying or giving bad historical people/things a platform.

Nothing is being glorified in Splash Mountain. No one and nothing is being given "a platform".