Splash Mountain re-theme announced

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Agreed. Love Splash, but am looking forward to this version of the attraction. As others have said, PATF is criminally underrated and deserves an attraction.

Disagree...it was not a box office smash and has never been that popular. Which makes this a cynical move.

This is horrible. So every ride needs an IP?

Apparently. And a price increase

 

[Baloo62]

Sure gonna miss Tiger Lilly and the tribe on Peter Pan's Flight.

 

[NateD1226]

Pocahontas would work better in the location and with the ride

That movie is too problematic to ever get representation

 

[gmajew]

Wow my youngest is going to be so damn mad about this... It is his favorite ride... Loves the theming says it is one of Disney best and what has made him want to be an imagineer. I get the cast is from a bad movie but no one knows it... No one....

 

[PrincessNelly_NJ]

Does Princess and the Frog really resonate and hold up with this age group now? I mean by the time this done that movie will be 12-13 years old already.

I mean... look at how many adults in this thread are gutted over a 1946 movie & 1989 ride... if it still means so much to them, I'm sure PATF will for years to come. Especially for young girls who see tiana as the only princess who looks like them.

 

[Gitson Shiggles]

Utterly ridiculous.

 

[wdwmagic]

Tony Baxter is a consultant on the changes apparently.

 

[GhostHost1000]

It doesn’t need changing. If they want PatF build something new.

Or spend the budget where it’s really needed and fix what’s broken elsewhere.

Idiots.

I wonder how well it’s diverting interest from other items.

THIS 100%!!!

 

[Andrew C]

This is probably my favorite attraction in MK...or top 3 at least. One the the attractions where you compare others to as the standard for storytelling, etc.

 

[durangojim]

I mean, it’s fitting that a movie with a black princess it taking the place of a ride considered racist. But honestly I love Splash so much. This is sad for me.

The thing is I don’t think anyone considered the ride racist. The movie yes but not the ride.

 

[M:SpilotISTC12]

I look to Walt's Disneyland opening speech "Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America…with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. "

Looks like people want to avoid 'hard facts'

But those facts don't make me HAPPY! So therefore they must go!

 

[clemmo]

This just hurts. Disney better know budget trimming and cutting corners will be even more magnified than normal due to how popular this ride was. This is much higher stakes than maelstrom.

 

[LSLS]

We Now know what ride is going to have the longest line at MK this year.

And “We’ve been working on this for over a year”. Riiiiiight.

Well, to be fair, I believe it's been a year. When is the last time WDW put together designs and plans in a month?

 

[FutureCEO]

I hope Disney gets sold to the highest bidder and gutted.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

It doesn’t need changing. If they want PatF build something new.

Or spend the budget where it’s really needed and fix what’s broken elsewhere.

Idiots.

I wonder how well it’s diverting interest from other items.

I couldn’t agree more.

Won't be the same without "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".

It’s not the ride without the soundtrack.

This is overcompensation on a scale even shocking for Disney

 

[SteamboatJoe]

The climax of the ride is based on one of the more controversial of the “Uncle Remus” stories.
Just do a google search for the line:
"Do anything you want with me – roas' me, hang me, skin me, drown me – but please, Br'er Fox, don't fling me in dat brier-patch"

to understand why it’s considered controversial by many.

Which is why they didn't use that quote in the ride. I am sure if we go back to the source material of many Disney films, we would find lots of objectionable material..... discrimination, misogny, obscene violence, etc. Should we banish them all as well?

 

[prfctlyximprct]

Excited yet gutted. As someone who was born after the final public showings of Song of the South, Ive never associated the ride with the movie. I know the controversies make this a wise decision, but the loss of the nostalgia of splash mountain saddens me. RIP laughin place.

 

[Demarke]

I guess this makes sense, the Twitter mob wouldn’t just want a Princess and the Frog ride to be built unless they can take away something almost universally beloved in the process because, otherwise, they couldn’t lecture and bully people that just enjoyed a ride about a rabbit, a bear, and a fox.

 

[marni1971]

Tony Baxter is a consultant on the changes apparently.

He still wants his pension. And they don’t want his book.

 

[mgf]

RIP Frontierland

Let's be honest here and acknowledge there was (and apparently will continue to be) a log flume themed to the American south next to a runaway mine train in the American west. Not exactly rock solid adherence to a theme to begin with...