They already took the hashtags out of their bios the instant it stopped trending, they're already moved passed the [rainbow] issues. They're over it. This is why I made that complaint several pages back, they get to be done with it and throw it away when they're done, unlike people who have to live with the consequences.
Does anyone really care about these click bait articles beyond the Disney social media influencers on Twitter?
Because monetized clickbait based on someone else's pain isn't suspect at ALL.
At any rate, the weird (borderline creepy) obsession people have with this topic and using it as their leg up to champion themselves doesn't represent the vast majority of people who just do not care.
This is the unfortunate truth of life in the present age.
I doubt Disney will spend money to retheme Splash in Tokyo. While Song of the South has always been controversial in the US, the controversy is nonexistent in Japan. And since most US customers would go to either Disneyland or Magic Kingdom, I think Disney is really going to only want to focus on retheming the attraction where the attraction is controversial.
They absolutely can back out. There is nothing dictating they must move forward with this at all. The whole thing was a knee-jerk reaction to begin with. If they announced they were building a PatF-based ride at DHS and this was cancelled, no one would bat an eyelash. If this was cancelled/never brought up again, who would care? Those who are told to be outraged?
Just because you desperately wish there wasn't controversy surrounding Splash Mountain doesn't mean there isn't. I would agree that before 2020 the average guest found nothing wrong with the ride, but after 2020 there was clearly enough people clamoring for a retheme and opposed to the presence of SOTS in the parks for Disney to make the change. The retheme is certainly polarizing and unpopular on this particular website, but I doubt that NO ONE would bat an eyelash.
The average guest still finds nothing wrong with the ride. Any polling has shown the retheme is unpopular. Sure, the terminally online residents of psycho Twitter have a problem with it and even they are starting to forget about it.
Really? Define "enough people".
The ride stands on its own well enough that those who haven't seen the movie can get enjoyment out of it. But that doesn't mean it's "completely separate" from the movie. The songs and the characters all come from the animated portions of SOTS. The general plotline of Splash mountain is a loose adaptation of the Tar Baby story from SOTS (though the baby is replaced with a beehive).
Yup, it's the same level of "outrage" as the auction scene in Pirates.
All true. And the countless millions who actually come to the park, actually ride the ride, listen to the music, and read the quotes love it.
The 20,000 people that petitioned for this will probably be angry. But the amount of those people that go to the parks are too weak minded to stop going, and the others were never going to Disney in the first place.
Anyone who’s seen the movie knows that Splash Mountain is heavily based on the animated sequences. It isn’t just a case of reusing some of the characters; the narratives, too, are imported into the ride.
