PorterRedkey
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PLEASE have a voodoo scene that terrifies kids!
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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JohnD
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I can easily see them keeping the same "moody" areas. Just change out the theme. So as it goes dark and you go up and down to what is currently the Happy Place, you could have a voodoo scene instead.
Surferboy567
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I doubt it, probably just a refurb. I heard cast members were working on top of Chickapin hill. Disney wouldn’t just shutter a ride without selling extremely coveted and limited edition merch to try and capitalize.
I did hear that the ride went down for some reason yesterday. Maybe that has something to do with it?
JohnD
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Hopefully for repairs and will be back up soon. Nothing more.
Doth the raven, nothing more
On Sunday, Splash opened late and closed early. Obviously it was having problems.
It's back open now.
Crisis Averted!
Let’s hope park management and ops see how SM consistently has the longest wait times. Maybe if there are changes to upper management at WDC there can be some more movement to leave the ride in Florida alone.
I totally agree with the 2nd part. I am hoping, management concludes we know it is making a ton of money and most people love it. So we change the DL ride in say 3 years but keep dragging our feet. 4 years from now society is focused on another election, one or two of the Bobs are gone and this project gets Main Street Theatered or Mary Popped and magically stays as the current SM.
MickeyMouse10
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I wish that were possible, but it really isn't. That ship has already set sail and we have to learn to live with it. There is going to be more replacements and tinkering in the future. All we can hope is that the attractions will still remain enjoyable.
Besides anytime they want to change things they'll just pull out old Walt quotes. "Walt said Disneyland isn't a museum".
peter11435
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Management knows exactly how long wait times are and have been. Any decision to remove/change Splash Mountain was made while already knowing it’s existing popularity.
The PR release about was pretty much "We're changing it and there's no motivation"
Sir_Cliff
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I think the best chance for something like that to occur is if there's a slow recovery from Covid and the company finds itself in a difficult financial situation. In that case, I can imagine there being some internal questioning about whether spending large sums of money to refurbish one of their most popular rides at DL and WDW is really so urgent a priority.
I still think it will likely happen. Honestly, though, if this hasn't happened in 2 or 3 years time do you think anyone outside of the fan forums will still be talking about it?
That discussion has already been happening. Things got worse for the theme parks after the announcement. It's not happening.
Our best hope now is for continued catastrophic effects on the economy causing TWC to go bankrupt and shutter up the parks so that Splash Mountain will never change!!
peter11435
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It has not been canceled on either coast