Talking about scale, I'm still waiting for an explanation of how a hill can be called a mountain. Or how being thrown into a briar patch is thematically represented by a 50 foot drop on a water slide. Was B'rer Rabbit thrown 50 feet into the air first before landing in the patch? By way of a water sluice?
There is no cancellation in the works, it's just going to take a long time:
www.forbes.com
There is no cancellation in the works, it's just going to take a long time:
Melissa Valiquette, vice president of Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Florida, told the Orlando Sentinel replacing the ride was a “lengthy process” and was “going to take some time.”
“Sometimes decisions can be made many, many months, even years” about an attraction being replaced before the new attraction is open to the public, Valiquette said, and “it’s going to take us a little bit of time to reimagine Splash Mountain.”
Valiquette did not say when Splash Mountain would close to start construction on the new attraction, and Disney has not yet responded to a request for comment on the timeline.
A Year After Disney Said It Would Revamp Racist Splash Mountain, It’s Still Open And Company Won’t Say When Work Will Start
A Walt Disney World executive said Wednesday retheming the ride was "going to take some time."
Considering he only responds to meme and say "no" to everyone else?
Forbes needed something to catch people's eyes to have them actually read the article. Most people don't care about a ride retheming project. Now say the ride is racist and you'll get curiosity clicks from people who normally wouldn't care.
They were building the Main Street Theater until they weren’t. I will accept it is happening when the existing ride closes.There is no cancellation in the works, it's just going to take a long time:
Melissa Valiquette, vice president of Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Florida, told the Orlando Sentinel replacing the ride was a “lengthy process” and was “going to take some time.”
“Sometimes decisions can be made many, many months, even years” about an attraction being replaced before the new attraction is open to the public, Valiquette said, and “it’s going to take us a little bit of time to reimagine Splash Mountain.”
Valiquette did not say when Splash Mountain would close to start construction on the new attraction, and Disney has not yet responded to a request for comment on the timeline.
A Year After Disney Said It Would Revamp Racist Splash Mountain, It’s Still Open And Company Won’t Say When Work Will Start
A Walt Disney World executive said Wednesday retheming the ride was "going to take some time."
The article he quotes from is almost a year old, with nary a word since. I’m with you.
True it's not "necessary" but you could make the argument a PATF retheme would work for Disneyland because it's next to New Orleans Square. Also from a buisness perspective it works since you might incentive people to visit both US Parks because you got Tiana Splash in California and Original Splash in Florida.
As long as a Song of the South-based attraction still exists in one of the U.S. parks, the media won't let Disney off the hook. Whether justified or not, there is now a "racist" stigma associated with Splash Mountain in its current form.
I don’t actually believe the media cares that much. The media routinely forgets DL and WDW are distinct entities to begin with. There would be one story on CNN about “Problematic Disney Ride Updated” and then the world would move on to whatever new evil occurred that day.
I feel a retheme in Disneyland would just draw even more attention to the fact that there is a "problematic" attraction in Florida.
