News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure

[BuddyThomas]

And its not just Splash.....look at Maelstrom. Literally no one thinks its an improvement....they took a great ride and did some nonsense to it...its a shell of what it was. Im not picking on the character Tiana...but the last princess redo was a dud..

Who do you think you are that you seem to be speaking for the entire universe?

“Literally no one thinks its an improvement”.

You speak for yourself ONLY. Not the world.

 

[Eric Graham]

I honestly don't care what movie the ride turns out to be. I just hope they wind up making it as wonderful and creatively done as Splash Mountain and as creative with all of the fun lagoon creatures that it has incorporated in the past.

 

[Disney Glimpses]

Who do you think you are that you seem to be speaking for the entire universe?

“Literally no one thinks its an improvement”.

You speak for yourself ONLY. Not the world.

I really like the Frozen attraction and am happy it happened. Maybe that’s just me though.

 

[BuddyThomas]

I really like the Frozen attraction and am happy it happened. Maybe that’s just me though.

A lot of people like it. These blanket generalizations that a few people on here are always making drive me crazy.

 

[Ghost93]

By the way, what changes do you all think with be made to the queue of the ride? Do you think the queue changes will be substantial or will they be mostly left as is?

 

[Kirby86]

By the way, what changes do you all think with be made to the queue of the ride? Do you think the queue changes will be substantial or will they be mostly left as is?

I think it honestly depends on where in the queue you're standing. The farm sheds can be changed to restaurant facades. However when you get the indoor part by the loading its built into the rockwork. Outside of a repainted walls I'm not sure what you can do.

 

[Bocabear]

you mean they don't have giant caverns along the bayou in New Orleans?....but they do at Disneyland....

 

[Ghost93]

I think it honestly depends on where in the queue you're standing. The farm sheds can be changed to restaurant facades. However when you get the indoor part by the loading its built into the rockwork. Outside of a repainted walls I'm not sure what you can do.

Maybe that's why the research group mentioned Louisana salt mines. Maybe the queue will be repainted so that it looks like guests are going through a salt mine instead of a rabbit burrow.

 

[LittleBuford]

Maybe that's why the research group mentioned Louisana salt mines. Maybe the queue will be repainted so that it looks like guests are going through a salt mine instead of a rabbit burrow.

Before they came up in this thread, I’d never even heard of salt mines, let alone knew of their association with Louisiana. Such topographical exactitude strikes me as excessively pedantic and ultimately unnecessary for a Magic Kingdom attraction that features such unlikely elements as a musical alligator. As long as the retheme is done well, no-one is going to care about the ride’s resemblance (or lack thereof) to an actual Louisiana bayou.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Did someone say shooting a rapid down a salt mine?

 

[Ghost93]

Before they came up in this thread, I’d never even heard of salt mines, let alone knew of their association with Louisiana. Such topographical exactitude strikes me as excessively pedantic and ultimately unnecessary for a Magic Kingdom attraction that features such unlikely elements as a musical alligator. As long as the retheme is done well, no-one is going to care about the ride’s resemblance (or lack thereof) to an actual Louisiana bayou.

I only mentioned the salt dome as a possibility as it was mentioned as part of the research trip video for the project:

 

[LittleBuford]

I only mentioned the salt dome as a possibility as it was mentioned as part of the research trip video for the project:

Oh, I know it’s the video that first introduced us (or me at least) to the salt mines of Louisiana. I just think it’s an odd direction to go down to justify something that requires no justification.

 

[UNCgolf]

I really like the Frozen attraction and am happy it happened. Maybe that’s just me though.

It's way off-topic, but I think Frozen Ever After is among the most disappointing rides Disney has ever built. It's hard to believe that barren, half-finished attraction was their choice to represent Frozen. It was slightly understandable when they were trying to get something into the parks as quickly as possible, but the fact that they're just cloning it now instead of designing a new, actually good/impressive attraction for the IP is indefensible.

Even if it was in Fantasyland it would still be a mediocre to bad attraction, but butchering the Norway pavilion for it makes it that much worse.

 

[Ghost93]

Oh, I know it’s the video that first introduced us (or me at least) to the salt mines of Louisiana. I just think it’s an odd direction to go down to justify something that requires no justification.

Yeah maybe the salt mines have nothing to do with the attraction, but since I'm trying to look for clues for what the retheme will entail I'm not ruling it out as a possibility.

 

[Kirby86]

I mean the reason people on this form are mentioning salt mines are because Disney themselves did. Maybe Tiana and Navine own it? Honestly it just seems like they needed somthing to replace the Laughing Place with.

 

[Ghost93]

I mean the reason people on this form are mentioning salt mines are because Disney themselves did. Maybe Tiana and Navine own it? Honestly it just seems like they needed somthing to replace the Laughing Place with.

I think the queue is more likely than the laughing place, but the laughing place segment could be revised to be a mine.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I mean the reason people on this form are mentioning salt mines are because Disney themselves did. Maybe Tiana and Navine own it? Honestly it just seems like they needed somthing to replace the Laughing Place with.

Yes, the ride takes place after the film so maybe the storyline will be that Tiana's Place went bust so they ended up buying a salt mine to make ends meet?

 

[LittleBuford]

Yes, the ride takes place after the film so maybe the storyline will be that Tiana's Place went bust so they ended up buying a salt mine to make ends meet?

I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not!

 

[Kirby86]

Yes, the ride takes place after the film so maybe the storyline will be that Tiana's Place went bust so they ended up buying a salt mine to make ends meet?

Nah Navine has that generational wealth he would buy the salt mine for kicks. Tiana has her restaurant and he would want to do his own thing. He learned the value of hardwork after all.

 

[erasure fan1]

The tens of thousands of little girls that wait in line every day in their Anna and Elsa costumes to ride Froze would seem to dispute your idea that no one thinks the ride is an improvement.

Well, to be fair, all that really proves is there's a big demand for frozen. Not that the ride is great or even good. All it really proves in my opinion, is that Disney was shorfsighted.

Similarly, you won't be able to say Tiana's was a success by the lines. I would put money down the lines will stay the same. If you rethemed splash to the good dinosaur, it would still get huge lines. That wouldn't make it a success. It would only prove you have a capacity issue.