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

[WDW Pro]

I believe that's a windmill-powered water well, not a water tower

Shh... you're interrupting the frigid poultry's breathless defending of that which is defenseless.

 

[crazy4disney]

I don’t think it’s a problem in marketing. This feels like an attraction conceptualized by a humanities department, and not, you know, world class artists.

How dare you say that about a ride thats been in planning for over 5 years now

 

[tanc]

It was always just blue sky art they quickly pulled out to protect Disney+ from boycotts during summer of 2020. The tree destroyed sightlines, weighed too much, the attraction was never built to support such a thing, and it would have been a major issue to maintain.



I've been reporting on this for months. They went to Avery Island to try to create some sort of backstory for all of this. For whatever reason, they were impressed by the salt dome. Allegedly they wanted to turn the whole mountain into a salt dome background but the budget looks to have limited them to a few fake trees and a garish tower.



Crippled by its own need to present Tiana as a CEO.



Never doubt the power of an agenda and incompetence.

So you are saying the integrity of the mountain can't withstand it? And they have a very limited budget?

Uh oh.

Cost shouldn't be a factor if you're trying to do something right. Who knows how this will turn out. I think we are seeing the reason this was rejected by OLC lol

 

[Tha Realest]

You're basically agreeing with me.

Yes and no. I view marketing and conceptualization as different. If the concept is flawed - and I think it very much is, due in large part to the constraints they had to work with - no amount of marketing can gloss over that. Here, they had to work over a ride system with minimal changes. Yet, those changes seem like they were workshopped not by artisans or those with a background in entertainment, but rather a bunch of academics.

 

[Tha Realest]

Why in the world would they bother putting Br'er on the model? Was it just a massive oversight where someone copied the existing logs without another thought?

Again, it’s as if there are those in Imagineering that secretly hate this entire project

 

[Indy_UK]

Disney are going on about this update like they were going to open a new park.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I'm not sure I've ever seen a thread where so many people are so willing to jump to conclusions based off limited, incomplete, unconfirmed, or non-existent information.

We would all do really well to slow down, listen to the information that Disney puts out, and try to respond rationally. Especially on a weekend like this one where we know we'll be getting more information. Otherwise this thread is just begging to devolve.

 

[crazy4disney]

Again, it’s as if there are those in Imagineering that secretly hate this entire project

honestly how many true imagineers can like this over it getting a proper refurb and if they really wanted to have PotF ride do that as well....

 

[splah]

I'm not sure I've ever seen a thread where so many people are so willing to jump to conclusions based off limited, incomplete, unconfirmed, or non-existent information.

We would all do really well to slow down, listen to the information that Disney puts out, and try to respond rationally. Especially on a weekend like this one where we know we'll be getting more information. Otherwise this thread is just begging to devolve.

the previous pages seem pretty rational to me.

The watertower on the model looks out of place + the story is overly complicated.

What is your opinion of this placard?

 

[CaptainAmerica]

the previous pages seem pretty rational to me.

The watertower on the model looks out of place + the story is overly complicated.

What is your opinion of this placard?

 

[MadderAdder]

Wellllll I am salty about that tower.

 

[ToTBellHop]

It seems the extent to which Tony Baxter was “consulted” on this was asking for his recommendation for the best bagels for staff meetings.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I get why they’d replace a ride tangentially related to slavery with a ride celebrating a Black businesswoman but it feels like they’re pandering. More than it already felt like that.

It seems the extent to which Baxter was “consulted” on this was asking for his recommendation for the best bagels for staff meetings.

Especially when the people they're catering to hate business qua business. They couldn't even make her a boss queen CEO of a culinary empire, they had to make it an "employee-owned co-op."

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

the previous pages seem pretty rational to me.

The watertower on the model looks out of place + the story is overly complicated.

What is your opinion of this placard?

If the previous pages seem rational then the mods must be doing a good job cleaning things up.

It would be nice for all of us - including them - if we didn't make their job so hard. Lots of people are reading the thread this weekend awaiting real information from the source, and already today there's been so much needless and outlandish conjecture.

 

[Tha Realest]

If the previous pages seem rational then the mods must be doing a good job cleaning things up.

It would be nice for all of us - including them - if we didn't make their job so hard. Lots of people are reading the thread this weekend awaiting real information from the source, and already today there's been so much needless and outlandish conjecture.

We’re commenting on scale models and wordy, explanatory banners. How is this based on “outlandish conjecture”?

 

[MadderAdder]

Why can’t the ride have been a reiteration of the movie? Why does it have to exist after it? I wanted to hear all the songs and characters we know. And love.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

We’re commenting on scale models and wordy, explanatory banners. How is this based on “outlandish conjecture”?

Reread what I said.

Some of the conclusions people are already drawing based only on seeing the model are outlandish conjecture.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Wait, the "search for missing ingredients" thing is real? I thought that was a troll post.

Not entirely clear why we get tossed over a waterfall. I presume we add 1/4 tbsp of cayenne instead of 1/4 tsp and Odie is big angry over dinner being ruined.

 

[Tha Realest]

Reread what I said.

Some of the conclusions people are already drawing based only on seeing the model are outlandish conjecture.

You’re saying B’rer Rabbit won’t be a permanent fixture in the front seat of each log?

 

[Midwest Elitist]

Not entirely clear why we get tossed over a waterfall. I presume we add 1/4 tbsp of cayenne instead of 1/4 tsp and Odie is big angry over dinner being ruined.

The only saving grace of this retheme are the funny memes that come out of this forum.