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

[LittleBuford]

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This one. Bought it this spring after I conquered my lifelong fear of roller coasters and Splash.

This kind of thing I'm aware of; a similar mug came up in discussion a few weeks ago (see the link below). It's merchandise featuring the characters that I believe they (largely?) stopped producing after the 2020 announcement.

New Walt Disney World Mug Celebrates the Best Disney "Mountains"

Coffee, tea, soups, and more taste great in this new find. Start Your Day with this New Walt Disney World Mug!

mickeyblog.com

 

[Sharon&Susan]

Thanks! Were any of these newly produced, or just existing stock?

The magicband was new for the 50th.

 

[EagleScout610]

Brer Bear was on a few Magic bands, I heard there was some pins available. There were mugs with the Mountains on them. Not much but it was noticeable.

If I recall correctly the magic band with Br'er Bear was recreating a peice from the opening of WDW. Otherwise I doubt he would've been on there.

 

[Kirby86]

Did Disney acknowledge the ride's 30th at WDW or was nothing done? I'm assuming its the latter, as they sure love to pretend it suddenly doesn't exist after making merchandise featuring characters from it as recently as October 2021. I'm tired of them kicking the can down the road, either rip the damn bandaid off and close it or don't even bother. I'm sick of waiting for Splash to die, just kill it already because watching it decay and rot is agonizing to see. Something as masterfully crafted as it will likely never be made again and judging by reception it seems like if the retheme tanks Disney is done for.

I wouldn't say Disney will be done for but if the general consensus is Tiana's Bayou Adventure isn’t as good as Splash Mountain this will definitely be a kick in the teeth for Imagineering. Also we have to see how they will maintain it.

 

[WorldExplorer]

This kind of thing I'm aware of; a similar mug came up in discussion a few weeks ago (see the link below). It's merchandise featuring the characters that I believe they (largely?) stopped producing after the 2020 announcement.

New Walt Disney World Mug Celebrates the Best Disney "Mountains"

Coffee, tea, soups, and more taste great in this new find. Start Your Day with this New Walt Disney World Mug!

mickeyblog.com

There's a grey shirt with a bunch of characters on it in front of the castle with B'rer Rabbit on it currently being sold.

No clue when they started making that or how long it's been there, though.

 

[Touchdown]

People saying there is only one water ride in MK…

Pirates Response: Am I nothing to you?

Pirates is a Shoot the Chute ride, it just is designed not to splash much, but that could always be changed…

 

[Smiley/OCD]

People saying there is only one water ride in MK…

Pirates Response: Am I nothing to you?

Pirates is a Shoot the Chute ride, it just is designed not to splash much, but that could always be changed…

Nothing like being splashed & doused with that dank, smelly water to make my trip complete!!

 

[JoeCamel]

Nothing like being splashed & doused with that dank, smelly water to make my trip complete!!

But it's treated......

 

[Smiley/OCD]

At this point keeping Splash open is depressing. The way it's being left to fall apart and go out as a broken, hollow shell of its former self hurts.

I’d REALLY love to know how Tony Baxter feels deep, deep down inside to see what his crown jewel has become. I know I’m a jaded guy from NJ (comes with the territory), but it almost like TWDC is going out of their way to allow SM to fall into such a level of disrepair that all the anti-Tiana guests will be forced to embrace the reboot.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

But it's treated......

The question is…with what??
Water is treated at the sewage plant before it gets released, but I still wouldn’t want to be splashed or swim in it…

 

[LittleBuford]

it almost like TWDC is going out of their way to allow SM to fall into such a level of disrepair that all the anti-Tiana guests will be forced to embrace the reboot.

I think there’s a simpler explanation than that: the ride is going to be closed soon, and so they see no point in maintaining it.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

I was referring to Splash Mountain and Kali River Rapids, because those are the ones that soak you and soak you good.

And to repeat what I said before this comment got previously deleted:

Can we not predict Splash Mountain closing when Tron opens anymore please? I believe that won’t work in terms of guest attendance and experience, because on warm/hot days at Magic Kingdom in Florida, guests will need a ride to cool off on via water. Closing SM for the retheme for many months will just drive away guests (to Universal's Islands of Adventure, since they have Jurassic Park River Adventure, Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls, and Popeye and Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges, which are both water rides), because they don’t want to suffer from the Florida heat. Not even fans or water squirters will work. The guests will just complain.

Just stop the raft rides over to TSI and make guests either swim or take a tube over…problem solved!! Lol

 

[Smiley/OCD]

I think there’s a simpler explanation than that: the ride is going to be closed soon, and so they see no point in maintaining it.

VERY POOR OPTICS…not up to Disney standards…

 

[JoeCamel]

VERY POOR OPTICS…not up to Disney standards…

Living in the past are you?

 

[LittleBuford]

VERY POOR OPTICS…not up to Disney standards…

Agreed—I wasn’t trying to excuse their policy!

 

[EagleScout610]

There's a grey shirt with a bunch of characters on it in front of the castle with B'rer Rabbit on it currently being sold.

No clue when they started making that or how long it's been there, though.

I think that was from pre-Covid. I remember when the parks reopened people thought it was new Br'er Rabbit merch

 

[EagleScout610]

I wonder if, had this film been made, would they have already rethemed Splash around it, since it seems like it would've kept at least Brer Rabbit, and distanced the ride from SotS

 

[EagleScout610]

Getting worse day-by-day.
How Do You Do:

• First two frogs frozen
• First goose moving very spastically
  • Jaw broken
• Third goose on right now completely tipped over
  • Mouths on second and third geese broken
• Lighting on goose scene out
• Br’er Fox mouth sticking
• Br’er Bear not moving arm
• Br’er Rabbit barley moving
• Mr. Bluebird moving very stiffly
• Lights out on porcupine and racoon
• Br’er Raccoon not moving
• Second gardening bunny stuck turned away from shadow
• Shadow animation out of sync w/audio
• Br’er Fox barely moving yelling at Br’er Bear
• Br’er Bear barly moving head/arms
  • Not raising or lowering in trap
• Million Dollar Bunny not moving (No shock there)
• Lights out on Br’er Frog, who’s not moving
• Lights out on Br’er Roadrunner and possums
  • Roadrunner not moving
• Entire tunnel before dip-drop dark
• Br’er Fox lifting Br’er Bear moving very spastically
• Br’er Rabbit in tree not moving
• Audio very blown out for scene

Laughin’ Place/Burrow Lament:

• Lights out on all the spinning beehives
• Br’er Bear audio out
• Br’er Bear with beehive barely shaking
• Laughing Br’er Rabbit barely moving, mouth broken
• Br’er Fox barely moving
• Lights out aside from character spotlights.
• Entire Laughin’ Place pitch black
• Turtles not raising/lowering
• Frogs in pitch blackness
• Jumping water shockingly working.
• Captured Br’er Rabbit mouth barely moving
• Lights out on vultures
• Br’er Fox shadow seems shrunk down like the projector wasn’t aimed/centered properly
• Br’er Fox/Rabbit dialogue not playing
• Br’er Bear “Briar Patch?” not playing

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

• Guitar gator missing
• The ‘headless chicken’ phenomena is back
• Organ pig barely moving
• Brown hen with tambourine barely moving
• Captain Goose only lifting head up and down
• Lights out aside from showboat lights
• Blue can-can goose mouth frozen
• Br’er Turkey head stuck up, body barely moving
  • Dialogue not playing
• Br’er Toad only moving head/body lean
  • No dialogue either
• Turkey and Toad are in close to complete darkness.
• Br’er Fox only moving head/back lean.
• Br’er Bear not moving back and forth
• Br’er Gator audio playing, but Gator not moving
• No audio over Gator attack scene.
• Br’er Rabbit hitting knapsack next to him
• Brer Rabbit barely moving
• Mr. Bluebird moving very stiffly

 

[BuzzedPotatoHead89]

Getting worse day-by-day.
How Do You Do:

• First two frogs frozen
• First goose moving very spastically
  • Jaw broken
• Third goose on right now completely tipped over
  • Mouths on second and third geese broken
• Lighting on goose scene out
• Br’er Fox mouth sticking
• Br’er Bear not moving arm
• Br’er Rabbit barley moving
• Mr. Bluebird moving very stiffly
• Lights out on porcupine and racoon
• Br’er Raccoon not moving
• Second gardening bunny stuck turned away from shadow
• Shadow animation out of sync w/audio
• Br’er Fox barely moving yelling at Br’er Bear
• Br’er Bear barly moving head/arms
  • Not raising or lowering in trap
• Million Dollar Bunny not moving (No shock there)
• Lights out on Br’er Frog, who’s not moving
• Lights out on Br’er Roadrunner and possums
  • Roadrunner not moving
• Entire tunnel before dip-drop dark
• Br’er Fox lifting Br’er Bear moving very spastically
• Br’er Rabbit in tree not moving
• Audio very blown out for scene

Laughin’ Place/Burrow Lament:

• Lights out on all the spinning beehives
• Br’er Bear audio out
• Br’er Bear with beehive barely shaking
• Laughing Br’er Rabbit barely moving, mouth broken
• Br’er Fox barely moving
• Lights out aside from character spotlights.
• Entire Laughin’ Place pitch black
• Turtles not raising/lowering
• Frogs in pitch blackness
• Jumping water shockingly working.
• Captured Br’er Rabbit mouth barely moving
• Lights out on vultures
• Br’er Fox shadow seems shrunk down like the projector wasn’t aimed/centered properly
• Br’er Fox/Rabbit dialogue not playing
• Br’er Bear “Briar Patch?” not playing

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

• Guitar gator missing
• The ‘headless chicken’ phenomena is back
• Organ pig barely moving
• Brown hen with tambourine barely moving
• Captain Goose only lifting head up and down
• Lights out aside from showboat lights
• Blue can-can goose mouth frozen
• Br’er Turkey head stuck up, body barely moving
  • Dialogue not playing
• Br’er Toad only moving head/body lean
  • No dialogue either
• Turkey and Toad are in close to complete darkness.
• Br’er Fox only moving head/back lean.
• Br’er Bear not moving back and forth
• Br’er Gator audio playing, but Gator not moving
• No audio over Gator attack scene.
• Br’er Rabbit hitting knapsack next to him
• Brer Rabbit barely moving
• Mr. Bluebird moving very stiffly

As they likely say at TDO let’s never lose sight of what matters… as long as the logs keep moving and cycling guests the “, Genie+ $$ keeps flowing.

AAs be darned. They’re soon to be dumpster destined anyway.

 

[Ghost93]

They need to just put the ride out of its misery and shut it down. I think the ride will be silently closed in the winter, like it usually does for refurbishments, only this time it will remain closed until the retheme is complete.