JoeCamel
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Fast & Furious would like a word
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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ToTBellHop
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Of course not. But it boggles my mind that they chose this story. Chapek wants IP but certainly would have accepted a book report ride with “Friends on the Other Side” replacing the Laughin’ Place, which was a no brainer.
Elijah Abrams
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How do you know? I doubt you even work for Disney.
danlb_2000
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Based on the permit, that seems correct.
ToTBellHop
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Elijah Abrams
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What if the permit isn’t for the retheme, since there were permits for Blizzard Beach's renovations?
Kirby86
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Oh that's the issue they really are at the mercy of the budget given to them.
999th Happy Haunt
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And yet, bad rides exist.
CaptainAmerica
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The individuals responsible for this attraction are not engineers or artists.
They're spending a lot more than "leave it the hell alone," which would be the best attraction they can.
And another tick is heard on Splash Mountain's death clock 
ToTBellHop
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We will always have Tokyo.And another tick is heard on Splash Mountain's death clock
Maelstrom - Frozen:
March 5 2014- June 21 2016 (844 days)
Splash - PATF:
Jan 31 2023 [Hypothetical] - June 30 2024 (512 days)
Let that sink in. This is most likely going to be done FASTER than FEA. On a much more detailed ride. On a much longer ride. Dear lord.
March 5 2014- June 21 2016 (844 days)
Splash - PATF:
Jan 31 2023 [Hypothetical] - June 30 2024 (512 days)
Let that sink in. This is most likely going to be done FASTER than FEA. On a much more detailed ride. On a much longer ride. Dear lord.
Kirby86
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I'm not saying that bad rides don't exist. I'm just saying no one is going into makeing a ride saying we're going to make a bad one. Outside factors such as budget and other limitations can happen. What sounds good in the idea phase won't necessarily work in practice. I'm not a fan of this retheming. I think the sequel angle with Tiana owning a food co-op is a weird premise.
ToTBellHop
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Maelstrom needed more ride system work, but still, the point stands. If they are just reskinning AAs, changing set dressings, and doing the exterior work, I guess it’s possible.
As easy (and largely correct) as it is to shun book-report rides, you absolutely can do it well, but man, imagine what 2022 WDI would cook up 11 years after The Little Mermaid's book report ride.
Sorry for the tangent, but did y'all know that F&F is now... GOOD?!?!
It seems they've taken a page from Jungle Cruise and turned a cringe-worthy attraction into a comedy show.
The team members in the pre-shows no longer recite the cringey dialogue, instead, they make a big joke about everything -- especially about how poorly the show's dialogue was written and all the logical inconsistencies.
Very fourth wall breaking and it is now truly hilarious.
The actual ride is still awful with uncanny valley hard-to-follow ""action"". But experiencing the TMs mock it in advance was worth it.
This is the adress on the permit? Splash is 1180 Seven Seas Dr, Orlando, FL
UNCgolf
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They also did some some pavilion construction as part of FEA, right? I feel like they did something with the queue that didn't exist before, so it was more than just a retheme of the existing ride.
They took the old see-the-movie-about-the-country-which-we-didn't-make-part-of-the-ride theater room into an extended part of the water course. That alone was a major engineering revamp.
Then they had a whole new queue.
And there weren't pre-existing AAs to be reskinned as characters of the film. They instead created new AAs.
Because... AAs always make the ride special!!
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