Personally I thinkt they can use a water tower in WDW, but make it blend into the mill/barn that exists to somewhat keep the theme. Planting the big water tower kills any vibe of a Frontier
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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Personally I thinkt they can use a water tower in WDW, but make it blend into the mill/barn that exists to somewhat keep the theme. Planting the big water tower kills any vibe of a Frontier
Elijah Abrams
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Congratulations, you made it uglier.
BrerFoxesBayouAdventure
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The mountain feels completely naked without the Chickapin on top of it.
Sir_Cliff
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I am always kind of curious as to whether he gets these sort of rumours from 'somewhere' or just sits down and does some brainstorming about what could happen.
999th Happy Haunt
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If he did make it up he did better than what it sounds like Disney came up with
Incomudro
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This all sounds SO much better than what I feared.
I hope it's true!
Probably why I don't work at Imagineering
• Louis story was dropped because the rumor is they couldn't find out what to do with the Laughin Place other than make it a salt mine
• Jim Cummings recently confirmed that Ray is not returning
• No doubt they would've mentioned Facilier by now if he were part of it.
• Plus Keith Davis wasn't listed in the ride cast at D23
• None of the film songs will be reused
Sir_Cliff
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Is that really true? That would be a bizarre decision.
Disstevefan1
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And the stupidity C O N T I N U E S . . .
I believe Disney stated the ride would have a new soundtrack since it's a sequel ride
James Alucobond
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That doesn’t necessarily preclude it from using familiar music. Frozen Ever After is a sequel ride as well, but it uses the same tunes with different lyrics overlaid in places to convey an alternate narrative.
Sir_Cliff
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Yes, I would be super surprised if they just ditched the original soundtrack and started from scratch. I could see them maybe commissioning a new song for the ride, but not an entirely new soundtrack.
MerlinTheGoat
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As others have said, that missing trumpet version is apparently no longer the concept being used. It was prior to the salt mine version. I guess the more swampy exterior with Mama Odie's boat atop the hill. And while the salt mine exterior is still pretty stupid, it's better than losing 85% of the animatronics and having a mostly empty video screen based ride (which is apparently what the trumpet variant would have done). The salt mine version is supposedly keeping the animatronics and even adding a decent amount of new high end ones (for the humans I assume). We'll see though.
I don't know if they plan on using zero music from the movie (would be a bit odd if they didn't), but they are apparently pushing it as a tie in to the D+ series. That is a musical series with both new songs and also a number of new characters. These new songs and characters presumably will appear in the ride. The ride is supposedly set after the movie but before the series.
For the record, the series, music and new characters seem to be extremely well received from people who have seen/heard tests. And people who were extremely negative about this overhaul are now becoming happy with it (again aside from the salt mine exterior). Assuming again that any of this second/third hand info is correct. It's not my own first hand knowledge.
I don't know if they plan on using zero music from the movie (would be a bit odd if they didn't), but they are apparently pushing it as a tie in to the D+ series. That is a musical series with both new songs and also a number of new characters. These new songs and characters presumably will appear in the ride. The ride is supposedly set after the movie but before the series.
For the record, the series, music and new characters seem to be extremely well received from people who have seen/heard tests. And people who were extremely negative about this overhaul are now becoming happy with it (again aside from the salt mine exterior). Assuming again that any of this second/third hand info is correct. It's not my own first hand knowledge.
Incomudro
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Well... There goes that. LOL
Along with any hopes I had.
Incomudro
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Much as I'm all for keeping animatronics - as I've said before - in and of themselves they don't make a great ride.
Lots of animatronics in a bad concept, with poor execution won't make this ride better than losing half of them if the ride was overall better if done another way.
As in key characters and elements that made the film fun, including the original music.
999th Happy Haunt
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Absolutely hilarious
Incomudro
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Ryan George's Screen Rant channel was mentioned (was it by Mr. Penguin?) on a post.
I can really picture a Screen Rant about this ride.
"No, we're not gonna' do any of that!"
When the story of Louis' trumpet first came out, it was mercilessly mocked on these here forums.
Glad to see that people now appreciate that story line.
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