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

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TwilightZone

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JoeCamel said:
Kraft sponsored The Land....
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The land sponsored by tiana foods...
Disgusted Cedric The Entertainer GIF by CBS
 
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FettFan said:
Technically, Disney’s broke and that’s why they ousted Chapek, are on a hiring freeze, and are rumored to be selling off select assets to Apple (NOT the whole company as was rumored by YouTube talking heads last week, but I’m fairly certain that 20th Century Animation and Searchlight Pictures will be sold off).

But that’s not really because of “woke”….it’s because Bob Iger went all supermarket sweep with the company credit card.
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Don’t forget about 20th Century Studios. That’s also a big deal.
 
Tha Realest

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FettFan said:
Technically, Disney’s broke and that’s why they ousted Chapek, are on a hiring freeze, and are rumored to be selling off select assets to Apple (NOT the whole company as was rumored by YouTube talking heads last week, but I’m fairly certain that 20th Century Animation and Searchlight Pictures will be sold off).

But that’s not really because of “woke”….it’s because Bob Iger went all supermarket sweep with the company credit card.
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The Fox deal was one of Iger’s biggest acquisitions. While they’ve been terrible at incorporating those assets and IP, I can’t see him selling it off now.
 
HoustonHorn

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Rode today for the last time. Don't get me wrong - I have 3 more MK visits planned this trip, but I cannot let this version be my lasting memory of Splash Mountain, so I'm done. About half the animatronics and other effects work. The audio was jacked up. They aren't doing routine maintenance. Whomever let it fall into the horrible show it is now needs to be given a good old fashioned whipping.

RIP Splash Mountain. I loved you.

OTOH, I told my daughter today about the retheme. Tiana is her favorite princess, so she's excited. And fortunately for her, she's 7, so she won't have detailed memories of Splash to compare it to...
 
FettFan

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EPCOT-O.G. said:
The Fox deal was one of Iger’s biggest acquisitions. While they’ve been terrible at incorporating those assets and IP, I can’t see him selling it off now.
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Disney paid $4 Billion for Marvel, $4.05 Billion for Lucasfilm, $7.4 Billion for Pixar,

The Fox deal was $71.3 Billion. That’s why they’re putting so much stock in Avatar 2 being a success.
www.bloomberg.com

The Avatar Sequel Is a Make-or-Break Moment for Disney’s $71 Billion Fox Deal

Returning boss Bob Iger oversaw the 2019 purchase. A December premiere will help indicate whether he overpaid.
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Iger overpaid for Fox, especially when his primary motivator was to get the Fox Marvel rights (Fantastic 4 and X-Men) back under the control of Marvel Studios.

Certain parts of Fox, the ones that are redundant, will be sold off to stop the bleeding. Disney can’t afford to just shutter them, as they did LucasArts and LucasBooks after that acquisition.

(Btw, ending lucasarts was one of the dumbest decisions Disney ever made…but that’s another topic for another thread)
 
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FettFan

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Poseidon Quest said:
That's interesting and it would make sense for a scenario for that to happen. Are there any sources that elaborate on this rumor though? I hadn't heard it among all of the nonsense, but it would actually make a lot of business sense.
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None. I’ve been listening to all the talking heads spouting their rumors from “insiders” and just played it like a game of telephone.

There’s got to be a kernel of truth about a pending asset sale, but everyone jumped to the most extreme conclusion.

It makes sense for them to offload 20th Century Animation first, as it’s totally redundant, and their library doesn’t mesh well with the “Disney” signature design.

Last time I was at WDW, they were trying to promote Fox’s Ice Age series with a sand sculpture in front of Animal Kingdom….and the whole thing was as ill-matched as Snoop Dogg at a Garth Brooks concert.

It’s my prediction that Apple will purchase 20CA from Disney because they do not have their own animation studio. They’re distributing Skydance movies on Apple TV+, but between the John Lassiter controversy and the middling reviews for their first feature, Luck, they’ve got justification enough to cut ties and team with the studio that has a string of moneymakers.

They’ll probably even revert the name back to BlueSky. Or Apple BlueSky.
 
comics101

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MerlinTheGoat said:
If the information given to me is correct, the budget for the current salt mine variant is actually far higher than it was when they first announced the ride. The initial art was the low budget "thrown together" version. The early rumors were in the $30-$40 million range. This was back when the "Lost Trumpet" variant was being tossed around. I'm also not sure they ever planned on using anything from that initial concept art, it was cobbled together on short notice with little thought. The Tiana and Louis figures certainly wouldn't have been placed in that area for instance. But even if they HAD built the tree/boat, that variant called for a very dark, empty and video-centric interior that would have ruined any hopes of it being an acceptable replacement for Splash.

Despite the loss of the details at the top of the mountain (and I also consider them a loss), it's not the end of the world if the budget was actually increased and the money redirected to the interior scenes instead.
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The “salt mine” storyline is an improvement? They were given additional funding for the attraction and that’s still the best they could come up with? Seriously??

Yikes.
 
_caleb

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comics101 said:
The “salt mine” storyline is an improvement? They were given additional funding for the attraction and that’s still the best they could come up with? Seriously??

Yikes.
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I think the “salt mine” idea was part of the attraction setting’s backstory (what the Imagineers use to help make consistent creative choices), not the storyline of the attraction (what guests are told through the attraction experience).
 
Tha Realest

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_caleb said:
I think the “salt mine” idea was part of the attraction setting’s backstory (what the Imagineers use to help make consistent creative choices), not the storyline of the attraction (what guests are told through the attraction experience).
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It’s the backstory and the setting
 
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