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

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BrerFoxesBayouAdventure

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UNCgolf said:
I think our insiders said Moana was the most likely to happen and was close to greenlit (but that was before the Chapek ouster, so who knows how that affected anything in the works). Zootopia was more of a Phase 2 idea, which almost never happens.
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I genuinely hope Moana doesn't happen. It doesn't fit the park at all and we'd be losing an important area to what? More meet-and-greets and a mediocre ride full of screens? Give me a break.
 
SpectreJordan

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Vegas Disney Fan said:
I think this depends on Epic more than anything at Disney. If Epic causes a dip in attendance (bigger than Disney finds acceptable) I think they’ll fast track something. Disney is capable of building something quickly, they just don’t so they can spread the costs over multiple quarters.

Another situation where I’d love to be a fly on the boardroom wall, Disney is constantly trying to manage overcrowding so they’ve probably got an “acceptable loss” figure once Epic opens, I just wonder if that’s 500 people a day or 5,000 people a day.

Unfortunately the losses likely won’t be at MK, where they need fewer people.

My guess is (reactionary) Disney will build a ride at HS and AK, likely clones of existing rides from another parks, quickly once Epic opens.
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I'm down if that means we finally get an Indiana Jones ride lmao
 
EagleScout610

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Merry final Christmas old friend (Couldn't find any pics of WDW Splash decorated for Christmas)
 
Kirby86

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Smiley/OCD said:
First I heard if this other than the Epcot project…
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It was part of the D23 parks presentation. Josh D'maro said something about replacing Dinoland USA then they flashed blue sky art with Zootopia on the right and Mona on the left. On the Mona side it looked like a water ride was in the art.
 
Smiley/OCD

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EagleScout610 said:
Nah. Moana or Zootopia wouldn't fit for Kali.
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And a salt mine doesn’t fit a mountain in Louisiana…
All this talk about Moana in AK…here we have a Moana playground in Epcot and we’re talking about the same character in a featured attraction in another park? Don’t we laugh at and pan the idea of having Buzz Lightyear in TSL and in MK? There’s SO many other characters to build an attraction with and suddenly we’re going to repeat them in multiple parks?
 
Animaniac93-98

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During the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, the expansion of other parks and the financial hurdles of Euro Disney meant that Florida's Magic Kingdom specifically didn't get as much attention as it could have. The big three things that the second generation of Imagineers added to the park were Splash, New Tomorrowland and Mickey's Birthdayland. Of all those things, Splash was the most complete and successful in its execution, unlike the ambitious, but unfinished, Tomorrowland redo and the half-baked Birthdayland (whose tents remain today).

Now all three of those are largely gone and all that's left of that specific era are minor things like Winnie the Pooh and Magic Carpets. Weird that's there's more WED in this park today than Eisner-era Disney. A shame because the changes to MK since the mid-late 2000s have been more miss than hit. I just hope Splash 2.0 is still aesthetically pleasing on the outside when it's done.
 
BubbaisSleep

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Smiley/OCD said:
And a salt mine doesn’t fit a mountain in Louisiana…
All this talk about Moana in AK…here we have a Moana playground in Epcot and we’re talking about the same character in a featured attraction in another park? Don’t we laugh at and pan the idea of having Buzz Lightyear in TSL and in MK? There’s SO many other characters to build an attraction with and suddenly we’re going to repeat them in multiple parks?
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It pretty much shows that the days of careful planning are gone. Now we have lands built for characters that are spread out outside the land (Pixar Pier is another example) or characters are shoehorned into an attraction.

Take Animal Kingdom for example, which had a clear logo & direction. By removing dinosaurs for Moana, you now have two species on the logo that don’t exist in the park (Dinos & dragons). So what is the direction? Might as well rebrand the park with banshees, Moana, & Zootooia in the logo since animals in nature aren’t the focus anymore. Makes me sad Moana is being placed into two parks she doesn’t belong in.
 
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