Update: Has reopened
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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Update: Has reopened
MagicHappens1971
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I am on it right now, the logs are stopped and work lights are on. They keep saying we will be moving soon
MagicHappens1971
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Update: work lights are off & we’re moving. It was less than 10 minutes being stopped
Disney4family
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Has anyone explained why ours is gone today and yet Disneyland still has theirs? I may have missed that in 584 pages. Sorry.
Disney Glimpses
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Attractions Magazine is reporting that WDI was seen riding Splash Mountain during some recent downtime. All were wearing earpieces attached to a portable audio device presumed to be listening to work in progress attraction audio. They were seen pointing at scenes and AAs. Charita Carter, Ted Robledo and Carmen Smith were seen in this group.
Animaniac93-98
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Several other attractions at Disneyland have refurbishments right now, or happening soon. They don't to close so many rides at once.
The expectation is that it will close later this Spring.
This is going to be like Harmonious. Too big to fail until it does.
Kirby86
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The running theory is since Indy is down they want to keep it open until that opens back up from refurbishment.
Disney Glimpses
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Sounds about right. Splash in Florida goes down this time of year anyways and they will have TRON to pick up the slack this Spring close to when it would normally reopen (close enough anyways).
Animaniac93-98
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They're going to put the tacos on the mountain?
Brian
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They'll need screens for the attraction, and those screens will be available soon, so maybe.
Animaniac93-98
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Personally I would have waited until after Easter weekend (April 7-10, also after the opening of TRON and the end of the 50th) to close Splash here.
GhostHost1000
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That makes way too much sense for Disney to do these days.
They have the opportunity to build off of a groundbreaking attraction which captivated and delighted so many guests over the past 30 years.
The people on that boat (and WDI in general) don’t hold a candle to the original creative minds behind Splash. I hope I’m wrong.
You forget their timeline, they are expecting (I know yeah right) this refurb to be >24 months. Closing now only misses one Christmas Week.
They are banking on the short attention span of guests to forget Splash even existed when Tron opens. They don’t need a distraction to their latest ACTIVATION.
GhostHost1000
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Wonder what the Vegas odds are on this sticking with that timeline
MagicHappens1971
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Different timelines? They want this reopened in less than 24 months as another poster mentioned. Closing it now barley gives them enough time to get it open by Christmas 2024. I would assume they would realistically like it open by Thanksgiving 24 the latest. There’s also more attractions under refurbishment at Disneyland.
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GhostHost1000
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They’ll be distracted by all the other construction of new things coming soon too.
Oh…
gerarar
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Surprisingly, the Kylo AA has been in A-mode more than B-mode for the past couple months. Idk what they did, but ever since like September-ish, the reliability of that AA and scene vastly improved.
As for the cannons, insiders have said that work was being done behind the scenes, so hopefully that comes to fruition soon.
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