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

[MickeyMouse10]

Then I guess it’s better you’re not in charge. Choosing a much less popular property over a more popular one that sells merch is not the way to go.

Whoa, take it easy. There's no need to be rude about it.

Splash Mountain has been doing just fine with it's little known IP. So that shows how much you know about it.

 

[MickeyMouse10]

Haunted Mansion and Space Mountain seem to be doing perfectly fine as well. I don't think Eddie Murphy's Haunted Mansion is selling merchandise for it.

 

[LittleBuford]

I was puzzled too.

I've never heard of a British hamper. ... So basically it's a just a basket?

But not just any basket—one filled with goodies!

 

[LittleBuford]

Haunted Mansion and Space Mountain seem to be doing perfectly fine as well. I don't think Eddie Murphy's Haunted Mansion is selling merchandise for it.

The Haunted Mansion has become an IP in its own right, with lots and lots of associated merchandise (both official and unofficial).

 

[Tony the Tigger]

Whoa, take it easy. There's no need to be rude about it.

Splash Mountain has been doing just fine with it's little known IP. So that shows how much you know about it.

Haunted Mansion and Space Mountain seem to be doing perfectly fine as well. I don't think Eddie Murphy's Haunted Mansion is selling merchandise for it.

How’s Country Bear Jamboree doing? Especially their summer adventure?

 

[Tony the Tigger]

But not just any basket—one filled with goodies!

I can put laundry in that.

 

[Tha Realest]

The Haunted Mansion has become an IP in its own right, with lots and lots of associated merchandise (both official and unofficial).

It’s survived the terrible early 00’s movie, and I suspect it’ll endure well after people have forgotten the upcoming film starting the problematic Jared Leto and Tiffany Haddish.

 

[LittleBuford]

That's why Splash is perfectly fine just the way it is. You don't need to put in an IP that doesn't belong in Frontierland.

Splash too didn’t much belong—Georgia is hardly the frontier.

 

[Tony the Tigger]

It’s survived the terrible early 00’s movie, and I suspect it’ll endure well after people have forgotten the upcoming film starting the problematic Jared Leto and Tiffany Haddish.

What did I miss about those two that makes them problematic?

 

[FigmentFan82]

What did I miss about those two that makes them problematic?

google and decide for yourself

 

[MickeyMouse10]

How’s Country Bear Jamboree doing? Especially their summer adventure?

I'm sure you're happy with Moana's water shoehorning in Epcot then, just because it sells t-shirts. Tiana is from 1920's New Orleans, not the 1800's.

Country Bear is doing just fine without a known IP. Just like....

Big Thunder Railroad
Haunted Mansion
Space Mountain
Pirates (was)
Jungle Cruise (was)
Enchanted Tiki
It's a Small World
Tron (movies stink and failed at the box office)
Journey into Imagination
Test Track
Soarin
Tower of Terror (very old show)
Rock n Rollercoaster
Expedition Everest

 

[Frankenstein79]

I'm sure your happy with Moana's water shoehorning in Epcot then, just because it sells t-shirts. Tiana is from 1920's New Orleans, not the 1800's.

Country Bear is doing just fine without a known IP. Just like....

Big Thunder Railroad
Haunted Mansion
Space Mountain
Pirates (was)
Jungle Cruise (was)
Enchanted Tiki
It's a Small World
Tron (movies stink and failed at the box office)
Journey into Imagination
Test Track
Soarin
Tower of Terror (very old show)
Rock n Rollercoaster
Expedition Everest

And don't forget a lot of Tokyo DisneySea. That park wouldn't be allowed by the IP lovers. Even though it is perhaps the most beautiful park in the world.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Splash too didn’t much belong—Georgia is hardly the frontier.

Was there anything specifically tying the ride (not the film) to Georgia? Brer Rabbit tales were spread all across America.

 

[SpectreJordan]

At least they aren’t slow-walking this. They closed and immediately got to work in earnest for a change.

I wish they'd treat all projects like this. Maybe they finally care about everyone making fun of them for Tron & Moana's insane development times.

The drop isn’t going anywhere but they are taking a welding torch to what appeared to be the bottom of the drop ride track last night. They better not make our flume get you drenched like DL.

What's wrong with that? I'd love if it got you drenched.

 

[LittleBuford]

Was there anything specifically tying the ride (not the film) to Georgia? Brer Rabbit tales were spread all across America.

Disney itself described the ride as “a Southern bayou”, and the whole thing seemed very Southern to me. Not that I minded—the same applies to the Country Bear Jamboree, which I love (obviously!). “Frontierland” has always been a bit of a misnomer given that Southern elements have been there from the start. Guests seem not have been bothered by this in the past, and I doubt they’ll be bothered by it once Tiana’s Bayou Adventure opens.

 

[MickeyMouse10]

Splash too didn’t much belong—Georgia is hardly the frontier.

"America's Wild Frontier. Today, the old west to most of us means the southwestern states where cowboys roamed the range. In Georgia the “frontier” was a demarcation between the civilized settlements of the east, and the land considered wilderness beyond that."

Georgia was considered Frontier in the 1700's through 1800's. So it seems to fit pretty well.

 

[LittleBuford]

"America's Wild Frontier. Today, the old west to most of us means the southwestern states where cowboys roamed the range. In Georgia the “frontier” was a demarcation between the civilized settlements of the east, and the land considered wilderness beyond that."

Georgia was considered Frontier in the 1700's through 1800's. So it seems to fit pretty well.

I’m not American, so I’ll have to defer to those who are, but I’m surprised by the claim that the nineteenth-century “Old South” is popularly considered to be the frontier. Do others here agree?

 

[MisterPenguin]

Was there anything specifically tying the ride (not the film) to Georgia? Brer Rabbit tales were spread all across America.

The ridiculous accents? The source material (c'mon, we're supposed to exclude that?)? The DL version not being given a faux Rockies paint job because it fit with New Orleans Square?

 

[MisterPenguin]

"America's Wild Frontier. Today, the old west to most of us means the southwestern states where cowboys roamed the range. In Georgia the “frontier” was a demarcation between the civilized settlements of the east, and the land considered wilderness beyond that."

Georgia was considered Frontier in the 1700's through 1800's. So it seems to fit pretty well.

Did Georgia look like "the frontier" in Gone with the Wind which was in the mid 1800s?

By 1820s-30s, steamships were up and down the Mississippi and St. Louis was being gentrified.

 

[AdventureHasAName]

I’m not American, so I’ll have to defer to those who are, but I’m surprised by the claim that the nineteenth-century “Old South” is popularly considered to be the frontier. Do others here agree?

Typically, the frontier would be understood to be everything west of the Mississippi River. Although, those in New England (where I grew up), do tend to view things as "us" and "everywhere else" and lump the south (and the midwest) in with the remainder of the country west of the Mississippi River.