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

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EagleScout610

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One year ago tonight, the very last riders splashed down into the briar patch.
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Fox&Hound

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networkpro said:
If they were just going by box office, the other little movie that came out the same year from another Disney company, Pixar, called UP would have won.
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How Up doesn't have a ride is beyond me. If any ride ever called for a soarin type clone or 4D movie theatre experience (imagine you are in the house soaring through the air) it is that one. And the weenie of the house with the balloons. Iconic…
 
SaveDinosaur

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Tiana is so popular that she is one of the few princesses that didn’t receive a movie sequel nor a live-action remake (even Moana from 2016 is getting one!).
 
Disgruntled Walt

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EPCOT-O.G. said:
This revisionism happened just around the time some of the more bizarre narrative choices began to be released for the new ride. “The old ride didn’t make any sense either.” Pretty transparent what they were trying to do.
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imagineer97 said:
The hoops people have to jump through to defend this...
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EPCOT-O.G. said:
Yeah, they even posted a poll where 70% said they had no problem tracking what was going on in the ride. This thread, incidentally, opened the day WDW Splash closed and details were starting to trickle out about TBA

Intelligibility of Splash Mountain's plot

I created this poll in response to a discussion taking place now over in the Splash Mountain thread. How much of the plot did you personally understand from the ride alone? The options I've provided seem to cover the full spectrum, but please let me know if you think I should add any. For those...
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LittleBuford said:
You’re making some very strange assumptions here. What do you make of a poster like @Incomudro, who is one of those who found Splash Mountain narratively unclear yet did not want it rethemed?
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@LittleBuford @EPCOT-O.G. @Incomudro

Continuing the conversation from the other thread:

I think there are a lot of contributing factors to people's understanding or lack thereof with Splash Mountain. Which version of it did you ride first? DL's was much more difficult to understand that WDW's. I also had three older brothers who explained the plot to me.

I am merely commenting that the statement "Splash Mountain's plot didn't make any sense anyway" is a strategy by those who support the retheme to try to make the mindbogglingly strange teases they've released seem less strange.
 
Incomudro

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LittleBuford said:
I don’t think there’s much evidence to support this assertion. Perhaps you can quote the relevant posts if I’m wrong.
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Yeah, I don't recall anyone going this route in terms of supporting the retheme.
I certainly didn't support the retheme, and while I can't say I caught the reverse psychology bit on the few times in my life that I was fortunate enough to ride Splash, I would certainly never imply that the ride didn't make any sense.
It made sense, I just missed a detail or two.
 
LittleBuford

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Incomudro said:
Yeah, I don't recall anyone going this route in terms of supporting the retheme.
I certainly didn't support the retheme, and while I can't say I caught the reverse psychology bit on the few times in my life that I was fortunate enough to ride Splash, I would certainly never imply that the ride didn't make any sense.
It made sense, I just missed a detail or two.
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The thing about Splash Mountain is that one didn’t need to fully understand the plot in order to enjoy it. There’s no insult in acknowledging that many who rode it didn’t get every aspect of its narrative. The same goes for many Disney rides.
 
Brer Oswald

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LittleBuford said:
The thing about Splash Mountain is that one didn’t need to fully understand the plot in order to enjoy it. There’s no insult in acknowledging that many who rode it didn’t understand every aspect of its narrative. The same goes for many Disney rides.
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One of the great (and almost underrated) things about Splash was the way the track, music, and visuals synched up with the intended emotions of the story. You felt happy, excited, scared, and relieved when you were supposed to.

Sure, the narrative storytelling is pretty well done (if a bit simple) for the 9 minutes of ride time. But, the designers understood the artistic medium they were using, and crafted an experience that couldn’t be done better in any other medium.
 
Brian

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LittleBuford said:
The thing about Splash Mountain is that one didn’t need to fully understand the plot in order to enjoy it. There’s no insult in acknowledging that many who rode it didn’t get every aspect of its narrative. The same goes for many Disney rides.
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The only part of the plot that didn't make sense to me was when B'rer Fox would occasionally try to marry someone's dad.
 
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