- The mountain hasn't caved in
- No log sank today
- The fiery death of the sun didn't happen
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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Smiley/OCD
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The logs still float…
JoeCamel
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Shhhh, maybe.....
Let the final month of Splash Mountain begin
Poseidon Quest
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I would legitimately love to see a Splash Mountain retheme using the animatronics from Kitchen Kabaret.
Is anyone here gonna be at Magic Kingdom on the 22nd for the send off?
HoustonHorn
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Me and the daughter in the front row from December. She is excited Tiana (her favorite princess) is getting her own ride (you can see my feelings). She's too young to get caught up in the politics. I will keep Zip-a-dee-do-dah alive with her. And I just hope TBA is good enough for her.
Goodbye old friend.
Disney Glimpses
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Love this mentality. Hey, before you know it, you'll be making memories with your daughter on the new attraction!
I have loved Splash Mountain over the years, and I have loved The Princess and the Frog. I also thought Tiana was/is the best Princess out there. She works hard to improve her world and doesn’t wait for others to improve it for her. I love that. I also love beignets, animated New Orleans, and the music! I’ll miss the old version as I was always ignorant to the ignorance, and I’m really looking forward to a revitalized version of the ride. I hope they maintain it.
After returning home from my last ride I still can’t get over how mind boggling stupid this is.
It’s just not a ride you mess with.
Worst part is, this is all on Iger.
They put the man responsible for running parks and resorts into a ditch, back in the drivers seat.
It’s just not a ride you mess with.
Worst part is, this is all on Iger.
They put the man responsible for running parks and resorts into a ditch, back in the drivers seat.
_caleb
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I’m sorry you’re losing the ride you clearly love so much.
That many people love so much.
It’s insane to mess with it.
It’s what I consider a core ride. Meaning a ride that people can ride 500 times and still enjoy. More importantly for Dis a ride that people will pay the insane prices to ride over and over.
Now that ride may not be splash for you. But you certainly have that ride or rides. Maybe it’s Haunted Mansion maybe it’s Tower of Terror.
Can you gut out Haunted Mansion re-using the ride system and create a new attraction?
I guess you could but it’s insane to do so.
You can make the argument that every attraction is special to someone, so by my logic you couldn’t change anything ever.
I would counter that by suggesting the overall numbers of people the ride is beloved by.
I think we can agree certain rides just managed to capture the “magic” just right and are beloved by large percentages of guests.
I’m sure I’m not explaining my argument well. It’s just the feeling that they are destroying something that is at the pinnacle of imagineering, with no guarantee what they are replacing it with will recapture the same magic.
danlb_2000
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I am sure every vlogger and live streamer will be there.
retr0gate
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yup, against my better judgement
Brer Oswald
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I just don’t have any faith that they can make a well rounded dark ride anymore. WDI puts so much emphasis on like 3 or 4 spectacular effects per ride, at the expense of everything else (animatronics, set design, etc). When 2 of these effects stop working, you get a ride experience that makes you feel cheated.
Splash still had a few of these effects (ie. jumping rabbit), but when they didn’t work, it wasn’t a deal breaker. The environments and other animatronics picked up the slack (just like they do in rides like Pirates and Mansion).
Splash still had a few of these effects (ie. jumping rabbit), but when they didn’t work, it wasn’t a deal breaker. The environments and other animatronics picked up the slack (just like they do in rides like Pirates and Mansion).
erasure fan1
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Oh that's a for sure. There's going to be hundreds of videos all popping up on YouTube. It should be a funny spectacle.
erasure fan1
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That is a 100% justifiable way to feel. There isn't a real reason to think that current Disney will be able to meet, let alone surpass, the current ride. Like you said, it's not just a ride that a few love. It's an all time beloved attraction. One of the best ever created in my eyes, and to many others as well. Maybe if there was a track record of awesome from current Disney creative, people wouldn't be so upset.
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