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

[Ayla]

I still maintain they should build one back where the Restrooms are now, and retheme the whole Splash Queue Courtyard to a Mini New Orleans Square - best way to commit to the theming without disrupting the existing thematics of Frontierland's main drag.

Sketch is mine, not Disney's:
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If that's the case, they'll need to find room for replacement bathrooms somewhere back there.

 

[Ayla]

This is beautiful!

But is there enough space there for a full restaurant without further impacting the railroad?

No. The current railroad would go right through the middle of that sketch.

 

[Ayla]

I think the railroad goes behind the sketch. It's just not drawn exactly to scale. There is room to put something back there between Splash/Big Thunder/the current railroad, especially if you eliminate the Briar Patch.

You go under the railroad to get in line for Splash.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I think the railroad goes behind the sketch. It's just not drawn exactly to scale. There is room to put something back there between Splash/Big Thunder/the current railroad, especially if you eliminate the Briar Patch.

The Railroad goes right through the sketch - I even drew the Train Station where it currently sits.

 

[EagleScout610]

Splash Mountain officially has single digit days left. 9 days.

 

[owlsandcoffee]

The Railroad goes right through the sketch - I even drew the Train Station where it currently sits.

It's the exact same layout as the current spot, folks.

It really is a beautiful piece, you've got a knack.

(My personal ideal at this point would be that but over in the corner behind storybook circus, lol.)

 

[Trauma]

I don't know if it's because we're two weeks out, but the sadness is really hitting hard now. Feels like a piece of childhood is dying, and I'm not even that old
I hope maybe, years in the future, they silently add Zip back to the parks, maybe give the characters a proper series on D+, I don't know.

It just feels wrong.

Splash mountain is the last ride I was able to have with my father when he had cancer.

I was in a party of three when I got in my log two weeks ago but I made sure I sat alone.

I’m a grown man, but I wept.

I can’t explain why it affected me so much but it did. It felt like I was losing a connection to my Dad that I thought was always going to be there whenever I missed him.

 

[Disney Glimpses]

It appears the You May Get Wet sign was stolen today.

 

[EagleScout610]

 

[Disney Analyst]

It appears the You May Get Wet sign was stolen today.

Stolen or already removed by the archives?

 

[celluloid]

I have not seen any evidence that points to it stolen.

 

[Kirby86]

Stolen or already removed by the archives?

I think that's more likely than it being stolen.

 

[Incomudro]

Stolen or already removed by the archives?

Archives?
They're going to bury Splash like it never existed.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Stolen or already removed by the archives?

I can't imagine why the archives would remove it while the attraction is still operating.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Archives?
They're going Splash like it never existed.

I am sure the archives will collect items.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

There are security cameras all over the ride and the sign is in a pretty high traffic area so I doubt whoever took it will be in the clear for long.

It's also too perfectly removed for it to be stolen, like I feel like if that were the case it would've been much hastier and have signs of it obviously being taken.

 

[Disney Glimpses]

First of all, they definitely wouldn’t archive the piece before the attraction closed. Secondly, it was there this morning; they certainly wouldn’t archive it in the middle of operating hours. And finally, it appears other items in the queue were also stolen today. More info forthcoming.

 

[Midwest Elitist]

When they archive things, does that include the soundtrack as well?

 

[Disney Glimpses]

Via Twitter. Cast say no archival procedures took place today (and they obviously wouldn’t do this).

 

[Trauma]

First of all, they definitely wouldn’t archive the piece before the attraction closed. Secondly, it was there this morning; they certainly wouldn’t archive it in the middle of operating hours. And finally, it appears other items in the queue were also stolen today. More info forthcoming.

How do you steal that during operating hours with no one noticing ?