Calling on all Disneyland attraction poster enthusiasts. What is the original Disneyland Splash Mountain poster? Long story short... I've wanted to purchase a replica of the Splash Mountain sign for a while. A guy on instagram makes really good ones but unfortunately they are of the Magic Kingdom Splash Mountain marquee and not Disneyland and the Disneyland purist in me will not allow me to purchase it even though I find the MK logo more aesthetically pleasing.
See Below:
Disneyland marquee:
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Magic Kingdom marquee:
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So here's where the mystery begins. At some point it occurred to me that the Disneyland poster actually uses the MK marquee/logo. This doesn't make sense as the Mk's version of Splash didn't open until 1992. So this begs the question(s), did Splash not have an official attraction poster when it opened at Disneyland in 1989? Was this version (see below) of the poster unveiled in 1992 with the opening of MK's Splash Mountain and then they just changed the land name on the bottom for Disneylands version? To make things more confusing I have found (fan made) versions of the Disneyland poster online with the correct DL marquee/ logo. Did some intern at some point mistakenly put the MK logo on the DL poster?
Disneyland Poster:
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Magic Kingdom Poster:
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Fan made Disneyland poster with correct logo:
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Did a little google search and it appears that Disneyland had a bunch of different promo posters/materials in 89 for Splash's opening but may not have had an official attraction poster.
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Here's the Disneyland version 25th Anniversary poster which gives credence to the intern made a mistake theory as they use the correct logo here:
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It just occurred to me as I type this post that they could have just changed it because the MK logo just works better with the poster. On the poster I find the MK logo more aesthetically pleasing. On the marquee I find DL's version more esthetically pleasing. Still doesn't answer the question of if Disneyland originally had this poster and just a some point had the logo changed or if this poster was unveiled when MK's Splash opened.
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