Right. And even I would prefer the ride to stay as is, but I’ve accepted that that’s not happening. Making up issues gets folks nowhere. One could argue that some of the princesses are lacking representation in the parks, but Tiana isn’t one of them.
My gosh, STOP calling this pandering. You have zero room to talk about what pandering to black people does and doesn’t look like.There was the big push in '09 for her movie, with that absolutely fabulous river show they did on the Mark Twain that summer. That Tiana show was some of my favorite entertainment Disneyland has done this century, second only to Viva Navidad and Paint The Night.
Then in 2011, when her movie was still only 2 years old, they had a float for her in Soundsational.
But since then? They haven't really featured her in any night spectacular or stage show or water show or new parade. She got forgotten in major Disneyland entertainment until... now. But they've got to pump her back up and make her a thing again. I can't blame them, but it seems pandering.
I guess I just find it eye-rolling and embarassing for them because the music from that movie was just so wonderful, and they had real magic with that Mark Twain river show back in '09. And they forgot about her for the most part until Bob Iger had to pretend there was a plan to remake Splash Mountain (when there really wasn't a plan to do that when he announced it suddenly).
Because it is representation? And they want more?
Cheers!2. It's a gorgeous summer Friday, and it's only 30 minutes until the Cocktail Hour kicks off the weekend! Cheers!
I thought the retheme was being done because Disney thinks they can pretend Song of the South never happened if they get rid of Splash Mountain. Which is it?
Both to eliminate the last trace of Song of the South, and to represent Tiana.
Uh huh. And why, exactly, would they want to represent the main character from a movie that they brushed off as a flop because it didn't make as much money as they were hoping and dubbing its flopping "proof" that hand-drawn animated films are dangerous?
BTW, just an FYI, hand-drawn 2D animation is making a come back at Disney:
www.indiewire.com
As others have said, Tiana’s been nicely represented in the parks for years. And her story’s bayou locale is a perfect fit to retheme a log flume that I’m pretty sure Tony Baxter has long since wished he’d originally themed to Robin Hood.
I despise the changes to the second half. They removed all the excitement and fun and turned it into baby food. Walt knew kids love to be safely scared by entertainment. That was the sole reason the Snow White ride was created in the first place.
No worse than having a ride set in Atlanta Georgia in a Wild West area.The version they've got brewing out at WDW, sitting next to Big Thunder and in the middle of Frontierland, is a stinky dumpster fire of thematic failure.
100% We have seen a lot more Tiana than Aurora or even Cinderella. Disney has been making an effort for more representation in the past decade or so and they don't have a ton of characters to utilize, so Tiana has been consistently utilized
