MagicHappens1971
Well-Known Member
There's probably nothing as tall as Splash Mountain in Louisiana anyway...No, they want the mountain to look smaller because it's being rethemed from a mountain to a salt dome, and salt domes aren't as tall as mountains.
This doesn't really make sense to me. They're taking a "thrill" attraction and retheming it to center around a "Disney Princess", who's target audience is younger children.The idea that they're trying to appeal to a younger audience than before just doesn't actually make any sense.
I think it could be said that they are trying to shorten the mountain for thematic purposes, but on the other hand they were planning on making it taller with Mama Odie's tree. Whether that was cut for budgetary or story reasons is to be told. On the topic of thematic purpose, this "Salt Dome" doesn't fit in Fronteirland anyway.
I also wasn't saying that they're "trying to appeal", I'm saying that the IP they have chosen for this attraction DOES appeal to a younger audience and they don't want it to seem as daunting to the little girl in her Tiana dress.