I think at this point it’s fair to say it’s not, just like it isn’t an employee owned co-op either… the ride seems to have come from the imagineers while the marketing department and DEI department came up with a completely separate backstory to try to justify the setting and to send a message.
Avery Island, as the name suggests, rises above sea level due to the salt dome. It's height is 163'.
Avery Island (Louisiana) - Wikipedia
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Avery Island (historically French: Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, it is approximately three miles (4.8 km) inland from Vermilion Bay, which in turn opens onto the Gulf of Mexico. A small human population lives on the island.Avery Island is surrounded on all sides by bayous (slow-moving, muddy rivers), salt marsh, and swampland; it sits about 130 miles (210 km) west of New Orleans.[6] The island was a sugar plantation formerly known as Petite Anse Island.[2] (Petite Anse means "Little Cove" in Cajun French.) Access to the island is via a toll road (technically a very low toll bridge), though a toll is no longer charged for visitors, including tourists.At its highest point, the island is 163 feet (50 m) above mean sea level.[6] It covers about 2,200 acres (8.9 km2) and is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) across at its widest point.
Also, there's Lake Peignar which is next to Jefferson Island salt dome. It is the site of the famous salt mine sink hole disaster.
Anyhoos, Jefferson "Island" salt dome is 50 feet above the surrounding land. And now, much higher than the dry lake bed caused by the sink hole.
Lake Peigneur - Wikipedia
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Lake Peigneur is a small freshwater lake in Louisiana with a shallow depth of 3 metres (10 feet), which makes it a popular spot for recreational fishermen. All that changed drastically on the 20th …graham64.wordpress.com
Now, I couldn't find any resources to justify the historicity of turning people in to frogs or talking crocagators who can play horn. I'm sure all those looking for real-world evidence of what they see on a Disney ride are just as concerned about that.
Using your same logic, if you think it is a mess, fine. But you need to get over the fact that not everyone does.
Looks like they repainted the rock work inside the cavern leading up to the drop green.
I was just thinking they could put a frog hood ornament in the spot where brer rabbit used to reside......cover that spot....but yes it does rather look like a frog log.....Does this kinda’ remind any body else here of a frog face…?!!!!!
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Did they replace the briar patch with something yet or are we just taking a drop down the mound into the water below?
Just a swamp now
I'm not the one who keeps replying to people with the same aggressive comments claiming people are stupid and wrong for liking or disliking it. I even literally said it's fine if people do like it.
I wonder if they got rid of the patch of grass because they realized how dumb it looked.
I'm like 99% sure that they just haven't completed the foliage in that area yet. The space where that swamp foliage is supposed to go is where that green railing people were discussing recently is located. And a lot of construction workers have been around that area lately. Perhaps using it to inspect the big drop as boats go down or whatever.
What is your point? Saying that people "need to get over it" seems rather aggressive to me. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If you think it looks like a mess, fine. If others think it looks great, fine as well. Myself, I have not seen it since December when it was buried in scaffolding so I really can't say.
I have been engaged in this thread since it began. Literally no one here has attempted to force someone into disliking it. But the opposite has occurred where people who do like it have dogpiled and insulted the other side as stupid to try and force them into changing their minds. My comment to "get over" opposing opinions is polite and reasonable by comparison, simply an appeal to common sense and basic courtesy.
Where has anyone tried to force anyone else to change their minds? Do you mean something more like, "convince people to reconsider their initial perspective?"
Continually replying to the same people over and over again with the same contrived explanations, when said people already said that they don't consider the explanation remotely acceptable or believable. Then calling into question their intelligence for not agreeing and saying "good day" with any further commentary now invalid and moot. Come on now, if that's not trying to bully and force someone into changing their opinion, I don't know what is...
