Rumor Tokyo Disneyland Splash Mountain Retheme Discussion

BrerFoxesBayouAdventure

BrerFoxesBayouAdventure

Well-Known Member
Henry Mystic said:
It’s still not happening, as in no chance unless TWDC pays for it, period, which won’t happen.
Click to expand...
Why wouldn't TWDC pay for it if they were that desperate to remove ALL Song of the South references from their parks.
Henry Mystic said:
Splash is due for updates even at TDL, but everyone can rest assured it won’t be rethemed anytime soon, if ever unless they’re persuaded it would be a monumental improvement like Space will be.
Click to expand...
What kind of updates does Splash need? Are the animatronics aging and effects not working as well as they used to?
 
Moth

Moth

Well-Known Member
I think the loss of the soundtrack and especially the finale scene would be a big loss.

Splash is a ride layout that needs a form of conflict to justify the big drop. Duffy would run into the same issue as Tiana where there's little to no conflict to justify the massive drop. Duffy would work best as a dark ride in classic fashion and not using the Splash layout.

If it were the OTHER non-brotherly Disney bear IP, I could see that working out, I dunno what story but... I see it.

Duffy feels more like a merch-sales driven choice versus logical and story sense approach. But a Duffy ride with no height limit would be a better choice than using Splash.

I don't see TDL Splash being changed for 5-10 years. I believe it's going to happen eventually, but OLC has bigger fish to fry.
 
C

C33Mom

Well-Known Member
Henry Mystic said:
Because they don’t own Tokyo Disneyland and there is virtually no overlap between the Tokyo parks and the US domestic audience.
Click to expand...
Disney is definitely not as concerned with being PC overseas. We were at DLP last in 2022 and very surprised to see “Pocahontas Indian Village” was still the name of the kids playground.
 
Gusey

Gusey

Well-Known Member
C33Mom said:
Disney is definitely not as concerned with being PC overseas. We were at DLP last in 2022 and very surprised to see “Pocahontas Indian Village” was still the name of the kids playground.
Click to expand...
They changed the name of that playground now to Frontierland Playground
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

Well-Known Member
Gusey said:
Whilst it has issues, it is still not universally panned. I don't want to clog up another thread with people saying "Imagineering is dead" "Tiana's Sucks" etc. but some people have gone into Tiana's looking for any criticism to justify why Disney shouldn't have closed Splash, even though the complaints are petty make no sense. I've seen people complain that there is no story, but also too much story exposition. The story is too simple but also hard to understand what we are doing on the ride for. There is too much dead space between Tiana on the lift hill and the first band, but the same dead space in Splash was fine as it was building up the suspense. The criticism is not universal and the attraction is still decent, even if it doesn't live up to the nostalgia of Splash for some people
Click to expand...

As I said in another thread it’s really interesting how the “positive” reviews of TBA are all about two sentences long and can be summarized as “it’s not as bad as people said.” Where are the long posts listing everything people love about it? Instead we get posts like this trying to discredit the people leaving negative reviews by comparing reviews from different posters who aren’t articulating well. How are all of these posts like yours that I quoted always longer than any positive review I have read? TBA is a flop.
 
Last edited:
Gusey

Gusey

Well-Known Member
mickEblu said:
As I said in another thread it’s really interesting how the “positive” reviews of TBA are all about two sentences long and can be summarized as “it’s not as bad as people said.” Where are the long posts listing everything people love about it? Instead we get posts like this trying to discredit the people leaving negative reviews by comparing reviews from different posters who aren’t articulating well. How are all of these posts like yours that I quoted always longer than any positive review I have read? TBA is a flop.
Click to expand...
Why did you go back to a post I made back in June? At the time, I was getting fed up if all the nitpicking and anything positive said about the ride was being discredited as pandering to Disney or being a "shill".
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

Well-Known Member
Gusey said:
Why did you go back to a post I made back in June? At the time, I was getting fed up if all the nitpicking and anything positive said about the ride was being discredited as pandering to Disney or being a "shill".
Click to expand...

Oh, I had no idea it was from June but I'm not sure I would have felt any differently about that fact without the context you just provided.
 
Gusey

Gusey

Well-Known Member
mickEblu said:
Oh, I had no idea it was from June but I'm not sure I would have felt any differently about that fact without the context you just provided.
Click to expand...
It just feels like whatever ends up replacing Splash at Tokyo (what this thread is about) won't live up to people's nostalgia for Splash Mountain, so people will go into the attraction looking for faults. At the time, it felt like every single thread I was reading was being hijacked by people saying Tianas sucks so Imagineering is Dead and it's Charita Carter's fault etc. And I felt like I needed to share a different opinion

Also, I could write a multi-paragrah positive review about Tianas Bayou Adventure but this thread is not about Tiana's Bayou Adventure, it's about a potential Splash Mountain retheme at Tokyo Disneyland
 

Register on WDWMAGIC. This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.

Back
Top Bottom