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Post by chrom on Jan 26, 2023 11:53:10 GMT -5
It's not a wonderful day as Splash Mountain is now officially no more as last Sunday was it's final day of Operation. The ride is now being rethemed as a Princess and The Frog ride which will open next year.
Having rode on it last May when I went to Disney World, this is a real bittersweet moment as it was one of my favorite rides and I'm sure for a lot of other people as well. Hopefully the new ride that's replacing it can capture the same magic and thrills as Splash Mountain did.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Jan 26, 2023 12:06:39 GMT -5
Kind of breaks my heart. Last time I went, the ex and I rode it like 5 times. It was late, cold, and nobody was in line, so we said f*** it. I loved how quaint the ride was.  |
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 26, 2023 12:57:31 GMT -5
For how much they’ve overhauled the parks in the last couple decades, this has to have already been on the board somewhere. All recent events did was speed up the timetable for it.
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Post by The Ichi on Jan 26, 2023 17:16:28 GMT -5
Shame. No ride in history has produced such epic ride photos.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 26, 2023 17:23:17 GMT -5
My dad and I rode it on a warm day in February in 2020, just before the pandemic closed everything down.
It was the second time for me riding it, and I forgot about the indoor big drop and got quite wet. So I had wet Levi jeans (being still winter I was not expecting it to be quite warm that day) and shoes for about an hour afterward.
But pleasant memories, got a photo somewhere.
Still think since the ride layout will be essentially the same .. thru should have kept the Splash Mountain part of the name, just work the new theme into it somehow.. yes I know the Bayou is not known to have mountains.. but people are just gonna keep calling Splash Mountain no matter they call it next.
Oh this was the California one
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Post by edgestar on Jan 26, 2023 17:32:57 GMT -5
Shame. No ride in history has produced such epic ride photos. Tower of Terror has some good ones! |
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Post by Cyno on Jan 26, 2023 17:34:45 GMT -5
I'm sure the actual ride itself will be similar if not outright identical to how it was. Just re-themed to something that Disney hasn't disavowed for decades.
That's really the most baffling thing about the ride. The versions of the ride opened in 1989 (Disneyland) and 1992 (Tokyo Disneyland and WDW) respectively. This was already well after Song of the South was considered anathema by Disney. Why theme a ride after a movie you want to otherwise not make available or pretend it exists in the first place?
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 26, 2023 17:35:20 GMT -5
Shame. No ride in history has produced such epic ride photos. The ride will be the same, just a new theming . Will probably still get the epic photos.. it’s a cash cow for them, they would be fools to remove the photo point. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 26, 2023 17:38:14 GMT -5
I'm sure the actual ride itself will be similar if not outright identical to how it was. Just re-themed to something that Disney hasn't disavowed for decades. That's really the most baffling thing about the ride. The versions of the ride opened in 1989 (Disneyland) and 1992 (Tokyo Disneyland and WDW) respectively. This was already well after Song of the South was considered anathema by Disney. Why theme a ride after a movie you want to otherwise not make available or pretend it exists in the first place? I don’t think it was until the 90’s that they started to realise “The Song of the South” was racially insensitive. In the 80s the movie had a cinematic re release and think might have got to home video and some TV broadcasts.. I remember seeing previews for it on Disney VHS tapes and on Disney TV programming |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 26, 2023 17:44:50 GMT -5
Somewhere's in the collection I got a Uncle Remus kids story book that Disney put out in 86. So yea wasn't until after the mid 80s that Disney really started pretending the full film didn't exist.
When wass the UK VHS release and the Japanese Laserdisc release of the film?
As for the ride I never rode it. Last time I went to WDW was June 92.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 26, 2023 17:44:53 GMT -5
I'm sure the actual ride itself will be similar if not outright identical to how it was. Just re-themed to something that Disney hasn't disavowed for decades. That's really the most baffling thing about the ride. The versions of the ride opened in 1989 (Disneyland) and 1992 (Tokyo Disneyland and WDW) respectively. This was already well after Song of the South was considered anathema by Disney. Why theme a ride after a movie you want to otherwise not make available or pretend it exists in the first place? I don’t think it was until the 90’s that they started to realise “The Song of the South” was racially insensitive. In the 80s the movie had a cinematic re release and think might have got to home video and some TV broadcasts.. I remember seeing previews for it on Disney VHS tapes and on Disney TV programming They released it on VHS and Laserdisc in European and Asian markets, but it's never seen a home media release in North America. Eisner himself personally kept Uncle Remus from appearing on Splash Mountain (maybe they thought the cartoon portions of the film were not-racist enough to be okay for the late 80's/early 90's).
Though Disney sure loved using "Zippa-Dee-Doo-Dah" in a lot of their media like the sing-along tapes and the like.
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Post by chrom on Jan 26, 2023 17:50:25 GMT -5
My nephew was in the back of the ride and barely got wet and acted like he was going to die.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 26, 2023 18:30:12 GMT -5
Shame. No ride in history has produced such epic ride photos.  |
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Jan 26, 2023 20:25:10 GMT -5
I don’t think it was until the 90’s that they started to realise “The Song of the South” was racially insensitive. In the 80s the movie had a cinematic re release and think might have got to home video and some TV broadcasts.. I remember seeing previews for it on Disney VHS tapes and on Disney TV programming They released it on VHS and Laserdisc in European and Asian markets, but it's never seen a home media release in North America. Eisner himself personally kept Uncle Remus from appearing on Splash Mountain (maybe they thought the cartoon portions of the film were not-racist enough to be okay for the late 80's/early 90's). Though Disney sure loved using "Zippa-Dee-Doo-Dah" in a lot of their media like the sing-along tapes and the like.
Yeah, I vividly remember getting a tape in the 90s that had bits of it and I knew a lot of cast members that had “song of the south”, the whole thing. Apparently it was easier to get than I’d thought. |
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Jan 26, 2023 20:29:33 GMT -5
It was my favorite ride, honestly I’d do it a hundred times in a row if I could. It was best after a thunderstorm when the water levels were high and you got totally drenched
Disney made their park experience amazing from about 2004-2018 everything seemed to be made to make the experience better.
Now it’s trash
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 26, 2023 20:30:35 GMT -5
It's gonna be the same thing just with no Song of the South stuff.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 26, 2023 21:58:13 GMT -5
It's gonna be the same thing just with no Song of the South stuff. Yeah, outside of a face lift, probably little is really going to change. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 26, 2023 23:47:03 GMT -5
I don’t think it was until the 90’s that they started to realise “The Song of the South” was racially insensitive. In the 80s the movie had a cinematic re release and think might have got to home video and some TV broadcasts.. I remember seeing previews for it on Disney VHS tapes and on Disney TV programming They released it on VHS and Laserdisc in European and Asian markets, but it's never seen a home media release in North America. Eisner himself personally kept Uncle Remus from appearing on Splash Mountain (maybe they thought the cartoon portions of the film were not-racist enough to be okay for the late 80's/early 90's). Though Disney sure loved using "Zippa-Dee-Doo-Dah" in a lot of their media like the sing-along tapes and the like.
it officially started being referred to as Splash Mountain" on all the sing along tapes and such because Zippa-dee-do-dah was one of their biggest song hits. That said they may not have had a home video release but they re-released it like 20 times and played it on Television atleast once. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 26, 2023 23:48:46 GMT -5
Somewhere's in the collection I got a Uncle Remus kids story book that Disney put out in 86. So yea wasn't until after the mid 80s that Disney really started pretending the full film didn't exist. When wass the UK VHS release and the Japanese Laserdisc release of the film? As for the ride I never rode it. Last time I went to WDW was June 92. My great grandmother gave my brother a "Disney classic story" book when he was born. He actually found it and started reading a few to my niece... one story in there that he doesn't even let her see the name of is the Song of the South one since it flat out includes a slur in the title. |
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Jan 27, 2023 6:40:28 GMT -5
When I was in primary school they’d show a film once a year, and one year it was Song Of The South. This would’ve been around the mid-nineties, so looking back it’s absolutely bizarre. I’m sure it had a VHS release here in the UK around the same time. I wonder if maybe, given our own history of racism and slavery is a bit different, it was assumed that audiences here and in the rest of the world wouldn’t make the connection in the same way that they do in the US.
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