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Which park built the best version of Splash Mountain?
I’m glad I got to ride it back in the day. My wife and I just went to Orlando a couple weeks ago. We missed the closing of Magic Kingdom’s Splash Mountain by one day. Hopefully the retheme works out well.
The amazing job they did on Guardians of the Galaxy in California Adventure give me hope that the new Tiana theming will be amazing. Splash Mountain is a wonderful ride and I have hope it will be just as good if not better.
At least the one in Tokyo is gonna stay open
NGL, I got teary-eyed hearing everyone singing Zip A Dee Doo Dah. I know some people are against it for obvious reasons, but as a Tiana fan, I'm excited. And it's still the same ride just a different theme so why get worked up?
Go woke, go broke Disney. 🤦🏻♂️
I still do not get it. Was Brier Fox and Brier Bear supposed to be Whites and Brier Rabbit supposed to be black? I never understood the metaphors.
DISNEYLAND IS BECOMING SOFT AND PETTY THANKS TO SOME PEOPLE THEY SHOULD JUST SHUT DOWN ALL THE RIDES AND TURN THEM IN IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL
George Floyd and BLM- the greatest lie ever sold. Watch Candace Owens documentary- it was eye opening! Growing up in the 80s & my young adult life in the 90s this country was never as divided by race as much as it is today. I went to school and it was probably 50/50 and we all hung out and got along. I don’t get it. The government is doing this to us with the help of big tech and big companies- Disney as one of them spreading their propaganda. It’s sad.
Great video!
I absolutely agree two things can be true. The Imagineers who worked on it did an amazing job and it’s a beloved ride. The origins and film are terrible. It’s time for a change.
Princess Tiana absolutely deserves her own ride. I am interested how they will incorporate it into Frontierland.
When does Anaheim version close?
so glad I got to ride it before they changed it!
5 years to re-think this and all they come up with is a 'mountain' in one of the flattest states in the USA and solve that by using an incredibly racially charged (and not thematically fun) concept of having the ride take place in a salt mine (look up the history of salt mines in Louisiana -alot of dead slaves buried in that mine). This is just bad all over.
Yep let's bury the fact that James Basket couldn't go to the premiere of his very own movie and dig a hole for movie itself as well instead of using it as a cautionary tale of stuff we would not like to repeat as a society-which should have put firmly to bed a thousand years ago. Minimum.
It's simply dumb. Racism is just dumb. It is potentially the dumbest thing of all time. What a waste of time and energy.
I'm sure we won't have to suffer those atrocities again this way.
Or remember that time we locked up all our japanese citizens?
Or killed all those people who were already here?
How bout that time we crashed whole countries or experimented on unsuspecting citizens?
Or how bout those mc carthy hearings? Walt himself F'ed up there. As he was just man and men make mistakes. All men.
How we respond to them is what's important.
It's almost like Disney did the exact opposite of what they probably should have done in response to millions of our countrymen being absolutely justifiably PISSED THE F OFF.
Which harms us all.
An insult to one is an insult to all and it shouldn't take war and atrocities to remember that.
None of this has to be this way.
I will never understand why everyone goes along with it.
We can fix this. All of it. Together. With shocking ease too. Yet it would require people believing that which is difficult when every leader everywhere is a clown.
Not even the IT clown. Simply the lead paint licking kind.
I would like to forcefully take this company over. The level of stupidity shown and straight up evil choices is astounding.
(Way worse when they could both get crazy rich AND not be the devil).
Walt would not approve.
You know the"everyone is a commie because they need to sleep some times and have a few hours off guy".
At least they removed my favorite ride so I have no reason to empty my bank account go play the hunger games and be disappointed yet again.
Expect- cheapness.
Expect- few animatronics and tons of screens.
Expect it to be broken daily. Not til you get to the front after waiting three hours of course, with your children who already have no patience (because of the mass F ups of society), after coming from across the country while $pending extra on an unnecessary upgrade with no refunds- to solve a problem Disney both created and has the opposite of incentive to fix.
– Expect- the beatings to continue until morale improves.
Universal- is gonna stomp Disney within a decade easily.
The thought alone was once comical.
I wish Igler stopped the closing😢 of Splash Mountain What a Shame was my favorite ride Gone Forever
Splash Mountain is raci's and so is Disney Land. Tickets are too expensive for innercity youth to enjoy.
Yeah let's shut this down and stick a princess in a rock mountain.. not such a stupid idea
Hey wait, is this Tom Corless from Universal Parks News Today?!
They way y’all are acting like the ride won’t be back next year . It’s the same damn ride, just without the racist movie .
And now it's gone. 😑
This was the first ride with a “drop” that I ever got on. It kick started my love of all rides/coasters and is a staple of every single Disney visit. When I heard about the re-theme, I was a bit bummed. Idk what it is but every time I ride Splash Mountain, it’s a blast.
I’m sorry song of the south was banned. I loved it when I was a kid.
I can’t believe Tony Baxter thought out of all other movies to choose song of the south?
That was a wonderful video!❤ Thank you!❤
What a sad tragedy to rip out such a beautiful part of American history, it’s artistry and inventive talent that went into its creation. I , as a former Imagineer can speak firsthand how painful it would be to see your art treated as if it were old and stale, if not yesterday’s trash. Disney don’t tear down the beauty and imagination of the past-especially the families that love the ride! Should all the paintings in the greatest art museums be removed because it’s old? At the very least love the imagineers and fans! Don’t cater to the small number of people who don’t understand or see its fun loving beauty!!!
Gilbert Lozano
I wonder what will happen to the animatronics when it’s rethemed. It would be really sad to see them not reused
Can you do more rides history videos?
Disney may have cancelled Splash Mountain and pretend it never happened but we fans will always keep it alive and well. 😊
Don’t change your busiest and most popular ride because people that never go to Disneyland want control over your company. If you want the other ride fine build another one maybe on Tom Sawyer island?
Thank you for making this as we say bye to the original theming in Florida & California! This was so well researched and interesting!!
the protest were a joke the problems weren't caused by brear rabbit, general forrest, or the dukes of hazzered …………….. ask the guy killed by the memphis police
As an Atlantan, I grew up a few blocks from the home of Joel Chandler Harris and the creator of Uncle Remus. It's sad that the ride based off of his creation will be revamped but I understand that it is dated.
Tokyo's Critter Country is the sub set of the park's Westernland and themed to old southwestern village of Texas/New Mexico instead of New Orleans Louisiana bayou in California Disneyland.
Splash's Chick-a-Pin-Hill building is based on Georgia landmark and for each parks it was colored according to the setting of the land; in California Disneyland it has reddish Georgia clay coloring and blended with Louisiana bayou style trees whereas Tokyo and Magic Kingdom's the coloring is canyonous and Big Thunder-ish.