Disney sets closing date for iconic Splash Mountain ride, reveals 2024 'Princess and the Frog' repla

[rangerrebew]

Disney sets closing date for iconic Splash Mountain ride, reveals 2024 'Princess and the Frog' replacement

In June 2020, Disney announced the Splash Mountain attraction was going to be re-themed around 'The Princess and the Frog'
 
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Disney fans hoping for one last plunge on Splash Mountain have less than two months to ride the iconic theme park attraction before it closes for an extensive makeover.


The attraction will close on January 23, 2023, as Disney moves to walk away from the wide criticism that the ride promotes "racial stereotypes."

Splash Mountain's current theme is based off Br'er Rabbit's adventures in the 1946 "Song of the South" film, which has been criticized for its portrayal of plantation life.

"I’ve felt, as long as I’ve been CEO, that 'Song of the South' was – even with a disclaimer – was just not appropriate in today’s world," Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a March 2020 shareholders meeting.

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[rangerrebew]

I'm glad I was able to go to them both before they became wokeness footballs.

[Sighlass]

Still keep a copy of "Song of the South" ... Great kids film... All I remember about the ride was one tree before you got to ride the ride was covered in gum... Seems the public picked one tree to stick all their gum to and Disney put a sign up saying "Don't put gum on our tree".... I remember it having one good waterfall that splashed ya with yucky water they recycled. I never had a clue it had a theme to it to be honest.

[rangerrebew]

  I never had a clue it had a theme to it to be honest.

That makes two of us.

[GtHawk]

The attraction will close on January 23, 2023, as Disney moves to walk away from the wide criticism that the ride promotes "racial stereotypes."

My money is on the Princess and the Frog being Disney imagineered into a Fagotry Alphabetsouper vehicle for what they consider the proper grooming needs of American families.

[240B]

My feeling is that Disney is on the way out in the next few years. Don't get me wrong, they will still make tons of money because they have diversified in to so many side ventures, but it will never be the beloved American Disney it once was.

[Smokin Joe]

My feeling is that Disney is on the way out in the next few years. Don't get me wrong, they will still make tons of money because they have diversified in to so many side ventures, but it will never be the beloved American Disney it once was.

It isn't now.

[goatprairie]

Still keep a copy of "Song of the South" ... Great kids film... All I remember about the ride was one tree before you got to ride the ride was covered in gum... Seems the public picked one tree to stick all their gum to and Disney put a sign up saying "Don't put gum on our tree".... I remember it having one good waterfall that splashed ya with yucky water they recycled. I never had a clue it had a theme to it to be honest.

I'm still trying to figure out how SOTS is racist. Like many millions of other children who saw it on Disney in the fifties, I thought it was just a movie about some funny, anthropomorphized animals.
I never knew the idea of an old black man telling small white children stories about funny animals was racist. But according to the "experts" it's a horrible, racist movie. Why?