Were people actually upset at Splash Mountain? -No. Were these changes necessary? -No. Were these changes at least an improvement? -No. Did it at least appeal to the target audience? -No.
They used to teach us American folklore in the 70s and our black teachers would read us stories about Brer Rabbit and the tar baby and others. They were good stories and we enjoyed them. But now a bunch of enlightened white people and neo Marxist black people want to erase all of that. Progress my aching back.
Neo-Marxist black people… who don’t realize that when Karl Marx wanted to insult someone he sharply disagreed with, he accused him of having black African ancestry… as if that makes someone subhuman.
Or how about one of the greatest American legends, John Henry. Who showed that hard work and human perseverance is needed to build a good society. His death meant something for the American Dream.
If they were so adamant about a Princess Tiana ride, they could have simply created a separate dark ride. But they had to turn in into some BS racial crusade to erase an iconic favorite based on African folk tales and replace it with a German folk tale that has absolutely nothing to do with Africans. Disney is too f*cking stupid to realize what they did.
There are salt domes in Louisiana, surrounded by marshy land with some bayous nearby. But that’s really stretching things. Most famous place is Avery Island, not a proper island but a higher and drier area due to a salt dome. Famous for the company that makes Tabasco sauce. I’ve never been there but I get the impression that it’s not really mountain-ish.
It was an interesting twist: instead of magic coming to the aid of the hero, the magic in that story is strictly villain-aligned. And the heroes had to win against the villain and his friends on the other side.
The original story is a European fairy tale, so can’t be „white washed“ as it’s already white. Trying to whine about „white washing“ would only remind people of the story not really being of black origin (unlike Brer Rabbit that got removed).
@@funkydiscogod The term for what Faciliere is, is "bokor". It's somewhere between a heretic and a satanist. (Not that "orthodox" voodoo itself isn't pretty sketchy; in its original homeland, hundreds or even thousands of captives were beheaded every year as sacrifices to the ancestor-gods, the "Annual Customs of Dahomey"-for which the native Fon name even means "yearly head business".)
@@sophiasfavorite9646 Let's be honest about this - the REAL reason that Disney rejected voodoo is because they see it as a religion, and like all far-left commie extremists, they don't believe in religion - these losers believe that the only thing you should worship is the State - communism 101 :(
To be fair, the New Orleans influence was baked pretty thoroughly into the movie. It wasn’t nearly as lazy about adding diversity as most of the movies that came after it. Of course, the theme park attraction had precisely none of that effort put into it…
@@NatYourAverageNerdAnd yet they've managed to erase black culture twice, because erasing voodoo from the redesign wipes out a partly black culture as well. Because it's basis is in French Creole, enslaved blacks, and the Caribean Islands.
Disney managed to destroy both Black inspired Splash Mountain and the Black focused Disney Princess and the Frog in one effort, well done Disney, you usually only manage to destroy one beloved thing at once.
Seems to me that Tiana's Bayou Adventure is the perfect microcosm of modern disney--take something that was beloved, alter it to appeal to a smaller audience, and make it mediocre.
I am confused how anyone thought this would be "better than Splash Mountain." In order to think that, those people must be convinced that Rachel Zegler Snow White will be better than animated, ditto Moana, even though basically every live action remake, even the good ones, are not an improvement on the classic counterparts.
@@cyberleaderandy1 Careful! You guys might summon a Disney-employed tumblrina who has the power to officially ship the prince with his little brother or something....
What pisses me off aside of this costing us Splash Mountain is that they didn't even include Facilier. he was the most memorable part about the entire movie. heck, I know his song Friends on The Other Side by heart. feels like half the experience is missing.
I wouldn't want a Princess Tiana ride. If anything, her dream was to own a restaurant, and that would have been the correct way to celebrate that movie: just have a restaurant. I don't even care enough to look up whether they already did that. A ride themed around the villain, his friends and The Other Side could be interesting, though; vibrant blacklight colors, disorienting geometry, and optical illusion masks that seem to watch you as you pass by. Wasted opportunity.
I always liked her because I, too, worked my butt off in multiple jobs (both doing chores to earn money as a kid, and later real W2 customer service jobs in college), so I respected the determination she had to stick to her goals and eventually win in the end. Heck, I still currently work two jobs, but instead of just breaking even, one pays the bills, the other builds up the Little Mermaid 1999 piggy bank in my bedroom, and I happen to love both. Tiana's a hard worker, and I love that!
James Baskett, received an Academy honorary award for his portrayal of uncle Remus in Song of the South, which made him the first African-American man, and the first actor in a Disney film to win an Academy award for acting... The erasure of history to pander to the weak minded. I'm grateful that the Japanese, find this all to be quite silly and will not change their splash mountain. I used to go to Disney three or four times a year, Disney World at least every other year, Disney vacation points… now the only Park I am interested in going to the one in Tokyo, because it's the closest thing to real Walt Disney.
Yeah I seriously doubt Baskett thought his role was reflecting poorly on blacks. I'd bet he was happy and proud of his work. But that was a different time, occupied by people who faced actual racism and were stronger for it.
The irony is that if the Princess and the Frog hadn't been race-swapped, country-swapped and time period-swapped, the villain would have just been a fairy tail wizard.
Disney totally dissed James Baskett (who won an academy award for his portrayal of the iconic Uncle Remus), basically doing their evil most, trying to erase his achievement when they buried Song of the South. It's truly disgusting that these Karen's have destroyed the legacy of thrse charming stories from historical Southern Black culture because it means nothing to them. It's truly sad, & so utterly pointless!
That's because the Oriental Land Company own the Japan parks and can do anything it wants with them. It's one of the reason why they're rated the best Disney Parks in the world.
@@joshwillis2879 Absolutely. Especially what they're doing with their Space Mountain. New look while retaining the spirit of the original ride. Here in the states Disney would slap Star Wars or Buzz Lightyear on the two US Space Mountains and call it a day.
It feels like Disney doesn't want any authentic aspects of black culture. They don't want to use voodoo, they don't want folk tales. They just want the same stories they always tell with a black face over it. 😑
You know what I think. Splash Mountain was NOT even controversial until they changed it. Nobody said a word!!! Until they made it based on the salt mines and made it extremely terrible. Splash Mountain was never rasist it was an exuse to get rid of the hydraulic animictronics to stop wasting money to keep preparing the 1000 dollar robots. The African American families even loved Splash Mountain. The line would always be 3 hours long for that ride!!!! Everyone loved that classic atraction and now its ruined and now its going to be hated and backlashed.
I went to one of the Halloween parties, and was right at the ropes for the Boo To You parade. Their Dr. Facilier got in my face and I, a grown woman, was creeped out. They screwed up not putting him in the ride.
I'm lucky: my dad was kind enough over twenty years ago to buy Disney shares for me and my little sister back when the company sent out physical framed documents with various classic characters all over them to celebrate your purchase. They don't make these anymore, and while I revel in having a piece of the past, it no longer brings me the same joy (or money in the mail) as it did back before the leadership went off the chain.
As a Californian, I’ve never felt a need to visit Magic Kingdom. But what I would do to the Disneyland version, since it’s in "Critter Country" is make a story based on one of Disney’s many animal movies, like Bambi, Winnie the Pooh, or the Three Little Pigs (yes, that was a series of shorts not a movie, but it would still fit). That way, you still keep the vibe of it just being about cute animals who could basically be in any time period, and the cartoony style of the original Splash could be preserved. Most of the original animatronics could have been kept even if they got rid of the Brers. Also, JUST CALL IT SPLASH MOUNTAIN! Then I would theme part of New Orleans Square around Tiana, with her restaurant and a big dance floor with a jazz band and dancers doing the Charleston and other 1920s dances.
"Let's misappropriate a French fairytale (only we're slobbering morons and made the Russian version instead) and make it a present to New Orleans blacks, while memory-holing the ACTUAL, AUTHENTIC black folktales-ultimately from West Africa-that are the Uncle Remus stories." And Princess and the Frog was, in itself, actually GOOD, despite its ignominious origin-but it was still one of their earliest ugly racebaiting BS decisions, and replacing Splash Mountain with it was doubling down.
John Musker, one of the directors of the Princess and the Frog, claimed he was not trying to create any sort of racial pandering, he only wanted to create a good story that had inspiration from the fairy tale. The massive focus on race was entirely on the marketing team and the media.
I don’t see why the change was necessary. As much as I like Princess and the Frog and Tiana as a character, but I don’t see why it was necessary change Splash Mountain. Why not just keep the original ride and just create a Tiana ride somewhere else in the park?
Talk about a complete overthink by committee! Who cares if Dr. Facilier dies at the end of the movie! Just re-tell the movie in the ride...OMG! It's so simple, it's hard.
It's because Disney tore down SPLASH MOUNTAIN. Arguably the most popular theme park ride in the world. Actually, not arguably. It was. Disneyland is the most famous theme park in the world, and even people who have never been there know about Splash Mountain. Ergo, it's the most famous ride in the world. The only, and I can't stress enough, ONLY reason to tear down a ride like that would be for safety reasons. But then you'd either repair it or build it back. This is an attack on our culture, plain and simple.
Uncle Remus stories were an American version of Aesop's fables. Little morality tales to teach children lessons. The trope "Please don't throw me in the briar patch!" was an example of reverse psychology. The fact that Disney has canceled Black Uncle Remus begs the question; who's the real racist?
Splash Mountain was my all-time favorite ride, and I always said to myself that I couldn't wait to bring my kids to ride it someday. Now that I have kids I'm seriously heartbroken that they will never experience it.
This will date me but I remember when they closed Adventure thru Innerspace to build Star Tours, some people were sad but when Star Tours opened it became a fan favorite. Reason was the great setting, the build up to the ride and execution that made it hit.
Nah, I'd rather have Adventure Thru Inner Space back! Rather have all those giant snowflakes and see those little models of park guests going up the microscope than more Star Wars movie screen content. (I do like Star Tours but ATIS was really special non-IP ride)
Princess and the Frog is one of my all-time favorite Disney animated films. To see this movie getting sullied due to the fact that it's replacing one of the most beloved attractions at the parks and replace it with a lackluster version is infuriating. Why couldn't we get the Shadow Man? Why couldn't we get a Tiana in her classic ball gown. Or better yet, why replace Splash Mountain and just give Princess and the Frog it's own attraction instead of making it a hand-me-down ride? Worst yet, this movie is now going to get a bad reputation instead being beloved as Beauty and the Beast or Frozen due to the fact due to the bad publicity, due to it being used for political motivations because of these activists and due to what this movie is going to represent: a movie that replaced a classic attraction for political motivations and delivering an inferior product. It does break my heart😥💔 This ride is an insult on every level. It's an insult to Splash Mountain fans, an insult to imagineering and an insult to Princess and the Frog fans.
Partially because THAT is what the "culture war" really is.... a bunch of "whyte saviour" narcissists condescendingly handing down their cast-offs to the poor POC that apparently have nothing of their own... It is thoroughly disgusting tripe and a resounding slap in the face of all Americans, much less PoC that are only useful for the cash they generate and how much they can be exploited.
Amen, friend. I love the movie, too, but Splash Mountain was one of my all-time favorite attractions. I even watched videos of the full history of its origin (which comes after the tragic fall of the America Sings attraction in Tomorrowland) because it fascinated me so much.
@@bk6555 But that STILL wouldn't have been her dream. The sign on the ride says EMPLOYEE OWNED. So the restaurant is clearly NOT Tiana's even though it bears her name.
If they can't do voodoo, why is Mama Odie in the ride? She does voodoo and magic. I'm guessing if current day whiners were around when "The Princess and the Frog" was in the works, the movie wouldn't have happened. Anyway, easy enough to fix if we're allowed to keep Mama Odie (even though she does voodoo too). Beginning of the ride could have a celebration that features Tiana, Naveen, Eudora, Charlotte, Louis, etc. Get more characters and more animatronics in there. Then, something happens at the restaurant. Maybe a fire in the kitchen due to an overeager alligator named Louis accidentally bumping into something in his eagerness to taste test some gumbo. That allows a "fire" effect and dramatic smoke. It damages part of the kitchen, and Naveen and Louis decide to head out to Mama Odie's for a potion to help get the building fixed up faster (even though Tiana has insisted they can do it with hard work). We (the audience) travel along with Naveen and Louis into the bayou to get to Mama Odie. There are lots of potions and one of them knocks over and "spills" on the audience, shrinking us down. We are on a raft in the bayou and nearly land in a briar patch (or could have a pesky alligator who isn't Louis that nearly eats us with a closing mouth perfect timed to miss us but also adds splash as it closes to the people sitting in the back of the log). At the end, Mama Odie saves us by restoring our size and we arrive back at the restaurant that Tiana and friends have mostly fixed up who reminds Naveen (and the audience) that hard work and friends pulling together can get the job done. Boom. Gives you stakes, brings in way more characters, adds in a new element (fire/smoke), has some magic qualities, and teaches a valuable lesson that also reinforces a lesson from the movie.
That sounds like a more interesting storyline, but we still need to add the dancing pink flamingos, and the "Friends on the other side" to make it more exciting. Add a tombstone of Dr. Facilier at the bottom of the drop.
Also if he’s so problematic why is he still at the park during the Halloween season? Why do they still sell merchandise of him? Also if voodoo is considered problematic to them now shouldn’t witch craft also be considered problematic(and a lot of Disney characters use some form of witch craft)?
What's ironic about all of this is that Walt Disney understood the importance of scaring children in a safe, controlled way. Why do you need to "scare children" you may ask? Well, teaching children how to face their fears is a very important life lesson. Asking your crush out for the first time is a scary experience. Moving into your first apartment, by yourself is a scary experience. Interviewing for your first job is a scary experience. Getting laid-off from work is a scary experience...etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So, if a child gets scared, but learns that they come out stronger, what used to scare them no longer can affect them. As long as it is done in a controlled way. I am convinced that the reason Disney made the re-skin for Splash Mountain so bland, is to reduce its popularity. That way, they didn't have to put in a bunch of money to actually repair it. Make it bland, so people don't want to go on it. That way when it "breaks down," the guests would not be that disappointed that they couldn't get on it. It is the worst kind of accounting. You save $0.25; but end up costing the corporation $5.00 for each incident/ customer. I went to Disney World once, and the only two rides that I would want to go on again is "The Haunted Mansion" and "Splash Mountain." [I was there when the "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" was still in operation.] By them changing "Splash Mountain," it has removed 50% of the reason for a return visit. [It's not like I was going to return anyway, for the sake of clarity. All that money for 2 rides, no thank you.]
Even with as much love as everyone has for Splash Mountain, we probably would have accepted the redesign if they did it right. The Princess and the Frog is a great movie. But Disney can’t do anything right in 2024. They should have done the redesign years ago, when they were still at least halfway competent.
@sophiasfavorite9646 I can answer that one actually. Soul. It’s the last good movie Disney has made. Possibly the last good movie Disney ever will make.
The Princess and the Frog is based on a folk tale by the Brothers Grimm, who are German. The animated parts of Song of the South were based on folklore that originated from Africa.
You can only get Song of the South on VHS, despite it being one of the more favorable movies to the culture of Dixie, along with Old Yeller and the Yearling. Walt really liked the South, unlike most of the woke CEOs who tarnished Walt's legacy.
I think one of the saddest things to come out of this is Disney erasing all those wonderful songs from Splash Mountain. Plus replacing the br'er characters with a Chuck E Cheese band.
The Disneyfication of their own franchise is so dumb, putting aside replacing Splash Mountain the green/purple aesthetics of the voodoo in The Princess and the Frog would have been incredible for a ride like this (The dark ride part) and the theme could have been turning the riders into frogs and basically follow the plot of the movie.
The Sad Thing is a wet water ride set in the swamp has a lot of potential, but it's not something you can half ass especially replacing something as monumental as splash mountain. You need to take risks in adding unique story beats that ties into the world of the movie that makes it compelling and you need to put money in practical effects.No one wants to stare at bland screens the entire ride if there is nothing engaging about it. This is Seaworld level laziness from Disney.
The whole retheme is a Dumpster Fire 🔥- to the point where SOTS is Tame. - reissue the original Song Of The South, it's less offensive than the new ride. 😮 3:05
OMG. Mama odie is a 197 year old blind voodoo priestess known as the witch of the bayou. So if disney didnt want to offend anyone by using voodoo why is mama odie included?
Thank you, Sparkles, for clarifying that DEI$ney had plans to change SM prior to the "summer of love". Like so many other iconic IPs in America, they used the "knee-neck" to fast track cancel it.
The Shadow Man could have made for an even better ride; imagine a ride through The Other Side, with blacklights, vibrant colors, and optical illusion masks that watch you wherever you go. They could have done something really interesting.
@@funkydiscogod The ShadowMan's Revenge would have been a great ride with drops, twists and turns, and a fast speed. With "Are ya ready chanting" during the process.
Culture means years and years of promoting lovely and endearing stories, movies and ect over and over of a certain product or idea and people embrace it and look forward to experiencing more of it. WHERE'S THE CULTURAL LEGACY of The Princess and the Frog promoted by Disney for this IP? This is absolutely asinine for giving this IP a ride, lmfao.
Oh, that’s actually funny. “TBA” was a common insert on my schedules as a college student for a professor or a classroom location that was “To Be Announced”.
I grew up with Uncle Remus Tales and it's about this black former slave telling some bored white kids funny stories to entertain them. I read that the white author heard the stories he wrote from the black community in his area. Despite the fact that the author stole the stories for profit it's not really problematic imo. In fact it's humorous and got this white woman into the rich literary world of African American folk lore.
The stupidity of a ride based on a movie that takes place in New orleans not built in New Orleans Square but built on the skeleton of of a better ride that is in Critter country. I mean theming and cohesivness be damned as long as you can virtue signal right Disney.
Apparently, the ride is set in the year 1927. That was still the era of Jim Crow, so all boats in New Orleans would have been segregated as they headed to the salt mines that were formally run by slaves. I'm glad this new ride isn't problematic 😎
reminds me of that madtv skit. it's a 1950's theme restaurant and group of friends comes and one them are black couples. but the restaurant really followed the 1950 era, they refused to serve the black couple. lol.
Guys do you think these nonsense will stop if nobody cares of Disney and Hollywood propaganda anymore? Nobody will watch their shows, nobody will talk about them, just like they never exist. For sure they will learn their lesson if that happened.
I was asking my teenager if they are watching The Acolyte, the new Star Wars show, and he said "no, there's just too much to watch. And if the show isn't great, I'll just watch tiktok or youtube." That's what Hollywood is competing with, and it's tough competition! So the bar is really high and meanwhile Hollywood is so distracted by the culture wars they've lost track of making good stories and good entertainment. Not sure if they'll learn the lesson before they die out.
I feel everyone that says Song of the South and Splash Mountain were racist should listen to what Nick Stewart and Valerie Stewart have said for years, at least as a starting point.
Your killing me with the Dr. Facilier giving you the two middle fingers bit. I would never stop riding that ride if that where the way the drop was built up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wore a maelstrom ride t shirt to Epcot earlier this year and 65% of my time there was telling other guests and employees where I got the shirt from. Even better was at the Norway snack place the cashier gave me a discount for wearing that shirt.
The Princess and the Frog is easily one of my top five Disney movies of all time. I LOVED Dr. Facileir, and his songs. The music overall was just so so good.
Splash Mountain never carried over any of the so-called “problematic” elements from South of the South. It’s literally just about Brer Rabbit outwitting Brer Fox. I went my whole childhood never knowing what Song of the South even was until I reached adulthood. I guarantee you no little kid ever correlated a ride about Brer Rabbit with some obscure, defunct film that Disney has done their best to erase from existence. Edit: changed problematic to so-called cause it’s really not.
Song Of The South is NOT "problematic" (to use a vile leftist term) - if anything it can be seen as a celebration of black folk tales with some funny animals thrown in for good measure and an iconic black lead actor - the fact that Disney are trying to bury this movies shows what they REALLY think about black culture :(
I just bought the movie, Song of the South. Dated, but the animation stories great. First black man to win an Oscar got it for this movie, he was on the writing staff too.
Those who do not acknowledge the past are doomed to repeat it. There are many ways Disney could have reimagined certain rides deemed offensive now, but in a rush to put profits first, it will always be a loose loose.
I think Splash Mountain had a better storytelling. And more Animatronics. And was more fun, had more color and a real sense of “Adventure”. Princess Tiana deserved a really new ride and not just a sort of makeover. Maybe something more grounded on her past story. Well, just my opinion. I have 50 years visiting WDW (since 1974) once a year and I think there are some attractions that you can label as “classics”. Pirates, Mansion, Big Thunder, etc… Splash Mountain, for me, had that status. It was a classic! You can improve, add new effects, replace old animatronics, do such things, but never get rid of them, for whatever reason. But, again, It’s just an opinion from an old (and I mean it) Disney fan. Have fun, folks! ✌️
Imagine if at the part of the ride leading up to the final lift hill at the drop that it was darker. You hear the whispering, eery sounds of the shadows zipping around your log towards that lift hill. The steady beats of the "Are you ready?" reprise begin to play just as your log hitches onto the lift and the clicking begins. Little blacklight-painted puppets pops out from the walls, chanting on both sides of your log, and at the top of the hill where the lift becomes that final drop, it's designed like the headstone demon from the end of the film that took Dr. Facilier away -- and you can hear his faint screaming and begging to be let out from hidden speakers just as your log dips down, rushing down that drop! It could have been hair-raising. It could have been fun.
The only "culture war" about this ride was the one Disney fought with itself and lost. They replaced everything to Princess and the Frog to make it more "diverse" while at the same time they removed all the actual diverse aspects from it because it would be "culturally insensitive".
Even I am entertained by Japanese content set in Japan. I will say that Pokémon is better when set in Japan that it just needs to have better gameplay with anime graphics. Disney have no respect for any culture.
It doesn’t have to be set in Japan to be entertaining. The best manga/anime of all time is set in Germany. Well, technically, I guess Amestris isn’t Germany, but let’s be honest, it’s Germany.
@@critica77y77 Really a problem with Kalos, Galar, and Paldea is there should have been more stuff because the countries the regions are based on are bigger than Japan, making the world immersion and gameplay feel empty.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 They can't just remake the same games every one or two generations. Isn't one of the reasons that the movie studios are in the state that they're in now because they relied too heavily on remakes and reboots? If you do nothing but remakes, that means that the franchise has run out of ideas. In that aspect, games are no different from movies.
I think I said that before. That is the great irony!!! We need to represent more people!! "Unless you're an evil voodoo practicianer!!" I think they would be MORE offended, by being removed from the story. Why can't they be SEEN?
Reports of Tiana's Bayou reliability problems, reminding me of racial segregation era of giving "color people" facilities the cheapest and tackiest as possible.
Princess and the Frog was the best movie to honor 100 years of Disney. Out of all their recent work it is not only the best piece because of the story but also the most honorary of previous works from classy Easter eggs to the use of 2D animation. Tiana is an amazing character that tips her hat to Cinderella’s perseverance, Ariel’s dreaming, and Bell’s persistence. This ride is not only disrespectful to Splash Mountain, but also Princess and the Frog. Tiana deserves so much more than this boredom. It would have been better had they just given her a restaurant at the very least, but a ride based on the movie would have been amazing.
I hated the changes to Pirates of the Caribbean. I like Jack Sparrow but he just doesn't fit in the ride. The whole female pirate thing is annoying. They changed the chase scenes to the women chasing the pirates. Which ruined the joke of the one chase scene where a woman was hitting a pirate with a broom. It's just a mess. Still the big ship/fort battle scene is still impressive. They couldn't ruin that set piece.
I have a Disney Sing A Long tape from the 90's that has Zipadee Do DA as one of the songs on it. With the scene from Song of the South with Uncle Remus singing it.
Were people actually upset at Splash Mountain?
-No.
Were these changes necessary?
-No.
Were these changes at least an improvement?
-No.
Did it at least appeal to the target audience?
-No.
Only white women were upset about it from my experience.
Yea.
The las one was actually the intention. They don't want to appeal, they want to make us angry.
Were the DEI execs who came up with this bright idea fired?
-No.
Congratulations. An absolute failure all around.
Disney is dying by many self-inflicted wounds to appease people who weren't their customers.
Disney is also completely run by those people now...sigh.
Blame the rise of social media.
They're not pandering. It's propaganda.
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco why not both?
Im not so sure about that, usually people who is very into political correctness have higher purchasing power than the average population.
They used to teach us American folklore in the 70s and our black teachers would read us stories about Brer Rabbit and the tar baby and others. They were good stories and we enjoyed them. But now a bunch of enlightened white people and neo Marxist black people want to erase all of that. Progress my aching back.
Comrade, there's no room for real human diversity and traditonalist human wisdom in the neo-Marxist quest for a globalist commie superstate!
Neo-Marxist black people… who don’t realize that when Karl Marx wanted to insult someone he sharply disagreed with, he accused him of having black African ancestry… as if that makes someone subhuman.
malcom x speech about the white fox i stumbled upon it one day and it's like he speaking about 2024
i remember brer rabbait and the tar baby. its a good lesson about choosing your battles or getting stuck in bad battles.
Or how about one of the greatest American legends, John Henry. Who showed that hard work and human perseverance is needed to build a good society. His death meant something for the American Dream.
a mountain in the bayou makes zero fucking sense. none.
Its all water and marsh lands.
Disney representative:
Nuh-uh!!!!
😂😂😂😂
They tried to explain it by saying it's a salt dome... which unintentionally (?) adds even more fuel to the culture war fire lmao
If they were so adamant about a Princess Tiana ride, they could have simply created a separate dark ride. But they had to turn in into some BS racial crusade to erase an iconic favorite based on African folk tales and replace it with a German folk tale that has absolutely nothing to do with Africans.
Disney is too f*cking stupid to realize what they did.
There are salt domes in Louisiana, surrounded by marshy land with some bayous nearby. But that’s really stretching things.
Most famous place is Avery Island, not a proper island but a higher and drier area due to a salt dome. Famous for the company that makes Tabasco sauce. I’ve never been there but I get the impression that it’s not really mountain-ish.
I don't get how replacing voodoo with a fairy godmother isn't white washing the culture.
It was an interesting twist: instead of magic coming to the aid of the hero, the magic in that story is strictly villain-aligned. And the heroes had to win against the villain and his friends on the other side.
Good point
The original story is a European fairy tale, so can’t be „white washed“ as it’s already white. Trying to whine about „white washing“ would only remind people of the story not really being of black origin (unlike Brer Rabbit that got removed).
@@funkydiscogod The term for what Faciliere is, is "bokor". It's somewhere between a heretic and a satanist. (Not that "orthodox" voodoo itself isn't pretty sketchy; in its original homeland, hundreds or even thousands of captives were beheaded every year as sacrifices to the ancestor-gods, the "Annual Customs of Dahomey"-for which the native Fon name even means "yearly head business".)
@@sophiasfavorite9646 Let's be honest about this - the REAL reason that Disney rejected voodoo is because they see it as a religion, and like all far-left commie extremists, they don't believe in religion - these losers believe that the only thing you should worship is the State - communism 101 :(
The tales of Brer Rabbit were the oral folktales of enslaved Africans in the Americas.
It was replaced with a ‘diverse’ version of a German fairytale
Yeah like Aunt Gemima was a successful black woman, liberal white guilt is stupid.
Honestly song of the south was a good movie.
And yet, Disney claims that they don't erase black culture...
To be fair, the New Orleans influence was baked pretty thoroughly into the movie. It wasn’t nearly as lazy about adding diversity as most of the movies that came after it.
Of course, the theme park attraction had precisely none of that effort put into it…
@@NatYourAverageNerdAnd yet they've managed to erase black culture twice, because erasing voodoo from the redesign wipes out a partly black culture as well. Because it's basis is in French Creole, enslaved blacks, and the Caribean Islands.
This is an insult to both Song of the South and The Princess and the Frog.
I don't understand why they'll tell their paying customers "it wasn't made for you" but won't say the same thing to the outrage mobs.
@@funkydiscogod Because they are afraid of getting mobbed. Paying customers don't act like that.
@@soaringeagle5418Why the hell are they more afraid of the outrage mob than the real customers? Are they that stupid or what? It makes no sense!
@@Disneyfan82 You forgot one thing, outrage mob don't have money just internet access.
@@Disneyfan82 Yes. They are that stupid ;)
Disney managed to destroy both Black inspired Splash Mountain and the Black focused Disney Princess and the Frog in one effort, well done Disney, you usually only manage to destroy one beloved thing at once.
Seems to me that Tiana's Bayou Adventure is the perfect microcosm of modern disney--take something that was beloved, alter it to appeal to a smaller audience, and make it mediocre.
So they put a chick in it and made it lame…
@@Rovr0and gay.
@@blickedxb but not very. Yet 😂
I am confused how anyone thought this would be "better than Splash Mountain." In order to think that, those people must be convinced that Rachel Zegler Snow White will be better than animated, ditto Moana, even though basically every live action remake, even the good ones, are not an improvement on the classic counterparts.
@@cyberleaderandy1 Careful! You guys might summon a Disney-employed tumblrina who has the power to officially ship the prince with his little brother or something....
Tianas Bayou Adventure isn't just a "culture war" dumpster fire. Its a dumpster fire and a disgrace to Splash Mountain in general.
At least SM is still in Japan.
You haven’t even rode it. So before you run you mouth like a punk, ride your self instead of living in your moms basement.
It’s an insult to both Song of the South and Princess and the Frog.
@@stunner9005 At least SM is still in Japan.
Exactly thank you I mean seriously splash Mountain had to die for this?
What pisses me off aside of this costing us Splash Mountain is that they didn't even include Facilier. he was the most memorable part about the entire movie. heck, I know his song Friends on The Other Side by heart. feels like half the experience is missing.
He's a black villain. Villains can't be black, but everyone knows he's both, so they MUST remove him.
Exactly he’s the best part.
@@karlthorsten9118Kilmongler from Black Panther is a villain and he’s black
@@kbraven7007 Kilmonger was an BLM allegory in the movie. That was the only reason they allowed him in. Otherwise they would have just used Klaw.
@@karlthorsten9118 Who the hell said villains can't be black? That's like saying black gangsters and criminals don't exist when they do?
They should have just kept the happy animated rabbit messing with a fox and a bear.
That's "Outsmarting them" not "Messing with them." He was merely outsmarting them to escape them.
Tiana was a great disney princess, loved that movie.
I knew they'd fuck up using her in anything current, as they've done with everything else.
Disney's new motto is "Make it worse".
I wouldn't want a Princess Tiana ride. If anything, her dream was to own a restaurant, and that would have been the correct way to celebrate that movie: just have a restaurant. I don't even care enough to look up whether they already did that.
A ride themed around the villain, his friends and The Other Side could be interesting, though; vibrant blacklight colors, disorienting geometry, and optical illusion masks that seem to watch you as you pass by. Wasted opportunity.
No she wasn’t. She’s a DEI character from a white fairy tail.
She wasn't a princess until she married a prince. Kind of like Megan Markle.
I always liked her because I, too, worked my butt off in multiple jobs (both doing chores to earn money as a kid, and later real W2 customer service jobs in college), so I respected the determination she had to stick to her goals and eventually win in the end. Heck, I still currently work two jobs, but instead of just breaking even, one pays the bills, the other builds up the Little Mermaid 1999 piggy bank in my bedroom, and I happen to love both. Tiana's a hard worker, and I love that!
James Baskett, received an Academy honorary award for his portrayal of uncle Remus in Song of the South, which made him the first African-American man, and the first actor in a Disney film to win an Academy award for acting... The erasure of history to pander to the weak minded. I'm grateful that the Japanese, find this all to be quite silly and will not change their splash mountain. I used to go to Disney three or four times a year, Disney World at least every other year, Disney vacation points… now the only Park I am interested in going to the one in Tokyo, because it's the closest thing to real Walt Disney.
It's interesting because "first ____" and "first African-American ____" aren't usually the same award.
Yeah I seriously doubt Baskett thought his role was reflecting poorly on blacks. I'd bet he was happy and proud of his work. But that was a different time, occupied by people who faced actual racism and were stronger for it.
The irony is that if the Princess and the Frog hadn't been race-swapped, country-swapped and time period-swapped, the villain would have just been a fairy tail wizard.
He was actually a more interesting villain for it.
The one time when not sticking to the source material yielded positiive results.
@@funkydiscogodFeels like it was by accident 😅
@funkydiscogod and they said it wasn't allowed in said ride for the movie. 😂
He was the most memorable character from the movie for me
@@kendra_tHe was the movie .. but he isn’t part of the ride, which is top level stupidity.
Disney totally dissed James Baskett (who won an academy award for his portrayal of the iconic Uncle Remus), basically doing their evil most, trying to erase his achievement when they buried Song of the South. It's truly disgusting that these Karen's have destroyed the legacy of thrse charming stories from historical Southern Black culture because it means nothing to them. It's truly sad, & so utterly pointless!
Why the hell do we have to care what a bunch of whining spoiled brats in adult bodies?
It's interesting as much as Disney try to the "ignore" it. They continued using the song from the movie up until a year before the change.
Also, Song of the South is a charming movie and about as racist as a cupcake.
@@brickgarden It is not racist
@@Disneyfan82 Neither are cupcakes, learn to read.
So glad Japan still has Splash Mountain and gives zero shits about culture war nonsense.
That's because the Oriental Land Company own the Japan parks and can do anything it wants with them. It's one of the reason why they're rated the best Disney Parks in the world.
@@joshwillis2879 Absolutely. Especially what they're doing with their Space Mountain. New look while retaining the spirit of the original ride. Here in the states Disney would slap Star Wars or Buzz Lightyear on the two US Space Mountains and call it a day.
Between that and the badass Black Cauldron tour they had, it seems like Japan is just the objectively superior Disney park.
>not allowed voodoo
>Choose a movie with voodoo in it
>Refuse to acknowledge a significant part of Caribbean african culture
It feels like Disney doesn't want any authentic aspects of black culture. They don't want to use voodoo, they don't want folk tales. They just want the same stories they always tell with a black face over it. 😑
You know what I think.
Splash Mountain was NOT even controversial until they changed it. Nobody said a word!!! Until they made it based on the salt mines and made it extremely terrible.
Splash Mountain was never rasist it was an exuse to get rid of the hydraulic animictronics to stop wasting money to keep preparing the 1000 dollar robots.
The African American families even loved Splash Mountain. The line would always be 3 hours long for that ride!!!!
Everyone loved that classic atraction and now its ruined and now its going to be hated and backlashed.
I went to one of the Halloween parties, and was right at the ropes for the Boo To You parade. Their Dr. Facilier got in my face and I, a grown woman, was creeped out. They screwed up not putting him in the ride.
People: “The story for this ride is pretty stale and boring.”
Media: “YoU’Re a RAAccist!!!”
As a Disney shareholder, I can't wait for Disney to get back to $125/share so I can DUMP every single share I have.
It ain’t happening it’s going to go to 85 by December
If you think it's going to rebound, you will be waiting a long time.
@@kosmosXcannon A very, very long time. Roughly when everyone who has been to Disney since 2012 is dead.
The time to unload was when Peltz did.
I'm lucky: my dad was kind enough over twenty years ago to buy Disney shares for me and my little sister back when the company sent out physical framed documents with various classic characters all over them to celebrate your purchase. They don't make these anymore, and while I revel in having a piece of the past, it no longer brings me the same joy (or money in the mail) as it did back before the leadership went off the chain.
As a Californian, I’ve never felt a need to visit Magic Kingdom. But what I would do to the Disneyland version, since it’s in "Critter Country" is make a story based on one of Disney’s many animal movies, like Bambi, Winnie the Pooh, or the Three Little Pigs (yes, that was a series of shorts not a movie, but it would still fit). That way, you still keep the vibe of it just being about cute animals who could basically be in any time period, and the cartoony style of the original Splash could be preserved. Most of the original animatronics could have been kept even if they got rid of the Brers. Also, JUST CALL IT SPLASH MOUNTAIN!
Then I would theme part of New Orleans Square around Tiana, with her restaurant and a big dance floor with a jazz band and dancers doing the Charleston and other 1920s dances.
Three Little Pigs would be great! Lil' Wolf could be involved, and Brer Bear could even pop in at the end to bash Zeke over the head!
Let's officially call this new abomination "Song of the Salt Mine"!
"Let's misappropriate a French fairytale (only we're slobbering morons and made the Russian version instead) and make it a present to New Orleans blacks, while memory-holing the ACTUAL, AUTHENTIC black folktales-ultimately from West Africa-that are the Uncle Remus stories."
And Princess and the Frog was, in itself, actually GOOD, despite its ignominious origin-but it was still one of their earliest ugly racebaiting BS decisions, and replacing Splash Mountain with it was doubling down.
John Musker, one of the directors of the Princess and the Frog, claimed he was not trying to create any sort of racial pandering, he only wanted to create a good story that had inspiration from the fairy tale. The massive focus on race was entirely on the marketing team and the media.
I don’t see why the change was necessary. As much as I like Princess and the Frog and Tiana as a character, but I don’t see why it was necessary change Splash Mountain. Why not just keep the original ride and just create a Tiana ride somewhere else in the park?
Splash Mountain was white supremacy.
I have yet to talk to one single person who both finds Song of the South "problematic" AND has actually watched the movie. Not a single one.
Clownfish on a roll just finished the last video about Dismall's new park
Talk about a complete overthink by committee! Who cares if Dr. Facilier dies at the end of the movie! Just re-tell the movie in the ride...OMG! It's so simple, it's hard.
It will never work that way.
Or just have the friends on the other side send him back for revenge.
@@whistlingsage9817Or them giving him one last chance to get the souls of the citizens of New Orleans he promised them.
It's because Disney tore down SPLASH MOUNTAIN. Arguably the most popular theme park ride in the world. Actually, not arguably. It was. Disneyland is the most famous theme park in the world, and even people who have never been there know about Splash Mountain. Ergo, it's the most famous ride in the world. The only, and I can't stress enough, ONLY reason to tear down a ride like that would be for safety reasons. But then you'd either repair it or build it back. This is an attack on our culture, plain and simple.
Exactly!! It’s an attack on American culture!!
Uncle Remus stories were an American
version of Aesop's fables. Little morality tales to teach children lessons.
The trope "Please don't throw me in the briar patch!" was an example of reverse psychology. The fact that Disney has canceled Black Uncle Remus begs the question; who's the real racist?
They were originally West African folktales, mostly Wolof, about a trickster hare. Br'er Wolf was a hyena named Bouki.
@@sophiasfavorite9646there's also a spider
Splash Mountain was my all-time favorite ride, and I always said to myself that I couldn't wait to bring my kids to ride it someday. Now that I have kids I'm seriously heartbroken that they will never experience it.
Save up for a trip to Tokyo Disney, they still have the original splash mountain thankfully
This will date me but I remember when they closed Adventure thru Innerspace to build Star Tours, some people were sad but when Star Tours opened it became a fan favorite. Reason was the great setting, the build up to the ride and execution that made it hit.
Nah, I'd rather have Adventure Thru Inner Space back! Rather have all those giant snowflakes and see those little models of park guests going up the microscope than more Star Wars movie screen content. (I do like Star Tours but ATIS was really special non-IP ride)
I miss Splash Mountain...
Go to Japan, for Splash Mountain is still intact there.
Me Too! It was my favorite Ride! 😢
@@MajorAce7HasTheP0werT0Win. It's still in Japan.
Who dosent let be real except those weirdos shills
@@coffee_2234 It's still in Japan.
Princess and the Frog is one of my all-time favorite Disney animated films. To see this movie getting sullied due to the fact that it's replacing one of the most beloved attractions at the parks and replace it with a lackluster version is infuriating. Why couldn't we get the Shadow Man? Why couldn't we get a Tiana in her classic ball gown. Or better yet, why replace Splash Mountain and just give Princess and the Frog it's own attraction instead of making it a hand-me-down ride?
Worst yet, this movie is now going to get a bad reputation instead being beloved as Beauty and the Beast or Frozen due to the fact due to the bad publicity, due to it being used for political motivations because of these activists and due to what this movie is going to represent: a movie that replaced a classic attraction for political motivations and delivering an inferior product. It does break my heart😥💔
This ride is an insult on every level. It's an insult to Splash Mountain fans, an insult to imagineering and an insult to Princess and the Frog fans.
Partially because THAT is what the "culture war" really is.... a bunch of "whyte saviour" narcissists condescendingly handing down their cast-offs to the poor POC that apparently have nothing of their own... It is thoroughly disgusting tripe and a resounding slap in the face of all Americans, much less PoC that are only useful for the cash they generate and how much they can be exploited.
Amen, friend. I love the movie, too, but Splash Mountain was one of my all-time favorite attractions. I even watched videos of the full history of its origin (which comes after the tragic fall of the America Sings attraction in Tomorrowland) because it fascinated me so much.
I hate political activists!
Heck, a RESTAURANT based on Tiana's dream would have made sense!
@@bk6555 But that STILL wouldn't have been her dream. The sign on the ride says EMPLOYEE OWNED. So the restaurant is clearly NOT Tiana's even though it bears her name.
If they can't do voodoo, why is Mama Odie in the ride? She does voodoo and magic. I'm guessing if current day whiners were around when "The Princess and the Frog" was in the works, the movie wouldn't have happened.
Anyway, easy enough to fix if we're allowed to keep Mama Odie (even though she does voodoo too). Beginning of the ride could have a celebration that features Tiana, Naveen, Eudora, Charlotte, Louis, etc. Get more characters and more animatronics in there. Then, something happens at the restaurant. Maybe a fire in the kitchen due to an overeager alligator named Louis accidentally bumping into something in his eagerness to taste test some gumbo. That allows a "fire" effect and dramatic smoke. It damages part of the kitchen, and Naveen and Louis decide to head out to Mama Odie's for a potion to help get the building fixed up faster (even though Tiana has insisted they can do it with hard work). We (the audience) travel along with Naveen and Louis into the bayou to get to Mama Odie. There are lots of potions and one of them knocks over and "spills" on the audience, shrinking us down. We are on a raft in the bayou and nearly land in a briar patch (or could have a pesky alligator who isn't Louis that nearly eats us with a closing mouth perfect timed to miss us but also adds splash as it closes to the people sitting in the back of the log). At the end, Mama Odie saves us by restoring our size and we arrive back at the restaurant that Tiana and friends have mostly fixed up who reminds Naveen (and the audience) that hard work and friends pulling together can get the job done.
Boom. Gives you stakes, brings in way more characters, adds in a new element (fire/smoke), has some magic qualities, and teaches a valuable lesson that also reinforces a lesson from the movie.
That sounds like a more interesting storyline, but we still need to add the dancing pink flamingos, and the "Friends on the other side" to make it more exciting. Add a tombstone of Dr. Facilier at the bottom of the drop.
Why can't they use Dr. Facilier? He's such a cool villain! Are black people not allowed to be evil now or something? How exactly is voodoo offensive?
Also if he’s so problematic why is he still at the park during the Halloween season? Why do they still sell merchandise of him?
Also if voodoo is considered problematic to them now shouldn’t witch craft also be considered problematic(and a lot of Disney characters use some form of witch craft)?
What's ironic about all of this is that Walt Disney understood the importance of scaring children in a safe, controlled way.
Why do you need to "scare children" you may ask? Well, teaching children how to face their fears is a very important life lesson.
Asking your crush out for the first time is a scary experience. Moving into your first apartment, by yourself is a scary experience. Interviewing for your first job is a scary experience. Getting laid-off from work is a scary experience...etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
So, if a child gets scared, but learns that they come out stronger, what used to scare them no longer can affect them. As long as it is done in a controlled way.
I am convinced that the reason Disney made the re-skin for Splash Mountain so bland, is to reduce its popularity. That way, they didn't have to put in a bunch of money to actually repair it.
Make it bland, so people don't want to go on it. That way when it "breaks down," the guests would not be that disappointed that they couldn't get on it.
It is the worst kind of accounting. You save $0.25; but end up costing the corporation $5.00 for each incident/ customer.
I went to Disney World once, and the only two rides that I would want to go on again is "The Haunted Mansion" and "Splash Mountain." [I was there when the "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" was still in operation.]
By them changing "Splash Mountain," it has removed 50% of the reason for a return visit. [It's not like I was going to return anyway, for the sake of clarity. All that money for 2 rides, no thank you.]
No wonder when I saw Indigo Park (that new horror game that’s surprisingly good), I felt like it was making fun of Disney.
Could've sworn they were backing out of the "Culture War"...
Even with as much love as everyone has for Splash Mountain, we probably would have accepted the redesign if they did it right. The Princess and the Frog is a great movie. But Disney can’t do anything right in 2024. They should have done the redesign years ago, when they were still at least halfway competent.
The woke destroy everything including Tiana
Why the hell can't they do anything right?
@@Disneyfan82 Name one thing they have done right in the last five years.
Just one.
@@Disneyfan82 because DEI
@sophiasfavorite9646 I can answer that one actually. Soul. It’s the last good movie Disney has made. Possibly the last good movie Disney ever will make.
Been to the Bayou. Not an adventure.
yeah just like Florida's Everglades that place is full of gators snakes and it even said to have a bigfoot like swamp monster in Honey Island
The Princess and the Frog is based on a folk tale by the Brothers Grimm, who are German. The animated parts of Song of the South were based on folklore that originated from Africa.
You can only get Song of the South on VHS, despite it being one of the more favorable movies to the culture of Dixie, along with Old Yeller and the Yearling. Walt really liked the South, unlike most of the woke CEOs who tarnished Walt's legacy.
This is the dawning of the age of Idiocracy.
I think one of the saddest things to come out of this is Disney erasing all those wonderful songs from Splash Mountain. Plus replacing the br'er characters with a Chuck E Cheese band.
They put a chick in it and made it (very) lame - and we all know that it won't be long before they make it gay...
Never seen Song of the South - I knew Briar Rabbit from a book I had as a kid.
The Disneyfication of their own franchise is so dumb, putting aside replacing Splash Mountain the green/purple aesthetics of the voodoo in The Princess and the Frog would have been incredible for a ride like this (The dark ride part) and the theme could have been turning the riders into frogs and basically follow the plot of the movie.
When one says it’s designed to ‘not offend anyone’ that means it appeals to nobody
Still waiting for an example of hating people into buying something ever working.
The Sad Thing is a wet water ride set in the swamp has a lot of potential, but it's not something you can half ass especially replacing something as monumental as splash mountain.
You need to take risks in adding unique story beats that ties into the world of the movie that makes it compelling and you need to put money in practical effects.No one wants to stare at bland screens the entire ride if there is nothing engaging about it. This is Seaworld level laziness from Disney.
The whole retheme is a Dumpster Fire 🔥- to the point where SOTS is Tame. - reissue the original Song Of The South, it's less offensive than the new ride. 😮 3:05
Fact is, the movie, SOTS, and the ride were never offensive.
If this ride is base upon Princess and the Frog then where is the frog prince? Why don't we see Prince Naveen?
He's there...at the very end of the ride doing virtually nothing... It's such a waste for him. I liked Naveen. :(
Let alone Dr Faciliar the villain people love to hate
OMG. Mama odie is a 197 year old blind voodoo priestess known as the witch of the bayou. So if disney didnt want to offend anyone by using voodoo why is mama odie included?
They’re so stupid they took an iconic ride of all time, my favorite ride in Disney and downgraded it with a dumb story and cheap flowers!
Cheap moss to be specific
Thank you, Sparkles, for clarifying that DEI$ney had plans to change SM prior to the "summer of love". Like so many other iconic IPs in America, they used the "knee-neck" to fast track cancel it.
Which stands for DIDN'T EARN IT. 😀👌
@@georgeawestjr.9087 Division, Exclusion, and Intolerance.
2:00 No “Shadow Man” no movie.
The Shadow Man could have made for an even better ride; imagine a ride through The Other Side, with blacklights, vibrant colors, and optical illusion masks that watch you wherever you go. They could have done something really interesting.
@@funkydiscogodHaunted Mansion roller-coaster.
@@SlimSamariExactly. More of that. There's no need to fix what isn't broke.
@@funkydiscogod The ShadowMan's Revenge would have been a great ride with drops, twists and turns, and a fast speed. With "Are ya ready chanting" during the process.
Bob Iger is a descendant of Brave Sir Robin.
Destroying Splash Mountain and making this particular ride as they made it... NOBODY won.
This is how you go from theme park grade to local county fair with rusty murderous ferris wheel grade.
Culture means years and years of promoting lovely and endearing stories, movies and ect over and over of a certain product or idea and people embrace it and look forward to experiencing more of it. WHERE'S THE CULTURAL LEGACY of The Princess and the Frog promoted by Disney for this IP? This is absolutely asinine for giving this IP a ride, lmfao.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventures acronym is TBA. same with Tianas Boring Adventure. Lets just call it Tianas Boring Adventure from now on
Oh, that’s actually funny. “TBA” was a common insert on my schedules as a college student for a professor or a classroom location that was “To Be Announced”.
@@CosplayCore I know it means that as well
Well this is what happens when you have a former failed weatherman as CEO of a multi-billion dollar company.
Unable to predict a shitstorm.
I grew up with Uncle Remus Tales and it's about this black former slave telling some bored white kids funny stories to entertain them. I read that the white author heard the stories he wrote from the black community in his area.
Despite the fact that the author stole the stories for profit it's not really problematic imo. In fact it's humorous and got this white woman into the rich literary world of African American folk lore.
The stupidity of a ride based on a movie that takes place in New orleans not built in New Orleans Square but built on the skeleton of of a better ride that is in Critter country. I mean theming and cohesivness be damned as long as you can virtue signal right Disney.
Apparently, the ride is set in the year 1927. That was still the era of Jim Crow, so all boats in New Orleans would have been segregated as they headed to the salt mines that were formally run by slaves. I'm glad this new ride isn't problematic 😎
reminds me of that madtv skit. it's a 1950's theme restaurant and group of friends comes and one them are black couples. but the restaurant really followed the 1950 era, they refused to serve the black couple. lol.
Song of the South was created from African Americans folk tales from the South, so claiming its racist is calling them racist.
Why they didn't do Tiana's Place as a sit down restaurant is BEYOND me....
I wasn't goigt to look up if they already did. But, yet, that would have been the correct way to celebrate the movie.
because somehow it's racist and sexist.
Guys do you think these nonsense will stop if nobody cares of Disney and Hollywood propaganda anymore? Nobody will watch their shows, nobody will talk about them, just like they never exist. For sure they will learn their lesson if that happened.
I was asking my teenager if they are watching The Acolyte, the new Star Wars show, and he said "no, there's just too much to watch. And if the show isn't great, I'll just watch tiktok or youtube." That's what Hollywood is competing with, and it's tough competition! So the bar is really high and meanwhile Hollywood is so distracted by the culture wars they've lost track of making good stories and good entertainment. Not sure if they'll learn the lesson before they die out.
-Willy Wonka Immersive Event- Disney’s Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Leaves Kids in Tears: “It Looks Like a Meth Lab”.
What's hilarious to me is that they took a beloved adult ride in the park and turned it into a kids ride and are now surprised by the backlash.
There is an interview of the daughter of the main actor of The Song of the South on RUclips.
She does NOT consider movie racist....
Man that movie did slightly traumatized me back then when the Voodoo man squished that cricket like a bug...
Firefly.
@@kevinlee7678 Oh yeah cricket, fell in love with the moon and all 👍
I feel everyone that says Song of the South and Splash Mountain were racist should listen to what Nick Stewart and Valerie Stewart have said for years, at least as a starting point.
Your killing me with the Dr. Facilier giving you the two middle fingers bit. I would never stop riding that ride if that where the way the drop was built up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wore a maelstrom ride t shirt to Epcot earlier this year and 65% of my time there was telling other guests and employees where I got the shirt from. Even better was at the Norway snack place the cashier gave me a discount for wearing that shirt.
The Princess and the Frog is easily one of my top five Disney movies of all time. I LOVED Dr. Facileir, and his songs. The music overall was just so so good.
Splash Mountain never carried over any of the so-called “problematic” elements from South of the South. It’s literally just about Brer Rabbit outwitting Brer Fox. I went my whole childhood never knowing what Song of the South even was until I reached adulthood. I guarantee you no little kid ever correlated a ride about Brer Rabbit with some obscure, defunct film that Disney has done their best to erase from existence.
Edit: changed problematic to so-called cause it’s really not.
Song Of The South is NOT "problematic" (to use a vile leftist term) - if anything it can be seen as a celebration of black folk tales with some funny animals thrown in for good measure and an iconic black lead actor - the fact that Disney are trying to bury this movies shows what they REALLY think about black culture :(
@hello_bye708 Where on Earth are the problematic elements in 'Song of the South'? Because I've seen it quite a few times and I don't see any.
@@countzero1136 I agree with you.
I just bought the movie, Song of the South. Dated, but the animation stories great. First black man to win an Oscar got it for this movie, he was on the writing staff too.
Go ahead Disney, wreck Splash Mountain for a DEI incentive. But please, I say please, don't fling Bob Iger into that there biar patch.
Which stands for DIDN'T EARN IT. 😀👌
Dismal Disney. Is that the new film division kind of like how Touchstone Pictures was in the 90s?
Those who do not acknowledge the past are doomed to repeat it. There are many ways Disney could have reimagined certain rides deemed offensive now, but in a rush to put profits first, it will always be a loose loose.
I think Splash Mountain had a better storytelling. And more Animatronics. And was more fun, had more color and a real sense of “Adventure”. Princess Tiana deserved a really new ride and not just a sort of makeover. Maybe something more grounded on her past story. Well, just my opinion. I have 50 years visiting WDW (since 1974) once a year and I think there are some attractions that you can label as “classics”. Pirates, Mansion, Big Thunder, etc… Splash Mountain, for me, had that status. It was a classic! You can improve, add new effects, replace old animatronics, do such things, but never get rid of them, for whatever reason. But, again, It’s just an opinion from an old (and I mean it) Disney fan. Have fun, folks! ✌️
Imagine if at the part of the ride leading up to the final lift hill at the drop that it was darker. You hear the whispering, eery sounds of the shadows zipping around your log towards that lift hill. The steady beats of the "Are you ready?" reprise begin to play just as your log hitches onto the lift and the clicking begins. Little blacklight-painted puppets pops out from the walls, chanting on both sides of your log, and at the top of the hill where the lift becomes that final drop, it's designed like the headstone demon from the end of the film that took Dr. Facilier away -- and you can hear his faint screaming and begging to be let out from hidden speakers just as your log dips down, rushing down that drop!
It could have been hair-raising. It could have been fun.
I realized, the story of this ride is basically one of the starting area fetch quests from World of Warcraft. A Disney World ride.
Are there no bear asses to collect?
As a lifelong adorer of rabbits, the closure of a rabbit-starring attraction took my representation. 🥺 Those little animatronics were the cutest.
2024 is really setting to the year of Disney L's
This is what they get for accumulating so much bad karma
The Bayou Adventure is landing with the same splash I get every morning when coffee magic takes its course....
Don’t knock your coffee magic.
The only "culture war" about this ride was the one Disney fought with itself and lost. They replaced everything to Princess and the Frog to make it more "diverse" while at the same time they removed all the actual diverse aspects from it because it would be "culturally insensitive".
It's a Karma for Disney.
Even I am entertained by Japanese content set in Japan. I will say that Pokémon is better when set in Japan that it just needs to have better gameplay with anime graphics. Disney have no respect for any culture.
It doesn’t have to be set in Japan to be entertaining. The best manga/anime of all time is set in Germany.
Well, technically, I guess Amestris isn’t Germany, but let’s be honest, it’s Germany.
@@critica77y77 Really a problem with Kalos, Galar, and Paldea is there should have been more stuff because the countries the regions are based on are bigger than Japan, making the world immersion and gameplay feel empty.
You realize they ran out of Japanese islands to base regions on, right
@@KetsubanSolo They would have gone back and remake the games, and they will still sell.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 They can't just remake the same games every one or two generations. Isn't one of the reasons that the movie studios are in the state that they're in now because they relied too heavily on remakes and reboots?
If you do nothing but remakes, that means that the franchise has run out of ideas. In that aspect, games are no different from movies.
It's a splash, alright in the toilet.
I think I said that before. That is the great irony!!! We need to represent more people!! "Unless you're an evil voodoo practicianer!!" I think they would be MORE offended, by being removed from the story. Why can't they be SEEN?
The Paw Patrol treatment. Bland everything down so nothing of interest remains but different bright colors.
If you try not to offend anyone, you will never succeed at anything.
Reports of Tiana's Bayou reliability problems, reminding me of racial segregation era of giving "color people" facilities the cheapest and tackiest as possible.
It's sloppy seconds, that's what it is. It is no different from say, Miles Morales pretending to be Spider-Man.
He is Spider man, not Peter Parker, but his own version of Spider man. At least he’s better than any moment of She hulk and Love and Thunder
@@kbraven7007 Peter Parker is Spider man. Miles Morales is Miles Morales
@@kbraven7007 You can stop pretending you like him now. You don't have to shill anymore.
@@Ability-King-KK I liked him in the Spider-verse movies, though he needs his own spider name. Especially knowing that Ghost Spider has her own name.
He Spider-Prowler, the spiderman mom says is at home
Bring back Splash Mountain!!!!!!!
Princess and the Frog was the best movie to honor 100 years of Disney. Out of all their recent work it is not only the best piece because of the story but also the most honorary of previous works from classy Easter eggs to the use of 2D animation. Tiana is an amazing character that tips her hat to Cinderella’s perseverance, Ariel’s dreaming, and Bell’s persistence. This ride is not only disrespectful to Splash Mountain, but also Princess and the Frog. Tiana deserves so much more than this boredom. It would have been better had they just given her a restaurant at the very least, but a ride based on the movie would have been amazing.
I hated the changes to Pirates of the Caribbean. I like Jack Sparrow but he just doesn't fit in the ride. The whole female pirate thing is annoying. They changed the chase scenes to the women chasing the pirates. Which ruined the joke of the one chase scene where a woman was hitting a pirate with a broom. It's just a mess. Still the big ship/fort battle scene is still impressive. They couldn't ruin that set piece.
I have a Disney Sing A Long tape from the 90's that has Zipadee Do DA as one of the songs on it. With the scene from Song of the South with Uncle Remus singing it.