I'm sorry but the frozen Tiana aghast at 1:43 made me laugh way too hard. She is having a crisis. She just realized she stuck there until Disney changes the ride again.
"What? I just sitting here ! You don't have idea how exhausting working in my own restaurant I writtinh piles of recipes for Hindrest and HUndrets guest!"
Splash Mountain deserved an update. Tiana deserved her own ride. Instead, we lost the Iconic Splash Mountain, and Tiana's ride will forever be riddled with controversy.
@@juliabp6057 they didn't go woke, they made a dumb decision and acted like they had a good reason for it when they didn't lol they rushed it, put it in a weird spot, didn't have a good concept. It's not about it being "woke", there is nothing woke about that ride lol
the way he stands there wiggling his hands awkwardly is sending me. he literally looks uncomfortable somehow lmao, like he's become self aware and knows this ride sucks
Brer rabbit is definitely haunting this ride and i am ROOTING for him. Im sick of the disney bootlickers pretending this reskin is anything other than a failure.
2:40 Whenever Splash Mountain broke down at least you got the bear animatronic going up and down in a trap with his ass sticking out and people patiently waiting for something else to happen.
I'll continue to ask this but does anyone else think this thing was just rapid sped into construction with zero consideration to actually privately testing it (with WDW employees) before just sending influencers in. This all was a disaster built on hubris.
We had augmented reality layered over the existing attraction on ride throughs giving concepts. The main held up happened with the former Laughing Place. We wanted to make profits quickly..so Kathleen Kennedy can ruin more films....so as soon as the paint dried We sent in influencers and made a horrible P.O.V...We didn't know it would be this bad.
@@Deertective I was partly corrected in that this was apparently planneed back in 2020 and with the shut downs, I can understand a slow down in construction but the issues they're running into still comese off as concerning and feels like they should have waited for better performance to open this.
This is karma for not including Facilier. “pRoBLeMaTiC” or not, having something with him before the drop would have went so HARD! Literally if they included Facilier, I would have forgiven the ride cause it would have meant Haunted Mansion aesthetics could have bled into Splash Mountain 💀
exactly! and they can't say that it was a political decision not to include him, considering they actively make a point of referencing him multiple times in the Descendants franchise. make it make senseee
So they put Facilier in Halloween parties (Voodoo), they overuse the Sanderson Sisters (Witchcraft), and the are making a Hercules remake (Greek mythology) but swear they can’t do anything involving beliefs or religion
I'm confused. It's "Tiana's Foods" as in it's "hers"...but then says: "employee-owned"? Who's company is it supposed to be? So, we are looking for a missing "spice" on the historic Avery Island salt mine? No,..no,..we are actually looking for a "musician" for the band instead in that salt mine? We then get shrunk down by voodoo that we can't talk about...to help us find this animal musician? No, wait!... the last song said we found the SPICE we were looking for in the salt mine....and YOU were the missing ingredient all along? What happened to that musician we were looking for? This thing was soooo half-baked and NOT very well thought out!
It was a desperate attempt to throw DEI into a ride that they "thought" people hated. Boy...were they wrong! They should have left Splah Mountain alone and given Tiana her own attraction set in a REAL Bayou. Too late now. Damage is done.
@@CLIFFLIX I agree, Tiana deserved her own ride 100% and I loved Splash Mountain. They definitely should've kept Splash Mountain, given it a heavy refurb, and given Tiana her own ride that feels more cohesive and natural. It feels like the theme with this ride was "fuck, we have to shove a black character in this ride so Twitter stops complaining". Rude ass way to treat a gem like Tiana.
The video that plays ON A SCREEN where the Laughin' Place used to be looks like it's animation for VeggieTales. No offense to the show that I watched a lot of during my childhood, but THIS IS DISNEY...
It's crazy how animatronic's from the 70's, and 80's worked better than their newest animatronic's. I'm not saying that Splash's animatronic's were perfect, but they were better than whatever tf this is 😭
Yeah for some reason Disney decided to replace the hydraulic animatronics with electrically powered ones... in a water ride. Full of mildew and humidity. It makes me so mad thinking about it, these animatronics are actually really impressive but they're in a ride not suited for them AT ALL 😭😭
water + liquids = wet Water + lightning = FRIED CIRCUITS This is going to cost so much more money in the long run. Disney just created a shitty money sink. They gonna try to dehumidify florida now? It might work better in california, not by much but better. We shall see. Then it'll just be a shitty ride that no one is happy with rather than a broken shitty ride no one is happy with.
These animatronics are awful, in comparison to what we made, in the late 80's early 90s, and the Pirate, on the ship, in the Battle room, is WAY more advanced (1989) I think is when we installed it...that these joke A1000's that look like Chuck e cheese rejects!!!!
@@judydenver5362stop lying 🛑 these look more realistic than the ones in the 80s and 90s. Yall are just nitpicking. Even if the ride did have its issues sorted out yall would still find something to complain about.
Your point about exciting things to loom at when stuck is a really good point. For Splash, Mansion, and Pirates, there is always something to look at somewhere when the rife stops. Here, it's mostly plants
i was legit excited for this ride and that's what hurts the most. i love PaTF and these characters deserve so much better than whatever the hell this is seeing an energetic character like louis just. freeze up like that is weirdly uncanny and sad (but also kinda funny tbh)
@@punxsydawn agreed! i was so upset to see both of them only appear at the end for like five seconds. :( the animatronics look great but they're barely there
@@BlinkArmy4they did their best, people kept complaining because splash mountain had to be replaced when it was clear they didn’t make as much revenue as they used to from it
1:31 The stupid sounding discordant music. Tiana just sitting there like "F you. We already got your money". I'd say this scene sums up the ride perfectly.
Wow, I thought at least the animatronics would work very well because of their technology, but NO, this attraction hasn't even been around for a single month and there's already a lot of damaged stuff. Without a doubt, replacing splash Mountain was not only a mistake, but also a waste of money, quality and time, because come on, but the animatronic critters don't even blink and only have one movement (in splash Mountain even the little frogs had more movement and synchronized with the music) undoubtedly fatal. By the way, Lottie is also frozen in that part I think, at 1:09🙃
"These new A1000 animatronics, and characters in Tiana's were so much better than the rotten ones from Splash Mountain" The characters and animatronic in question:
The old ones would have to be rebuilt completely without the infrastructure to rebuild that older technology at that scale. The animatronics were nearly 50 years old. They could fix one or two but not a whole cast. (Also there's a million virtual complexities that have to be worked out over a long time with these new figures before they're 10x more reliable than an audio figure. Engineering isn't just assembling stuff and having it work even when it looks done.) Also you're quoting nobody.
@@George_vv let's be honest, a splash refurb would've been better than this retheme. Even tho i think splash wasnt really outdated (people like its a small world and peter pan), i think a refurb could've brought tons of light. Look at tokyo, it looks amazing.
@@George_vv Not really entirely true. I worked on this ride, alot, along with many of my Imagineer-friends. When the old Disney (the Classic masters of the craft, who are gone, now), did a Rehab, they did exactly that..and then some. They upgraded and replaced everything that need to be replaced. So most of it, over time, was becoming state of the art. I still prefer Audio-Animatronics, over most of the new robotic junk. My friend, a master Imagineer, was able to program these figures more realistically than I have ever seen, including these A1000's- which are hightly overrated! They appear to be flailing around, for a number of reasons, including lack of knowledge of acting and human movements of the programmer, , and the technology itself, etc. Splash Mountain was my friends Masterpiece, and Tianas is a piece of junk in comparison.
@@George_vvTokyo Disneyland Splash Mountain is 1000x better than Bayou Adventure and it’s 32 years old. No one is buying that they couldn’t upgrade it with modern tech and maintain it. They don’t want to spend anything and fired most of the talent, that’s their issue.
YES EXACTLY XD, even the ppl who WANTED Splash Mountain to be changed don’t like this. I love the OG Splash Mountain but I was really freaking excited when I found out that what they were choosing to change it to was Princess and the Frog. I would miss the original but at least we were swapping it for something else just as good. What we actually got seems very rushed and unfinished
Look even an idiot like me knew this was gonna happen. Can't believe they didn't even think of B-mode or a B story line if these animatronics broke down
I would seriously watch a short film where Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear put aside their differences to mess up TBA as much as possible and restore Splash Mountain 😂
While i dont think the ride is entirely bad, it's still sad we got this. Good animatronics dont automatically make a ride better. Well, at least we got Epic Universe soon.
The animatronics are amazing but too complex. One of the Tianas is outside? Next to water. It will be weathered in less than a year. Regular maintenance people at Disney must be fuming.
It's interesting how Tokyo Disney opened 2 rides with way more A-1000 animatronics and they haven't had any issues at all despite opening a month before Tiana's 🤔
i think part of it is the fact that they used completely electronic animatronics in a water ride, IN FLORIDA tokyo wouldn’t have that problem, as their climate is a lot more conducive to those types of animatronics, which are very delicate when it comes to temperature and moisture. idk what they were thinking, they should’ve used hydraulic or pneumatic animatronics for that kind of environment smh the splash mountain animatronics had their issues, but when they were actually maintained well, they didn’t have as much trouble functioning in the heat and humidity, bc they were mostly hydraulic iirc (could be wrong, but they’re old enough that they may not have been using pneumatics yet)
@@cheetosan , that's a good point, but you also have to consider that the animatronics in Tokyo are also in water rides, and summers in Japan get extremely humid, even worse than Florida at times.
@@Lemonaidz7 i will admit i don’t know as much about japan’s weather, so you may be right on that 😅 it may just be that the splash mountain location in particular isn’t suited to electric animatronics, coupled with how rushed everything was. idk tho, i’m just a nerd on the internet lol
@@cheetosan hydraulic/pneumatic animatronics can still malfunction; i have heard that on the florida splash mountain's last day of operation, the ride was the most broken it has been in years; one of the br'er fox figures' jaws even became detached from his head, and i imagine the fluid that is used to move it came spilling out the exposed tubes
@@AnOrdinaryUserThatHasNoSpiders The fluidity of the Wolfman looks insane. And him moving his arms around actually has purpose, unlike the animatronics in TBA waving them around for no reason. Plus, the Monsters ride will have Frankenstein's Monster actually chasing you, just like Indominus Rex at Universal Shanghai.
there is an easter egg in the queue; on the desk's shelf (seen when you enter the building the car is parked near) is a figurine of a rabbit, fox and bear
@@TitanKaiju75 Also Disney: Don't forget, the random stuff we did 10-12 years ago before Epic Universe was even an idea was us too, we've discovered time travel and that's how we made Pandora! (Seriously, Bob Iger tried to get around this by pretending he knew the whole time)
@@davidguthrie6316 Pandora was 100% Disney trying to catch up with Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter expansion. Disney's been trying to play catch-up with Universal for the majority of the time that Iger's been CEO. Iger's full of crap, but anyone that's been paying any attention at all to what's been going on could tell you that.
@@TitanKaiju75 That's my point. It was Iger trying to play catchup with Hogsmeade in 2010, not Epic Universe, a park that had probably not even been conceived when Pandora first broke ground
@@davidguthrie6316 Exactly. I'm sure Disney knew about Epic Universe *LONG* before we did as well though. They had every opportunity and ample time to prepare some sort of counter-expansion to Epic Universe, but the company is completely incapable under Iger and his cronies' leadership.
before this ride opened, i was paranoid malfunctions like these would happen because electric actuator animatronics are not as waterproof as hydraulic animatronics (well they still malfunction sometimes, but you know what i mean)
When you hear that they're putting actual animatronics in the ride: 😊 When you realize that this is in Disney World and they're awful when it comes to performing maintenance on their rides: 🙁
I loved the film "Princess and the Frog" too much to ever want to go on this attraction supposedly based on it. This ride makes "Superstar Limo" amazing in comparison, even if everything was working the way it was supposed to.
Back in the day I was "close" friends with Brer Bear. We spent a lot of time together at this mountain and I have to say there is truly a curse of Splash Mountain. Splash broke down time to time, but nothing like this and I believe Splash is letting everyone know WDI killed it was before its time. I do understand thing need to be update, unfortunately the mark was missed on so many levels.
I love this channel. For years I've been told I was racist for saying 1) Splash Mountain doesn't need to be replaced, 2) this new ride would probably be sanitized to the point of being boring and all concepts of thrills and memorable scenes and classic musical cues would be lost forever. And people would say things like "Well, Splash Mountain, everything was broken so it had to be changed." Yes, much cheaper to make this monstrosity than fix a handful of animatronics. Politicizing an attraction about a rabbit, bear, and wolf... the Internet is filled with morons.
And one of those dumb @ss acting people you’re talking about is literally down there in the comments.. 🙄thanks RUclips for deleting my comments to people just whenever you want cause you handle any bad words at all. Ugh, eff RUclips
That is something I agree with. There was ABSOLUTELY 💯 NOTHING WRONG ABOUT A RABBIT, BEAR, FOX, and a LAUGHING PLACE! DISNEY YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! Walt would NEVER have made such a crappy ride... You Corporate DISNEY SLOWLY RUINING DISNEY PARKS.
Ok but that Tiana robor is so impressive when it’s working I didn’t know how advanced Disney got with it In all seriousness I think this is a mixture of some of the robors not being sent of sensor wise and second paces the water ruining the shit out of these very electrical robots
Here's the problem with these electrically animated figures: linear electrical actuators are high-speed electric motors that push and pull on threaded rods by spinning at a high rate of speed (think about a drill or an electric screwdriver). Anyone else think that a little motor might be prone to failure after reversing direction thousands of times a day while spinning at very high speeds? The "old school" hydraulic and pneumatic actuators fill or drain pistons with oil or air to push and pull on rods and move the figure. The force exerted is directly proportionate to the mass of the air or fluid entering the cylinder. Can you see how that's more reliable than spinning a tiny electric motor?
As much as i dont like this ride. I dont want to harass any of the creative team behind this. Im sure they did as good of a jov as they couldve with the $2 corporate gave them to make this. And ngl. I do think this is salvagable. With a few tweeks. This COLULD be an amazing ride.
It’s so sad the downgrade Disney made with this after millions of dollars. Splash Mountain felt like the critters lived there, we came into their world. It’s so awkward seeing the next animatronic silently waiting up ahead for you to pass their sensor. Put them on a loop like how it was before, so it puts some actual life into them. We didn’t spend money to watch screens either, but to be immersed into an imaginary world. The place feels like they scraped the bare minimum of the barrel just to try to entertain us. A few critters scattered throughout the bayou feels like they are coming out just for us, then to get back into the dark void. Just stick to doing rides based on the movies like the classic Fantasyland dark rides, add Facilier, “Are you ready” for the drop, and put Tiana in her gown at the finale with a familiar song on the recycled riverboat scene…would have been amazing! I’ve seen so many comments of African Americans saying they didn’t care about the Song of the South drama, because the ride didn’t convey that at all and was an enjoyable experience for decades! Poor Tony Baxter and what they’ve done to his masterpiece, and the millions who will grow up never knowing the classic of a ride Splash was.
RIP all those America Sings animatronics... We all miss your charm that was so iconic... But no one of these animatronics was saved... Being massacred and buried in a mass grave... And joining Eagle Sam in animatronic heaven... This current dark ride is so rushed and uneven....
Yikes! I knew TBA was having issues with its show scenes here and there, but I had no idea it was to this extent. People have only been riding for a week and a half and there are almost as many malfunctioning elements as Splash had towards the end of its life. I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it for myself right here.
@@kylekeller3398I’d truly love to see that, but the only way Splash being restored would even be a possibility is if there is a massive leadership change and DEI housecleaning at Disney. The best you’re going under The Bob Iger Company or anything resembling it is that they MIGHT feel enough pressure to walk back their stance on Dr. Facilier being “problematic” and find a way to incorporate him during the final lift hill should wait times get abysmally low. Otherwise, the people in charge are committed to their DEI disasterpiece, so don’t hold your breathe on a Splash return unless Nelson Peltz, Elon Musk or someone like them is able to successfully overtake the company and “Restore the Magic”. Until then, just hope that OLC is able to hold the line and fight off The Bob Iger Company’s alleged advances to shutter their version of the attraction.
@@kylekeller3398 I’d truly love to see that, but the only way Splash being restored would even be a possibility is if there is a massive leadership change and DEI housecleaning at Disney. The best you’re going under The Bob Iger Company or anything resembling it is that they MIGHT feel enough pressure to walk back their stance on Dr. Facilier being “problematic” and find a way to incorporate him during the final lift hill should wait times get abysmally low. Otherwise, the people in charge are committed to their DEI disasterpiece, so don’t hold your breathe on a Splash return unless Nelson Peltz, Elon Musk or someone like them is able to successfully overtake the company and “Restore the Magic”. Until then, just hope that OLC is able to hold the line and fight off The Bob Iger Company’s alleged advances to shutter their version of the attraction.
@@kylekeller3398I’d truly love to see that, but the only way Splash being restored would even be a possibility is if there is a massive leadership change and DEI housecleaning at Disney. Under The Bob Iger Company or anything resembling it, the best you’re going to get is that they MIGHT feel enough pressure to walk back their stance on Dr. Facilier being “problematic” and find a way to incorporate him during the final lift hill should wait times get abysmally low. Otherwise, the people in charge are committed to their DEI disasterpiece, so don’t hold your breathe on a Splash return unless Nelson Peltz, Elon Musk or someone like them is able to successfully overtake the company and “Restore the Magic”. Until then, just hope that OLC is able to hold the line and fight off The Bob Iger Company’s alleged advances to shutter their version of the attraction.
I have a dream that they'll eventually do that. But once they invest money,they stick by it. Especially when there's political motivations behind it. We're still stuck with "Soarin' Around the World" at DCA even though everyone agrees it pales in comparison to the original. Damn, I need to become a Disney CEO so I can fix this.
@@johnsmi213it still pisses me off that they changed Soarin to that bullshit. It's called CALIFORNIA Adventure park for a reason, dumb fucks! Not WORLD adventure. And to put that Guardians bullshit over HOLLYWOOD Tower of Terror was another stupid mistake for a park supposed to be about CALIFORNIA
I don’t know whether to give a thumbs up on this video because this channel has shown the truth about what Disney has done to the beloved splash mountain, or to give it a thumbs down because this video shows Tiana’s bum hole in such a negative light. Either case I subscribed to this channel thanks to the WDW pro channel.
I feel so bad for Princess and the Frog being put into this. That movie has it's own issues, some people love it some hate it, it's whatever. And some people use this situation to make it look like Disney is woke or something, when they literally do not care about any of that, they just rushed a bad concept in a bad area and tried to make a good reason out of it. BUT the og film looked good, they had really pretty, amazing scenes in that movie in the Bayou. The movie made the Bayou look magical and a little scary. I don't know how possible it would've been to make any ride based on the movie, simply because they were literally frogs the entire time lol But the fact that this ride currently looks this terrible (conceptually and literally), it feels like no one was thinking about the actual film or how to make a good ride. And I don't even think it's a cash grab at this point because idk who is excited to ride it, it's just being stupid with money. I bet fans of the movie would've come up with much better locations and concepts than this, ones that look good and have that magic to them. It's disrespectful to the audience Disney claims to be making this for in the press and articles and to disrespectful their own property (but they've been disrespectful to both of those for years now so I'm not surprised actually).
I'll tell Sid you loved Tales of the Okefenokee lol. He's 94 and sometimes goes through Six Flags Nostalgia from his pre tv show days when he ran puppet shows and helped with the rides.
The Disney Motto:
“If it ain’t broke, break it.”
‘If it ain’t broke, fix it until it is.’
@@waltertomaszewski1083Every Disney remake described in one sentence.
@@waltertomaszewski1083 and if it aint woke, wake it.
No broke, no woke.
Must broke every single thing to insert woke nonsense.
Preferably taking 2 to 5 years... Somebody in the green plywood construction wall biz must love the Mouse.
Louis's eyes are the only thing moving, it looks like he's paralyzed and silently screaming for help
Louis exe has stopped working.
he is one of the most dynamic animatronics, so wonder he breaks down like that...💀💀 hope they fix it
Love the profile pic of Rugor Nass!
So sad, I know....
Me during sleep paralysis
t-posing Tiana has me crying, I didn't even expect to see that 😭
Well, A-posing. T-posing would have her arms sticking straight out.
"The animatronics do get a bit of quirky tonight"
1:15 Could you just imagine after he freezes, he turns to look at you, and starts barreling his way toward you!
Five Nights at TBA !
"Er, uh...actually, they're kinda quirky during the day too..."
@@winstonlee7258 when I read your comment, I die laughing.
I'm sorry but the frozen Tiana aghast at 1:43 made me laugh way too hard. She is having a crisis. She just realized she stuck there until Disney changes the ride again.
Tiana’s just questioning her life choices
"What? I just sitting here ! You don't have idea how exhausting working in my own restaurant I writtinh piles of recipes for Hindrest and HUndrets guest!"
The guy who kept busting out laughing during this trainwreck is my spirit animal.
Favorite part by far
His laugh is *EVERYTHING*. I had to rewind it a few times😂.
The woman on there sounds like Geeky Sparkles from Clownfish TV. Could that be Kneon laughing?!😂
Splash Mountain deserved an update. Tiana deserved her own ride. Instead, we lost the Iconic Splash Mountain, and Tiana's ride will forever be riddled with controversy.
Go woke, GO BROKE !
Should’ve been separate which is probably why it turned out like this. It’s too big for all this little detail they added.
@@juliabp6057 they didn't go woke, they made a dumb decision and acted like they had a good reason for it when they didn't lol they rushed it, put it in a weird spot, didn't have a good concept. It's not about it being "woke", there is nothing woke about that ride lol
Exactly Splash Mountain with these high quality animatronics would have been fantastic.
@@juliabp6057this isn’t woke 🤦🏻♀️
Can you believe that we only get a 35 second loop of Special Spice when Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah was 2 WHOLE MINUTES??
I remember someone describing the song as “A bootleg version of jump up superstar from Super Mario Odyssey” 😅
@@Sedlan18THEY DID WHAT
@@Sedlan18yeah that just about sums it up
Mario came out 40 years after song of the south the someone who said that is an idiot
@@Sedlan18I mean, they ain’t wrong.
Meanwhile universal builds life size indominous Rex that chases you.
Agreed! In fact you can also see an Indominus Rex in Hollywood not just in Beijing;)
Have you been on the Disney dinosaur ride
@@scoodlebott123 It aint as impressive as the Indo. One just launches at you, and one actually follows the vehicle.
At least Universal improved their Jurassic world ride over the years.
I agree Japan has better ride attractions especially there version of the Jurassic world ride
I bet all the sprits are haunting that ride and making it constantly break.
as they should
the b mode for louis at 4:36 is insane. he needs a strobe light so he can become disco louis
the way he stands there wiggling his hands awkwardly is sending me. he literally looks uncomfortable somehow lmao, like he's become self aware and knows this ride sucks
LOL
THATS the b mode?? ohh lord😭
Brer rabbit is definitely haunting this ride and i am ROOTING for him.
Im sick of the disney bootlickers pretending this reskin is anything other than a failure.
2:40 Whenever Splash Mountain broke down at least you got the bear animatronic going up and down in a trap with his ass sticking out and people patiently waiting for something else to happen.
I'll continue to ask this but does anyone else think this thing was just rapid sped into construction with zero consideration to actually privately testing it (with WDW employees) before just sending influencers in. This all was a disaster built on hubris.
While Disney employees and construction crew did ride it before any previews opened, they clearly failed to address these problems
We had augmented reality layered over the existing attraction on ride throughs giving concepts. The main held up happened with the former Laughing Place. We wanted to make profits quickly..so Kathleen Kennedy can ruin more films....so as soon as the paint dried We sent in influencers and made a horrible P.O.V...We didn't know it would be this bad.
The whole thing feels like it was rushed and simply exists to erase Splash Mountain.
Tiana deserved her own ride.
@@Deertective I was partly corrected in that this was apparently planneed back in 2020 and with the shut downs, I can understand a slow down in construction but the issues they're running into still comese off as concerning and feels like they should have waited for better performance to open this.
@@SlushysSecret They should have waited until July to open this....
"Louis, blink twice if you're being held hostage."
This is karma for not including Facilier. “pRoBLeMaTiC” or not, having something with him before the drop would have went so HARD!
Literally if they included Facilier, I would have forgiven the ride cause it would have meant Haunted Mansion aesthetics could have bled into Splash Mountain 💀
The Haunted Mansion (at least in Anaheim), is even the building right next door!
exactly! and they can't say that it was a political decision not to include him, considering they actively make a point of referencing him multiple times in the Descendants franchise. make it make senseee
So they put Facilier in Halloween parties (Voodoo), they overuse the Sanderson Sisters (Witchcraft), and the are making a Hercules remake (Greek mythology) but swear they can’t do anything involving beliefs or religion
@@PerFectCell92The math ain’t mathing. 😕
I'm confused. It's "Tiana's Foods" as in it's "hers"...but then says: "employee-owned"? Who's company is it supposed to be? So, we are looking for a missing "spice" on the historic Avery Island salt mine? No,..no,..we are actually looking for a "musician" for the band instead in that salt mine? We then get shrunk down by voodoo that we can't talk about...to help us find this animal musician? No, wait!... the last song said we found the SPICE we were looking for in the salt mine....and YOU were the missing ingredient all along? What happened to that musician we were looking for? This thing was soooo half-baked and NOT very well thought out!
the problem was they changed the story 3 times and kept elements from all 3 stories.
It wasn’t even half baked. If anything, they threw it into the oven without turning it on.
It was a desperate attempt to throw DEI into a ride that they "thought" people hated. Boy...were they wrong! They should have left Splah Mountain alone and given Tiana her own attraction set in a REAL Bayou. Too late now. Damage is done.
@@CLIFFLIX I agree, Tiana deserved her own ride 100% and I loved Splash Mountain. They definitely should've kept Splash Mountain, given it a heavy refurb, and given Tiana her own ride that feels more cohesive and natural. It feels like the theme with this ride was "fuck, we have to shove a black character in this ride so Twitter stops complaining". Rude ass way to treat a gem like Tiana.
@@DGCpicturesEntertainment Unfried dough! May we eat it in remembrance of how Brer Rabbit was not boiled in oil!
The video that plays ON A SCREEN where the Laughin' Place used to be looks like it's animation for VeggieTales. No offense to the show that I watched a lot of during my childhood, but THIS IS DISNEY...
The visual style is consistent with the animatronics.
They turned the entire ride into a laughing place
More like a laughing stock 😂😂😂
FOR wrong reasons keek!!
It's crazy how animatronic's from the 70's, and 80's worked better than their newest animatronic's. I'm not saying that Splash's animatronic's were perfect, but they were better than whatever tf this is 😭
Yeah for some reason Disney decided to replace the hydraulic animatronics with electrically powered ones... in a water ride. Full of mildew and humidity. It makes me so mad thinking about it, these animatronics are actually really impressive but they're in a ride not suited for them AT ALL 😭😭
water + liquids = wet
Water + lightning = FRIED CIRCUITS
This is going to cost so much more money in the long run. Disney just created a shitty money sink. They gonna try to dehumidify florida now? It might work better in california, not by much but better. We shall see. Then it'll just be a shitty ride that no one is happy with rather than a broken shitty ride no one is happy with.
The Tin Man in Wizard of Oz chopping wood had more movement than some these animatronics. Perhaps they need some, oil?
These animatronics are awful, in comparison to what we made, in the late 80's early 90s, and the Pirate, on the ship, in the Battle room, is WAY more advanced (1989) I think is when we installed it...that these joke A1000's that look like Chuck e cheese rejects!!!!
@@judydenver5362stop lying 🛑 these look more realistic than the ones in the 80s and 90s. Yall are just nitpicking. Even if the ride did have its issues sorted out yall would still find something to complain about.
LOUIS FREEZING MID FRAME HAD ME CACKLING
LMFAOO SAME
He realized he was caught on this ride on camera. 🤣
@@khfan4life365
LOUIS: "Oh, $h!1!!!" 😂
Your point about exciting things to loom at when stuck is a really good point. For Splash, Mansion, and Pirates, there is always something to look at somewhere when the rife stops. Here, it's mostly plants
I was falling asleep watching the pov of this ride.
@@annieandelsieofarendelle3294bruh
Even the animatronics don’t give a rat’s a** about this ride.
Lol 😂
i was legit excited for this ride and that's what hurts the most. i love PaTF and these characters deserve so much better than whatever the hell this is
seeing an energetic character like louis just. freeze up like that is weirdly uncanny and sad (but also kinda funny tbh)
This ride needed a lot more Naveen and Charlotte (amongst the million other things it needed too)
@@punxsydawn agreed! i was so upset to see both of them only appear at the end for like five seconds. :( the animatronics look great but they're barely there
Why are there so many problems?
This attraction has just begun...😢
Not enough testing
@@gizmonovack Not to mention how much Imagineers it takes to actually have more time testing these robots BEFORE they fully open up just sayin'
Rushed it way too much, if they actually took their time, added more animatronics, tested everything it actually would have been good.
@@BlinkArmy4they did their best, people kept complaining because splash mountain had to be replaced when it was clear they didn’t make as much revenue as they used to from it
Cause they should have left splash mountain alone
0:07 Louis be like: "HELP ME!!!"
😂
1:31 The stupid sounding discordant music. Tiana just sitting there like "F you. We already got your money". I'd say this scene sums up the ride perfectly.
This ain't the Laughing Place... this is a Mourning Place now.
It’s the snoring place. F’ing Disney…
💤 Meanwhile, Space Mountain’s tunnel lights still ain’t fixed!
Oh, I'm laffin alright.
So glad to see everyone clowning on this ride. One of the worst decisions Disney has ever made.
Removing Splash was the biggest mistake. I'm speechless now a days on Disney's choices.
Same here
They are getting rid of all classic rides… wonder what’s next? And that’s terrible !
@@loreniki The Tiki Room and Peter Pan better not be next!
@@kylekeller3398Disney has banned voodoo and tikis do to some ridiculous "religious iconology" mandate, so don't be surprised if Tiki Room get hit.
I would of rather had them rewrite the music than replace the ride… Now splash turned into a nap time ride
5:19 - even Tiana knows this ride is crap.
Hey I like it
Wow, I thought at least the animatronics would work very well because of their technology, but NO, this attraction hasn't even been around for a single month and there's already a lot of damaged stuff. Without a doubt, replacing splash Mountain was not only a mistake, but also a waste of money, quality and time, because come on, but the animatronic critters don't even blink and only have one movement (in splash Mountain even the little frogs had more movement and synchronized with the music) undoubtedly fatal.
By the way, Lottie is also frozen in that part I think, at 1:09🙃
1:56 love that reaction lol
Hi Freeman
The ride is so bad, even the animatronics question their purpose, so they give up 😅
I'm genuinely concerned about when this ride opens to the public, if these animatronics are breaking down now still!? 🤯
"These new A1000 animatronics, and characters in Tiana's were so much better than the rotten ones from Splash Mountain"
The characters and animatronic in question:
The old ones would have to be rebuilt completely without the infrastructure to rebuild that older technology at that scale. The animatronics were nearly 50 years old. They could fix one or two but not a whole cast. (Also there's a million virtual complexities that have to be worked out over a long time with these new figures before they're 10x more reliable than an audio figure. Engineering isn't just assembling stuff and having it work even when it looks done.)
Also you're quoting nobody.
@@George_vv let's be honest, a splash refurb would've been better than this retheme. Even tho i think splash wasnt really outdated (people like its a small world and peter pan), i think a refurb could've brought tons of light. Look at tokyo, it looks amazing.
Disney jest stoped fixing splash mountain to make this boring shit
@@George_vv Not really entirely true. I worked on this ride, alot, along with many of my Imagineer-friends. When the old Disney (the Classic masters of the craft, who are gone, now), did a Rehab, they did exactly that..and then some. They upgraded and replaced everything that need to be replaced. So most of it, over time, was becoming state of the art. I still prefer Audio-Animatronics, over most of the new robotic junk. My friend, a master Imagineer, was able to program these figures more realistically than I have ever seen, including these A1000's- which are hightly overrated! They appear to be flailing around, for a number of reasons, including lack of knowledge of acting and human movements of the programmer, , and the technology itself, etc. Splash Mountain was my friends Masterpiece, and Tianas is a piece of junk in comparison.
@@George_vvTokyo Disneyland Splash Mountain is 1000x better than Bayou Adventure and it’s 32 years old. No one is buying that they couldn’t upgrade it with modern tech and maintain it. They don’t want to spend anything and fired most of the talent, that’s their issue.
They didn't forget their lines, they're embarrassed for the ride.
Tokyo Disneyland watching TBA breaking down: ☺️☕
I knew it was bad but I didn’t know it was this bad
I’m pretty sure even non-splash mountain fans are mad about this ride, that shows how bad this is.
Yess!! I will miss splash mountain but it can't stay that way forever. My opinion is that could have at least made a good ride to replace it
YES EXACTLY XD, even the ppl who WANTED Splash Mountain to be changed don’t like this.
I love the OG Splash Mountain but I was really freaking excited when I found out that what they were choosing to change it to was Princess and the Frog. I would miss the original but at least we were swapping it for something else just as good. What we actually got seems very rushed and unfinished
This is so depressing, both the Splash Mountain and Princess and the Frog characters deserve better
Look even an idiot like me knew this was gonna happen. Can't believe they didn't even think of B-mode or a B story line if these animatronics broke down
It's a sign telling Disney to bring splash mountain back
0:10. “Louie, Blink once if you are being held against your will!”
That Ol' Brer Rabbit, up to his old tricks again
With a little help from his "frenemies," Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear
I would seriously watch a short film where Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear put aside their differences to mess up TBA as much as possible and restore Splash Mountain 😂
@@davidguthrie6316 Me too 😂
@@davidguthrie6316 That'd be awesome to see
“Looks like Brer Bear and Brer Fox are causin’ some trouble upstream!”
The animatronics are just as broken as the McDonald's ice cream machine.
That CocoMellon video of Tiana looks really bad!
Looks better in person (all the screens do)
While i dont think the ride is entirely bad, it's still sad we got this. Good animatronics dont automatically make a ride better. Well, at least we got Epic Universe soon.
This has to be the worst choice Disney has made for their parks in a long time.
This and what did to Figment 😢
Somewhere, the people who greenlit the Rocket Rods at Disneyland are breathing a sigh of relief.
@@brianwisdom8051 What about Superstar Limo at California Adventure?
@@kylekeller3398 that was so bad, I forgot all about it! 😂
@@brianwisdom8051web slingers is competing for that 1# spot of worst Disney ride ever made 😂
Bro what did they do to the laughing place. Probably the worst showroom in a Disney ride EVER
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY AGREE WITH ME!
Does that mean the entire ride is now a laughing place?
I want Splash Mountain back!! 💦⛰️🐰🦊🐻
@@cantpopdismolly, more like a laughingstock if you ask me.
@@kylekeller3398 same
1:34 those cricket sound really fitted this moment!
The animatronics are amazing but too complex. One of the Tianas is outside? Next to water. It will be weathered in less than a year. Regular maintenance people at Disney must be fuming.
"Tianas breakdown adventure"
5:51 Br’er rabbit is strangling mama Odie rn lol
It's interesting how Tokyo Disney opened 2 rides with way more A-1000 animatronics and they haven't had any issues at all despite opening a month before Tiana's 🤔
i think part of it is the fact that they used completely electronic animatronics in a water ride, IN FLORIDA
tokyo wouldn’t have that problem, as their climate is a lot more conducive to those types of animatronics, which are very delicate when it comes to temperature and moisture. idk what they were thinking, they should’ve used hydraulic or pneumatic animatronics for that kind of environment smh
the splash mountain animatronics had their issues, but when they were actually maintained well, they didn’t have as much trouble functioning in the heat and humidity, bc they were mostly hydraulic iirc (could be wrong, but they’re old enough that they may not have been using pneumatics yet)
sorry for the rambling djcvjjvjkv i have a special interest in animatronics
@@cheetosan , that's a good point, but you also have to consider that the animatronics in Tokyo are also in water rides, and summers in Japan get extremely humid, even worse than Florida at times.
@@Lemonaidz7 i will admit i don’t know as much about japan’s weather, so you may be right on that 😅
it may just be that the splash mountain location in particular isn’t suited to electric animatronics, coupled with how rushed everything was. idk tho, i’m just a nerd on the internet lol
@@cheetosan hydraulic/pneumatic animatronics can still malfunction; i have heard that on the florida splash mountain's last day of operation, the ride was the most broken it has been in years; one of the br'er fox figures' jaws even became detached from his head, and i imagine the fluid that is used to move it came spilling out the exposed tubes
5:24
I feel like this will be the model of a video game character : V-pose
Epic Universe is Gonna be so much better than this crap. When Epic Universe opens in Universal Studios Orlando, Disney is screwed.
Yeah, especially after that Werewolf animatronic reveal. If they can pull that thing off, Disney's in a pickle.
@@AnOrdinaryUserThatHasNoSpiders The fluidity of the Wolfman looks insane. And him moving his arms around actually has purpose, unlike the animatronics in TBA waving them around for no reason. Plus, the Monsters ride will have Frankenstein's Monster actually chasing you, just like Indominus Rex at Universal Shanghai.
2:01
You: They forgot their lines
Me: *Cough cough* - and Ray
Karma for replacing Brer Rabbit from the song of the south movie
He will haunt the ride
Disney needed to have at least Brer Rabbit appear as an Easter egg. That rabbit worked for decades! And the Vultures too.
Should have had the million dollar rabbit just to flex in it’s face for costing Disney so much
That would have defeated the whole point of erasing any and all traces of Song Of The South. As if the movie killed all the board members' kids.
there is an easter egg in the queue; on the desk's shelf (seen when you enter the building the car is parked near) is a figurine of a rabbit, fox and bear
This was both sad and funny.
Being a universal fan is so peak rn
Universal: Epic Universe 😍
Disney: This, Journey of Water, and the EPCOT overhaul... 🤮
@@TitanKaiju75 Also Disney: Don't forget, the random stuff we did 10-12 years ago before Epic Universe was even an idea was us too, we've discovered time travel and that's how we made Pandora! (Seriously, Bob Iger tried to get around this by pretending he knew the whole time)
@@davidguthrie6316 Pandora was 100% Disney trying to catch up with Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter expansion. Disney's been trying to play catch-up with Universal for the majority of the time that Iger's been CEO. Iger's full of crap, but anyone that's been paying any attention at all to what's been going on could tell you that.
@@TitanKaiju75 That's my point. It was Iger trying to play catchup with Hogsmeade in 2010, not Epic Universe, a park that had probably not even been conceived when Pandora first broke ground
@@davidguthrie6316 Exactly. I'm sure Disney knew about Epic Universe *LONG* before we did as well though. They had every opportunity and ample time to prepare some sort of counter-expansion to Epic Universe, but the company is completely incapable under Iger and his cronies' leadership.
5:19 That anguished ‘Nooo’ kills me 😂
0:58 This is the best line in the whole ride fr. When Tiana said “…” I felt that. 😭
i thought they meant what louis said was the best dialogue LOL
before this ride opened, i was paranoid malfunctions like these would happen because electric actuator animatronics are not as waterproof as hydraulic animatronics (well they still malfunction sometimes, but you know what i mean)
WDW Pro sent me over. Great video of this travesty of a ride.
is everyone coming from him or smth? i been seeing sm comments with his name
When you hear that they're putting actual animatronics in the ride: 😊
When you realize that this is in Disney World and they're awful when it comes to performing maintenance on their rides: 🙁
1:17 Me: whoever moves first is gay.
Him: Oh shit. *freezes*
I loved the film "Princess and the Frog" too much to ever want to go on this attraction supposedly based on it. This ride makes "Superstar Limo" amazing in comparison, even if everything was working the way it was supposed to.
1:17 louis is your computer when it freezes
😂😂😂 thank you for sharing this!! I wish Tiana would of gotten her own ride and we kept Splash. A stand alone Tiana ride would of been much better!
Back in the day I was "close" friends with Brer Bear. We spent a lot of time together at this mountain and I have to say there is truly a curse of Splash Mountain. Splash broke down time to time, but nothing like this and I believe Splash is letting everyone know WDI killed it was before its time.
I do understand thing need to be update, unfortunately the mark was missed on so many levels.
I'm telling you those animatronics ain't gonna last a month
So does this mean Splash Mountain will eventually be restored?
@@kylekeller3398no. They’ll never do that.
@@smeagolfingers4116 Uh, they did it with the Tiki Room and Captain EO (briefly)!
@@kylekeller3398They also restored the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse very recently which was Tarzan prior.
@@Equilibrium-pt7xj Yeah, but it’s just called Adventureland Treehouse.
I love this channel. For years I've been told I was racist for saying 1) Splash Mountain doesn't need to be replaced, 2) this new ride would probably be sanitized to the point of being boring and all concepts of thrills and memorable scenes and classic musical cues would be lost forever. And people would say things like "Well, Splash Mountain, everything was broken so it had to be changed." Yes, much cheaper to make this monstrosity than fix a handful of animatronics. Politicizing an attraction about a rabbit, bear, and wolf... the Internet is filled with morons.
And one of those dumb @ss acting people you’re talking about is literally down there in the comments.. 🙄thanks RUclips for deleting my comments to people just whenever you want cause you handle any bad words at all. Ugh, eff RUclips
That is something I agree with. There was ABSOLUTELY 💯 NOTHING WRONG ABOUT A RABBIT, BEAR, FOX, and a LAUGHING PLACE! DISNEY YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! Walt would NEVER have made such a crappy ride... You Corporate DISNEY SLOWLY RUINING DISNEY PARKS.
It is racist against predators. Bears aren’t dumb. Wolves and Foxes aren’t malicious killers. Rabbits aren’t cute.
@@altarushok 😅
Ok but that Tiana robor is so impressive when it’s working I didn’t know how advanced Disney got with it
In all seriousness I think this is a mixture of some of the robors not being sent of sensor wise and second paces the water ruining the shit out of these very electrical robots
Why they added all these new electrical robots to a water ride is a fucking disaster waiting to happen
I genuinely wonder if one of the robots will fall into the water
This reminds me of the Chuck E Cheese animatronics that would always break down! 😂
We can understand as to why Chuck E Cheese is replacing their Animatronics with a dance floor
Just imagine waiting for 4 hours or more to go on this ride for the first time when it just breaks down 🫠
Thanks for bringing awareness of how awful this ride is… not just with the malfunctions.
Here's the problem with these electrically animated figures: linear electrical actuators are high-speed electric motors that push and pull on threaded rods by spinning at a high rate of speed (think about a drill or an electric screwdriver). Anyone else think that a little motor might be prone to failure after reversing direction thousands of times a day while spinning at very high speeds? The "old school" hydraulic and pneumatic actuators fill or drain pistons with oil or air to push and pull on rods and move the figure. The force exerted is directly proportionate to the mass of the air or fluid entering the cylinder. Can you see how that's more reliable than spinning a tiny electric motor?
Golly maybe it was a BAD idea to put a bunch of electric animatronics into a damp, wet and humid building in fucking FLORIDA
Yikes Disney see what happens when you listen to your Disney influencers
If modern gaming was a theme park ride.
Best description about this slop of a attraction
As much as i dont like this ride. I dont want to harass any of the creative team behind this. Im sure they did as good of a jov as they couldve with the $2 corporate gave them to make this.
And ngl. I do think this is salvagable. With a few tweeks. This COLULD be an amazing ride.
5:20 noooo Tiannas asserting her dominance over the riders
Do know what Disney should do? Combine both splash mountain and Tiana’s bayou adventure together
It’s so sad the downgrade Disney made with this after millions of dollars. Splash Mountain felt like the critters lived there, we came into their world. It’s so awkward seeing the next animatronic silently waiting up ahead for you to pass their sensor. Put them on a loop like how it was before, so it puts some actual life into them. We didn’t spend money to watch screens either, but to be immersed into an imaginary world. The place feels like they scraped the bare minimum of the barrel just to try to entertain us. A few critters scattered throughout the bayou feels like they are coming out just for us, then to get back into the dark void. Just stick to doing rides based on the movies like the classic Fantasyland dark rides, add Facilier, “Are you ready” for the drop, and put Tiana in her gown at the finale with a familiar song on the recycled riverboat scene…would have been amazing! I’ve seen so many comments of African Americans saying they didn’t care about the Song of the South drama, because the ride didn’t convey that at all and was an enjoyable experience for decades! Poor Tony Baxter and what they’ve done to his masterpiece, and the millions who will grow up never knowing the classic of a ride Splash was.
RIP all those America Sings animatronics...
We all miss your charm that was so iconic...
But no one of these animatronics was saved...
Being massacred and buried in a mass grave...
And joining Eagle Sam in animatronic heaven...
This current dark ride is so rushed and uneven....
1:16 someone asked bro English or Spanish 💀💀💀
Yikes! I knew TBA was having issues with its show scenes here and there, but I had no idea it was to this extent. People have only been riding for a week and a half and there are almost as many malfunctioning elements as Splash had towards the end of its life. I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it for myself right here.
Don't worry, TBA will last for 2 or 3 year and Splash will be restored to it's former glory.
@@kylekeller3398
@@kylekeller3398I’d truly love to see that, but the only way Splash being restored would even be a possibility is if there is a massive leadership change and DEI housecleaning at Disney. The best you’re going under The Bob Iger Company or anything resembling it is that they MIGHT feel enough pressure to walk back their stance on Dr. Facilier being “problematic” and find a way to incorporate him during the final lift hill should wait times get abysmally low. Otherwise, the people in charge are committed to their DEI disasterpiece, so don’t hold your breathe on a Splash return unless Nelson Peltz, Elon Musk or someone like them is able to successfully overtake the company and “Restore the Magic”. Until then, just hope that OLC is able to hold the line and fight off The Bob Iger Company’s alleged advances to shutter their version of the attraction.
@@kylekeller3398 I’d truly love to see that, but the only way Splash being restored would even be a possibility is if there is a massive leadership change and DEI housecleaning at Disney. The best you’re going under The Bob Iger Company or anything resembling it is that they MIGHT feel enough pressure to walk back their stance on Dr. Facilier being “problematic” and find a way to incorporate him during the final lift hill should wait times get abysmally low. Otherwise, the people in charge are committed to their DEI disasterpiece, so don’t hold your breathe on a Splash return unless Nelson Peltz, Elon Musk or someone like them is able to successfully overtake the company and “Restore the Magic”. Until then, just hope that OLC is able to hold the line and fight off The Bob Iger Company’s alleged advances to shutter their version of the attraction.
@@kylekeller3398I’d truly love to see that, but the only way Splash being restored would even be a possibility is if there is a massive leadership change and DEI housecleaning at Disney. Under The Bob Iger Company or anything resembling it, the best you’re going to get is that they MIGHT feel enough pressure to walk back their stance on Dr. Facilier being “problematic” and find a way to incorporate him during the final lift hill should wait times get abysmally low. Otherwise, the people in charge are committed to their DEI disasterpiece, so don’t hold your breathe on a Splash return unless Nelson Peltz, Elon Musk or someone like them is able to successfully overtake the company and “Restore the Magic”. Until then, just hope that OLC is able to hold the line and fight off The Bob Iger Company’s alleged advances to shutter their version of the attraction.
Thanks for waiting 3 hours so I don't have to. Luckily I live in Japan and we don't have to deal with this for yet.
5:51
The text had my insides 😂
This video is just brilliant! The guy laughing hysterically certainly makes it.
That A-Posing Tiana though.
tear it all down and put splash back how it was
Amen!
I have a dream that they'll eventually do that. But once they invest money,they stick by it. Especially when there's political motivations behind it. We're still stuck with "Soarin' Around the World" at DCA even though everyone agrees it pales in comparison to the original. Damn, I need to become a Disney CEO so I can fix this.
@@johnsmi213 Somebody who is anti-woke and supports things like, Song of the South?
Yep
@@johnsmi213it still pisses me off that they changed Soarin to that bullshit. It's called CALIFORNIA Adventure park for a reason, dumb fucks! Not WORLD adventure. And to put that Guardians bullshit over HOLLYWOOD Tower of Terror was another stupid mistake for a park supposed to be about CALIFORNIA
I was always waiting for animatronic malfunctions from this ride and Tpm vids. Glad I finally have a little dose to hold me over till the next one lol
1:17 me when I’m out with my friends but remember I have an assignment due at 11:59 PM 😭😭
I don’t know whether to give a thumbs up on this video because this channel has shown the truth about what Disney has done to the beloved splash mountain, or to give it a thumbs down because this video shows Tiana’s bum hole in such a negative light. Either case I subscribed to this channel thanks to the WDW pro channel.
Happy to report the second Louis animatronic with Tiana and paw paw has YET to be fixed, even after going on it 4 times, still broken which is insane.
The last 2D animated film produced by Disney deserved so much better.
I feel so bad for Princess and the Frog being put into this. That movie has it's own issues, some people love it some hate it, it's whatever. And some people use this situation to make it look like Disney is woke or something, when they literally do not care about any of that, they just rushed a bad concept in a bad area and tried to make a good reason out of it.
BUT the og film looked good, they had really pretty, amazing scenes in that movie in the Bayou. The movie made the Bayou look magical and a little scary. I don't know how possible it would've been to make any ride based on the movie, simply because they were literally frogs the entire time lol But the fact that this ride currently looks this terrible (conceptually and literally), it feels like no one was thinking about the actual film or how to make a good ride. And I don't even think it's a cash grab at this point because idk who is excited to ride it, it's just being stupid with money.
I bet fans of the movie would've come up with much better locations and concepts than this, ones that look good and have that magic to them. It's disrespectful to the audience Disney claims to be making this for in the press and articles and to disrespectful their own property (but they've been disrespectful to both of those for years now so I'm not surprised actually).
And they decided to omit the best part of the movie, Dr. Facilier, from the ride and story. **facepalm**
Princess and the frog deserved better and so do the Brer characters. 😔
I'll tell Sid you loved Tales of the Okefenokee lol. He's 94 and sometimes goes through Six Flags Nostalgia from his pre tv show days when he ran puppet shows and helped with the rides.