Tiana's Bayou Adventure will change the whole story around Splash Mountain at Disneyland and Disney World.
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Fans have known since 2020 that Splash Mountain was getting a new "Princess and the Frog" theme, but the timing and name were officially revealed Friday at ESSENCE Fest in New Orleans, weeks after Tony Award-winning actress Anika Noni Rose, who voices Tiana, let the year slip during an interview on "Live with Kelly and Ryan."
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Amazing and wonderful 🤩🤩🤩
This is awful news!!!!!
Yay! It’s going to be a fantastic ride, looking forward to it!! 💙
Awful
Disney are putting themselves in a grave
BINGO
Since when does New Orleans have mountains?! And why is a Disney Princess in Frontierland?! They belong in Fantasyland… If Disney wanted diversity, why not The Jungle Book? There were lots of alternative options and someone in an executive chair wanted to cherry pick a specific character.
Funny how they’re removing a ride that is based on black folklore and replacing it with a ride that’s based on white European stories that are portrayed with black characters. And what are the odds that they pick a black character instead of any other franchise ex. The jungle book
What if the new Princess and the Frog ride was made a decade earlier?
I hope I get to do one last ride on there in the next few years
Really bizzare name for the attraction – should have stayed splash mountain as the name
So let me get this straight. Big brain modern day Disney is going to replace a very iconic ride that has a memorable song known as zippity doo dah and change the theme with The Princess and the Frog? The same movie that bombed domestically and barely made its money back because of international sales? This is going to blow up in their face.
The princess and the frog costed 105,000,000 to make and only made 104,400,899 domestically while making 166,596,479 internationally totaling to 270,997,378 overall.
If you’re going to replace Splash Mountain which I am certain a lot of people don’t agree with the idea, including myself, at the very least use a memorable concept like The Lion King (no not the live action version), because that would’ve at least been a much better set up than the princess and the frog.
Dear Disney, do you know what doesn’t have mountains New Orleans, you know what does Central America, you know what movie takes place in Central America,The Emperors New Groove. So heres my question, why not just make a ride based on that, theres multiple segments from the film that would fit perfectly before the drop.