Disney on Friday disclosed the name and opening yr of the prolonged-awaited Splash Mountain revamp. The update comes about two yrs soon after Disney first fully commited to getting rid of the ride’s longtime theming, which took audio, characters and landscapes from the 1946 movie Tune of the South.
The new attraction will center on Disney’s 2009 movie The Princess and the Frog and will be renamed as Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. Guests traveling to Disneyland Park in California and Magic Kingdom Park in Florida will be able to enjoy the revamped attraction in late 2024.
The new opening 12 months and name had been unveiled through an celebration at Essence Fest in New Orleans.
In a web site post, Disney described the experience as “picking up in which the movie left off,” including that “attendees will sign up for Princess Tiana, Naveen, and jazz-loving alligator Louis on an experience through the bayou as they get ready to host a just one-of-a-form Mardi Gras Celebration the place absolutely everyone is welcome.”
Walt Disney Imagineering executives Ted Robledo and Charita Carter heaped praise on the new attraction at the function right now, with Carter calling it a “adore letter to New Orleans.”
Splash Mountain became the concentrate on of petitions on Adjust.org amid the Black Lives Make a difference motion in 2020. The attraction, which opened in 1989 at Disneyland, integrated things from Song of the South, a live-action film mixed with an animated musical. The movie is set on a Southern plantation after the Civil War and has been criticized for glorifying slavery and endorsing racist stereotypes.
