Description: This is a VINTAGE Original 1993 Orange County Register Story FAMILY TRIP TO DISNEYLAND who ride SPLASH MOUNTAIN SPLASH MOUNTAIN is now closed to due changing times ........; How Splash Mountain Became Disney's Most Problematic Ride The original stories were revisionist history. The 1946 source film was picketed. Yet in 1989 Disney still went ahead and made "Song of the South" into a ride. Here's how Splash Mountain became such a thorn in Disney's side. Despite those valid criticisms of Song of the South—described at the time as "an insult to minorities" by Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.—in 1989, Disney took the movie and adapted it into Splash Mountain, which would become one of the most popular rides at Disney parks. Even at the time of the ride's debut, the company knew the movie was objectionable. Then, as now, it was deemed too racist to distribute commercially—at least in the United States. Disney was willing to release the film in foreign countries, where racial scrutiny was not as intense. Now Disney is getting itself out. Following recent headlines about a public campaign of petitions to force Disney to re-theme the ride to 2009's The Princess and the Frog, the company has finally announced it will do exactly that. Not coincidentally, The Princess and the Frog was the company's first animated feature starring an African American princess. The movie is set in 1912 New Orleans and the Bayou—not a far cry from the swamps of Uncle Remus when it comes to geography, but generations away in content and tone. Update, July 2022: Disney has announced that the revised version of Splash Mountain will be called Tiana's Bayou Adventure. It is scheduled to open in late 2024. Update, December 2022: The last day of operation for the Walt Disney World location of Splash Mountain was announced as January 22, 2023. ITEM in Good Condition. Multiple FLAT PURCHASES can combine for ONE MAILING FEE.
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: Kailua Kona, Hawaii
End Time: 2023-11-14T19:14:39.000Z
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Brand: DISNEYLAND
Character/Story/Theme: DISNEYLAND LINE
Year: 1994
Featured Refinements: Disneyland
