Last of the Splash Mountain signage removed as work continues at Tiana's Bayou Adventure in Magic Kingdom

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Thursday March 16, 2023 12:19pm ET · "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"
Last of the Splash Mountain signage removed as work continues at Tiana's Bayou Adventure in Magic Kingdom
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The final pieces of Splash Mountain signage have been removed from the former attraction's main entrance area, including the standby sign marking the queue entry.



Elsewhere on the mountain, work continues on the splash-down area, and a crane is onsite moving equipment at the back of the attraction.


Tiana's Bayou Adventure remains on track to open in late 2024, with significant changes to the mountain coming this summer as the new water tower is installed.

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↩ replying to Dunston
I always considered the drop itself to be the Weenie, with Brer Fox’s lair as just a frame to accentuate it.

They seem to be wanting the tower to be the Weenie, but someone decided that placing it cockeyed off to the side of the drop, and lower than the rest of the mountain, was a good idea.
↩ replying to FettFan
Something was needed to collect all the water people have been carrying in support of these increasingly head-scratching design choices
↩ replying to Magenta Panther
I wish that were true. The internet is forever but many sites are not forever and a lot of great ride videos are gone thanks to many sites going down which serves as a testament for why preservation is not infinite. Its merely a temporary way for some people to reminisce but the old videos never capture entirely the glory of the original ride. Just look at Journey into imagination or horizons videos.
↩ replying to jeanericuser001
Wait until TWDC starts filing DMCA complaints
I'm accepting of the re-theme to Tiana. It's the salt mine execution that gives me trepidation.
How will they even make this work in Frontierland? Disneyland’s works because Splash is by New Orleans Square's Haunted Mansion, but there is no New Orleans Square at WDW.
↩ replying to EPCOT-O.G.
That’s an interesting Catch-22 for Mouse House.

Allegedly, SotS will enter the public domain in 2041…meaning that if someone wanted to build a new version of Splash Mountain using Disney’s version of those characters, they theoretically could.

So…would Disney dare fight and claim that it’s still their trademark, as they’re expected to do with Steamboat Willie? Or will they continue to ignore it?

Or will they continue to try to have their cake and eat it too? Schrodinger’s Song of the South

It’s also a strange reversal….George Lucas famously HATES the Star Wars Holiday Special, once claimed that he wanted to find and destroy every copy.

But when Disney got ahold of Star Wars…
https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2022/11/celebrate-star-wars-life-day-with-disney/
↩ replying to cdunlap
This change has nothing to do with making anything “work”. They needed to erase Splash.
↩ replying to Disstevefan1
No they needed a princess in it
↩ replying to JoeCamel
Aye. So many other viable options, but none of them had the Disney Princess(tm) branding.
↩ replying to Disstevefan1
Look at Disneyland! They have a PATF store already and they’re building a Tiana's Palace restaurant! I don’t know about you, but I sense that Pecos Bill's might be getting replaced by Tiana's Palace in the near future!
Since Tiana's story is strongly associated with food, though salt is an ingredient in food, what about something like Tabasco sauce and its growing / production or crawfish farming and use in multiple dishes rather than salt mining?

P.S. Maybe, Tabasco can be approached to see if they would be a sponsor?
↩ replying to GimpYancIent
Makes more sense than mining!
↩ replying to cdunlap
I wouldn't be surprised. It no longer matters if something fits or not.

I used to love Pecos taco salad with the taco shell bowl, I always got that. I haven't been there since they changed the food.

As time goes on, I have a list of things I loved that are gone at WDW.
↩ replying to FettFan
Disney would absolutely ignore. No major companies are gonna touch anything about SOTS with a 10 & a half foot pole, so it'd just be tiny parks attempting to do that.

As for Life Day, the holiday has become a fun joke amongst the Star Wars fanbase. There was stuff from the old Expanded Universe (under George) that referenced it too. So this is just Disney embracing the joke.