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Splash mountain1/3/2024 Admittedly, this is mostly due to the roughly 50-foot drop at the end, but I’ve been willing to push my fear of falling aside in the name of exceptional theming on thrill rides such as Rise of the Resistance. You will actually notice this in place on many attractions if you keep an eye out in the loading area.Splash Mountain has always been my least favorite attraction at Disney theme parks. It lets cast members know that the logs are about to move in the station so that they are prepared for guests to move out and the next guests to disembark. You may have noticed that there is a lantern that flashes from time to time in the area where you are boarding your log vehicle. To give you an idea, there are around 950,000 gallons of water in this attraction, so plenty of water can end up giving you a big splash!ġ – What does the flashing street lantern in the loading area mean? There are geysers that shoot, waterfalls that could drench one side of your log vehicle, backsplash from the drops, and more. There are actually a few different points where you could get wet. I think this means that we all need to go to all of these locations and ride each one so we can decide which one is better! The drops are at varying steepness, creating different ride experiences depending on which one you ride. The height of the drops at each of the three locations that have Splash Mountain (California, Florida, and Tokyo), but the amount of drops and the details of the drops themselves are different. It is the only song from the movie that you can find on soundtracks, even though other songs are heard during different sections of the attraction.ģ – The drops are different at all 3 of the Disney parks. However, the song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah is still a popular Disney fanfare that is played in the parks and appears on various soundtracks. So we already talked about how Disney really wants to forget about the movie “Song of the South” and what was included in it. We are glad they didn’t recreate the original story for the attraction, as it likely wouldn’t have gone over very well.Ĥ – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah is the only remaining Song of the South song that Disney plays. In the attraction, Brer Rabbit gets caught in a honeycomb instead. In the original story from the movie, Brer Fox uses a “tar baby” (a doll made from turpentine and tar that appears to resemble an African-American baby) to trick him and resulting in him getting stuck in the tar. ![]() The ride doesn’t include any controversial issues and focuses on one of the stories Uncle Remus tells.ĥ – Brer Rabbit’s attempted demise is changed from the movie. The ride is the only reminder left of the movie that Disney has kept going. This movie received a lot of bad press over the years for being a racially offensive movie to African Americans with various considered to be racist slurs. ![]() Have you ever heard of or seen “Song of the South”? If you haven’t, you won’t be able to find this one in stores and will have to look for a copy from another country. Jess Harnell is the voice for both Wakko Warner and Brer Rabbit!Ħ – The attraction is based on a movie that Disney has since tried to distance itself from. Wakko Warner is a popular character from Animaniacs (Warner Brothers). The idea never took off, but the name stuck around!ħ – Brer Rabbit and Wakko Warner are the same voice. He came up with the name “Splash Mountain” as part of the concept for that direction. The original planned name for this attraction was actually “Zip-a-Dee River Run.” So how did we end up with “Splash Mountain”? Michel Eisner considered changing directions and wanted to promote “Splash,” the new (at that time) mermaid movie with Tom Hanks.
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