Disney officials announced Friday that Splash Mountain would be renamed Tiana's Bayou Adventure after receiving a "Princess and the Frog" makeover in late 2024, USA Today and Newsweek reported. The announcement was made at the ESSENCE Fest in New Orleans.
Disney officials announced Friday that Splash Mountain will be renamed Tiana's Bayou Adventure after it receives a "Princess and the Frog" makeover in late 2024, USA Today reports. The announcement was made at the ESSENCE Fest in New Orleans.
Disney is converting Splash Mountain into "Tiana's Bayou Adventure," an attraction that will highlight the company's first Black princess and be a "love letter to New Orleans." Why it matters: Splash Mountain has been a fan favorite for years. In 2020, Disney said it would change the concept to be more inclusive.
The closing of the 30-year-old ride — which Princess Diana visited in 1993 — follows years of calls for change because it features several characters from Disney's 1946 film "Song of the South," which featured racist stereotypes.
Maybe it's gonna be the new Billie Holiday ride. Could be good." Rock 'n' Roller Coaster closed in February to begin a refurbishment and is expected to reopen in late summer 2023. Disney has said that no changes are planned to the ride experience, which would suggest that no changes to the music or theme will be made.
"Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith" closed on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, to undergo refurbishment, according to Walt Disney World's website, and is expected to reopen sometime over the summer. "This rocktastic attraction will resume its super-stretch limo rides in summer 2023," reads a note on Disney's website.
Presented by Josh D'Amaro, The Walt Disney Company's Chairperson of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, the Parks panel revealed that the Space Mountain and Tomorrowland Plaza retheme and rework is officially underway — and that we now have the timeline formally confirmed, along with a gorgeous new image showcasing the ...
Disney announced plans to close Splash Mountain – at Disneyland and Walt Disney World – in 2020 after a petition to change the beloved water ride's theme went viral.
In 2020, technically 3 years ago but roughly 80 years ago in emotion time, Disney announced they would officially be closing the Splash Mountain ride and replacing it with a new one named Tiana's Bayou Adventure based on the animated hit The Princess and the Frog.
What ride did Winnie the Pooh replace in Disney World?
On August 27, 1998, Walt Disney World officially announced the closure of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. The attraction closed on September 7, 1998, to make room for The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which opened on June 4, 1999.
(NEXSTAR) – The roller coaster selection at Disney World will be a bit less “rockin'” in 2023. Walt Disney World has confirmed that the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster — officially known as the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith — will temporarily shutter for refurbishment beginning Feb. 20, 2023.
Space Mountain will temporarily transform into Hyperspace Mountain starting May 1st. Space Mountain is expected to reopen (and be back to its “usual” form) on June 5th, 2023. Back in 2022, we saw this done in late April as well, in anticipation of May the 4th (as in May the 4th Be With You — a.k.a. Star Wars day!).
Disneyland's Space Mountain will be closed for a lengthy refurbishment next month. The closure begins September 18, 2023, and will last through mid-Fall 2023. Disney has yet to announce the scope of the work, and if it will involve any changes to the ride experience.
Race through the cosmos in the dark to the edge of the galaxy and back on a thrilling roller-coaster ride. Space Mountain will be closed for refurbishment, beginning September 18, 2023, and will reopen October 27, 2023.
After spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build an immersive “Star Wars”-themed hotel at Walt Disney World, Disney said on Thursday that, amid sweeping corporate cost-cutting, it would close the underperforming attraction in September, only about 18 months after it opened.
The California version closed in January 2017 and was replaced by Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!, which was later incorporated into Avengers Campus in 2021. The Tower of Terror buildings are among the tallest structures found at their respective Disney resorts.
Despite being a fan favorite, Disneyland's Tower of Terror was closed to be rethemed around the blockbuster "Guardians of the Galaxy" Marvel film and had its last ride on January 2, 2017.
These decisions are all made for the same reason, to improve the guest experience and appeal to more guests. This is the exact reason the Tower of Terror will no longer be a thrill ride. Disney is going to turn the Tower of Terror into a normal elevator. The new ride will follow the same path as it currently does.
Now, inspired by the film 'The Princess and the Frog', Tiana's Bayou Adventure will replace Splash Mountain as Walt Disney World. The new installment will offer sights and sounds of New Orleans to both the resorts in 2024.
Following controversy, Splash Mountain is now closed for redesign and will reopen as Tiana's Bayou Adventure in late 2024. Fans had one final run down Splash Mountain in Florida's Disney World on Sunday, before it closed for good. It had been in operation since 1992.
This was the tallest and the fastest version of any Space Mountain attraction and the only one to include inversions and to feature a portion of track outside the mountain itself (that being the station and the launch Cannon).
