![]() ![]() “Rip Splash Mountain,” dozens of comments said. ![]() ![]() There were montages of a crowd sobbing as the Splash Mountain doors closed and there are even dozens of profiles on eBay that list mason jars, bottles, and plastic bags of Splash Mountain water for sale. Since Friday, TikTok has been inundated with funeral-like tributes to the ride, fans created a makeshift memorial by its gates, and hundreds of Disney goers waited outside of line in an attempt to be the last group of guests onboard. A 2020 petition to stop the retheme received over 98,000 signatures, and even as late as Sunday night, some TikTok commenters were still desperate to find a way to save their beloved log ride. Even after Splash Mountain’s final day had been set, thousands of Disney fans online protested that the move was an example of cancel culture and shifted from celebration to all-out mourning. Set to mournful Disney trailercore edits, Disney fans on TikTok captured the influx of people who flooded the park to watch the ride open and stayed sobbing until the last log, full of Disney cast members, gave one final splash to a standing ovation.īut some Disney fans weren’t particularly happy about news of the re-theme. On TikTok, the hashtag #goodbyesplashmountain has 1 million views, with hundreds of viral videos capturing the four-plus hour wait fans had to endure. And boy, oh boy, do Disney Adults know how to say goodbye. The so-called “retheming” of Splash Mountain is an effort on Disney’s part to make its attractions more “inclusive” - which is a very fancy way of saying Disney is removing the ride because it’s based on a notoriously racist movie.Ĭonstruction began Monday morning on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, a new version of the ride based on Disney’s first Black princess Tiana, from the 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog - making Sunday the last day to ride the original Splash Mountain. No, hundreds of Disney enthusiasts flocked to the Florida theme park to say goodbye to the controversial but dearly beloved ride Splash Mountain.įirst opened in 1989, the ride is a 10-minute log flume that takes viewers through woods populated with singing animatronics and a final, splash-heavy drop at the end. It wasn’t for a person, mostly because the park’s strict rules would never allow that, even if the person was buried in a trademarked Disney coffin. There was a funeral at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on Sunday night. ![]()
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