Bob Iger HATES the Splash Mountain Replacement?! But Disney May Have a Campaign to STOP Critics!

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7 ай бұрын

Bob Iger HATES the Splash Mountain Replacement?! But Disney May Have a Campaign to STOP Critics!
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A new report by ‪@MickeyViews‬ claims that Bob Iger was given a walk-through of the Splash Mountain replacement and was utterly unimpressed. The Disney CEO is reported to have told Imagineers it is boring. Still, if another rumor is to be believed, that might not stop Disney from maligning critics of the ride. Today, we're examining what could be going on with a huge embarrassment coming to Disney Parks in 2024.
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@KingYertle082 7 ай бұрын

Fun Fact, the Magic Kingdom Splash mountain was painted a different color than the California and Tokyo attractions to create better Sightlines with Big Thunder. Imagineering even changed the Music on the Florida ride, crafting a more Country undertone because the ride was located in Frontierland as opposed to Disneyland were it was built in Critter Country. Those attention to details is what made Disney World the world's most visited theme park and shows the passion the previous generation held for Walt's vision of a fully themed and immersive experience. Its disappointing to see that management has lost that reverence.

@MephiticMiasma 7 ай бұрын

it started at the top,

@hellomynameis-ue7tc 9 сағат бұрын

This is what happens when you stop designing with your imagination and start designing with perceived political and social constructs.

@dariusq8894 7 ай бұрын

Keep in mind that when Disney ruined Journey into Imagination it was done without malice, and it failed. Splash Mountain was destroyed maliciously. 😢

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

You said it perfectly. Journey into Imagination felt like a genuine mistake. Splash Mountain though? No. That was a calculated move. They saw an opportunity to do some performative activism and they took it. They know it was wrong, they know people are angry, and they don't care.

@CrazyManhog 7 ай бұрын

@Skibidi-Doo-Dah They only used the animals for reason. The imagineers knew the ride was racist so they decided to only use the cartoon characters and chnage up the story and make it so (The Fox chases the Rabbit)

@kerrytakashi12 7 ай бұрын

Journey into Imagination was done in malice. There was a story that another employee did not like the guy who headed the Journey project. As soon as this employee was promoted to a position of power in Epcot, he trashed Journey.

@kerrytakashi12 7 ай бұрын

@@CrazyManhog the ride was not racist. It was based on real American folklore. But it was trashed for something that was racist.

@sealy1 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I’m feeling like this is gonna be another Journey Into YOUR Imagination.

@frednone 7 ай бұрын

Yes because attacking critics has worked so well for them.

@matthewdavies2057 7 ай бұрын

They just can't stop. Double down again! Instead of fixing the woke problem they create a new department to DEFEND the problem. Disney is doomed.

@animezilla4486 7 ай бұрын

Disagree there are a lot of other problems at Disney

@finstor3386 7 ай бұрын

Whos going to fix it? The entire company is woke. There is no one in the company to fix it.

@thehikingcucumber3410 7 ай бұрын

Disney feels old and bad. Like last century. Universal is the future.

@stanfordite1 7 ай бұрын

@@finstor3386 I'm going to be taking over Disney and will be the Trump it needs to make it great again.

@Disneyfan82 7 ай бұрын

@@stanfordite1 To Hell with Trump. He doesn't care about Disney. He only cares about himself.

@glorygloryholeallelujah 7 ай бұрын

Instead of investing the money into improving the park/rides, so there are fewer critics-they are choosing to use it to insult and denigrate anyone who doesn’t like the new, low quality, experience… That financial decision is about as *”modern day Disney”* as you can possibly get. 🤦‍♀️🤣

@matthewrawlings1284 7 ай бұрын

"You can do something once, maybe twice, but never three times" as a military strategist put it. I think the strategy of attacking critical customers is showing diminishing returns...

@TheTrentReport 7 ай бұрын

Aptly put. People are on to the tactic now. Interestingly, a lesson that is taught to the Alliance of Free Peoples in the early chapters of The Legend of Galactic Heroes.

@F1ackm0nk3y 7 ай бұрын

Like Clockwork, when Disney is faced with a decision, you can count on them to make the wrong one.

@shadowbeast2276 7 ай бұрын

Every time

@Nandoazul1119 7 ай бұрын

I was in Japan trying to go to slash mountain! We gave up since it was a 4 hour wait! My girlfriend who is Japanese couldn't understand why there were so many foringers at this ride! She was in total shock when I explained to her what was happening to this ride back in America!

@timfolly7323 7 ай бұрын

They need to employ the George Costanza methodology. Whatever Iger’s gut instinct is, do the opposite and Disney will be better off.

@ricktr6861 7 ай бұрын

I can't wait until they re-theme Space Mountain to the Marvels.

@andycig2993 7 ай бұрын

I am 70 years old and never have I viewed Splash Mountain in any way as racist. Sadly, I will never view its replacement as anything but racist!

@RLucas3000 7 ай бұрын

That’s pretty insane. You may have Alzheimer’s so you should get checked for it by your doctor. The Brer animated characters are pretty racist, like some of the older Warner Brothers and Tom & Jerry cartoons were. You can find these cartoons on KZfaq, but you probably don’t think they are racist either. And you are saying an attraction based on an African-American is racist. Wow. I’m 59 and I can recognize racism so I’m sorry you no longer can. Seriously, get some medical or psychiatric help.

@vana.johnson8845 7 ай бұрын

Yeah a Civil War era Slave Mine that was a Smart Idea for a replacement. About as Smart as letting Michael Vick Baby sit your Dog!

@tammerahanes1792 7 ай бұрын

I agree im 64 and was raised on song of the south and Loved it. Also the uncle remus tales. It is not racist. 😊😊😊😊😊

@taffysaur 6 ай бұрын

@@tammerahanes1792The people who complain about it generally haven’t actually seen it and can’t articulate any applicable criticism of it.

@stanfordite1 6 ай бұрын

@@RLucas3000 The Brer characters are absolutely not racist and you have zero right to say what's racist. As a military man, if I say something isn't racist, then it's not racist. I outrank you and you take orders from me, civvie.

@katef96 7 ай бұрын

“Don’t judge it before it’s complete!” Well, considering the fact that this is happening because they felt they had to get rid of Splash above all else and taking everything related to it and the characters out of the parks, it’s kinda hard not to be judgmental. I know Disney wants me to treat this as a new original attraction but if they wanted me to do that, they should have just actually built a brand new ride and left Splash alone.

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

I will judge it before it's complete. Disney clearly thought that interior footage was good enough to be shown to the public, therefore, we are allowed to judge what is being presented to us. And frankly, compared to how it used to look, it's lazy and embarrassing. If you're going to replace one of the best Disney attractions ever built, then that replacement had better be something truly groundbreaking. But so far, that's definitely not the case.

@adrianmizen5070 2 ай бұрын

pretty good strategy considering it's never going to be complete

@estherrodriguez8969 7 ай бұрын

With a heart full of hate and envy, how can anyone create beautiful and meaninful things.

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

I've already had someone wish death upon my family for saying I don't like it, so you can just tell how insecure the people are defending this moronic decision.

@TraciPeteyforlife 7 ай бұрын

Figures that is all they can do. No one is allowed an opinion they can't control. I say unto those who assault you. The Feds are coming for them. As they likely are tax dodgers. May the IRS come for them.

@suroguner 7 ай бұрын

there's only one thing to say to someone like that. "Bye, have a beautiful time!" and piss them off with how they haven't got under your skin. (harder to do in person than online through text)

@HauntinMatthew1969 7 ай бұрын

Wow. People like the are awful😢

@Disneyfan82 7 ай бұрын

No point in praying for insecure psychopaths who are beyond redemption.

@Disneyfan82 7 ай бұрын

@@HauntinMatthew1969Those psychos are beyond redemption.

@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets 7 ай бұрын

That "mural" looks like it was painted by a modern kid who is "special" and tries to start fires when unsupervised.

@ricktr6861 7 ай бұрын

And didn't take his medication.

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

watch..., they'll push prints of this trash in the gift shop and make white ppl feel bad about 'not supporting black artists'

@davidguthrie6316 6 ай бұрын

There's no need to actually sink to do Disney's level and start being aggressive. They think fans are insensitive and cruel, don't prove them right. I'm on the spectrum myself and these jokes can be legitimately harmful to me and some of my peers. Having autism doesn't make you want to paint a strange-looking mural for Disney

@QuatrinaVR 7 ай бұрын

Friendly reminder that bayous aren’t on mountains, Louisiana has no mountains, and salt domes don’t form mountains

@johnsouth3912 7 ай бұрын

Well, the world is upside down now so salt domes are inverted mountains.

@scarlett9050 7 ай бұрын

None of that means anything. The attraction is based on a black character. That’s all that matters.

@cendresaphoenix1974 6 ай бұрын

Disney knows that there are swamps and alligators in Florida right? Just go to the Everglades it's free and nearby... Most importantly there are real alligators.

@vicentenunez9390 5 ай бұрын

A jungle book theme would’ve been better

@VTdarkangel 7 ай бұрын

Attacking fans is not defending yourself. It is creating apathy instead. Apathy is deadly to a company. Apparently, Disney refuses to learn that lesson.

@MT-tu8dt 7 ай бұрын

You know the ride is gonna be bad when Disney is preparing statements to call out people that say it’s bad.

@stanfordite1 6 ай бұрын

The ride isn't going to be happening. It's fake. I however am going to be writing a book slandering Disney management's families including their kids. I will compare Iger to a certain 1930s German leader. Like what are they going to do about it?

@gregr3720 7 ай бұрын

The sad thing about it is we will be stuck with Tiana's Boring Adventure from here on. It's not like they're going to change it back.

@katef96 7 ай бұрын

Make an animal fable/folktale land in AK and rebuild it there (I know, pipe dream)

@stanfordite1 6 ай бұрын

No we aren't. Tiana is not happening. Splash Mountain will still be Splash Mountain in 2046 for WDW's 75th and Disneyland's centennial in 2055 long after the Make Disney Great Again movement has restored Disney to its former 20th Century glory.

@Brian80s 7 ай бұрын

Disney handled it the wrong way. If they were going to remove it, it should have been handled with tact. Respect it, take parts of it and put them in some sort of gallery/museum and preserve them. Instead they allowed their "employees" to go viral showing them dismantling the ride so many adored and having a grand old time doing so. It was a slap in the face.

@tankertom3243 7 ай бұрын

It was on purpose. It was supposed to show disdain for and be a slap in the face of the white patriarchy. Just like everything else disney has been doing the last few years.

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

Personally, I think those parts should have been donated to the Wren's Nest. It's the home of Joel Chandler Harris in Atlanta and is open to the public as a museum of traditional African American storytelling. Either that or just auction them off to fans, anything is better than sending them to landfill.

@bloodlinefilms 7 ай бұрын

@@TheFoxFromSplashMountainat least they can be tracked down at the landfill. it wont be an easy road to restoration but it can be done

@Mrguypersonmandudebro 7 ай бұрын

I used to dream of taking my kids to Disneyland. Now I wouldn’t accept free tickets

@robertgon3649 7 ай бұрын

Lmao I highly doubt you wouldn’t accept free tickets but carry on

@robertlynch9678 7 ай бұрын

Why do you doubt it? I wouldn’t accept them. The place is a shithole.

@princessmarlena1359 7 ай бұрын

@@robertgon3649 shaddup, Disney shill.

@stanfordite1 7 ай бұрын

@@robertgon3649 Shilling for a business is against the law.

@cendresaphoenix1974 6 ай бұрын

@@robertgon3649 I mean free tickets paid trip maybe but just free tickets? Nah.

@johnvictor2451 7 ай бұрын

If they even whisper racism or xenophobia they can eat my DVC points, all 1000 plus of them!

@someguy4253 7 ай бұрын

What an unnecessary risk and waste of money to ruin their most popular ride. How incompetent do you have to be to break things that have already proven to be successful for decades? I hope Nelson Peltz gets his seats ASAP and they clean house!

@kalzium8857 7 ай бұрын

Tianas Bayou adventure will probably a maintenance saving measure. Splash mountain had many animatronics. I think Disney is using the problematic backstory of the ride as a shield against criticsm.

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

That's my theory too. They needed to cut costs and making up some meaningless DEI rubbish was the perfect excuse to axe one of their most loved rides.

@fifthward1983 7 ай бұрын

so instead of maintaining a ride you rebuild it to save money? its much cheaper to maintain a ride. this is the most loved ride in wdw of course they had to get rid of it .........makes alot of business sense...........almost like someone or some group is paying for this because the people in charge know they are going to take a financial hit for making unpopular decisions like this.

@mupty 7 ай бұрын

They let the animatronics rot intentionally for years to justify the change further along the line... ...and then one day, a dude O.D.'d on fentanyl...

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

@@mupty I don't think that was always the intention, since I rode it in 2019 and everything was in working order. However, there was definitely a noticeable lack of maintenence immediately after the announcement for TBA was made. Sinking logs, frequently broken animatronics and just awful neglect overall. I'm surprised no one was injured to be honest.

@davidguthrie6316 6 ай бұрын

@@fifthward1983 They did this exact thing on Test Track. Refurbished the ride to have more screens and save money

@bsharp3281 7 ай бұрын

It was inevitable that corporate culture would eventually suck the artistry and humanity from Disney. It's too bright and shiny for corporate mediocrity to ignore

@jimbla9921 7 ай бұрын

Why fix what was not broken? The toppling of Splash Mountain will remain a crater in each park. There is not enough shine to put on this turd.

@johnvictor2451 7 ай бұрын

Tiana's Unnecessary Adventure!

@matthewdavies2057 7 ай бұрын

Who in hell is Tiana?

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

'Tiana's slavery escape slide'

@matthewdavies2057 7 ай бұрын

@@eclipsehorse8693 Love it.

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

@@matthewdavies2057 hahahah think about it, Two Shower Bob was touring the one in Disneylaand- and commented how boring it was- ,maybe they need to take us (and Tiana) on a run thru the bayou and on the Underground railroad to 'escape da whyte man' and flee to the norf. the drop could be just as slave catchers and hound dogs catch up to us and we need to 'do a peter pan right off the bridge' to quote 'the movie 'the Fugitive' :)

@cendresaphoenix1974 6 ай бұрын

@@matthewdavies2057it's the black princess Disney doesn't actually care about :/

@laserblast92 7 ай бұрын

Tiana's toilet bowl adventure featuring Bob Iger circling the drain......

@kerrytakashi12 7 ай бұрын

Even the Tidy Bowl man will avoid cleaning up that mess.

@outkast40 7 ай бұрын

We as black folks didn't ask for these fake Disney movies. We, like everyone else in this country want original ,well written content.

@CarolCityCane305 7 ай бұрын

So Tiana the only black princess at Disney being a frog for most of the film wasn’t a big problem for you

@UglyFaceOnAStick-iz8bt 7 ай бұрын

Tell the DEI managers at D and Universal that. Both are black , liberal, activists.

@outkast40 7 ай бұрын

@@UglyFaceOnAStick-iz8bt F-Them ! They are the problem

@user-qi4yf2jr8s 7 ай бұрын

I fully agree with you. I'm not african-American, but I have wondered for sometime, why can't they make wonderful, original movies about African-Americans? Disney demeans the african-american community.

@outkast40 7 ай бұрын

@@user-qi4yf2jr8s it's easier to use a well known movie and swap them with other ethnic groups. They know they will make good money scamming the majority to watch their movies.

@elizabethdavis8264 7 ай бұрын

19:15 exactly. If you read his biography its clear Bob is not the type of guy to take his family to Disneyland or disneyworld on vacation. His personal sensibilities are so far removed from the average disney customer. So if he says its boring... it's gotta be an absolute snoozefest. 😴

@augustusgrim1446 7 ай бұрын

Thanks Iger. You destroyed my kids by killing Splash Mountain and sending the whole company crazy woke. They are now sad when they think of Disneyland. You slaughtered their favorite ride. Most of them tell me there is no reason to go back, while my youngest cries that she can no longer remember Disneyland. We refuse to support Disney until the woke is gone or the company is dead.

@someguy4253 7 ай бұрын

Save up and take them to Tokyo Disneyland. That’s what I’m doing. It’s owned by the Oriental Land Company and not Disney. Ironically it’s the only real Disney left.

@animezilla4486 7 ай бұрын

People don't even know what woke is anymore

@animezilla4486 7 ай бұрын

@@someguy4253Disney still getting money from Tokyo

@augustusgrim1446 7 ай бұрын

@@animezilla4486 Destroying the most popular ride on the face of the earth because it's innocent moral cartoon stories are linked to a movie about the reconstruction era that no one has seen in decades is about as stupid as you can get and is a false show of ridiculous white guilt. I think that is a fairly woke and extremely stupid thing to do.

@stanfordite1 7 ай бұрын

Your kids will be enjoying Splash Mountain at Disneyland for its centennial in 2055. Tiana is not happening.

@jackdorsey6515 7 ай бұрын

Tiana's Bayou Adventure should be called "WOKE MOUNTAIN".

@CarolCityCane305 7 ай бұрын

Yea who wants a black princess anyways

@cendresaphoenix1974 6 ай бұрын

@@CarolCityCane305it's not a problem that she is black it's a problem that they are doing shit no one wants and then making the excuse that it's inclusive.

@SgtSabotage 7 ай бұрын

The Walt Disney Company IS a inhouse propaganda position.

@klceltic 7 ай бұрын

I think it would be fitting for these people to be forever known as "The people that destroyed 'The Happy Place'". I was on the opening crew for Splash Photo, and some of my fondest memories is needing to walk threw the Happy Place scene to get up to the camera. I would stand in the shadows and watch whole families together singing along. 💔😥

@kerrytakashi12 7 ай бұрын

The sad factor is that I don't think they have the manpower or the talent to upkeep and repair the older rides. It was a source of continual embarrassment for them and proof that they are internally collapsing. So they would rather rip out the more advanced older rides and replace them with day glow paint.

@Kejmur 7 ай бұрын

I see this campaign already. "You are all racist bigots, misogynists, and in overall horrible human beings." Because these days you obviously need to insult your clients all the time. It works like a charm. Ignore those lost billions, it's just a series of unlucky accidents.

@Mr17051963 7 ай бұрын

Welcome to WokeLand! (Or Walt Disney Woke)

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

Yup, pretty much. It's same old ritual they use to defend every failure and bad decision. When in doubt, blame the consumer.

@johngeoffrey1863 7 ай бұрын

Splash Mountain was the ONLY ride based upon a real African American folktale. It was replaced with an adaptation of a Grimm fairytale (2 white authors).

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

@@johngeoffrey1863 That's right. Real African stories that were brought overseas by the enslaved. These stories survived hundreds of years of slavery and white supremacy and are an enduring symbol of resilience.

@fateagle4life 7 ай бұрын

I mean, there are no mountains in the bayou of Louisiana. There are hills and mountains in Georgia, wjere Song Of The South is set.

@srb2834 7 ай бұрын

I work near Avery Island in Louisiana (*where they supposedly took all this inspiration from) and this is looks no where near the woods and bayous, etc around here (*and that’s without taking into account the “mountain” they’re repurposing here lol)

@porcelainthunder2213 7 ай бұрын

1. If Peltz can get in there, I predict Splash Mountain will return within 5 years. 2. Nothin says ghetto like a mural. 3. Why didn’t these morons use the Blue Bayou in DL as Tianas restaurant? They already had the themeing decades ago, ripe for the picking.

@UglyFaceOnAStick-iz8bt 7 ай бұрын

Yep, that's all we see in those murals is ghetto. That's where they came from, low life, violent, thugs. But rich white liberals wet their pants over stuff like that (as long as it isn't in THEIR neighborhood.

@katef96 7 ай бұрын

Because Blue Bayou is probably considered “untouchable” by hardcore fans.

@natie3322 7 ай бұрын

Spending thousands of dollars…to feel transported to the back alley behind a junk shop in the bad part of town…

@moseszero3281 7 ай бұрын

I thought making garbage then attacking the customers for complaining about the smell was Disney's ENTIRE business model now,

@donniebahama 7 ай бұрын

Disney has put "message" before "magic", and they've seem to have forgotten (or not realized ) that although people may agree with the message...they don't necessarily want to pay for it. Turfing Splash Mnt was a bad idea from day one but if they were hell bent on doing it. they should have had a replacement idea that was gonna blow splash out of the water. Next level wow kinda stuff. I don't know what Disney is thinking but I do know that Disneyland is no longer an annual thing for us...the value is just not there anymore and honestly, if i hear a PR firm telling me that I'm hateful person for not liking the new Tiana theme...it makes me want to go even less. Disney is in a serious tail spin and with Universal doing everything right, they should be very concerned about their future....they need someone to hit the brake fast.

@pork-chopxpress 7 ай бұрын

When an automaker puts out a crappy car they don’t get to insult their customers because nobody wanted it. Why do actors and movie studios think they get to do that?

@neccron9956 7 ай бұрын

If I understand it, Disney is going to double down on Woke Mountain by converting Frontierland to theme it to match Woke Mountain (New Orleans).

@tlw1950 7 ай бұрын

Frontierland is now considered culturally offensive.

@stanfordite1 7 ай бұрын

@@tlw1950 No it's not. Those people have zero right to say what's offensive and Frontierland is never changing. When I take over Disney I might go out of my way to offend the woke crowd.

@georgeawestjr.9087 7 ай бұрын

Let Disney go under for all I care. 😁🤣🤪😂🤭🥴🙃😳🙄🤦🤷👌

@animezilla4486 7 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself not everybody wants that

@420hotbox36 2 ай бұрын

@@animezilla4486lol you keep enjoying the US parks with the rising ticket prices and waiting in lines only for the ride to breakdown or riding them on b-mode. The best thing to happen to the US parks is that they go under, get sold to the OLC and get the TDL treatment the US parks deserve

@gregr3720 7 ай бұрын

I move for a vote of no confidence in Josh D'Amaro's leadership.

@m.f.r.5827 7 ай бұрын

I loved and spent a small fortune in the Disney parks for decades; but today, I won't step into a Disney park again, even if it's free.

@johngeoffrey1863 7 ай бұрын

That art is HORRIBLE - and I have an art degree and nearly 40 years paid experience as an artist.

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

same here- it might BE art, but it's not appropriate for where it's going.. this attraction should be themed, and themed right, not serve as a dumping ground for art that happens to come from black artists.

@MephiticMiasma 7 ай бұрын

I guess they had to put it there because it wasn't good enough to go on the fridge.

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

@@MephiticMiasma ,you know where it needs to go- over to Hollywood Studios n Toy Story land- it could be some of Andy's 'drawings'- put it all on some big 'refirgerator door' outside Woody's Round up restaurant

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

I don't think it's bad necessarily, just very ill-fitting for the time period the ride is supposed to take place in. It sticks out like a sore thumb. No thought or attention to detail was put into this project at all. It's a mess.

@fifthward1983 7 ай бұрын

there is nothing racist about splash mountain, im still trying to figure that part out. its not racist in japan. i dont understand woke.

@DefaltVG Ай бұрын

It’s funny I said this in my podcast. People that say it’s racist never even watched or even understand the movie song of the south which was made in 1949

@SandraLovesRoses 7 ай бұрын

Great. A DEI hire. For the love of all things sacred. Merit-based, no matter skin color or sex, is how human race progresses. Enough.

@adrianmizen5070 2 ай бұрын

and just like KK they can never get rid of her for fear of bad optics

@Deertective_ 7 ай бұрын

I had been wondering how many animatronics TBA would have, I expected it to be bad but actually hearing the exact number compared to Splash Mountain’s is hilarious. If even Bob says it’s boring, it’s going to be worse than I thought. I thought the Navi River Journey didn’t have enough to it, but will this be worse?

@CrazyManhog 7 ай бұрын

Honestly all they had to was update Splash Mountains story of why Brer Fox chased after Brer Rabbit

@JSwag_Reviews 6 ай бұрын

@@CrazyManhogmeh Tony Baxter stated that story telling in a thrill ride is the last thing your worried about.

@Olinser 7 ай бұрын

Guess you should have had a concrete and fully thought out plan before you decided to destroy one of the most popular rides in the world, huh, Bob?

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

this is how Disney thinks- same with the Star Wars sequels...there IS no plan

@vana.johnson8845 7 ай бұрын

Seeing that it is called Tiana's Bayou adventure but it is placed in a infamous Louisiana Slave Salt Mine. Definitely was NOT Well thought out. The MODERN Mural is just the CHERRY on Top.

@Relkond 7 ай бұрын

Hang on - Disney is going out of their ways to hire failures to update their park. Are they expecting anything other than failure?

@sandraparolie7179 7 ай бұрын

Hmmm 🤔 sounds like what's going on with the country

@kerrytakashi12 7 ай бұрын

The overarching goal was to destroy one of the most loved attractions in the Magic Kingdom (short of putting graffiti on the Castle). They did it because they want to make it a sacrifice AND they wanted to smear a whole group of people who never asked for the attraction to be closed. The attraction itself was an important part of American folklore more sophisticated than the insulting trash it is being replaced by.

@Crazyashley42 7 ай бұрын

A PatF themed ride should have been something like a covered, black light decorated roller-coaster with snapping gator heads over the tracks to scare the riders and Friends on the other Side jump scares, with wild ragtime and jazz as the backdrop. Not a re-make of Splash Mountain. I don't care if the Br'er characters are 'problematic.' People learn from their past mistakes, and erasing that is a disservice to the park and how far Disney has come over the last century.

@bsharp3281 7 ай бұрын

The Iger years...where everything he touched wilted in the work of an instant!

@thedearleader7054 7 ай бұрын

I disagree with Pros statement that Carmon could be nice to have lunch with, because there is no such thing as a nice lefty activist.

@dennisweidner288 7 ай бұрын

There is something I think you missing with all the discussion of DEI and ESG. Disney has increased non-white faces in their films, TV, and park themes along with making them boring. But what Disney has not done is increase non-white attendance in their parks. Disney parks are among the most segregated places in America. Only a small minority of African Americans and Hispanics can afford the tickets. It rather destroys the hoped-for impact of DEI in your output if you price the parks beyond what many minorities can afford.

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

yeahhh there are just so many Hispanic and black whales- and this who Disney courts now- if you're middle to lower class, they don't want you- end of story.

@dlfendel2844 7 ай бұрын

But with Iger shocked, SHOCKED that there's a problem on this which we know HE greenlit but that technically happened during his faux hiatus, maybe the real name at Imagineering for that exec will morph into... "Commissioner of Chapekblame Confusion" OH, and as for that down-count on animatronics? The MORE animatronics version was ECONOMICAL because they re-used the "America Sings" armatures!

@brianleblancart736 7 ай бұрын

The new Tiana ride looks exactly like a photo from a California mudslide. I'm not even joking.

@gokaury 7 ай бұрын

By hiring solely based on anything other than a candidate's qualifications is going to give you the worst possible result that you can think of, maybe even worse.

@priscillabrown210 7 ай бұрын

You could probably argue that the original splash mountain did more for diversity, than what they are replacing it with… Disney really does need to clean house…

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

You are right, Splash Mountain did way more for representation in the parks than Tiana. A ride based on authentic black stories and a movie featuring some of Hollywood's earliest black actors. How is that not inclusive? Nothing is ever good enough for these types of people.

@arcondpvp 7 ай бұрын

@@TheFoxFromSplashMountaina lot more inclusive than a studio who claims to care about black people but dont even spend time or effort coming up with an original story and instead decide to opt for a german folktale that they lazily blackwashed

@kerrytakashi12 7 ай бұрын

This ride is set around a salt mine. The real life salt mines in Louisiana are now in the process of collapsing into a huge sinkhole. That true life disappearance will make this new ride look even more ridiculous.

@dietbuddha 7 ай бұрын

This is a natural evolution of laying off the expensive and highly valuable employees that happened the last few years, leaving cheaper employees that are more defensive. Perhaps they should go, hat in hand, and beg them to come back.

@ViperChief117 7 ай бұрын

Bob Iger is one of the many people that created these issues to begin with? So it doesn’t surprise me Disney is still failing. Lol

@petercardin7774 7 ай бұрын

So, if you blame your fans for everything, you screw up. What makes them think they will have any fans?

@FIREBREATHINROB 6 ай бұрын

You guys are the only guys that tell the truth about Disney. I am an annual pass holder for 12 years and I’m fed up and thinking about getting rid of my pass

@insaniam_convertunt_scientiam 7 ай бұрын

“We have established a committee to solve the issue of too many committees.” - Bob Igor

@deathbourne4168 7 ай бұрын

My co-worker just spent 4 days at Disney World, and 1 day in Universal. He says Universal was better this time around. He said Disney was pretty much the same when he went 2 years ago, but Universal felt fresh and exciting. I told him about the new Universal park that will be opening in 2025 and he said that he doubted he’d ever go back to Disney. 😂

@jaredm815 7 ай бұрын

In the end, no "Campaign" could ever cover up an inferior product...

@shaneh3109 7 ай бұрын

Keep boycotting them. Disney deserves it.

@DoroteoVilla 7 ай бұрын

Meh, if you’re dissuaded from speaking your mind honestly by someone blackmailing you with threats of calling you racist then they’ve won. It’s gonna suck, full stop. How do I know? Well, for one, Iger already seems to think so and he’s Invested in it doing well so that’s a strong indication.

@MortonMcCastle 7 ай бұрын

I went to Disney World once. I was 11. I rode Splash Mountain while I was there.

@fifthward1983 7 ай бұрын

i couldnt ride it when i was there in 1991 , disney was adding the racist part to the ride ,it was closed.

@onehorseopensleigh 7 ай бұрын

Please continue reporting this. If Disney follows through, the truth needs to be out there. The company once employed an army of people to inundate fan forums with over-positive posts and attack negative sentiments. Most of those people lost their jobs during “unprecedented times,” but at least those people didn’t base it on political attacks.

@markfixitright 7 ай бұрын

They can malign customers all they want, but like politics, you aren't going to change anyone's mind.

@JW-cm2er 7 ай бұрын

Gee, who would have thought that destroying one of the most popular rides ever would result in a sub-par (at best) replacement? This has Journey Into Your Imagination 2.0 written all over it.

@sandraparolie7179 7 ай бұрын

Just put up a sign that says "LOG FLUME"

@JW-cm2er 7 ай бұрын

@@sandraparolie7179 With the addition of "Presented by Bob Iger". His name needs to be forever attatched to this lemon.

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

And we all know how Journey into Imagination 2.0 turned out. We're gonna be stuck with this garbage replacement for years with fans begging Disney to bring back the original. Didn't they learn their lesson the first time? Do not touch the classics.

@davidguthrie6316 6 ай бұрын

If Disney wanted to change it, I would have loved to see a reimagining of the Western River Expedition in Florida, while keeping the OG ride in California, or if it did inevitably close, I'd like to see a more compelling Princess and the Frog retheme with Dr. Facilier as the villain. But no, we have to have no villain, no conflict, no stakes...

@DamienDrake2940 7 ай бұрын

What is shocking me is that given all of Disney resources and the zero margin for error, the company now has to operate under, why didn't Iger demand a VR markup or demo of some kind? Architects and designers can render photo realistic worlds in a couple days now. Automotive uses AR in real-time.

@Caveman57 7 ай бұрын

As I understand it, Walt Disney used to be involved with every aspect of the attractions at the park, from inception to opening. Iger waits until the attraction is more than 50% complete to look at it? That's to late. This example explains why the movies are bad. Management does not get involved until it's too late. There's no creative direction. All that being said, with Bob Iger heading up the company, maybe it doesn't make any difference if he's involved or not. I think if Mr Iger said he loved Tian's Great Adventure, I would probably be more horrified.

@gridley 7 ай бұрын

Iger sends political cues from the top downward. So whether he's closely involved or peering in from a distance, upper management & other employees of the Disney Co have a good sense of their top boss's ideology. And there's nothing necessarily kind, caring, tolerant or compassionate about such politics.

@randychestnut6591 7 ай бұрын

Plus Walt had his extremely talented brother, Roy O. Disney, run the business side of the company so Walt could continue as the hands-on creative visionary. Disney Corp did best when they had a business exec and a separate creative visionary running things.

@richardjames4997 7 ай бұрын

If I was a CEO and wanted to get rid of wokesters and their idiotology, I would make sur I do it without angering the chief wokesters at BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, plus any within who might be able to sabotage the company. A campaign against the wokesters with no definitive ties to the company or CEO might be just what the doctor ordered.

@mazkeraid4039 7 ай бұрын

Front Street too? Seriously?

@richardjames4997 7 ай бұрын

@@mazkeraid4039 My apologies, I meant "BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street". I personally use Front Street.

@stanfordite1 7 ай бұрын

Well when I take over Disney, I won't be CEO, I will be the Owner as I will own the minimum 51% of the voting stock and I will use it to run Disney as an autocrat. I will also snitch out the wokesters on Capitol Hill as Reds, getting them blacklisted like Walt would've.

@bobk398 7 ай бұрын

I surely hope a manager with some kind of authority watches/reads this stuff. At my work, tons of Disney park fans, are all saying the remake of Splash Mt. is going to be a make or break for Disney at this point. They took most peoples most favorite ride and changed it for no reason, destroyed kids memories of the park. If this ride is this bad, they should just not open it and let it rot. If this opens and bombs like all the movies this year and the other internal problems Disney has, Disney will loose a lot of fans and lose a lot of money for the parks. Universal is going to kill them after they open the new park.

@davidguthrie6316 6 ай бұрын

Disney's lost some of their best people to Universal by attempting to move Imagineering to Florida in 2021. I mean, we lost Joe Rhode, and so many others

@ricktr6861 7 ай бұрын

They sent a "diverse" group to New Orleans for over a year and this is what they came back with.

@grinningtiki220 7 ай бұрын

And herpes, probably.

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

Im pretty sure the research they went to NO was for involved plenty of food, alcohol, partying, and 'oh yeah we went outside a couple of times and walked around the quarter for a half an hour'...

@ricktr6861 7 ай бұрын

I think this is where they found the homeless woman selling those God awful murals.

@slothomatic 7 ай бұрын

@20:30 yeah, there's no reason to try to cover your butt by saying hypothetically nice things about her. People who will accuse you of racism for saying she's not fit for the job won't care if you say "she's probably a great person".

@Jaxvidstar 7 ай бұрын

Disney is basically Peter Griffin with the powers of death and a inability to learn from past mistakes.

@elizabethboyle-contreras9668 7 ай бұрын

I Hate Family Guy

@Jaxvidstar 7 ай бұрын

@@elizabethboyle-contreras9668 I had used to watched it. However, I stopped watching it for a good while now.

@ridesoftheresistance 7 ай бұрын

Bob can blame anyone he likes, but I'd really like for him to explain how this ride (two of them) got this far along before he found out it sucks. That's essentially admitting that he is disengaged and disinterested. I've said this on my channel, and I'll say it here: I'm from New Orleans and I ADORE the Princess and the Frog movie. They gave the first African American Disney Princess another ride's hand-me-downs, and the think that's LESS racist? Really? To be clear, I do not support the Splash Mountain racism narrative, nor do I care about Tiana's ethnicity. It is simply the complete lack of logical thought in the whole thing. They took possible racism and replaced it with definite racism. Genius. Also, I can assure you, no matter what you saw in a bad Jean Claude van Damme movie, there are no mountains in the bayou. Buncha couyons.

@shirw 7 ай бұрын

Lol, Baton Rouge native here and I agree with you 100%! She should have gotten her own new ride. And the "bayou mountain" had me scratching my head from its first announcement.

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

hahaha oh come on 'hard target' was awesome! :)

@ridesoftheresistance 7 ай бұрын

@eclipsehorse8693 Well, anything with Wilford Brimley is awesome. Still... motorcycle surfing with the mountains of Louisiana in the background... I dunno LMAO

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

@@ridesoftheresistance Yeahhh i know- it was a bit much, BUT it was John Woo directing and he's amazingly batshit insane anyway!! :)

@ridesoftheresistance 7 ай бұрын

@@eclipsehorse8693 Well, that's just a fact.

@BanazirGalpsi1968 7 ай бұрын

If a person in such a propaganda position exists, fire that person and permanently shutter the job position.

@DavidChilson 7 ай бұрын

I personally would rather seen them build a dedicated Princess land instead of retheming a 3rd classic Disney World landmark attraction after Maelstrom (now a Frozen ride) and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (now a Little Mermaid attraction).

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

I honestly agree. A Princess land would be smart. Because, let's be honest, not everyone likes Princesses. We're talking a primary demographic of little girls here. That's a very specific audience and it's probably not a good idea to replace popular rides with universal appeal with a ride that only appeals to a specific demographic.

@user-yq9im9dk9z 7 ай бұрын

@@TheFoxFromSplashMountain Lol, Iger not knowing when not to slash audiences in half? Couldn't be him...

@TradMom 7 ай бұрын

Don’t forget Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride (turned into the inferior Winnie the Pooh)and Snow White’s Scary Adventures (turned into a Princess Meet and Greet). Also Horizons and the entire Wonders of Life Pavilion at Epcot. And The Great Movie Ride and Voyage of the Little Mermaid at Hollywood Studios.

@DavidChilson 7 ай бұрын

@@TradMom True, but I was only mentioning the rides that specifically got rethemed into Disney Princess attractions. I didn't know Great Movie Ride became a Little Mermaid themed attraction as well? I've only visited that park once years ago when it was Disney-MGM.

@ragingchaosgod 7 ай бұрын

Bob Iger apparently doesn't like Hunchback. He has TERRIBLE taste.

@negirno 7 ай бұрын

Evan's "I'm in a car" impression leaves something to be desired.

@TuckerVerse 7 ай бұрын

Why you don’t replace.. number one rides … build another ride…. This is one of the stupidest things Disney has ever did

@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho 7 ай бұрын

Tiana’s Socialist Salt Mine is to Disney what Paper Mario: Sticker Star is to Nintendo- a shoddy, bland project overhauling something that worked just fine before everything was changed and disliked by the one who oversaw its creation. At least Nintendo learned the Sticker Star method wouldn’t work. Disney can’t get themselves out of this mess no matter how hard they try to shill for it.

@brandonsanchez6857 7 ай бұрын

Bring back Tony Baxter.

@BaoNguyen-bh2rk 7 ай бұрын

Iger saying this is like Taika Waititi bashing the CGI in his own movie.

@SumDumGy 7 ай бұрын

I got a Loki Season 2 ad in the middle of your video. It was dutifully blocked, as with every other ad from that company.

@GCBBQ 5 ай бұрын

i like how nobody was like you know..... we have a restaurant called the blue bayou.... maybe we should make that tiana's place.... and nobody would give a crap if it was changed. that way it would be in new orleans square...

@ericthehysteric 4 ай бұрын

what i hate is that even they know its crap instead of just putting it back to way it was and saying hey we messed up they rather just double down

@ricktr6861 7 ай бұрын

The adventure is that you have to pole your own boat through the bayou while that crocodile blows a horn in your ear. BTW, the "secret ingredient" you are searching for is cannibas.

@eclipsehorse8693 7 ай бұрын

naw it's actually crack, you know how the inner city works....lol

@DcBjørnson 6 ай бұрын

The more backlash Disney gets, the harder they push on their woke crusade. Although I never see the parks going empty, no one will care about watching their shows or movies.

@shawnrheaume7114 7 ай бұрын

That looks ridiculous

@michaelmorgan9009 7 ай бұрын

Geee... didnt see that one coming.. oh wait yea I did. Great job getting rid of a Disney icon ride that was Splash Mountain.

@ThePinhead1987 7 ай бұрын

Disneys magic exists because of the old rides they're charming and for many a time capsule these simply cant be replaced. Once the charm is gone then the magic will fade.

@TheFoxFromSplashMountain 7 ай бұрын

This is what I keep saying. Disney is a brand that relies heavily on nostalgia and tradition. When you remove those classic attractions, you are removing a crucial part of the Disney experience that simply cannot be replaced. That's why Tokyo Disneyland have barely touched the park since opening day, because they understand what people want from a Disney park. They want to experience those traditional attractions that everyone thinks of when they hear the word 'Disney'.