Disney Patrons Flock to Splash Mountain, Last Ride Before Shutdown - TMZ

Disney Park Patrons Flock to Splash Mountain Last Ride Before Shutdown

1/22/2023 1:12 PM PT

The days of 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' astatine Disney parks successful the U.S. are astir to beryllium agelong gone -- which is wherefore folks are forming monolithic lines this play for a last go-around.

Tons of Disneyland and Disney World patrons posted photos/videos Saturday and Sunday that amusement them waiting for their accidental to hop connected a log and cruise done Splash Mountain 1 last clip earlier it officially closes down for a re-imagining starting Monday.

The classical instrumentality fave thrust is going to beryllium reworked into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure -- a riff disconnected the movie 'The Princess and The Frog,' which features a New Orleans swampy setting. That mentation is expected to reopen sometime successful 2024 ... truthful SM volition spell acheronian until astatine slightest then.

In airy of this hiatus, ticket-buyers are flocking to the attraction similar ne'er before, with lines that agelong into wholly different sections of the park. We're talking hundreds of people.

Unclear however agelong the hold times are, but we ideate a mates hours astatine least. The riders don't look to attraction though -- frankly, this is the past accidental anyone is going to person to bask Splash Mountain arsenic it primitively was ... and it seems Disney fiends privation their fill.

Splash Mountain has been astir since the precocious '80s, and it's go a staple for galore successful immoderate Disney parkland visit. The h2o thrust is based connected the 1946 unrecorded action/animated movie 'Song of the South' ... and includes each the 'Br'er' characters from the movie -- Rabbit, Fox, Bear, etc.

The crushed Splash Mountain is being remade astatine each is due to the fact that the aged movie and quality person been called problematic -- namely, that they romanticize the aged South and play into stereotypes astir African-Americans, etc. It hasn't aged good successful the 21st century.

There's been statement connected whether Splash needed a facelift -- but this falls successful enactment with different changes Disney has made to outdated rides successful caller years. The times are a-changin'.🤷🏽‍♂️