Tiana Journey Will Substitute Disney’s Splash Mountain in Late 2024

In the summertime of 2020, Disney introduced that it will completely shut its fashionable Splash Mountain sights at Disneyland and Walt Disney World and substitute them with a brand new experience based mostly on the animated film The Princess and the Frog. Two years later, they’ve unveiled new particulars concerning the experience — and the tough timetable of when it is going to be coming to each Disney parks.

The experience is known as “Tiana’s Bayou Journey.” Disney isn’t tearing down Splash Mountain; as a substitute the fundamental format and experience mechanism will stay, with the present theming and animatronics eliminated in favor of ones that mirror the characters of The Princess and the Frog.

Right here’s how Disney Parks Weblog describes the up to date experience:

Tiana’s Bayou Journey will take friends on a musical journey impressed by the beloved story and characters from the fan-favorite movie. Choosing up the place the movie left off, friends will be a part of Princess Tiana, Naveen and jazz-loving alligator Louis on an journey by way of the bayou as they put together to host a one-of-a-kind Mardi Gras celebration the place everyone seems to be welcome. Alongside the best way, friends will encounter acquainted faces, make new mates and journey by way of the bayou to authentic music impressed by songs from the movie as they’re introduced into the following chapter of Tiana’s story.

You may see a number of the analysis that’s gone into the making of the brand new attraction on this video:

Whereas Splash Mountain stays a well-liked attraction at Disney parks, the movie it’s based mostly on, Track of the South, has lengthy since been in any other case buried by the corporate due to its stereotypical and racist depictions of African People. (In the event you’ve by no means watched Track of the South — which Disney has stored out of circulation for many years as a result of they don’t need individuals to look at it — every thing you need to know concerning the film is proper right here.)

This new experience permits Disney to maintain the log flume’s fashionable drops and construction whereas updating the experience’s content material for contemporary tastes. The corporate says the up to date attraction is coming “Magic Kingdom in Florida and Disneyland park in California in late 2024.”