Topline Disney’s Splash Mountain ride will close in Walt Disney World in January, the company announced Friday, shuttering the attraction more than two and a half years after Disney initially announced its closure amid controversy over the ride’s depictions of race. The entrance to Splash Mountain at Walt Disney World Resort’s Magic Kingdom Park in Lake Buena … [+] Vista, Florida.AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Splash Mountain will close at Walt Disney World in Florida on January 23, 2023, Disney said Friday in a post on its Disney Parks Blog. The company has not yet announced when the ride will close in Disneyland in California, only saying Friday that additional information “will be shared at a later date.” Disney first announced Splash Mountain would close in June 2020, amid the racial justice movement that followed the killing of George Floyd, as the ride is based on the film Song of the South, which has long been criticized as racist and was pulled from distribution based on its romanticized depiction of race relations in the post-Civil War South. The ride’s theming will instead be changed to the film The Princess and the Frog and the attraction will be renamed Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, which will feature Princess Tiana and sidekick Louis as… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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