Fans don't have a lot of time to say goodbye to Splash Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim. Park officials on Wednesday announced the official closing date.
, and the new ride will be "one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year."The Disney World ride, which first opened in 1992, closed after it was announced in 2020 thathad plans to "reimagine" the ride after numerous complaints due to its associations with the 1946 movie "Song of the South.
With racist stereotypes and Old South tropes, "Song of the South" is a mix of live-action, cartoons and music featuring an old Black plantation laborer named Uncle Remus who enchants a white city boy with fables of talking animals.Its characters appeared as animatronics in Splash Mountain, which also featured songs from the film.All the news you need to know, every day
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