Don't Expect Disney's New Splash Mountain Theme Right Away

The attraction will be reimagined for The Princess and the Frog

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Splash Mountain, one of Disney’s problematic theme park attractions, will be “completely reimagined” from its current theme, which has its roots in Song of the South, a Disney movie the company has long disavowed.

The official Disney Parks blog broke the news today with a first-look rendering of the new theme for the ride, a project Disney said its engineers—known as imagineers—”have been working on since last year.” Splash Mountain will now be based on the 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog—the only one to feature a Black Disney princess—that tells the story of Tiana, an aspiring New Orleans restaurateur who meets a prince cursed to live as a frog.

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