The one thing that really sucks about Splash Mountain dying is we won't get anymore merch for it. It was always the way to get merch for these characters, and now for the time being the only way to get new stuff is imported from Japan. And then if they remove it we'll never get anything else again
The one thing that really sucks about Splash Mountain dying is we won't get anymore merch for it...
Jose Harris
Jason Edwards
I'm sure your collection is huge enough.
Aaron Morris
I love this wholesome nigga rabbit
Jace James
People take issue with the black characters' mangled syntax and subservience to the rich white landowners, as well as the undercurrent of racial caricature within the Br'er Rabbit tales themselves. A lot of these complaints overlook A, the time period of both the film's setting and its creation, B, the fact that black people historically did speak this way, and C, that the tales actually originate FROM African folklore. The film was markedly progressive for its day.
Beyond that, the film's run-ins with the NAACP and James Baskett's inability to attend his own premiere/award ceremony due to segregation laws were derided as hypocritical and controversial.
Essentially it's the perfect storm of poor timing and bad luck that has caused such a relatively innocent, well meaning family film to develop such a stigma. Critics fail to consider the factors surrounding its development and instead judge it against modern hyper-sensitive standards, expecting a picture from the 1940s to hold up under contemporary criteria for equality.
Its worst crime, upon rewatch with my black girlfriend, is that it is terribly boring during the live action segments.
Jayden Moore
Fun fact: when this movie came out on VHS in Spain, the white actors were dubbed by Spaniards, and the black actors were dubbed by Latinos.
Ayden James
Br'er Rabbit did nothing wrong
Eli Ramirez
i have a pin of the log dropping im i racist?
Christian James
Doing some more research. So Song of the South is based off of the old Uncle Remus stories written in the late 1800s. The books were written by an author as he went around Atlanta and gathered a bunch of local folk lore from former slaves and plantation workers. A lot of these stories of course were only passed down orally, so he compiled a bunch of them for his book, created Uncle Remus as a mediator for the story to tell to a group of children like how griots in Africa tell stories to their village. The dialect in the books was actually praised at the time for being very authentic to what a lot of black southerners sounded like, he went out of his way to try and capture an authentic feel for it as it would add to the story telling much like Mark Twain did in Huck Finn.
Walt being from the South grew up with these same stories and loved them and that's why he committed to making the movie. He actually fought for the actor who played Uncle Remus to receive an Oscar. Remember, this is in 1941, more than twenty years before de-segregation in America. While yes, the movie is very sugar coated in it's portrayal of the reconstruction south, that's sorta' the point, it's supposed to be an innocent gateway in for kids.
Anyways, liberals who are trying to appease black americans just wiped out the last of some of their genuine real folk lore and history. They think they are winning because "black kids can now see themselves on a ride because TIANA" but dont realize that Br'er rabbit is supposed to be a black child outwitting and outsmarting dumb slave catchers.
Nathaniel Collins
>the fact that black people historically did speak this way
>historically
These people need to go down to the Deep South and see that some kind old southern black folks still speak this way. My neighbor in Baton Rouge was that way. If anything, I think the people in Louisiana and Mississippi would tell sensitive whiners to shut the hell up and enjoy some pecan divinity and a show or get outside and do some real work.
Joshua White
>Disney Tokyo will still have theirs
Based Japan
Leo Jones
The sad thing is that these animal characters were literally invented by black people
They’re erasing black history
Leo Nguyen
is that true?
Jaxson Parker
Yes
They were popularized in a book by a white dude, but the actual stories come from black folklore
Austin Bennett
the white dude was a journalist writing down the stories blacks told him.
Liam Allen
I remember one user posting the zip a dee doo dah lyrics anytime there was a theme park thread. He'd go on and on about how Splash Mountain was his favorite ride of all time. Feel bad for the lad now.
Cooper Ross
The thing that really sucks is it just reiterates that Disney are never going to official restore and release it, they're just doubling down on pretending it never existed. I just hope WB don't follow suit since they've slowly and quietly releasing some of the racist Popeye and Text Avery shorts on blu-ray.
James Bennett
Splashanon replied in the other thread, he's pretty gutted but he's hopeful that Tokyo keeps the theme
Landon Martin
There’s still some merch on the site
Better get it while you still can
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Asher Hernandez
Man, they just came out with 30th Anniversary merch last year too. Sad.
Anthony Carter
This whole idea is so stupid. Most people associate these characters with the ride itself, not the movie its based on, and the characters themselves were from stories created by African Americans. Plus “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” is such an iconic song, and now it won’t be associated with anything.
David Cruz
Theme park rides get switched out all the time.
Cameron Martinez
This is true. This must have been on Disney's backlog for awhile as the ride really and I mean really needed a revamp for a long long time. Shame about song of the south being objected again, if it had come out at a different time, perhaps it would have been more accepted to disney
Dominic Reyes
Black people erasing the first black actor to get an Oscar fom history, Ironic.
Adrian Walker
Disney just needs to stop this BS already. Time to buy some stock.
Brody Perez
SJWs and liberals have no idea what is right and wrong, everything they see will be marked as bad because they've been taught to not think before they act.
Every single piece of medias they've enjoyed will eventually come back to them at some point through the babbling of some morons so they too will start seeing the bad out of the good only to shit up what was actually good
Jordan Gray
Already sold out and going for 500 dollars on eBay.
Samuel Morales
Song of the South was criticized for being racist from the very beginning though.
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Anthony Barnes
I suppose on the plus side, the masks chanting that ending part of Friends on the Other side while you climb the hill for the drop will be kinda kino.
Problem is that outside of "Almost There" and every time Facilier is on the screen, Princess and the Frog is actually a pretty boring film so the scenes are going to be on the weak side. My true biggest fear is that it's a budget refurb with a lot of screens and not many animatronics.
Angel Baker
Man this movie has absolute no luck at all
Wyatt Campbell
almost like it's a racist movie
Thomas Davis
>make movie about the American South
>only the South likes it
lel
Sebastian Baker
When your cautionary tales for children is rooted in slavery symbolism since that's what you knew when you were writing it and that's what you were passing on to future generations, it's going to be a little racist by its very nature.
Elijah Kelly
There's no doubt about it has plenty of problems but most people remember it for the animated sequences and the song without even seeing it at all.