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    Splash Mountain closing day: Why Disneyland's long goodbye is long overdue

    by Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times May 30, 2023 5 minutes
    Concept art from Disney's reimagining of its Splash Mountain ride using "The Princess and the Frog" as the attraction's new theme.

    ANAHEIM, Calif. — In the summer of 2020, amid the cultural reassessment and nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd, fans of Disneyland's Splash Mountain were put on notice.

    The 1989 ride, popular for its five-story drop but made infamous by the controversial movie that inspired it, would close. Disney said at the time it wanted a more inclusive concept, one free of association with the racist 1946 film "Song of the South" and its white-centered depiction of slavery and stereotypes.

    On Tuesday, Disneyland fans gathered in Critter Country to mark the closure of Splash Mountain, which will not reopen with the park on Wednesday. Some cheered as log-shaped cars dropped from the top of the Disney-constructed mountain known as Chickapin Hill, while others, wearing fan-made T-shirts commemorating the day, clutched plushies of

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