{"id":29152,"date":"2023-01-20T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=29152"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:24:18","slug":"state-of-florida-files-suit-to-stop-retheming-of-disneys-splash-mountain-attraction-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/01\/20\/state-of-florida-files-suit-to-stop-retheming-of-disneys-splash-mountain-attraction-report\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Florida Files Suit to Stop Retheming of Disney\u2019s Splash Mountain Attraction: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The State of Florida has reportedly filed a suit in court to keep Walt Disney World from turning Magic Kingdom\u2019s Splash Mountain attraction into a\u00a0Princess and the Frog-themed ride.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In 2022, Florida\u2019s government was no stranger to the legal system and controversy. In March 2022, the Sunshine State passed Florida\u2019s Parental Rights in Education bill<\/a>, and immediately, The Walt Disney Company issued a statement<\/a>, denouncing the decision to make the bill a law, setting into motion a rift between Florida and Disney that\u2019s still very evident to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Disney\u2019s statement, Gov. Ron DeSantis began taking steps to remove some of Disney\u2019s power, as it pertained to the Reedy Creek Improvement District<\/a>, Disney\u2019s self-governing entity that oversees the goings-on at the Walt Disney World Resort and the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In April, DeSantis and the Florida legislature succeeded in passing a law that will effectively dissolve Reedy Creek and a handful of other special tax districts in the Sunshine State, as of July 1, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Florida\u2019s government is reportedly continuing its legal trend<\/a> into 2023, as the Sunshine State has filed suit to make Splash Mountain a historical landmark, thus protecting it against Imagineering\u2019s efforts to move forward with the planned retheming of the attraction into a Princess and the Frog-themed attraction, called Tiana\u2019s Bayou Adventure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State of Florida is in good company. Nearly 100,000 Splash Mountain fans have signed a petition at Change.org<\/a>, in the hopes of halting Disney\u2019s retheming of the massively popular Disney log flume attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The retheming was first announced in June 2020, and almost immediately, it was met with opposition from Disney Parks fans who just want things left as they are. The wildly popular Splash Mountain attraction was inspired by Disney\u2019s Song of the South<\/a>, which has been at the center of controversy for years. But no controversial part of the film is used in the Splash Mountain attraction, and as such, fans want it left alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the report that states that Florida is attempting to make the attraction a historical landmark is clearly nothing more than a site\u2019s creative approach to sharing its disagreement with Disney\u2019s decision to reimagine Splash Mountain, wouldn\u2019t it be grand if a magic like that could take place and leave Disney\u2019s Splash Mountain exactly the way it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The State of Florida has reportedly filed a suit in court to keep Walt Disney World from turning Magic Kingdom\u2019s Splash Mountain attraction into a\u00a0Princess and the Frog-themed ride. In… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[4313],"class_list":["post-29152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-state-of-florida-files-suit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}