Why Disney is NOT ALLOWED to CLOSE Splash Mountain at Tokyo Disneyland

[@kylekeller3398]

I'm so glad that I got to ride Splash Mountain twice at Tokyo Disneyland, two months ago! Hopefully, it will stay there forever!

[@FM7Studios]

Hopefully 🤞

[@crisjapopcris1564]

One of the most beautiful and emotional adds on TDL is an anime style ad showing a girl growing up from baby to old lady visiting the park and riding Splash Mountain with her boyfriend in their teens. This is how Japanese cherish Splash Mountain, an icon as important as Cinderella's Castle.

[@atasker7432]

I've seen the POV of Tiana's Bayou Adventure & honestly, it looks terrible. I'm sticking with Splash Mountain FOREVER!

[@FM7Studios]

I’m disappointed with the POV however my final verdict will be decided when I ride it for myself!

[@jakerussell9383]

It looks better in person

[@crosswalkX]

I agree, and I'll keep writing letters to Disneyland and Disney World to fix and update Tiana's Bayou Adventure with a better drop off song "Friends on the Other Side" more characters added like Dr. Facilier or his iconic tombstone, and a better storyline until they can make it just as good as the both former Splash Mountains. In the future I kinda would like to go to Tokyo Disneyland to ride Splash Mountain but only if my family members agree to take me on the trip but it's going to be expensive for me and my family to fly over to Japan and China Disneyland.

[@Miqbtn]

It's crazy how Disney is going further to scrapping any evidence of this ride as possible that they banning a popular catchy song from playing through out an international park that they don't really own.

[@FM7Studios]

Disney banning OLC from playing a song was a little petty.

[@SirBuzz]

DEIsney is pathetic. This insanity won't last forever, but it's not going anywhere for a while.

[@obnoxiouslegofan]

I heard Princess and the Frog, Disney wasn't popular in Japan...

[@Miqbtn]

​@@obnoxiouslegofan It doesn't surprise me. I don't think Tiana a black princess would be popular in a predominantly japanese country.

[@applianceman6009]

@@SirBuzz I agree. think Disney’s DEI bs will settle. It is my beloved dream that Splash would one day be brought in a few decades. At least it is still in Tokyo.

[@Misscouchpotato-]

I mean it is one of the most popular rides there and the characters are well loved because of the culture differences compared to the one's in America. If I ever go to Japan i might stop by just to ride splash again. I went on the Disney World version back in 2012 and I believe that splash gave me my love for water rides. From the videos you can see that Tokyo Disney takes really good care of the animatronics. I hope Disney doesn't do anything that would make them get rid of the last original version that we have. Edit: YES IT DEFINITELY IS THE BEST VERSION!!! the animatronics look so amazing.

[@FM7Studios]

That version of Splash looks absolutely fantastic!

[@MrScaryPasta]

Walt would be so proud of Tokyo Disneyland. It truly envisions the magic he wanted for the other parks which have been destroyed by corporate political greed. RIP America’s Disney magical. 😢

[@FM7Studios]

OLC operates their park better than Disney does!

[@MrScaryPasta]

@@FM7Studios Agreed.

[@Pokemanmon]

Yeah I hate when Disney does (nonspecific business practice) and especially hate it when (something, something, Universal good, diversity bad)

[@MrScaryPasta]

@@Pokemanmon It’s not that DEI is bad. It’s the way it’s used as an excuse to send a political message when that message has nothing to do with the film being made or today’s standards. Iger and his woke cronies want to send the world backwards and create social diversity and distrust. Where as Walt wanted to “Keep moving forward” and build a better tomorrow.

[@universalgames2901]

I would say the entire Tokyo Disney Resort (Tokyo Disneyland & Tokyo DisneySea) both jaw dropping parks, that only improve

[@applianceman6009]

I haven’t been on that ride in almost a decade and yet I will never forget how I was constantly singing “Zippitee do Dah” whenever I got off of it. Amazing story. Worst decision for them to change it!!

[@FM7Studios]

The song is super catchy!

[@applianceman6009]

@@FM7Studios Do you think the new ride will be successful or will it lose popularity due to it being inferior? Definitely don’t see it going 30+ years!

[@rachm8072]

@@applianceman6009The replacement was absolutely hated just look at the dislike ratio😭 (using a Google extension). Everyone absolutely hates it bc Disney replaced it for being “racist” or smth so they could be more inclusive. The ride already broke down not even one week after operating either.

[@someguy4253]

@applianceman6009 Bayou Adventure won’t age well. Its already got technical issues and is very unpopular to begin with. My hope is that someday they get changed back to Splash……but who knows. I don’t see it staying Bayou Adventure though. I think those animatronics will eventually be used for a new Tiana ride.

[@katef96]

It certainly is/was the best of the three in terms of maintainence and details, but I really like the way WDWs “How Do You Do” section was set up tbh. All three of them had their own quirks which I liked. But at the end of the day, I’m glad we still have one left and hopefully it sticks around.

[@SirBuzz]

I mentioned in a different comment section about "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" being banned outside of the ride in Tokyo Disneyland, and someone said they were just at the park, and they played it at the entrance of the park. With that said, I think I don't think it's banned there.

[@harezrayyannorhaiz4392]

I went to Tokyo Disneyland back in December and there was a Brer Rabbit statue at the entrance.

[@FM7Studios]

That’s awesome!

[@ryanshimomura1646]

I was recently at tokyo disneyland a few weeks ago and they were playing “everybody has a laughing place” in their music loop near the esplanade, though it seems there is no splash mountain merch there , as the most i could find was a pin of splash mountain with chip and dale

[@UmmYeahOk]

Regarding the licensing agreement that expires in 2046: it is said that Song of the South will fall into the public domain in 2039.

[@FM7Studios]

That’s really interesting, I had no idea!

[@ThemeParkOgre]

Fun fact: Song of the South is already in the public domain in Japan

[@UmmYeahOk]

@@ThemeParkOgreAnother fun fact: I’ve been watching your videos since 2023!

[@ThemeParkOgre]

@@UmmYeahOk Aww thank you!

[@AndyG13GLA]

@@ThemeParkOgreTrue. Google it folks. Hope this means we can still keep Splash Mountain in TDL & SOTS film even if only in Japan.

[@harryfoley2294]

Interestingly, the rumour that Zip a dee doo dah was removed from music loops seems to be false, as it still plays in multiple parts of TDL including the monorail.

[@superbubsymariobobcat1097]

i miss Spash Mountain so much! 😭 #RebuildSplashMountain #SplashMountainForever

[@FM7Studios]

I also miss Splash Mountain!

[@superbubsymariobobcat1097]

@@FM7Studios they should've kept at least one of the US ones open

[@Filburtturle]

@@superbubsymariobobcat1097 you sir have just earned a new subscriber

[@calimom3lestudios931]

@@FM7StudiosAs a supporter of what Disney USED TO BE, I heard about Tiana’s evil plan, and a fan of lost media and classic Disney, once I saw the once-proud Disneyland version getting rethemed, I said, pretending to be talking to Iger “You can’t show that junk! Think of the lawsuits! Rethink your decision, especially closing it during the hottest summer yet!”

[@merarimmartinezm4354]

Another weird thing Disney did to tokyo, was banning br'er rabbit fox and bear's meet and greets on the park (tbh it's not surprising they don't even appear at once upon a studio, so it would be weird to have them at the parks)

[@FM7Studios]

It’s very petty of Disney to do that.

[@jeffreymodesitt3345]

So would this make the Br'er characters extinct characters now??? Oh man, and to think they used to be so common only 10 years ago... Think I might even have some of their signatures in my old autograph booklet, gonna have to check if I still have it.

[@aaronsarchive82]

​@@jeffreymodesitt3345More like five years ago!!

[@merarimmartinezm4354]

@@jeffreymodesitt3345 yeah... They were at Disney parks even when Disney annouced that splash Mountain was going to close, so yeah, they're now extinct and excluded of the entire Disney enterprise and history in less than 3 years🙃

[@katef96]

The characters got more love than usual in 2019 with the 30th anniversary of Splash including new plushes, Funkos, etc….just to all be pulled less than a year later after the announcement was made. That’s probably part of what made it so jarring for some fans because it looked like the characters were going to start getting more love and then…yeah…

[@FloridaJit434]

None of them should have been replaced

[@UmmYeahOk]

I recently visited TDL resort earlier this month, and while it was rumored that they removed the Zip A Dee Do Dah song from the monorail, it still exists. I heard it.

[@FM7Studios]

That’s great to hear!

[@tigermoth00]

splash mountain music can be heard in multiple areas of the resort if you know where to look!

[@trevorthesorcerer]

Splash Mountain will rise again.

[@FM7Studios]

It’s going be sticking around for awhile!

[@thebiggrouch]

Tokyo Disneyland should sue Walt Disney for banning them from playing Zip a dee doo dah! Also if Splash Mountain offends you then don't ride it!

[@shawnthegangster4207]

Tokyo Disneyland splash mountain: I'm still standing and here to stay

[@FM7Studios]

Tokyo’s Splash is definitely here to stay!

[@someguy4253]

Bayou Adventure looks so lame I don’t even want to ride it. Saving up for a plane ticket to Tokyo!

[@ChuckE.CheesesIllinois]

Splash Mountain is forever king

[@FM7Studios]

One of Disney’s best attractions!

[@FirstName-s7f]

Closing splash mountain was a disgusting decision that makes me sad whenever I go to Disney I’ll have to start flying to Tokyo

[@Filburtturle]

I hope it stays the way it is

[@FM7Studios]

I also hope it does!

[@kaikobak1698]

It kind of reminds me of happened before with E.T Adventure at Universal Studio's Orlando for years and Jaws The Ride in Universal Studio's Japan.

[@FM7Studios]

Glad Splash still exists somewhere!

[@kaikobak1698]

@@FM7Studios Yep.

[@aaronsarchive82]

Marty McFly was right. Everything cool comes from Japan!

[@kaikobak1698]

@@aaronsarchive82 Well that is true.

[@kevinlee7678]

@@FM7Studios Otherwise Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear would now be in Wasteland!

[@CapeSIX]

im making it my goal to get to Tokyo Disney by new years of 2026.

[@FM7Studios]

@@CapeSIX Hope you have a great time!

[@aaronsarchive82]

I'm very glad to see people chanpion this version of the attraction. When TBA was announced, anytime I mentioned this version, there was a chance I'd be attacked for it. It didn't matter if i mentioned that Japan has a very very different cultural perspective of this attraction. "They should still close it because it's the right thing to do" was my favorite excuse. 🙄

[@halloweenspookygirluk9595]

I’m going to Tokyo Disney in September the day tickets are under £43 a day😮 the parks look far superior and they don’t charge extra for events such as Halloween. I have been travelling from uk to USA for Disney parks since 1992 and this year decided to try Tokyo

[@FM7Studios]

That’s awesome, hope you have a great trip!

[@AndyG13GLA]

It’s a totally different experience but with familiar vibes. The people are super polite, they sit on the ground to watch parades (& take their own mats to sit on), standing up is only permissible from the very back during parades, there’s a “lottery” for the fireworks at the castle (I think it’s fixed so you see them at least once in your visit), Disney Seas is a fun park (try the Sinbad ride & you’ll sing the song for days), & just have a great time. I loved it & will treasure the memories.

[@ninedragons1]

In America we take our wild west culture and southern culture for granted. Not thinking that they're considered exotic to foreign countries. That's what Splash Mountain is. A piece of Americana and folklore that they don't have so it's very special to them. No wonder they made a restaurant to it. When I was a teen I always wondered why so many foreign guests come to the wild west park we had. And watch a shoot out. Then I realize, they didn't have cowboys.

[@kaitlingumm3295]

Time to take a trip to Tokyo!

[@weezmiser]

Best one by far as well

[@FM7Studios]

Absolutely!

[@JACOBMORHAR]

I Guess It's Very Popular

[@FM7Studios]

@@JACOBMORHAR Yes it is!

[@Roach_on_pawso_o]

I just went today and yesterday and I love it If they close it that would honestly be terrible 😭

[@z3v..]

this aged badly, cus well now apparently they wanna close this one too, its so annoying dude

[@charlieu2b329]

Just like the jaws ride

[@FM7Studios]

It’s a very similar situation!

[@Filburtturle]

And also like 20,000 leagues under the sea

[@AndyG13GLA]

I did enjoy Splash Mountain when I visited TDL. I hope they keep it & Disney just quietly let it be. That would keep both sides happy. Banned elsewhere in the US, but left alone in Japan, especially as the film is already in Public Domain there.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Tokyo Disneyland, one of the last places for Americans to be Americans.

[@abnerlezama3512]

Hello im second here and love your videos too especially the one with the figures in the submarine voyage

[@FM7Studios]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!

[@willylezama242]

​@FM7Studios thank you I'm on my dad's phone right now and it's a different profile but I'm the same person

[@abnerlezama3512]

I think Im going to tokyo to ride splash mountain now😂😂

[@FM7Studios]

@@abnerlezama3512 It’s the best Splash Mountain, and now the only Splash Mountain! 😅

[@shadowhq9197]

They got major denied 😂

[@z3v..]

if they actually shut this one down too i swear

[@silentbunny9797]

waiting for Tiana's ride to open in Disneyland is like waiting for a firecracker to go off, only its a dud

[@FM7Studios]

I think the Disneyland version is going to be a lot better than WDW since it’s a smaller, it’ll have less dead space!

[@silentbunny9797]

@@FM7Studios thats what everyone said about Galaxy's Edge, but it turned out to be as bland and empty as the other one

[@FM7Studios]

@@silentbunny9797 Galaxy’s Edge doesn’t have much kinetic energy, it really needs it.

[@silentbunny9797]

@@FM7Studios it was just Disney trying to keep up with Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but nowhere near as good or successful

[@FM7Studios]

@@silentbunny9797 I agree, Harry Potter is really fantastic!

[@TheMightyManhog1010]

Happy 2k subs

[@FM7Studios]

@@TheMightyManhog1010 Thank you so much!

[@AuraLeafstorm]

Don't the characters enter the public domain before 2046?

[@wantikjasonchiu4711]

But to me if another choice if the people of Japan really just did not want to make splash mountain to leave the people of Japan that can go on that ride at Disneyland Tokyo, that would make people really sad to see it leave and so there is another way they could just like any other attraction in Disneyland park to build an attraction separate to splash mountain and so there is one attraction called Tiana's bayou adventure and the other called splash mountain with splash mountain still as a attraction not closed to be able to not close it to make way for the new attraction.

[@gridley]

Tiana's apparently has technical issues ignored by the people responsible for it. That's why it keeps breaking down. All of that lurking below the surface of today's Disney Co, now corrupted by obnoxious politics, half-crocked creativity & corner-cutting economics.

[@flyingfish7787]

Japan is getting more aware of “the Messege “ nonsense, especially after Ubisoft throwing doo doo at Japan’s history. Ubisoft could have said it’s all fiction, and called it a day. Nope, they didn’t do it, and made a black samurai game killing their people, and making Japanese peasants bow down to the fake samurai. Thank you Ubisoft, for getting Japanese more aware of the woke nonsense. (Random rant) Samurai is not only a man who wields his sword, but also a man who owns his land with peasants living on it. It’s more like Nobel Knights, but Japanese style.

[@MathieuLeblanc1991]

It will get rethemed down the line if they are sticking to their current plan. They’ve been gutting or retheming rides past 20 years old. Mickey Mouse Revue for Philarmagic, Autopia got scrapped for Baymax and Beauty and the Beast, Space Mountain for a new Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear for a Wreck it Ralph reskin and Small World is getting a limited time Marvel version.

[@FM7Studios]

At least we know everything that comes out of OLC will be one of quality!

[@MathieuLeblanc1991]

@@FM7Studios If it does get re-themed, it's bound to be something that is huge in Japan. Imagine a Stitch overlay for example where it's you going across the island to spot the different experiments with the lift being Stitch jumping onto Gantu's ship with pressured water etc

[@FM7Studios]

@@MathieuLeblanc1991 That would be really cool!

[@kevinlee7678]

@@MathieuLeblanc1991 Complete with "Oh Blitznak!"

[@eliassmeke3991]

Do you know Song of the South was released on home media in Japan 🇯🇵 in 1990 that’s one ☝️ of the reasons Splash Mountain is staying at Tokyo Disneyland

[@FM7Studios]

Interesting 🤔

[@eliassmeke3991]

Well it’s true

[@shawbag11]

I refuse to even go on the new ride its not even close to splash mountain. idk how they could remove that for this awful boring mess.

[@rosslovesdisney3829]

You’re still here?? Cool!

[@eliassmeke3991]

I want Splash Mountain to stay at Tokyo Disneyland forever ♾️ since this is the only one ☝️ Splash Mountain that’s left

[@FM7Studios]

I don’t think it’s going anywhere! (:

[@princessmarlena1359]

I want to go on it, but I don’t have the cash to fly.

[@FM7Studios]

@@princessmarlena1359 It definitely is pricey

[@obnoxiouslegofan]

Disney should have retheme one of the US-based Splash Mountains rather than retheming both of them at the same time. It's a test to see if Tiana's Bayou Adventure would do better than Splash Mountain...

[@adamgillen7412]

Long live the Briar Patch.

[@FM7Studios]

🐰🦊🐻

[@MrTsWorld831]

I don’t know?

[@TNParadeFan]

Wait I thought it had to do with the civil war and civil rights. Aka racism.

[@kennoguchi5413]

Tokyo Disneyland should definitely keep splash mountain. There is too much political things at Disney theme parks in the states so they changed the whole concept of splash mountain

[@karlstrauss2330]

The Japanese do not suffer from white guilt.

[@MT-tu8dt]

Sad how Tokyo can enjoy Splash Mountain yet in the US we can’t????? Disney needs to clean house of this woke crap. Bring back Splash Mountain.

[@someguy4253]

That would need to start at the top with Iger. And he will be picking a like minded CEO I’m sure. So things are VERY far off from changing anytime soon…..if ever. The only way would be for fans to completely outright boycott them. Money is the only way to hurt them. That’s why I was so disappointed Inside Out 2 is doing well. They’ll just use that money to spread more woke propaganda nonsense…..and attach Inside Out IP to everything they can I’m sure. Journey Into Imagination will probably be rethemed to it now 🙄

[@LukesNextEpisode]

First lol

[@FM7Studios]

Yes you are! 🫡

[@LukesNextEpisode]

I love all your videos 😅

[@FM7Studios]

@@LukesNextEpisode Thank you!