BREAKING: Opening Timeline for Disney’s Splash Mountain Retheme Announced!

Of all the projects in the works at Disneyland and Disney World (and there are a lot of them!), one of the most highly anticipated is the Splash Mountain re-theme. Disney announced in July 2020 that the attraction would get a Princess and the Frog makeover on both coasts, but they didn’t give many details about WHEN the re-theme would take place.

Splash Mountain

We’ve seen several updates about this project since then, including some awesome concept art and more details about the story and characters. But Disney has been mysteriously silent about the timeline for the re-theme — UNTIL NOW. We finally have a DATE for Splash Mountain’s Princess and the Frog transformation!

Right now, the Essence Festival of Culture is happening in New Orleans (running from June 30th through July 3rd), and Disney celebrated the event by sharing more details about the Splash Mountain project. Specifically, they announced that the re-theme will be completed and the attraction will be open by late 2024! Not only that, but we now know that the attraction will be called Tiana’s Bayou Adventure!

©Disney Princess and the Frog concept art

Disney also shared that more details would be announced at the D23 Expo later this year.

Previously, we heard rumors about a 2024 opening date from Anika Noni Rose (the actress behind Tiana), who stated on the Live with Kelly and Ryan show that the ride would open that year. After that announcement, however, Disney stated that the timing hadn’t been determined yet. So we’re happy to finally have an official timeline for this project!

Splash Mountain entrance

When the re-theme is finished, the ride will feature Princess Tiana and Louis (along with some new characters!), who take guests on an adventure that culminates in a big Mardi Gras celebration finale. Disney has said that the ride will be “a musical adventure” with songs from the film, with a storyline that takes place after the final kiss of The Princess and the Frog.

Princess and the Frog attraction Concept Art ©Disney

Disney Imagineer Charita Carter (who oversaw Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway) is overseeing the re-theme, and the goal is to have a “new concept [that] is inclusive – one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year.”

©Disney

Disney has many other projects in the works right now, including some big changes at EPCOT, the TRON: Lightcycle Run coaster in Magic Kingdom, and updates coming to Fantasmic! in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. For several of these projects, Disney hasn’t given an opening date or timeline yet (although we know that Fantasmic! will be returning sometime in 2022).

TRON construction in Disney World

We’ll be keeping an eye on these and more of Disney’s projects, so stay tuned with DFB for more of the latest Disney news!

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