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Per another Disney site.”Earlier today, Disneyland’s Autopia experienced an extended closure after one of the ride’s vehicles derailed. The attraction, which gives guests of all ages the thrill of driving a car, runs along a guide rail to prevent the cars from traveling outside the attraction’s ride path. While uncommon, an Autopia vehicle will occasionally jump the low-to-the-ground guide rail, meaning this isn’t a major concern for the safety of park guests. However, Disneyland was quick to close the attraction as they returned the vehicle to its correct position.”

Okay, y’all, I understand and fully appreciate the reasons why DL decided to retheme the ride into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. Even setting aside the problematic aspects of the film on which Splash Mountain was based — don’t @ me, I’m not interested in a debate over that issue — the animatronics of Splash Mountain were in pretty rough shape. I could still name the America Sings segments that used the specific sets of animatronic figures that they’d moved over to SM in the 80’s, so we were talking about nearly 50-year-old mechanical robots. Anyhoo, I miss Splash Mountain and think it deserves some love. The set pieces and songs chosen for the ride were uncontroversial, and they struck very playful chords — even the buzzards and the musical lead-up to the big drop were a dose of dark humor, culminating in an exhilaration and exuberance as one floated into the final cave with its Zip a Dee Doo Dah grand finale. I was never a kid when I rode Splash Mountain — it opened when I was in my twenties — but I sure felt like one every time I rode it. And isn’t that what Disneyland is all about? It was sad but necessary to reckon with the outdated and unacceptable views about post-Civil War plantation life, and I don’t at all fault Disney for making the decision it did to retheme the ride. I’m just missing the experience of the music and animatronics that we

It’s recently come to my attention that the slogan for the 70th anniversary celebration at DLR is “Celebrate Happy”: While the slogan itself is not a huge deal, and I’m sure I care more about language than the average resortgoer, I have to say I’m really not a fan of this at all…. it strikes me as the same type of inane linguistic autopilot that gave us such memorable, impactful monikers like “Snow White’s Enchanted Wish”, and has that all too familiar cloying air of being vaguely aimed at “families” in the abstract but then missing each actual individual family member in practice. Part of the problem is that it’s just irritatingly difficult to parse: are they trying to say “Celebrate Happily” but being obnoxiously cute and baby-talky about it, or are they trying to say “Celebrate Happiness” but being obnoxiously cute and baby-talky about it, or is this just the first thing that ChatGPT spat out and no one ever meant anything by it at all? Is there some pernicious notion circulating in Anaheim that maybe this is how The Teens are talking now? I know linguistic issues aren’t the main challenges facing the park right now, but still.

Hello! I have been trying to find a video or sound bite of Apheta talking when you are waiting to enter the gantry lift. You’ll hear that glitchy “Welcome—wel-welcome…” which sounds like a glitchy AI boot-up mixed with a record-skip effect. I want to use the sound as a reference for a project I’m working on. Any help would be much appreciated 🙏🏻

Space Mountain used to have sound effects while we were standing in line, such as this announcement: Now boarding for Alpha Centauri at gate 12. This gave the attraction the feel that it was truly a Space Port where we could travel to other planets or solar systems. There were several announcements that were played for the entertainment of the park goers. Why did they remove this exciting aspect of the attraction? And can I find a transcript of all the announcements that were played during our long wait in line?

So I’ve been following someone from my old class—she shares her sketches in stories (her account’s private though). I’d love to keep one of them to reference later for a school piece. Anyone know a safe way to do that without bothering her directly? Not trying to repost or anything, just for personal use.