If you’ve been a theme park fan long enough, one thing you’ve learned to deal with is change. It seems that attractions are always coming and going from Disney and Universal’s parks, and with both operators’ new unspoken commitment to featuring box office blockbusters and “hot” intellectual properties (sometimes at the expense of classics!), that tempo seems likely to only increase…
In June 2020, Disney dropped the surprising announcement that Splash Mountain would soon be reimagined entirely, swapped to a new ride featuring Princess and the Frog. Though we’d altogether call the change one for the better, the switch brings us to a hard truth: standing at the dawn of a new decade, we have to imagine that there are quite a few other classics that won’t survive the 2020s. To guide us through this rundown of “endangered” attractions, we’ll use the same rising classification used on at-risk species.
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