Splash Mountain
Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World
DIS Unlimited
4.7 • 820 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael and Craig discuss the history of Splash Mountain from its origins to the end of the attraction at the domestic Disney parks.
Links:
- Michael’s Disneyland History Segments
- Important DIS links and more information!
- Connecting with Walt on Twitter
Books/Magazines:
- Who’s Afraid of the Song of the South and other Forbidden Disney Stories by Jim Korkis
Websites/Articles:
- The Complete History of Splash Mountain at Disney Parks by Tom Corless
- A Brief History of Disney: Splash Mountain by Zoe Wood
- The Iconic Legacy of Splash Mountain by Dom
- The Disney Wiki: Splash Mountain
- From Bear Country to Critter Country, Disney’s Opening of Splash Mountain for The Disney Classics
- The Complicated History of Disneyland’s Splash Mountain and Song of the South by Dirk Libbey
- A Brief and Incomplete History of Splash Mountain for WDW Magic.com
- The Story of the Br’er Critters by Sasha Coles
- Joel Chandler Harris for the New Georgia Encyclopedia
- The Wild History of Splash Mountain by C.Z. Anderson
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| 0:50.2 | Hey there, hi, they're ho there, and welcome to episode 289 of connecting with Walt. I am your host and dis historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host, executive producer, and good friend Craig Williams. Craig, how are you today? I'm doing great, Michael. How are you? |
| 1:08.0 | I am doing well, and we were talking off air, and I heard that I hear Rory was very successful with the Easter Bunny, leaving him lots of eggs to find. |
| 1:20.9 | Oh, yeah, he had no shortage of eggs to find, and now we have plastic Easter eggs for life that we will never, never get rid of. |
| 1:32.1 | I can't part with them at this point. |
| 1:33.6 | So what were in the eggs? |
| 1:35.8 | I mean, was it candy, little toys, money? |
| 1:38.5 | Yeah, kind of all over the place. |
| 1:41.1 | Some were little candies, like little to tootsie rolls and then others were, |
| 1:46.6 | you know, little small like trinkets and toys. So I'm actually impressed at all the variety of |
| 1:53.5 | Easter eggs that he was able to find. I, I just thought they were all going to be completely empty. |
| 1:58.5 | And it was just a life lesson in being able to find what you can't see necessarily. |
| 2:04.3 | But no, there was actually a prize to it. |
| 2:07.4 | So that was a nice surprise. |
| 2:09.4 | Oh, good. |
| 2:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:10.4 | That's what they do in our neighborhood when they have Easter egg hunts. |
| 2:13.1 | It's all plastic eggs with little candies and prizes and stickers and things like that. |
| 2:20.3 | I'm going to try to ask the Easter Bunny if they can think about cash. We don't want change |
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