Disney's Splash Mountain will become Tiana’s Bayou Adventure in late 2024

ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney Co. has announced a timeline for the re-theming of Splash Mountain and a new name for the ride set to become based on “The Princess and the Frog.” The attraction’s name will be Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, and it will open at Magic Kingdom and Disneyland theme parks in late 2024, the company announced during the Essence Festival in New Orleans on Friday. “We are telling a New Orleans story as a part of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure,” Charita Carter, executive producer of relevancy activations at Walt Disney Imagineering, said in a video released by Disney. It showed Imagineer...