Splash Mountain 1989 ride-through including rare “Sooner or Later” footage 

I'm surprised somebody took a video camera on a water ride back in 1989! Way before water resistant phones/cameras.

I wish they'd leave this ride alone, it's so great! Does not need a re-do!

I have always loved this attraction. Best water ride I have ever been on!

As much as I love The Song Sooner Or Later. For an Amusement Park Ride It doesn't Really Prep You for the Big Drop. And it's very relaxing and Soothing.

RIP to my favorite ride. 😞

WOAH. I never knew sooner or later was actually on the ride once! This is such a cool discovery! Keep it up, Man!

Thank you! A thousand times Thank you!! for having and preserving this footage, of my All-time favorite ride!! I was there back then, working with Tony Baxter, and Dave Feiten, at Disneyland, and I spent nearly every day, inside that mountain, with them and the crew, watching them build it, install the animals, animating the animals, painstakingly, and I was climbing around, all over the place, having the time of my life!!! I am DEVASTATED, that the world's most favorite Disney ride of all-time, yep, even more favorite than Pirates, should be destroyed by a bunch of new, you-know whats, at the Disney Organization! I am an Animator, also. I have been a complete mess, since yesterday, watching that horrible Tiana disgusting fiasco! no story, no adventure, no nothing...replace this MASTERPIECE- that was, Splash Mountain. After watching that miserable Tiana thing, I had to go, be sick! I hope to God, that someone STOPS the madness at Anaheim Disneyland, and puts Splash back, before it's too late!!! Thank God, to the Oriental Trading Company, that owns Tokyo Disneyland, who flat-out REFUSES to take out or endanger their priceless Splash Mountain. So, still safe in Japan!! They even just refurbbed their Country Bear Jamboree, and reopened it to a mob!!! Thank you again, for this film, and your Channel. I have to go cry, again, as this is just so emotional, it's a death.

I always assumed Splash Mountain was crazy old, like opening day attraction..... mostly because of how quickly Disney dropped Song of the South after release, so it's kind of wild they made a whole ride around it in 1989.... Controversey aside, it just seems so long after and random. Like if Disneyland announced tomorrow that in 2026, a new ride based around Treasure Planet or The Rescuers was going to be created. Excellent footage though, history indeed.

Well that is nothing short of amazing. I listen to Disney music loops at work and the Critter Country one is amongst them. I hear "Sooner or Later" all the time but assumed that it had never actually appeared in the ride. I'm sorry they didn't keep it. I wonder why it was removed? Not enough time to transition to the next scene without keeping the same track?

Back when Facilities actually gave two poops--and had a budget and staffing--to care about show. Back before everything show-wise was broken all the time at Disneyland. Sigh. Wish we could get back to those days. The fact that one of the best parts of Rise of the Resistance--the room where you're supposed to dodge the moving guns, broke already and they just don't fix it, is.... extremely disheartening.

That was the only year brer fox had orange hair

Bro… I love this ride so frickin much so this is really cool!

Just rode it two days ago! Gonna miss it when it changes 😡

Wow, I never knew this was in the ride at all! I thought it was removed late in development. I have to ask this though, and it’s ok if you are unable to share, but how ON EARTH did you find this??!

Happy 34th Anniversary Splash Mountain 🥳🎊🎂🎈🎁🎉🌊⛰🐻🦊🐰🪵

So surprised about the this ride is based on the movie Song of the South. It seem like a Silly Symphony Cartoon short characters.

Such a cool discovery! I was at Disney this week and I'm from Canada. Rode this ride 10 times and they announced today that it's closing in May. So great to have found a channel that shares lost footage!

Wow! So amazing you found this!

6:38 I can't believe the sooner or later song was added to splash mountain

Thank you very much for giving me some much needed happiness!!

6:44 Omg I never knew this part was in the version of the ride!

Thank you for making these videos, they are great!

I find it very interesting that the outdoor section before the first waterfall doesn't have any of the main trio's houses yet - no Rabbit's house with briars, no miniature Fox's house on top of the hill, and on another video you can see that the cave of the snoring bear still belongs to "Rufus" instead of Brer Bear. I wonder when that idea came about

before the slippin falls drop, we’re the brer’s houses always not there for awhile? I remember seeing footage of them not there but idk if it was just during testing

Absolutely AMAZING!

So at one point the song sooner or later was actually on splash mountain I thought it was just a concept

This is surprisingly similar to what it looked like in march of 2023, wow

this is such a great edit good job

I loved this video more like this please

Time to watch all your videos lol

This must have been filmed in October of 1989 or something, seeing as how they have the pumpkins and everything.

How long was sooner or later in the ride for?

I wonder if the hidden Mickey is still at the top of the drop🤔

Hi! Can someone please point out where the Sooner or Later song is in the video. I was born in 2004, so I had never heard of this before. It was quite fascinating to watch, thank you for uploading. I love Splash Mountain✨

Is there an uncut/unaltered version of the Sooner or Later section of the ride? The cut-to-comparison cuts off the Sooner or Later footage before the log has properly passed the scene and I'd like to see it in its completest form.

Zippe do dahhhh

too bad they never fixed the briar patch splash down sprayers 😢

Is it still hard to say when this is going to close? I would hope it’s still here in September 2022 because I may be going then

The replacement is very pretty but it’s too dark, boring, has a handful of animatronics, and the music is just ok. They cheaped out with screens too ☹️

I can’t believe they destroyed this iconic attraction for a boring forgettable overlay. Tiana and Splash deserved better.

Yay

Do you know what year they changed out the logs?

What was different about this ride through? I'm not familiar with the history of the ride, so I'm curious what part of it was rare

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