Zootopia

Disney Is Finally Making the First ‘Zootopia’ Ride
Disney Is Finally Making the First ‘Zootopia’ Ride
Disney Is Finally Making the First ‘Zootopia’ Ride
Only two Walt Disney Animation Studios movies in history have grossed $1 billion worldwide. Two of them are the Frozen films. The third is Zootopia, the cute animal/cop movie about a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic critters solving a mystery. The film...
Just How Racist Is ‘Song of the South,’ Disney’s Most Notorious Movie?
Just How Racist Is ‘Song of the South,’ Disney’s Most Notorious Movie?
Just How Racist Is ‘Song of the South,’ Disney’s Most Notorious Movie?
Along the western edge of Disneyland, rises a craggy peak of mossy cliffs, tangled tree roots, and thorny briar patches. This attraction — part animatronic carnival, part kid-friendly log flume — is known as Splash Mountain, and thanks to the technical wizards at Walt Disney Imagineering, it really looks like an authentic summit. But of course, it’s not; it was built in the late 1980s at a reported cost of some $75 million. It’s a very fun ride — and possibly the strangest in the entire Disney empire, since it’s essentially a giant $75 million monument to a movie that Disney has kept out of circulation for more than 30 years.