Splash Mountain is now closed, leaving only one version of the ride remaining, the one at Tokyo Disneyland.
As a former Disneyland local, Splash Mountain was up there with Indy and the Matterhorn as my favorite rides of all time. I got one last ride on it at the end of 2019, which I'm very grateful for now, but I'm not totally upset to see it go. The main reason is that all the animatronics were repurposed from America Sings, which opened in 1974, making them almost 50 years old and really showing their age on a ride that's very heavy on animatronics to begin with. I'm a little sad that I'll never get to ride the Splash I grew up with, but I am looking forward to the new version especially if they don't cut corners and really bring it up to the standards of a solid modern dark ride.
The silver lining is that Tokyo Disneyland's version is easily the best of them, so the ride will be around in what I consider to be its best version for some years to come. The catch is: you have to go to Japan, and, for the complete experience, speak a bit of Japanese.