Disney Remains Tight-Lipped on Tiana's Bayou Adventure Opening Date in Today's Earnings Call with Bob Iger

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure construction - May 2 2024
Posted: Tuesday May 7, 2024 9:14am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Another opportunity has come and gone to announce an opening date for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World.

Construction is wrapping up on the Magic Kingdom's new log-flume ride, and Imagineers continue to carry out test rides almost daily. While we expect to see some previews to begin in June 2024, we still don't have an official opening date.

Today's earnings call with Disney CEO Bob Iger was a potential opportunity to make the announcement, but it was not to be. The most likely outcome now will be a social media and Disney Parks Blog announcement in the coming weeks.

Once we have an opening date, we expect several weeks of previews for various groups, including Disney Cast Members, media, Annual Passholders, DVC Members, Club 33, and D23.

At Tiana's Bayou Adventure, Princess Tiana is getting ready to throw a big party, but there's been a bit of a mix-up between Prince Naveen and Louis, and the princess suddenly finds herself in need of a band. A true Mardi Gras celebration isn't complete without music. Riders will follow Tiana and Louis into the bayou in a last-minute search for this essential missing ingredient for her party — musical critters!

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EagleScout6103 hours ago

No it was near the briar patch when Splash opened. It didn't have a critter name though so it was just a random house.

aladdin20075 hours ago

just speculation so far,,,,I watched a splash video the other day and had forgotten just how much show space, depth and intricate detail was down there, it was incredible.....I just hope they didn't block off/fill all this in, and have actually used it in the same way in terms of the infrastructure of it.

TrainsOfDisney6 hours ago

Maelstrom was often a walk-on

Surferboy5677 hours ago

I mentioned this a while ago (over 100 pages back), do we have any indication what song plays in the Laughin Place yet?

zipadee9999 hours ago

The logs don’t look changed to me, but the soak factor is determined by the weight of the log and the angle of the ‘scoop’ on the front. If they wanted to lessen the splash, they would’ve needed to lighten the logs somehow as well as sharpen the angle of the scoop to ‘push’ the water away from riders rather than towards them. Nothing obvious visually seems to have been done, but who knows, they may have sanded the logs to adjust the scoop or found a way to internally lighten them.

JoeCamel9 hours ago

The logs were not changed

bwr82710 hours ago

Does anyone think they might have tried to adjust the shape of the ride vehicles to lessen the soaking factor? I know nothing about this (am not a water log engineer and never played one on TV). I know only that log rides in general seem to vary in amount of water that hits riders. I’m hoping to ride Tiana’s later this year, but my wife and kids avoid water rides because they don’t like feeling soggy.

wishesnighttimespec19 hours ago

Would love to see this footage... hoping this means the water becomes lit up like that concept art

FettFan22 hours ago

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The Mom1 day ago

Now, get back on topic, @The Mom .

The Mom1 day ago

That is probably why I was given (by other posters) my username way back when.

arich351 day ago

Oh I had no idea what that title under her name meant. I'm not dumb lol It is just funny to me almost all of her replies are basically telling children to shut up and stay focused

Vclguy901 day ago