Walt Disney Imagineering unveils 'most advanced Audio-Animatronics figures yet' at Tiana's Bayou Adventure

Apr 04, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

Posted: Thursday April 4, 2024 10:06am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney Imagineering has shared a behind-the-scenes look at the new audio-animatronic figures coming to Tiana's Bayou Adventure this summer.


 

WDI says, "You'll be able to experience our most advanced Audio-Animatronics figures yet in Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort. These figures build on our legacy with even more sophistication."


You can see the new animatronic figures in motion in the first episode of WDI's new YouTube series, 'We Call It Imagineering.'

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    EagleScout6101 hour ago

    Even as someone with a Splash poster 10 feet from my desk, and Br'er Bear and Rabbit funkos among the many on my desk, I get the annoyance, but it's pointless to rehash the Splash argument again. Splash is gone, and now we can just make fun of how bad Bayou is

    HMF1 hour ago

    For my own sanity I mostly avoided the Splash threads from 2020 until it opened and then rendered my opinion.

    James Alucobond2 hours ago

    You say "defended Splash" when that wasn't the point of the topics that sentiment habitually filled. At a certain point, most wanted to discuss the construction updates, not rehash the well-known issues with the original decision to replace or listen to "Splash defense". Obviously, there were a few who were rabidly anti-Splash, just as there were those who were rabidly pro-Splash, but you're mostly just conflating annoyance at constant thread derailment with hate.

    Splash4eva2 hours ago

    Come on. Are you really going to say the hate for anyone who defended Splash was a fabrication?!! Its was the biggest joke going. All the virtue warriors being sheep and following the herd.

    James Alucobond3 hours ago

    Step 1: Appear in every thread about something getting built at WDW and be a Negative Nostradamus. Step 2: Conveniently disappear from all threads for things going well. Step 3: Remain in all threads for things that went poorly and demand recognition for your special insight. Congrats, I guess? Unless you're just focused on the few insane pixie dusters, no one is calling others trolls for being a reasonable amount of dubious or cautious, but there's also a difference between that and trumpeting TBA's failure before much at all was known about it and being an abnormal amount of self-satisfied at your correctness in 20/20 hindsight.

    HMF7 hours ago

    I remember thinking in the early 2010s Things at WDW probably could not get any worse, I was wrong about that.

    WorldExplorer7 hours ago

    And now we're supposed to do all of this all over again. I don't normally quote myself, but I feel like I really got the Piston Peak situation down pat a year ago;

    Splash4eva7 hours ago

    Exactly. We saw the same playbook with GMR. Sadly no matter what shape Splash was in and towards the end and even other times its was rough with many things not working but end of day the ride was still the best and a classic. One where you can sing from start to finish and have an absolute joyous time on.

    Tha Realest7 hours ago

    I’m old enough to remember one of the main justifications for this “reskin” was how poor a shape that Splash Mountain was in, the decrepit state of the AAs, and the need for constant maintenance. Glad those issues have completely gone away.

    Dreamer1912 hours ago

    This is the thing. It was not only needlessly destructive to Splash, but it was also only partially destructive. They half-assed it. If they were dedicated, they could have demolished what was there and started from scratch and built a REAL Tiana ride. I would have hated losing Splash, but at least they wouldn’t have used the corpse of Splash Mountain to gloat about the companies “values”. Furthermore, something tells me all those extra “research” trips to New Orleans could have covered the cost of the demo.

    monothingie12 hours ago

    Please… I’m sure Walt at one point said that breakdowns and lack of maintenance are an important Disney Hallmark. Why do you hate the authenticity being conveyed by the hard working box checks at WDI?

    monothingie12 hours ago

    It’s almost as if some of us predicted this years ago, but were called haters and trolls for pointing out the impending train wreck. Go figure.

    Tha Realest16 hours ago

    Speaking of not being a “one-off” situation: https://blogmickey.com/2025/07/walt-disney-audio-animatronic-breaks-disneyland/

    Gremlin Gus16 hours ago

    I don't think the facade is that bad, but yeah it's defo missing something, if I could add something to the facade to the ride, I would add some trees and bushes to it to make it look more forested and look like an actual bayou.