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

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

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Behind-the-scenes look at Tiana's Bayou Adventure audio-animatronics

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.

Behind-the-scenes look at Tiana's Bayou Adventure audio-animatronics

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."

Behind-the-scenes look at Tiana's Bayou Adventure audio-animatronics

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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Tony the Tigger2 hours ago

I’m totally guessing, but he’s probably talking about polls taken in the park, those on his site are reviews by people who choose to leave a review, easily skewed. I could certainly be wrong.

DarkMetroid5672 hours ago

pulling an “um ackshually 🤓” to a guy and his own website is wild

Tony the Tigger2 hours ago

That looks like user-submitted reviews as opposed to in-park polling. Might want to check for review bombers, just like the movies.

Disstevefan12 hours ago

By 2027 it will be the same attraction except by then, all of the animatronics will be non functional they will be using strobe lights to simulate movement…. Until the strobes break..

Brer Oswald5 hours ago

Not sure where Len is getting his data from. On his website, it’s ranked 16th overall and 8th when just counting rides. It’s firmly below Big Thunder, Mansion, Pirates, TRON, Mine Train, Peoplemover, and the railroad.

Incomudro6 hours ago

I know I'm a broken record with this Tiana thing, but here it is again - they had the perfect source material in the PatF film to make this a knockout of a ride. The film provided it to them on a proverbial silver platter. The music, characters, scenes... All would have worked splendidly. Fun, scary, catchy, just like Disney used to do.

Incomudro6 hours ago

Whimsy doesn't exist at Disney anymore. It's all about messaging, back story, authenticity, and a whole lot of other things that have nothing to do with fun.

lentesta6 hours ago

Splash closed before TRON opened, so relative comparisons aren’t possible. But Splash would’ve also been top 3 in MK. That seems to me to imply the basic ride design is critical here. On a plane rn. Sorry for brevity.

mickEblu16 hours ago

Right. It’s highly likely Joe Shmo says he didn’t have fun on a 10 minute water ride with 3 drops. The ride system alone ensures that. Ironically, if this ride replaced something like Winnie the Pooh it would actually have a much worse satisfaction rating as normies would focus and give more weight to the show scenes. But then again maybe Disney would have actually tried when they didn’t have the drops and ride system to fall back on.

Sir_Cliff16 hours ago

I don't know why that would give you better data, though, than comparing satisfaction ratings of both when they were open. If, for example, surveys show the new ride averages 4.6/5 satisfaction rating while the old ride was averging 4/5 on surveys when it was open but when you ask people who rode both which they preferred a majority say the old ride, what do you do with that data? Do you say the new attraction is worse or do you say people's memory is faulty because the data shows people, on average, rated the old ride one lower than the new one when it was open?

Disgruntled Walt17 hours ago

I'd be really curious to see the results of a survey that asked specifically which one people prefer if they rode both.

Smooth18 hours ago

Maybe people just like the ride, the big drop and splash at the end, as long as it has some Disney characters thrown in?

Tony the Tigger18 hours ago

You mean the average person doesn’t ride it thinking, “Omg, that little critter I see for 1/4 of a second isn’t moving!” Neither did I. Put me in the “dig it” column. Excellent question. Of course, we can always expect fluctuation based on what is new at the time.

Sir_Cliff19 hours ago

While I realise we have to tread carefully on these topics, I tend to agree with @Ghost93 that, at the very least, they would have been less likely to make this change today given the current political environment. Based on the information we have, though, it seems hard to know whether they regret spending the money and making the change in retrospect. PatF not becoming a franchise does kind of undermine the "franchise mandate", but then PatF is part of one of their most profitable franchises (Princesses) anyway. As @lentesta mentioned, guests seem to like the ride at similar levels to Splash. However, do we know if Splash was also one of the top three most popular rides in the park before it closed anyway? I don't know quite why I am so interested in this, but I really do wonder whether internally they view this change as a success given that the fan response goes so far in the other direction.