Ultra-Low-Light POV of Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Complete Ride Experience

Tha Realest2 hours ago

just a complete failure from concept (above) to execution (what park goers and those watching the DL POV see every day). Imagine pushing all your chips in on a stupid idea for a streaming TV show which was so bad it was cancelled and is being cobbled together as a “special.”

osian3 hours ago

Test Track 3.0 in the forest drive section!

WorldExplorer4 hours ago

"Old Epcot and Tokyo did/do it" is exactly the response I expected.

MerlinTheGoat14 hours ago

There are some other Disney attractions in the world that have somewhat brightly lit environments in that same vein. And there used to be a larger amount at WDW years back. Several of the old EPCOT Future World classics did, and Great Movie Ride with some scenes. One attraction that has some very similar looking sunny scenery to Splash that still exists today (and isn't Splash) is Pooh's Hunny Hunt from Tokyo.

Jayspency14 hours ago

I think living with the land did this as well for the farm scene. Though it’s much darker in there compared to splash.

MerlinTheGoat14 hours ago

How did you get any of this out of that post? They said the exact opposite. The only real similarity with the previous ride is that they reused the same building and track layout. The reason why that's an issue is because TBA does not work with this layout. A more talented team probably could have come up with a better fit. But as it stands, almost none of the scenes feel like much thought was put into them. The concerns Tony Baxter noted in a podcast about how you need a tense and scary story to justify the lifts and drops also ended up being accurate. Secondly, the scenery is very off in a number of ways. I've mentioned this myself. The previous ride's environments were all thoroughly stylized to appear like a cartoon come to life. Most of the set design was custom, sculpted and painted in an exaggerated and non-realistic art style. One of the best comparison examples are the grassy surfaces in those shots above. In the previous ride, the grass was a sculpted element, it was a largely smooth minimally textured surface. Only the edges had a bit of physical texture to simulate thick cartoonish blades of grass draping over the sides of the riverbank. The paint and brush strokes did the work for all of the finer detail and texture. And they used very bright colors that popped even in a bright "sunny" looking environment. TBA is also based on an animated film, and it has figures that are somewhat similarly cartoony and stylized to that of the predecessor. Some of the walls are also hand painted (with animated projections) in this style. Those elements look somewhat appropriate to the cartoon stylization at least. However, no such consideration was given to the physical set design at all, resulting in different art styles clashing together. They filled in the mostly gutted sets with generic realistic fake grass bought from a store. They attempted to simulate a colorful painted style with lighting, but it doesn't work well because the shapes and textures that fill out the setpieces still have that generic realistic appearance. Lights also can't control fine details like paint and brush strokes can. In a ride that was going for a more realistic setting such as Pirates or Living with the Land, this realistic foliage would work well (provided everything else matched). But not for a ride based off an animated film with cartoony characters and backgrounds.

Incomudro16 hours ago

The current crop of Imaginears - or at least the crew assigned to this project - truly don't know what they are doing. I've said it before, I'll say it again: With Splash, each scene was a storyboard. The scenes worked even when static. There was a sense of implied movement, and every scene worked even by itself. Narration wasn't even needed. With Tiana, it's all gesturing and dialog.

WorldExplorer19 hours ago

God, can we all just take a moment to appreciate the sheer impressiveness of Splash Mountain making an indoor scene set on a bright, sunny day in an outdoor area? I'm pretty sure it was the only ride that did that in all of Disney World (the screens on Three Caballeros is the only other example I can think of, and it feels pretty clashy with the real scenes). Maybe all Disney parks, I haven't seen another one in all the videos I've watched. It's easier to hide things and direct the eye when more things are dark, so you can see why normally they go with that. Then Tiana's comes along and really sets the tone for the whole retheme by going right back to night scenes.

Tony the Tigger19 hours ago

So you’re saying it’s bad because it’s too similar to the previous version, which was somehow good despite those similarities?

Tony the Tigger19 hours ago

You mean because his story ended when the movie ended, and this takes place after that?

EagleScout61019 hours ago

Once you turn the lights on, the half baked nature of the retheme really show through. Take Tiana in the first scene - Keep in mind, that set replaced Br'er Rabbit with Mr. Bluebird and the briars behind him with two trees and fake grass. Another example is the critter band 3 feet away where Br'er Fox and Bear were: God, I could write a book about how badly they messed this overhaul up.

Comped22 hours ago

Was never an option to include him when, I cannot lie, certain elements within Disney were afraid of offending voodoo practitioners with his inclusion.

Jedi1423 hours ago

From what they had said about the show, it was to be set after TBA and partially about Tiana’s new role as a community leader and future queen.

LindseyDisney1 day ago

I posted this on reddit and I thought I would share my thoughts on here. I'm curious what everyone thinks? This is just my own wild theory, but I’ve always thought the characters we’re seeing in Tiana's Bayou Adventure were originally meant to be introduced in the canceled Tiana series. Since that show was scrapped, I can’t help but wonder what the future holds for Tiana's Bayou Adventure. My guess is that in the next 10 to 15 years, Disney might end up tweaking the ride's storyline. While they’ll definitely keep the Princess and the Frog IP, I could see them changing the narrative. Or potential inclusion of Dr. Facilier. With the upcoming Villains Land in the parks, how can they not include him? I’m almost imagining a scenario like Journey into Imagination. where we end up with two different Princess and the Frog storylines / rides in the parks.