Tiana's Bayou Adventure by the Numbers: Key Stats Revealed

Jun 10, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Posted: Monday June 10, 2024 12:30pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Tiana's Bayou Adventure, set to open at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida on June 28, 2024, and at Disneyland Resort in California later this year, is a highly anticipated new attraction at Magic Kingdom inspired by Disney's animated film "The Princess and the Frog."

Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World

As part of today's media event at Magic Kingdom, Disney has revealed some key facts and figures for Tiana's Bayou Adventure, along with an official story outline.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure - By the Numbers

2,009: The number of fireflies featured in the attraction.
1927: The year Tiana's Mardi Gras season party takes place.
50 feet: The height of the biggest drop in the ride.
48: The number of all-new Audio-Animatronics figures included in the attraction.
40 inches: The minimum height requirement for guests to ride.
19: The number of critters, including a turtle, raccoon, rabbit, fox, bear, and frogs, that appear in the ride.
18: The number of songs featured in the attraction.
11 minutes: The approximate duration of the ride experience.
5 songs: The number of original songs included, featuring "Special Spice."
3: The number of critter bands guests will encounter.
2 opportunities: To smell the scent of beignets during the ride.

Experience the newest attraction at Walt Disney World with our ultra-low-light POV ride-through video of Tiana's Bayou Adventure. This video offers a detailed look at the ride, capturing both the queue and the entire journey through the bayou.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure - The Story

Tiana's Bayou Adventure picks up the story after the events of the film. After opening Tiana's Palace, the princess continues to grow her business with an employee-owned cooperative, Tiana's Foods, which can be found in a former salt mining facility that Tiana has transformed.

The entrance to Tiana's Foods features a colorful mural from Louisiana native artist Malaika Favorite. Princess Tiana's weathervane was crafted by 3rd generation master blacksmith Darryl Reeves at his historic Seventh Ward New Orleans workshop. Inside the queue, enjoy the sweet smell of Tiana's famous "man-cotching" beignets!

Following her successes, Princess Tiana is hosting a party for the people of New Orleans during the Mardi Gras season of 1927, but there's been a mix-up in the party preparations between Prince Naveen and Louis - no one booked a band! The company PA system plays a radio program throughout Tiana's Foods and between tunes is an important message from the radio host: Tiana needs help finding musicians for tonight's party!

While inside the attraction queue, check out the details in Tiana's office and kitchen, like newspaper clippings and photos of Tiana's favorite memories, including the princess and her friends loading ingredients into logs for transport. You'll also see her to-do list for the party, where everything is checked off except for hiring a band!

Listen to the company radio for all-new New Orleans-inspired music arranged and produced by Terence Blanchard, award-winning musician and contributor to the soundtrack of "The Princess and the Frog." In between songs, the radio announcer invites one and all to Tiana's celebration.

Into The Bayou

Now it's time to get "going down the bayou!" Good thing you're up for the challenge to help find "the missing ingredient" for the party. According to Louis, the bayou is the best place to find talented musicians so helpful party goers board log flumes to explore. Among the cypress trees are musical critters with instruments made from found objects and natural materials, playing Zydeco, Rara and Afro-Cuban music.

Tiana loves their sound; it's just the ingredient she was looking for!
The attraction features dozens of all-new Audio-Animatronics figures, with familiar faces from the film like Princess Tiana, Mama Odie, Louis, Prince Naveen, Prince 0% Ralphie, Eudora and Charlotte as well as the musical critters. Voice talent from the film reprise their roles, including Anika Noni Rose as Princess Tiana, Michael-Leon Wooley as Louis and Jenifer Lewis as Mama Odie.

With the talented critter bands booked for the big party, it's time to hurry back out of the bayou - and luckily, Mama Odie knows a shortcut that will send guests speeding down to the celebration.

Time To Celebrate

Following a thrilling 50-foot drop, the logs roll into a New Orleans neighborhood soiree at Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen's home! The party is full of new and familiar faces, musical critters, and a new, original song written and produced by award-winning musician PJ Morton and performed by Anika Noni Rose, "Special Spice."

Tiana's Bayou Adventure

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MaximumEd13 days ago

Just got back from a trip and got to ride this several times. I noticed in the mill scene where the first Tiana is located that there seemed to be some loud machinery noise in there like a bad bearing in a pump, or something like that. Don’t remember this in Splash. Anyone have any info?

bpiper22 days ago

From Touringplan's Sept 4 Disney Data Dump blog article. This for the period Aug 27 thru Sept 2. Attraction Downtime Worst Offenders For the third week in a row (and with no prospect for getting knocked off its pedestal any time soon), the worst offender of the past week was Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, which was unexpectedly down for an astounding 41% of the week – its worst week since we starting tracking it. The worst day for Tiana’s was clearly on August 27th, when the ride was down for 82% of the day. But it was also down for more than half of the day on August 28th. On average, Tiana’s didn’t open until 11:15 am this week. But on two different days it was down until significantly into the afternoon.

Bocabear25 days ago

Disneyland Paris' early struggles were never related to the design of the park....and I agree it is the most beautiful park. From what I have been told the real problems were related to overbuilding resorts that were not necessary at the time it was built. I think now it is more widely accepted , but on it's opening, the crowds were not there yet.

TrainsOfDisney25 days ago

More like Rocket Rods… (I love Tony but… )

Vegas Disney Fan25 days ago

Wonder if it was fallout from him being the lead designer of DL Paris (EuroDisney) and its early struggles? Which coincidentally is still the most beautiful Disney park in my opinion.

mickEblu25 days ago

Thank you. It’s annoying being able to read right through people that avoid critiquing (or go much softer than they would if they were being completely honest) TBA as they are afraid of being associated with those “crazy” Splash Mountain fans so they become hyper focused on the technical issues as if those are the only problems.

SuddenStorm25 days ago

If everything else was flawless, I'd be all for critiquing the Tiana animatronics and the terrible CGI depiction of Tiana in the Laughin' Place. But on the hierarchy of issues with the ride, the order is something like- 1. Splash was way way way better, so WDI really dropped the ball 2. The scene staging is elementary 3. The story is elementary. 4. The sound design is elementary. 5. The attraction is horribly unreliable- but even if it ran perfectly, we'd still have issues 1-4. 6. 7. 8. 9. WDI did a poor job translating Tiana's likeness to a 3D animatronic.

Ghost9325 days ago

Tiana's Bayou Adventure has many problems (mainly a terrible story). But Tiana's appearance, weight and "attractiveness" is not one of them. The adventure outfit feels like a big departure from the movie, but she looks a lot like Tiana in the final "special spice" scene.

SuddenStorm25 days ago

I'm 99% sure he was the creative lead for Disneyland in the '90s and early '00s? I could be wrong. His popularity within Disney's leadership plummeted in the late '90s and '00s and as far as I know never recovered. I think Kim Irvine has done a better job internally of remaining popular- but she also comes across as more of a 'yes' person who is willing to toe the company line.