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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Tha Realest6 days ago

Okay. I experienced TBA in person last night (DL version). You can search my posting history here to see I was not a fan of this project, from conception to execution. That said, I give this a 9.5 / 10 upon experiencing it in person. I have some slight knocks which I’ll detail in a moment, and a slight caveat to say that I do thing it was conceived and intended for the DL setting vs WDW. Placement: 10/10. It felt it belonged organically. We did not arrive in that area of the park until after dusk, and it looked beautiful. Experience: 10/10. I was utterly charmed by the general experience of it. Story: 8 / 10. That said, the presentation of the story you were “in” felt very forced notwithstanding the fact you were spoon fed it throughout. AAs: 9.5 / 10. Most everything was functioning properly. Tiana sitting on (Louis? A log? We went by very quickly) wasn’t moving, but that was the only problem. Also very noticeable was the felt material that constitutes Louis - as we passed him, my son said, “Is he a stuffed animal?” As he said it my mind went to Lotso Huggin Bear vs Louis (especially when you see him in more reptilian form earlier in the ride). Finale: 9 / 10. There is a tough incongruency throughout the ride between the video animations and the AAs. The AAs by themselves are great and nice realizations in three dimensional space of the characters. Their movements are fluid and look great. But when placed adjacent to much more vivid and fluid animations, it makes the (admittedly impressive) AAs look more stilted and mechanical than they otherwise would appear. Conclusion: 9.5 / 10 (don’t try to add up the subcategories - I’m not sure how I weight them respectively). Overall, very impressed in a way that overcame my priors. I can see how the DL version comes off better than the WDW version as you’re whisked through there so quickly there is not a lot of time to process the shortcomings in real time. Did not get a sense of boredom riding it. A very pleasant experience which I will gladly do again.

SamusAranX17 days ago

….by the Imagineers? lol

ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ17 days ago

That would have required an inordinate amount of thought and imagination.

SamusAranX17 days ago

I always said that they should have done a Tiana’s Western Expedition fusion sort of ride. You can still have the missing ingredient theme, she’s hunting out west with her New Orleans pals, only to find a familiar face from the past has also followed them….

Tony the Tigger17 days ago

We’ll have to wait for him to explain how it works. Seemed pretty busy today. I’m sure there is a reasonable reply on the way.

Brer Oswald17 days ago

Does he have someone conducting exit polls in the gift shop? Funny, nobody asked me of what I thought the 3 times I went on the ride.

Brer Oswald17 days ago

It was always going to be a weird fit. You’re taking a rustic cavernous structure themed around small woodland critters and shoving humans in their place. Granted, they could have done a better job with it than they did. What we got was basically the worst case scenario. I doubt they’ll fix it so long as it’s “serving its purpose” as a flume ride.

SamusAranX17 days ago

Disney isn’t retooling it unless the next CEO decides to pull a drastic (positive) culture shift of even higher, well placed investment. Think ala Igers original mandate to correct their “brand withdrawals”. Which he did with DCA. Then they promptly decided to completely overhaul their overhaul.

TrainsOfDisney17 days ago

Agreed. Not sure why we have to settle for “bushes” at Tiana, “snowflakes” at Frozen, and plastic “fish” at mermaid.

RosR917 days ago

I feel like they don’t even have to do that much if they really wanted to do the bare minimum, like even just add a few basic sets so we’re not floating by nothing for 90% of the ride. Like I can’t imagine making and placing a couple little critter houses is that hard or expensive

TrainsOfDisney17 days ago

If they ever rework Tiana it still has lots of potential- it’s not terrible.

TrainsOfDisney17 days ago

any guest rating is tricky - if I leave a Broadway show and someone asks me for a poll right after I would certainly rank it very high even if it was just average. (An average broadway show is still excellent). But will I revisit the same broadway show multiple times on future visits? That’s another question.

HauntedPirate17 days ago

4.5 from guests, based on what Len stated previously (and the same ratings they got for Splash) vs. 4.3 on the site is something being "easily skewed"?

Tony the Tigger17 days 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.