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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JoeCamel7 days ago

That's Mondo, making others look bad.....

Brer Panther7 days ago

The other frogs look incredibly cheap, especially in comparison to Mondo.

EagleScout6108 days ago

Mondo has 4 movements, the other frogs have 2 at most. Perhaps its because he's much larger than the others?

BrerFoxesBayouAdventure10 days ago

That's an insult to the artistry of Looney Tunes and the Warner Bros. cartoons. The Br'ers always gave me a "Warner Animation/MGM Studios" kind of vibe in how they're animated more expressively than the usual Disney fare.

Dear Prudence10 days ago

It actually makes the new animatronics being mostly non functioning a lot of the time even more glaringly obvious because they have such limited movements anyway.

Dear Prudence10 days ago

That's actually a really neat idea!!!!

Brer Panther10 days ago

Is it just me, or does Mondo look like a more advanced animatronic than the other "new" characters? I dunno, he just seems a bit more articulated...

HauntedPirate11 days ago

I'd opine that they chose to leave the significant gaps, but that's just me.

networkpro11 days ago

The scenery and props were designed for the Disneyland space so they had to leave significant gaps for Disneyworlds longer flume.

Incomudro11 days ago

Yes, there is little implied motion in any of these figures, or steps of figure. It's bad storyboarding.

EagleScout61011 days ago

The other issue I have with the animatronics on Bayou is that everyone is just standing/sitting firmly on the ground. There's no dynamic or interesting poses that allow for interesting animation. Splash had Br'er Rabbit jumping along the fence, Br'er Bear in the tree and thrashing around on his back, Br’er Fox springing up from the background, the Possum babies above the river hanging by their tails, turtles being lifted by geysers, the entire riverboat rocking back and forth... Everything on Bayou just looks so static in comparison. Edit - Forgot about Rufus the Turtle who bobs back and forth slightly. But it's still a very simple animation loop.

networkpro11 days ago

Curious enough I met Troy Landry at the Poly in 2020 while it was open just for DVC and diners. Nice fellow.

Animaniac93-9811 days ago

They also don't interact much with each other and are very self contained vignettes that don't build to anything. Think of the geese who's fishing line has nabbed another's hat, or the fish that jumps through the empty net. Think of the vultures looking at each other and finishing the other's sentence. Think of the rabbits commenting on the Brers chasing each other while a projection effect plays in the background. All of that is gone...and the heavier reliance of screens makes the new scenes look physically flat. The ride's soundtrack is doing the heavy lifting of giving life to the scenes, not their staging or animation.