Walt Disney Imagineering unveils progress on Tiana's Bayou Adventure Animatronics

Surferboy56712 minutes ago

ATTENTION! - FIFTY FOOT PLUNGE AHEAD! Tiana's Bayou Adventure is a turbulent flume adventure with high speeds, heights, and sudden drops and stops! BOARDING INSTRUCTIONS: Pull down on lap bar Stow items • Remain Seated! YOU MAY GET WET! YOU MAY EXIT HERE

Professortango113 minutes ago

I'm sorry if me speaking to what I have seen in connection with the discussion is "nonsense" and "garbage." It is a real observation and relevant to the conversation that was happening in this thread where people were weighing if reactions have been Pollyanna positive or stick-in-the-mud hates everything. And why would something another says get YOU banned from the thread? Aren't you in control of what you post? Thank goodness nobody finds your posts about using a hose on guests or the announcement graphic being embarrassing to be nonsense and garbage and requiring mods to remove.

eddie10416 minutes ago

It’s a symptom of a much bigger issue sadly.

Professortango118 minutes ago

I think it will depend upon the execution. If it feels more juvenile with a plot inspired by Blues Clues/Dora the Explorer with our Princess sweetly asking "Have YOU seen the trumpet?" then that could hurt it. If it happens to capture the same magic as Splash, especially DL's Splash, where scenes are vibes and less narrative driven and take us on an emotional journey, then most won't care about the change. The apparent absence of darker vibes is what is worrying myself and several others. Splash had the fun introductory vibe of whimsy and cuteness with the instrumental How Do You Do to introduce the vibe and melody then we feel that vibe open around us when we enter the world of the attraction. Then we dip into the Laughin Place where the music changes for the first time since the ride began and we are in a naughtier and more mischievous vibe. That music then changes into a minor key haunting vibe with Burrow's Lament. The lament then grows to full on epic scariness as we are lifted higher and higher to our apparent doom. Then, at Splash down, we are greeted by our first wholesome song since How Do You Do, played without vocals to allow us to come down from the splash and call back to the ride's opening prologue with the instrumental How Do You Do. Then, just as the whimsy and wonder opened us around us for HDYD moving to the musical version, we get a similar celebratory finale with Zip moving from instrumental to a full blown musical theatre finale. We see the villains getting their silly comeuppance. Then our hero continuing the song in a more intimate scale, letting the ride wind down beautifully. That's what makes the ride, and DL's version specifically, so masterful for me. It is incredibly simple and feels like the intimacy and zippiness of a FL Darkride met with the scale and musicality of PotC. I really hope that TBA could find their own version of that same vibe progression and doesn't get bogged down with rattling keys at us, a symptom we see more in newer attractions.

Trauma22 minutes ago

Can a mod delete this post. This is the type of nonsense that ends up getting me banned from threads that I enjoy participating in. Having a good discussion here today, and someone posts this garbage.

SilentWindODoom31 minutes ago

Frozen was a bigger IP with a smaller throughput in the mostly-devoid-of-attractions half of a park with few headliners. While the way they decide to deal with the line will no doubt be a factor, outside of that I do not believe this would have nearly the backup Frozen Ever After did. In all honestly... is there a flume across the world that had the level of theming that Splash did? Besides the Jurassic flumes, the ones I've generally seen would have been outdone by Splash if it contained just rockwork caves inside and the exterior it had. They're usually a ramshackle sawmill, a mine with the chickenwire under the spackle showing, or an unthemed chute. Splash was the best in the world and an incredible attraction, but I don't know how hard that crown was to take. But that just may be a blind spot in my knowledge. This idea to me has the same ring of those who describe their most hated politician as simultaneously a feebleminded, senile old man and an evil, puppeting mastermind. Disney wants to gouge the consumer and give them the cheapest-to-pay-for experience to pinch every penny but will fork over large sums of cash to pay for the opportunity to pay for a retrofit to Tiana. Considering Song of the South was (and may still be) available for purchase in Japan for decades after being erased in the states, I do not think it is anywhere near worth it for them to pay for that. Its very existence is going to slip under a lot of radars. Yeah, this is why I'm sticking to here. People out there are crazy. Fortunately, no one has gotten that crazy in here.

Ice Gator38 minutes ago

Imo probably very few. If anything I imagine kids would be more will be more invested to get on the ride with the PATF theme even if they are intimidated by the drop. Knowing Tiana and Louis are inside may sell it for them.

Incomudro45 minutes ago

You know... When I told one of my son's - now age 22 - that Splash was being re-themed , his response was "The one with the adorable animals?" "What was the problem with that ride?" Which now has me thinking... Given the information we have that Tiana's is going to be heavy on the critters, I wonder how much the average casual Disney goer who was not invested in Brer Rabbit, and Brer Fox will really notice a difference outside of Tiana's having better AA's, and a few human AA's sprinkled in?

headintheclouds50 minutes ago

I do and it’s similar to here. People either being ecstatic about it or saying this ride sucks and no one asked for it.

Chi8455 minutes ago

I don’t follow FB or other forums on other sites, but I don’t see what you’re describing here.

Smiley/OCD58 minutes ago

Now if they made a beignet flavored milkshake, hmmm…

Animaniac93-9859 minutes ago

Which would be a shame after so many years of development and construction. And also because this will be the only "new" ride at WDW for a while...

Animaniac93-981 hour ago

I don't think there will ever be an E-ticket as weird and anti-climatic as TRON, built a decade+ after Disney killed the IP. Except maybe Rataouille...which was also another example of reheated leftovers.

headintheclouds1 hour ago

I figured we would’ve moved on to the dates not aligning with peoples vacation schedules…