Disney announces opening for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World and a first look at new animatronics

Feb 13, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Tiana Animatronic

Posted: Tuesday February 13, 2024 8:40am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney announced today that Tiana's Bayou Adventure will open to guests at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in the summer of 2024 and at Disneyland later in 2024.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Tiana Animatronic

Splash Mountain had its last day of operation on January 22, 2023, and a summer opening of Tiana's Bayou Adventure represents an impressive timeline for the reimagining effort, months ahead of the original "late 2024" announcement.

The earliest and most optimistic estimates place opening around Memorial Day (late May) at Magic Kingdom, but Disney has yet to make any announcement beyond "Summer 2024."

There will also likely be various rounds of previews for Cast Members, Annual Passholders, Disney Vacation Club Members, Club 33, and it remains to be seen how the soft openings will fit into the timeline.

Disney also today shared a first look at the Tiana audio-animatronic that will be part of the attraction and also confirmed that there will be dozens of entirely new Audio-Animatronics figures. Along with Princess Tiana, Louis and Mama Odie, we will also see Eudora, Charlotte, Prince Ralphie, Prince Naveen, and others.

Watch the video below to see the new Tiana Audio-Animatronic in action.

The "coming soon" posters surrounding Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom have also now been updated to include the new Summer 2024 opening.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure coming summer 2024 mural

With Princess Tiana at the helm, this new attraction “digs a little deeper” into her story after the events of the Walt Disney Animation Studios film “The Princess and the Frog.” It is Mardi Gras season at Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, and the bayou will light up for a journey full of music, Mama Odie’s magic, and a whole boatful – log-ful? – of new friends, in preparation for a celebration where everyone’s welcome.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure coming summer 2024 mural

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dmc49357 minutes ago

Not following closely enough then. Thanks for clarifying!

gerarar1 hour ago

As one who tracks the VQ data, there's been a noticeable uptick in downtime over the past month or two. It's getting worse from a reliability perspective imo. Just today it was closed from 10:30am - 4:28pm for an extended closure. That's abnormal and not per usual.

dmc4932 hours ago

I thought we had gotten to a point that reliability wasn't the issue anymore, and the downtime shown on the VQ thread was mainly tied to rain events.

JoeCamel3 hours ago

They might have to fork out a few fast passes if it goes down with guests in line? Times have changed if they dumped a queue I was in I just went on to the next thing with all the other dumpees now people expect something for it. Consequence of making the per minute price to be there so high I guess

BrianLo4 hours ago

I side with everyone that this is actually not a hard attraction to access. On party nights it was a walk on. Temp obviously was a factor. I imagine they are just holding out until Christmas is over at this juncture. But because it’s easy to access, the opposite applies, no one who wants to go on this attraction is really being shut out.

Disstevefan14 hours ago

I think they are afraid of opening standby because the attraction is simply not reliable enough.

JoeCamel4 hours ago

Makes me question why they don't just have standby.......

LittleBuford5 hours ago

Interesting! I didn’t think there would be any left on the day.

Disstevefan15 hours ago

Since it’s always breaking down I don’t see it ever having a 10 minute wait 😉

bwr8276 hours ago

We easily grabbed a Tiana’s lightning lane on the day of, after starting our day at Animal Kingdom.

Jayspency7 hours ago

I think it’s the animatronics that are the cause for most of the breakdowns. Everytime I ride TBA there’s always something wrong with at least 1 of the animatronics. If a majority of them aren’t working I can see Disney closing the ride to fix them. Though this is speculation.

Disstevefan19 hours ago

Wow. I had thought they had worked out the issues. Too bad.

monothingie10 hours ago

Keeping the VQ? Well why not. It certainly would be embarrassing if their newest attraction has only a 10 minute standby line wait. They also couldn't sell many LL if the artificial scarcity and FOMO generated by a VQ is crushed by a low wait time standby line.

Fox&Hound11 hours ago

Leaving WDW today and man this ride is ridiculously unreliable. It was closed more than it was open this past week. How embarassing! Does anyone know why it is down so much? I read it has to do with sensors messing up the audio and everything getting out of sync. Is that true? We all really enjoyed it! Does not have the same punch as Splash, but they certainly spent a lot of money. The shrinking element is a head scratcher. But overall, when it was operational, we enjoyed it.