Latest look at Tiana's Bayou Adventure construction at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

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Posted: Friday April 14, 2023 9:52am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Here is the latest look at the progress on transforming Splash Mountain into Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure construction - April 13 2023

At the top of the mountain, the tree stump has now been completely removed, leaving quite a large space surrounded by scaffolding.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure construction - April 13 2023

Moving to the bottom of the mountain, Imagineers and construction crews are working on new rockwork at the splash-down of the flume.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure construction - April 13 2023

Tiana's Bayou Adventure is set to open at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in late 2024.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure construction - April 13 2023

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ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ5 days ago

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

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 Tigger5 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 Oswald5 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 Oswald5 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.

SamusAranX5 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.

TrainsOfDisney5 days ago

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

RosR95 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

TrainsOfDisney5 days ago

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

TrainsOfDisney5 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.

HauntedPirate5 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 Tigger5 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.