Disney World Announces Dates for Tiana's Bayou Adventure Passholder Previews

May 14, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure preview

Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024 8:51am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced the early Annual Passholder preview dates for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.

The previews will take place on June 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, and 20, 2024. To participate, Passholders must make a park reservation and join a virtual queue on the day of the preview via the My Disney Experience app, with opportunities to join at 7:00 am and 1:00 pm each day.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure Annual Passholder Preview Dates

Passholder previews will take place at Magic Kingdom park on June 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 20.

Park Reservations & Virtual Queue Required

A virtual queue will be in place for Annual Passholder previews of Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Here's how it works.

First, make a park reservation to Magic Kingdom park on a preview date to have the opportunity to join the 7:00 am virtual queue for that day. Or, you can make a park reservation to any theme park on a preview date to have the opportunity to join the 1:00 pm virtual queue.

On the date of your reservation, request to join the virtual queue by using the My Disney Experience app. There will be 2 opportunities to join each day of previews.

The 7:00 am virtual queue will be available to Passholders with a park reservation to Magic Kingdom park for that day.

The 1:00 pm virtual queue will be available to Passholders with a park reservation to any theme park for that day. As a reminder, Passholders must enter the theme park where they have a reservation prior to visiting Magic Kingdom park. Or, on June 13, 14, 17, 18 or 20, they can enter Magic Kingdom park without a reservation after 2:00 PM.

Passholders do not need to have entered a theme park when they request to join the virtual queue.

Important Information

Passholders must have a Walt Disney World Resort Annual Pass with valid admission on the preview date. Applicable pass blockout dates apply. Park reservations are limited and subject to availability.

Each Passholder can request to join a virtual queue no more than once per day.

Passholders may hold boarding groups for the preview virtual queue and an attraction virtual queue at the same time, when available.

Joining the virtual queue does not guarantee the ability to participate in the preview. Boarding groups for a virtual queue are limited, subject to availability and are not guaranteed. Not all boarding groups may be called to return, based on availability of the attraction. Learn more about virtual queues.

Offering, dates and hours are subject to change or cancellation without notice or liability

Tiana's Bayou Adventure officially opens to all guests at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom on June 28, 2024.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure attraction poster

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Tha Realest8 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.

SamusAranX18 days ago

….by the Imagineers? lol

ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ18 days ago

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

SamusAranX18 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 Tigger18 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 Oswald18 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 Oswald18 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.

SamusAranX18 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.

TrainsOfDisney19 days ago

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

RosR919 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

TrainsOfDisney19 days ago

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

TrainsOfDisney19 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.

HauntedPirate19 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 Tigger19 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.