New Video - A Deep Dive into the Making of Tiana's Bayou Adventure with Walt Disney Imagineers

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Posted: Friday March 22, 2024 10:39am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The New Orleans Book Festival hosted Walt Disney Imagineering for a panel discussion on "Bringing Tiana's Bayou Adventure to Life," moderated by Leslie Iwerks.

In this 45-minute video, you can hear from WDI's Charita Carter and Carmen Smith and "honorary Imagineer" Stella Chase.

The New Orleans Book Festival brings the world's leading authors to Tulane University for a multi-day celebration of their works. The Festival features both fiction and non-fiction and convenes readings, panel discussions, symposia and keynote speeches. It provides an opportunity for outlets, authors and readers to interact with each other in one of the most vibrant and culturally diverse cities in the world.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure will open in the summer of 2024, but Disney has yet to announce a precise date.

The earliest and most optimistic estimates place a soft opening around Memorial Day (late May), which may put an official opening sometime in July.

The upcoming D23 Down in New Orleans event on March 23 provides Disney with one of two opportunities to announce an opening date; the other is the Annual Shareholders meeting on April 3.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure testing - March 4, 2024

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SplashJacket1 hour ago

Widened path to enable Beyond Big Thunder? 👀

imagineer972 hours ago

That is a nice brick wall. Perhaps the children can sit on it.

Drew the Disney Dude2 hours ago

ToTBellHop2 hours ago

It’s a great opportunity to teach them to enjoy life’s simple pleasures as they stop to smell the beignets.

Magicart872 hours ago

Would have been a great place to implement a play kitchen.

seabreezept8132 hours ago

Missed opportunity with the playground. It would be nice for the little ones to have something at the princess themed attraction!

ToTBellHop3 hours ago

No playscape is planned AFAIK.

Stitchon3 hours ago

I believe there were pictures earlier in the thread - it's just an empty spot right now. If nothing's there now, I assume nothing will be there upon opening. Of course, some sort of prefab structure could also easily be installed there if need be.

Magicart873 hours ago

What's been done to the Laughin' Place Playground spot? Anyone have latest deets and pics?

TrainsOfDisney3 hours ago

have you seen it in person yet? I haven’t and I’m wondering if I feel the same thing. I’m hoping in person it has more life to it - which I’m guessing it does. There are several elements that look nice - and a few that don’t (looks at banner and fence mural haha)

Incomudro7 hours ago

It makes me think how this current crew would bungle the queue of Expedition Everest - which I view as one of the very best queue's in all of the parks - were it a new attraction and they were tasked with the design.

KDM310917 hours ago

It just doesn't have the "wow" factor to me, looking more like an overgrown hill than anything. But it is what it is, and at the end of the day I'll be glad to have a water ride option back, since WDW as a whole could always use more options for cooling off.