Ray's Berets and Louis' Critter Club will join Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Disneyland

Mar 18, 2024 in "Disneyland Resort"

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Ray's Berets and Louis' Critter Club concept art

Posted: Monday March 18, 2024 1:41pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced that Tiana's Bayou Adventure, which is coming later this year to Disneyland, will include two reimagined merchandise locations.

The first location, Ray's Berets (currently The Briar Patch), will be the best place for guests to shop for headwear, apparel, accessories, toys, and more with firefly Raymond and his firefly kin in the coziest cabin in Critter Country.

Ray's Berets and Louis' Critter Club concept art

Traveling further into the land, you'll come across Louis' Critter Club (currently on the left-hand side of Pooh Corner), where the friends of Tiana's Bayou Adventure call this local hot spot their home away from home. Louis' Critter Club is the place to go for apparel, accessories, home decor, and more, featuring some of your favorite critters and Princess Tiana.

Ray's Berets and Louis' Critter Club concept art

The treats side of Pooh Corner will remain as a destination for must-have merchandise from Hundred Acre Wood, including beloved sweet treats like Tigger tails.

Critter Country will temporarily close on May 1, 2024, to make way for these land enhancements.

There is no word yet on which merchandise locations will be coming to Walt Disney World's version of Tiana's Bayou Adventure, but we should expect at least two.

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D.Silentu1 day ago

Admittedly, it’s the catchiest song in the film. Perhaps it wouldn’t be too much more of a thematic stretch to say the digging deeper in this case related to finding musicians in unusual places. I don’t mind the song in either spot, providing they zhuzh’d up the former laughing place to match the song’s energy.

Professortango11 day ago

The problem is "Dig a Little Deeper" is the best fit, but a scene like that wouldn't fit the story of finding musicians. It also could be potentially too similar to the Splash finale with a big gospel-influenced number and animals jamming to it. But...it would be a ton better than what we have now.

D.Silentu1 day ago

I get how attractive it must have been in the design phase to write a signature song for the attraction. It just doesn't seem to be resonating with people. I would have had them singing a big chorale backed rendition of ‘Down In New Orleans’ for the finale. Something similar to what was used in Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee. I don’t think it’s too late.

Model3 McQueen1 day ago

Oh %100. In particular im just saying the end song is horrible. Heck, happy by Pharrell Williams would’ve felt better. Secret ingredient is uninspired and lacking, like the retheme itself.

Giss Neric1 day ago

He's not wrong. The drop when we got shrunk until the lift hill before the big drop was weird and boring.

Brer Oswald2 days ago

Nothing was going to top Zipadeedoodah, and that alone is why the retheme was a mistake.

Model3 McQueen2 days ago

You're right it shouldn't be difficult to fix. I'm confident they wont until leadership change arrives. The whole thing was uninspired from the get go. Everything from the "shrink" area to the lift hill IMO needs tension introduced, be it with Dr. Facilier or his minions. But it also needs to feel new. Disney's always been about storytelling more so than thrills, well up until recently. And this is an opinion I feel strongly about, but that Zipadeedoodah replacement song.. secret ingredient I think.. is insultingly basic. Nothing can stop us now puts it to shame.

Ghost937 days ago

Yeah I don't think fixing TBA would be THAT expensive. I think the Disneyland version of Going Down the Bayou is perfectly paced (it's too dragged out in the Magic Kingdom version) and the finale is good. What kills the ride is the Dig a Little Deeper segment and the monotonous cheerfulness as riders go up the lift hill. There needs to be some suspense and a climax. They can swap out the screens with Dr. Facillier and do projection mapping for the shadows without spending a fortune.

Professortango119 days ago

To be fair, the Brer Rabbit stuck in honey was replaced by the bongo frog. Still a downgrade, but you can't move the goalpost mid argument.

DLR9219 days ago

I prefer the former scenes. Nothing in the ride currently flows in the new storyline.

EagleScout61019 days ago

My friend rode a few weeks ago and he said he liked the first scenes and finale, but the "middle was kind of weird", in his words

mickEblu19 days ago

Clearly the spent most of the money on the finale and whatever was left on the old HDYD scenes. The imagineers then combined all the loose change they could find in their sofas and car cup holders to complete the old laughing place/ burrows lament scenes.

EagleScout61019 days ago

Found a video from a company that did work on DL's version of Bayou Adventure, complete with a construction shot of Burrow Lament that I feel perfectly sums up why this ride is a colossal nuke: It just illustrates how much nothing there is to look at Bayou, even with the lights on. Keep in mind, this exact spot would have had 15 figures to look at if you looked at Splash from this spot, even with the lights on. Yes, according to Disney a single screen with 3D printed mushrooms and bottles is a much better sequnce than: Brer Rabbit stuck in honey Brer Fox sneaking up on him Mama Possum and 2 babies Mama Rabbit and 4 baby bunnies Boothill Boys

Professortango126 days ago

Terrible? Whoa whoa whoa. If they would plus the Heffelump and Woozle scene, the ride would be killer. Right now it ranks about even with Alice for me. Pinocchio Roger Rabbit Mr Toad Alice Pooh Snow White Pan What's really sad is that if you added all of this to Pooh, they would still need to fill in a good 30 seconds of ride time. That tells you how pathetic Tiana's is.