News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress

[ToTBellHop]

I still feel like this would make more sense with a calm boat ride basically in lieu of Storybook Land for WDW. It's all calm and fun and then "suddenly, there's a drop! And another...and another...and then one more but like really big!"

I guess we are just randomly going over waterfalls for no reason. As one does in Louisiana...

 

[412]

PJ Morton is excellent. Feels like a surprisingly out-of-the-box choice for Disney, but I'm really excited to see what he comes up with.

 

[Drdcm]

Sounds like what everyone wanted when they were saying that Disney better not cheap out and there better be AAs.

It doesn’t really say anything about the number of animatronics though. Just that the main characters and 17 other animatronics. Could literally be 22 total based on her statement.

 

[ToTBellHop]

It doesn’t really say anything about the number of animatronics though. Just that the main characters and 17 other animatronics. Could literally be 22 total based on her statement.

It's more than 22.

 

[Bocabear]

Perhaps the waterfalls were created by the Asian and Latin communities in the New Orleans river delta... Talk about over-reaching storylines...but where are the displaced Native Americans? Will they be part of finding ingredients for the gumbo? lol

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I guess we are just randomly going over waterfalls for no reason. As one does in Louisiana...

Unless, someone from the "other side" is seeking revenge....

 

[Surferboy567]

With every update I worry more about this attraction. Maybe it will all come together in the end, was it so hard to make it a book report ride?

Did they really have to shoehorn all these weird elements. I have no issue with Tiana owning a co-op, her dad being a veteran etc. It all just seems very shoehorned this is a log flume it doesn’t seem to fit with these themes.

 

[Midwest Elitist]

Perhaps the waterfalls were created by the Asian and Latin communities in the New Orleans river delta... Talk about over-reaching storylines...but where are the displaced Native Americans? Will they be part of finding ingredients for the gumbo? lol

"Living with the Zydeco"

 

[Surferboy567]

Unless, someone from the "other side" is seeking revenge....

That would make sense, which is why they aren’t going to do it.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Perhaps the waterfalls were created by the Asian and Latin communities in the New Orleans river delta... Talk about over-reaching storylines...but where are the displaced Native Americans? Will they be part of finding ingredients for the gumbo? lol

Be serious, for once.

 

[EagleScout610]

Unless, someone from the "other side" is seeking revenge....

In the new Canon Facilier was a WW1 vet who was dishonorably discharged for attempting to voodoo the enemy into surrender.

 

[Mike S]

• The attractions overall story will touch on some new themes
  • Tiana’s father being a WWI veteran and what’s it like for an African American man to fight for his country back then
  • Tiana’s mom made dresses not only for Charlotte but for other clients in the community which served as an inspiration for Tiana’s entrepreneurship
  • New representation of the other nationalities that make up New Orleans including Philippines, Mexico, Caribbean, nations of Africa and China

Psssst. Disney. Disney. Disney. Iger. Damaro. Whoever.....This a log flume

 

[ToTBellHop]

Unless, someone from the "other side" is seeking revenge....

We all wish.

Cut the best character in the movie but give us the Ralphie we never knew we needed or wanted (because he’s not needed and unwanted).

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

It’s like making a little mermaid ride only there is no Ursula (cause she’s dead) and instead we find out about Sebastian’s brother who has been adopted to be the pet of Alexander Hamilton while he is in the Caribbean and he inspired Alexander to move to New York City.

 

[Surferboy567]

Is it me or does it seem like every update seems more and more vague? Like they are giving us concepts about how true they are being to New Orleans but nothing actually concrete about the actual attraction?

Maybe I’m expecting too much?

Also please take special note of this:

Question: You're killing me. The other half of that is you've extended the storyline at Disneyland with Tiana's Palace restaurant and Eudora’s Chic Boutique shop. Will Walt Disney World get a similar treatment?

Carmen: I will say, can't say. Stay tuned.

Full Q&A below.

A Q&A with Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Imagineers

Last week, Disney invited a few media members to historic Preservation Hall in New Orleans to have a Question and Answer session with the creative team working on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. The event was a part of a larger event giving some insight into how Imagineers are immersing themselves in

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Could that rumor about the retheming of Frontierland be true?

 

[Bocabear]

Be serious, for once.

ok...my serious take is they have packed this ride with some much miscellany and unnecessary information it is sounding less and less like Tiana from Princess and the Frog... When you try to include everything and everyone in the world, you tend to lose the point and the actual characters... Hard to believe I would say it, but at this point I would actually have preferred a book report ride....at least it would feature the characters from the film...not people we don't know from a storyline cast 10 years into the future....
I love that they are doing research and all, but this seems like "New Orleans Historical Splash Museum Mountain" where the unsaid back story is more important than the actual attraction....

 

[Tha Realest]

Be serious, for once.

Yes, @Bocabear. Please give the reverence that a converted log flume ride bursting with half-baked backstories and out of place modern sensibilities deserves!

 

[dig311dug]

All I know is... Tokyo Disney made the right decision.

 

[Midwest Elitist]

All I know is... Tokyo Disney made the right decision.

As if they had this "plan" even created

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I’m sure the queue loop will be lovely but they are really making it harder by the day for this to fit in Frontierland.

They got voodoo, they got hoodoo, they got things they ain't even tried.

I do appreciate how earnestly they are trying to avoid cultural appropriation.

This is a theme park ride based on an animated movie based on a centuries-old fairytale and set roughly in an actual historical place and time period. The entire endeavor is cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is good.