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

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TheEPCOTHistorian

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yensidtlaw1969 said:
She was almost certainly built by WDI, they typically do their own marquee figures. But I'll ask around to try and confirm.
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D’amaro mentioned at D23 that they were developed in-house. They’re branded with the tri-circle Mickey on their steelwork.

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SaucyBoy

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You should see all the silly meltdowns on Twitter. It's simply delicious watching grown adults metaphorically throw themselves into the fire over this re-theme. Sometimes I feel that I'm not 'living' life right because there is nothing I feel that passionate over. More power to them, though!
 
GhostHost1000

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SaucyBoy said:
You should see all the silly meltdowns on Twitter. It's simply delicious watching grown adults metaphorically throw themselves into the fire over this re-theme. Sometimes I feel that I'm not 'living' life right because there is nothing I feel that passionate over. More power to them, though!
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my guess is it's not that they don't like a Tiana themed ride... it's that they are replacing an iconic ride and should have built a new Tiana ride/attraction to help increase capacity which is so desperately needed right now
 
SaucyBoy

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GhostHost1000 said:
my guess is it's not that they don't like a Tiana themed ride... it's that they are replacing an iconic ride and should have built a new Tiana ride/attraction to help increase capacity which is so desperately needed right now
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That's the gist. I did not engage because it's not an argument I wanted to have again and again, 😂
 
JohnD

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GhostHost1000 said:
my guess is it's not that they don't like a Tiana themed ride... it's that they are replacing an iconic ride and should have built a new Tiana ride/attraction to help increase capacity which is so desperately needed right now
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I don't want to go down this rabbit hole again (he he), but we all know that, for Disney, Splash had to go.
 
Cmdr_Crimson

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GhostHost1000 said:
my guess is it's not that they don't like a Tiana themed ride... it's that they are replacing an iconic ride and should have built a new Tiana ride/attraction to help increase capacity which is so desperately needed right now
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Maybe it's just the name? When they tout to CONQUER THE MAGIC KINGDOM MOUNTAINS!!! Now, it just seems a bit off..You have Space, Big Thunder aaaannnnnd.....TIANA'S BAYOU ADVENTURE *EXPLOSIONS And a & heavy metal guitar riff* I dunno it just doesn't seem to fit right?

Maybe they should have still kept the Splash Mountain title but add the semicolon with the additional name...It's not like Expediton Everest: Legend of the Forbidden Mountain has that problem..Heck the title of Splash was all to tie in with the 1984 film and somehow it added the SoTS plot..
 
SplashJacket

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Here are my thoughts.

I have Splash in my name, so clearly I was a fan of the attraction.

Splash was an excellent ride (either my favorite or second favorite at WDW before the recent expansion wave). Initially, as you might expect, I was quite upset. Especially since insiders didn't provide much hope for TBA (basically saying it would be a very cheap replacement).

A few things have changed since then.

For one, we know this will not be a cheap replacement with giant screen-based environments. We know this will contain similar or more animatronics than Splash, with those animatronics being highly advanced.

Obviously, we haven't ridden it, but there's really not much to suggest it'll be a bad ride, but there's a lot to suggest it'll be very good.

Additionally, the attractions themselves will be inherently similar (same ride path, animatronic heavy critter attraction, great music, etc.) so they're effectively substitutes (like how you wouldn't have Big Thunder and HKDL's Grizzly in the same park). It's also interesting, because I commented some years ago on Marni's profile, asking if he ever thought we would get an animatronic-dominated ride (like Pirates) again, and he basically said no, but we seem to be getting that (granted, it also sacrificed an animatronic heavy ride and it's not ground-up, but regardless). If it's successful, hopefully, they learn animatronics are the move for future attractions. They managed to learn about face projections and pivot, so hopefully they learn the right things here.

So as someone who felt very strongly about Splash's closure (and while there are still potential and valid gripes with the closures), I feel infinitely more passionate about the closing of GMR, and while I have no memory of riding Horizons, I can sympathize with those fans more because of GMR.

GMR was more quintessential to DHS than Splash is to MK, it was more unique, and its replacement had a better opportunity and reason to go elsewhere.

So overall, I don't think TBA is the sky is falling situation that I once thought, and as some continue to believe.

As a result, I'll ask that we please stop bickering about it, everything that could or needed to be said has been said and we're just bickering for the sake of bickering, so can we please (this is the internet, ha!) just stop bickering (what's the saying? Falling on deaf ears?).
 
Brer Oswald

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SplashLanta said:
Here are my thoughts.

I have Splash in my name, so clearly I was a fan of the attraction.

Splash was an excellent ride (either my favorite or second favorite at WDW before the recent expansion wave). Initially, as you might expect, I was quite upset. Especially since insiders didn't provide much hope for TBA (basically saying it would be a very cheap replacement).

A few things have changed since then.

For one, we know this will not be a cheap replacement with giant screen-based environments. We know this will contain similar or more animatronics than Splash, with those animatronics being highly advanced.

Obviously, we haven't ridden it, but there's really not much to suggest it'll be a bad ride, but there's a lot to suggest it'll be very good.

Additionally, the attractions themselves will be inherently similar (same ride path, animatronic heavy critter attraction, great music, etc.) so they're effectively substitutes (like how you wouldn't have Big Thunder and HKDL's Grizzly in the same park). It's also interesting, because I commented some years ago on Marni's profile, asking if he ever thought we would get an animatronic-dominated ride (like Pirates) again, and he basically said no, but we seem to be getting that (granted, it also sacrificed an animatronic heavy ride and it's not ground-up, but regardless). If it's successful, hopefully, they learn animatronics are the move for future attractions. They managed to learn about face projections and pivot, so hopefully they learn the right things here.

So as someone who felt very strongly about Splash's closure (and while there are still potential and valid gripes with the closures), I feel infinitely more passionate about the closing of GMR, and while I have no memory of riding Horizons, I can sympathize with those fans more because of GMR.

GMR was more quintessential to DHS than Splash is to MK, it was more unique, and its replacement had a better opportunity and reason to go elsewhere.

So overall, I don't think TBA is the sky is falling situation that I once thought, and as some continue to believe.

As a result, I'll ask that we please stop bickering about it, everything that could or needed to be said has been said and we're just bickering for the sake of bickering, so can we please (this is the internet, ha!) just stop bickering (what's the saying? Falling on deaf ears?).
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Hey I went from “I’m never going to ride this/let alone look at it” to “if it’s open when I’m in Florida, I’ll take a ride”. That’s coming along way if you ask me.

I still don’t suspect it will be my thing. Human dominated Disney movies/attractions aren’t really my thing. If I’m watching/riding Disney, it’s for exaggerated whimsy. Princesses also aren’t my thing.
 
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