The Leader of the Club
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Splash is the only attraction in my lifetime that I would say closed as an E-Ticket. The ONLY thing that MIGHT come close is the original Journey into Imagination, but that predates me by a few years.
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MK Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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MK-fan
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Can someone explain this “shrinking part” for me. So the story is to find musicians for the party and they find all these critters to be part of the band and Tiana wants you to find more so she has Mama Odie shrink you to go into some log thing and find two frogs (all I saw) and then apparently that was enough so she makes you big again and has you go down a waterfall to get their quicker. Am I missing anything?
Tha Realest
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Well here’s a few other data points to use going forward. Will love to see how this stacks up!
Study says Splash Mountain is still Disney World's most popular ride, despite being shut down
MagicGuide's new study names Walt Disney World as the most popular park
SpectroMan93
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Honestly that’s the part that devastates me the most. Splash was excellent at creating its world before we even dropped into the show building. The little homes, clothes out to dry, all these signs that these critters are here but just out of sight. Those little hints built so much anticipation while also immersing you in the story.
Casper Gutman
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Mama Odie was as bored as the guests. Gotta entertain yourself somehow.
Ice Gator
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So I finally got a chance to watch the whole ride through. It’s pretty. But yikes.
- As I feared, SO much dead space in the attraction. Not sure why when we’re rounding up the critters for the party, they’re just playing music. We see them do that in the finale- so I feel like there was a huge missed opportunity for some visual gags or having the critters doing other things before we get to the party and see them jamming out together. The bears are a great example of this.
- In the “Down the Bayou” segment, do they use audio of Jim Cummings’s Ray singing the song? If so, then that totally goes against the whole “it takes place after the film”, and proves Facilier was just cut because he was deemed “offensive”. 0 stakes or sense of “adventure” in the actual ride. It’s nothing but censored fluff compared to the animated film it’s based on.
- The finale song sounds nearly identical to la track from the Super Mario Odyssey video game…no really, look it up. It’s got more of a modern j-jazz beat to it than classic American jazz music.
- Not sure why Tiana’s Foods was so hyped up. I get it if we’re embarking from her farm or something but it did not need to be hammered in as much as it was. It’s like after they went from “Louis’s missing trumpet/New Orleans party storyline” to “Employee Owned DEI checklist storyline”, they pivoted AGAIN and some Tiana’s Foods segments remained as leftovers (pun intended).
- I really dislike the artwork on the poster for the attraction too. Way too simple imo- I think an art style less modern and handdrawn would have fit better. I hope we get some variants of that at some point down the line.
All in all, I see this as a downgrade which is a shame. There are some great segments and effects, but I think there needed to be a clearer vision in place before they began work on it.
- As I feared, SO much dead space in the attraction. Not sure why when we’re rounding up the critters for the party, they’re just playing music. We see them do that in the finale- so I feel like there was a huge missed opportunity for some visual gags or having the critters doing other things before we get to the party and see them jamming out together. The bears are a great example of this.
- In the “Down the Bayou” segment, do they use audio of Jim Cummings’s Ray singing the song? If so, then that totally goes against the whole “it takes place after the film”, and proves Facilier was just cut because he was deemed “offensive”. 0 stakes or sense of “adventure” in the actual ride. It’s nothing but censored fluff compared to the animated film it’s based on.
- The finale song sounds nearly identical to la track from the Super Mario Odyssey video game…no really, look it up. It’s got more of a modern j-jazz beat to it than classic American jazz music.
- Not sure why Tiana’s Foods was so hyped up. I get it if we’re embarking from her farm or something but it did not need to be hammered in as much as it was. It’s like after they went from “Louis’s missing trumpet/New Orleans party storyline” to “Employee Owned DEI checklist storyline”, they pivoted AGAIN and some Tiana’s Foods segments remained as leftovers (pun intended).
- I really dislike the artwork on the poster for the attraction too. Way too simple imo- I think an art style less modern and handdrawn would have fit better. I hope we get some variants of that at some point down the line.
All in all, I see this as a downgrade which is a shame. There are some great segments and effects, but I think there needed to be a clearer vision in place before they began work on it.
Tha Realest
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You don’t like Outdoor LWTL?
Incomudro
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The fireflies I guess?
Are they in the band at the end?
I think they shrunk us down simply because someone said "What if we shrink them down?!"
From what I see, it doesn't accomplish anything, or even make us feel much smaller.
Some tall mushrooms, a large frog, and the image of Tiana peering at us.
DisneyJayBama
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Tha Realest
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Everyone go home.
mightynine
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I need to rewatch it because I couldn’t tell if you’re there to find the musical fireflies or if that was a happy accident you stumbled across them.
Professortango1
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I mean, the music throughout has this problem. I hear Mama Odie singing Dig a Little Deeper on the lift hill despite her also having dialogue at the same time. I hear Tiana singing Almost There right after we see her.
Previously the music would play the instrumental version first to introduce it then build into a full musical number with characters actually singing the songs "in person." The outside set up How Do You Do which then paid off after the first splash which was a fantastic reveal. For DL, Laughin Place was set up with the buzzing area and then after the 2nd dip the song exploded into singing. Laughin Place then moved to minor chords and became Burrow's Lament, which started as music underscore, built to a lament being sung, which then built into full choral music making the lift feel epic. After the drop we get the instrumental of Zip to let us reset and introduce the finale song before diving into the final scene to see it explode around us.
Now, they just have music from the movie playing under difference sequences.
James Alucobond
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Do you mean animatronics? Because there are plenty that go by on the screens, including an old one with a walker.
MK-fan
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Not to mention they’re playing Ray’s song and he’s dead (sorry for the spoilers but it’s been 15 years!!!!)
Sir_Cliff
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The more I think about it, the more strange it is that they are really setting up this ride to be about food but, once you drift by that first outdoor garden section, it has nothing to do with food. All the signage for the queue, the water tower, the delivery truck, etc., etc. all suggest you're about to take a ride set in a food co-op. Then, you get on the ride and it's about gathering animals in the bayou to play in the band at a party in New Orleans!
TheMaxRebo
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"Far from a home run" I think is fair ... I mean, I really like I but also don't think it is perfect/a home run
But some of the negative takes go too far - just hard to look at something without nostalgic glasses for what came before (which also wasn't perfect)
SuddenStorm
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I think it's really important to highlight that Splash Mountain was the highest rated ride at the resort on guest surveys.
I'm sure we could go through and dissect Splash and find things to make it better - especially since it's 30 years old - but something about it clicked with guests and it was beloved.
Disney closing their highest rated ride for a retheme is unprecedented, and is in large part why this retheme has been under so much scrutiny.
This ride needed to be a home run.
TheMaxRebo
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It's just background on how Tiana has expanded her empire after the movie and they are having a celebration and looking for band members for said celebration
Not saying it is perfect but I don't see a major issue - they just spent too long covering the "background" on the lead up to the ride when not a major part of the actual ride experience
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