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MK Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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MerlinTheGoat
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I didn't specifically count them the first time I watched it, but it was exceedingly clear just by casual viewing that the ride was considerably more empty than Splash. And that outside of the 14 PATF figures from the film, the rest of the new critters have significantly more limited and repetitive motion than a great many in Splash. I did count them on subsequent videos just to have a precise number that I could cite in evidence.
And yeah it matters to some of us. Splash excelled in BOTH cartoonish environmental detail (key detail being cartoonish as most of TBA's scenery has a realistic appearance) AND animatronic quality/quantity. Some of us value classic rides above more modern ones for that reason.
It is obviously far from the ONLY issue with the ride though. There's just a whole lot wrong with it across the board.
ToTBellHop
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Yes. Someone is counting. I am certain someone on this website has a spreadsheet quantifying the number of eyes that don’t blink on “it’s a small world” each day.
I’m watching, Disney.
The people who have experienced the ride work for Disney or are lifestylers.
Shocking they would say positive things.
First I was counting the empty parking spots at the resort parking lots.
Then I was counting the empty parking spots at the park parking lots.
Then I was counting the number of popcorn lightbulbs out at the Grand Floridian.
Now this? Do you know what brown brominized water does to my skin?
I'm already surviving on discarded half empty bottles of Desani water and remnants of popcorn from special limited time popcorn buckets left by guests before getting in the cars.
Please have mercy!
ToTBellHop
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Talk less, smile more.
Well I'm almost there to start working on this, because I've got some friends on the other side of the parking lot, working the tram.
DisneyHead123
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That was my initial reaction as well. But I thought the video (can’t remember which one, apologies) I saw made a good point that what’s missing is not necessarily the tension of a traditional story arc. I had not heard of Walt Disney’s “Cocktail Party Theory” before but looking at the old dark rides it’s pretty compelling. And for rides like that you need emotion, you need atmosphere, you need music, but you also need stuff. Animatronics. Sets. Costumes. Details. Physical things that cost money.
Incomudro
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Of course a person is going to like it better actually physically riding it than watching it on screen.
Just like being at an actual concert and seeing the band live gives you a better experience than watching the performance on video.
Still - this ride could have been extraordinary.
HairyLegPirate
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Physical things that cost money? Well then Lord knows we ain't gettin' em...
ToTBellHop
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Perhaps a guided meditation in the queue that prepares each guest to visualize the ride they wish to experience. Then everyone’s happy!
Tha Realest
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I’m sorry, but in what universe does Imagineering override and revise the creative decisions of its company’s Senior Vice President and Executive Creative Development Product/Content & Inclusive Strategies for Disney Parks, Experiences and Products (DPEP)?
ToTBellHop
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WDI still gets to make the final call on floor tiles. If others tried to demand more inclusive bathroom tiles, Bruce can and would put his foot down.
mightynine
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Well, when it comes to floor tiles, everyone is putting their foot down.
_caleb
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I do not believe it is possible for TBA to please the majority of people posting in this thread.
Incomudro
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Quite likely - no.
Disney took away a favorite ride of people, they are not happy and many are not going to give it a chance.
Still, Disney could have wowed us, and made it really difficult to deny that they did a better job.
_caleb
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I would categorize most of the people who post frequently here "lifestylers." The difference is that here, the incentive is to be negative.
My point was that several fans who were initially unimpressed by TBA warmed up to it after experiencing it.
I'm not willing to completely dismiss all opinions by early reviewers as biased, Just like I'm not willing to accept all opinions by armchair critics here as being honest/objective.
This. If Disney had taken the time and made something that truly blew Splash out of the water, I'm sure many of us would be more forgiving for the replacement. But they didn't. They took a solid C/D ticket and shoved it into the corpse of a great E ticket. If they had revealed this was something like Jungle Cruise or a smaller water ride like Pirates this may be a hit, but because its so closely associated with Splash it misses for many.
sedati
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Raise your hand if you knew the lyrics being sung in the "How do you do?" song on Splash Mountain (pre-internet).
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
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