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

[LittleBuford]

I too enjoy the MMRR ride but I think it’s park placement equivalent being a square peg into a round hole and a lot of bare sterile places (a commonality among many trackless rides it seems) knocks it down some. Good? Yes. Could have been better if put in MK and with a higher budget? Yes

That’s fair. I don’t agree with you in either regard—I love that it’s the park’s centrepiece and think it’s the very opposite of sterile—but I appreciate your view!

 

[Epcot81Fan]

I too enjoy the MMRR ride but I think it’s park placement equivalent being a square peg into a round hole and a lot of bare sterile places (a commonality among many trackless rides it seems) knocks it down some. Good? Yes. Could have been better if put in MK and with a higher budget? Yes

MMRR's placement in Disneyland is perfect for the quality of the attraction - at the back of the park, next to a child's play area, in a throwaway location, behind a far better Roger Rabbit attraction.

It's location at Hollywood Studios is a travesty and embarrassment vs. the iconic, park theme supporting attraction that preceded it.

 

[mickEblu]

MMRR's placement in Disneyland is perfect for the quality of the attraction - at the back of the park, next to a child's play area, in a throwaway location, behind a far better Roger Rabbit attraction.

It's location at Hollywood Studios is a travesty and embarrassment vs. the iconic, park theme supporting attraction that preceded it.

True and yet even at Disneyland I still wish the execution was better. The concept had so much potential.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

All I can say is, if just one single girl shows up on my doorstep this Halloween dressed like this; in jodhpurs and no-shape trousers and glamourless utility jacket and hand woven frumpy hat, I will buy everyone a churro...

Perhaps its a marketing promotion with Chico's?

 

[EricsBiscuit]

No one is gloating?! You are obviously reading a different thread than I am. This thread has become a show the last 20 pages.

Why? Because people are rightly criticizing a failed attraction and a bungled opening?

 

[LittleBuford]

They ve now moved the bar to “you can criticize TBA but don’t do it with too much pizazz.”

I think hyperbole and intemperance have a really negative impact on the whole of this forum. Some posters get into a sort of uncontrolled frenzy that makes it difficult to engage in serious, good-faith discussion. I agree with pretty much all of the criticisms people are expressing about TBA’s weak story and woeful debut, but I find it difficult to relate to the euphoric level of gloating that has taken hold of this thread. People seem almost gleeful, and that makes no sense to me.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Yes, twice, as we also had Lightning Lane. It was…charming, I suppose. My wife said she felt the AAs (except broken Odie at the end) were impressive but the story was very thin and it was ridiculous to not include Facilier. She is not a member of these boards and is a reasonably casual Disney fan, so I’d imagine others feel similarly.

The kids loved it.

At least the ride system is still a blast!

What’s with the motionless armadillo statues?

Idk, but Tom Corless seems to be a huge fan (given that he blocked me after I called it a plastic statue).

 

[LittleBuford]

For me it’s because I really like joking at Disneys expense these days.

I suppose that’s what I don’t get.

 

[Mike S]

I suppose that’s what I don’t get.

Because imo they’ve completely fallen off the deep end with so much of what they do lately it’s fun to joke about them. I want them to do better but I know the company as a whole is so far gone that I prefer to joke than to get sad about it. If they turn around, great. If they continue to trip over themselves, also great so I have something to laugh at.

If it revealed something worth noting, yes.

Consistency is hard to come by these days. Good on you

 

[EagleScout610]

We're joyous because for the last 4 years if you said it could end up being a downgrade from the previous attraction you got shut down pretty much instantly. Well it pretty unanimously is, and we're just enjoying being able to call it out as such.

 

[LittleBuford]

We're joyous because for the last 4 years if you said it could end up being a downgrade from the previous attraction you got shut down pretty much instantly. Well it pretty unanimously is, and we're just enjoying being able to call it out as such.

A look at any random sequence of pages in this thread will quickly disprove the notion that negative opinions of TBA have ever been outweighed (much less drowned out) by positive ones.

 

[Jedi14]

Why? Because people are rightly criticizing a failed attraction and a bungled opening?

I think it’s more that the Tiana threads tend to go from being actual discussion to an echo chamber.

 

[disney fan 13]

The ride was always going to have detractors considering the ride it replaced and the... climate... the replacement was announced in, becoming a proxy in a much broader culture war. Therefore, they really had to knock it out of the park with this one and they failed. Leading those who were always going to hate the ride to take a victory lap, and everyone else being pretty disappointed. JMO.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

So, what did I miss?

 

[Disney Analyst]

I’m talking about the dynamic here within our own community. I don’t recall anyone in these threads gloating about the loss of Splash Mountain. Even those who tried to remain positive about TBA (myself among them) generally expressed their fondness for its predecessor.

You’re correct. People are injecting their bias from outside discussions, on different platforms, and using that to inform how they engage with the rest of us here. Seems unfair to this board and community.

Reminder everyone, this isn’t Twitter. We are all real people behind these typed out letters. We were all someone who came to these boards seeking a community of people with a similar interest. We are not your enemy. Engage in good faith and kindness, and when any of us fails that, which I myself have, own up, and try to engage differently next time. We can have differences in opinion on how to run these parks in 2024, but that doesn’t make us enemies. The stakes are not that high.

Most of us who have expressed positivity and optimism about this re-theme on these boards, usually stated we loved Splash, and were sad to see it go, but could understand why a company would decide to do it.

Seems like a pretty reasonable take. Not extreme.

 

[Streetway]

The ride was always going to have detractors considering the ride it replaced and the... climate... the replacement was announced in, becoming a proxy in a much broader culture war. Therefore, they really had to knock it out of the park with this one and they failed. Leading those who were always going to hate the ride to take a victory lap, and everyone else being pretty disappointed. JMO.

100% agree. Worst possible situation and time for a swing and a miss

 

[Incomudro]

You’re correct. People are injecting their bias from outside discussions, on different platforms, and using that to inform how they engage with the rest of us here. Seems unfair to this board and community.

Reminder everyone, this isn’t Twitter. We are all real people behind these typed out letters. We were all someone who came to these boards seeking a community of people with a similar interest. We are not your enemy. Engage in good faith and kindness, and when any of us fails that, which I myself have, own up, and try to engage differently next time. We can have differences in opinion on how to run these parks in 2024, but that doesn’t make us enemies. The stakes are not that high.

Most of us who have expressed positivity and optimism about this re-theme on these boards, usually stated we loved Splash, and were sad to see it go, but could understand why a company would decide to do it.

Seems like a pretty reasonable take. Not extreme.

Good post, yet I don't believe it is in bad faith to discuss the failings of this ride while including much of the climate that surrounded it outside of this forum as well.

 

[LittleBuford]

You’re correct. People are injecting their bias from outside discussions, on different platforms, and using that to inform how they engage with the rest of us here. Seems unfair to this board and community.

Reminder everyone, this isn’t Twitter. We are all real people behind these typed out letters. We were all someone who came to these boards seeking a community of people with a similar interest. We are not your enemy. Engage in good faith and kindness, and when any of us fails that, which I myself have, own up, and try to engage differently next time. We can have differences in opinion on how to run these parks in 2024, but that doesn’t make us enemies. The stakes are not that high.

Most of us who have expressed positivity and optimism about this re-theme on these boards, usually stated we loved Splash, and were sad to see it go, but could understand why a company would decide to do it.

Seems like a pretty reasonable take. Not extreme.

Beautifully said. Thank you.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Good post, yet I don't believe it is in bad faith to discuss the failings of this ride while including much of the climate that surrounded it outside of this forum as well.

I don’t know if it’s possible at this point to remove any of what led to this point, but I do think the discourse became increasingly toxic, and extreme, on both sides, which sorta follows the politicized nature of our current climate.

I believe the last thing any of us should want is for that to be how this board acts moving forward in any discussion or change coming to the parks.

 

[Disstevefan1]

I do not try to apply logic for any decision TWDC makes.

Disney will do, what Disney will do, and many times their decision will feel illogical to me.

I never had a strong feeling about this re theme, I always said it will be a fun log flume no matter the theme.

My concern was how long it was going to be closed to get it complete and reopened to guests.

I did not foresee "open but totally unreliable" and often down. I should have known.

My current desire is for this attraction to be open (with standby) and working to be the people eater it could be.