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

[TP2000]

@lentesta If you guys haven’t already. This would be a great topic for you and Jim to discuss on a future DisneyDish ^ Why WDW’s operating hours are less than DL’s. Or when exactly this went into effect if in the past it was different/was the same.

That would be fun! It's a very weird thing, and goes against logic and nearly every rational argument from an industrial engineering and customer service perspective. I imagine @lentesta could do a great job with that topic.

But if he does it, he has to drop my name and/or promise to buy me a churro (or a drink at Trader Sam's when I do my '25 WDW Farewell Visit). I used to be kind of famous, so maybe he'd be kind?

I love how they have to explain the significance of a plastic figure “sight gag” (barely) and don’t tell us anything concrete about the character other than
A) He is an armadillo.
B) He is a jack of all trades. Watch out for Lari!

This is a new form of Imagineering. It's basically Imagineering via UCLA Communications Majors who have no actual creative skills to build a ride, or show scene, or storyline. These are not showmen, they are Communications Majors. But they can take a static set piece and wordsmith a 500 word Parks Blog post about it in only 4 hours and one Starbucks run.

Can you imagine if these types of "Imagineers" (do rather derisive air quotes when you say that) had been alive and on the payroll in 1965? Can you just imagine how they'd try and frame and puff up already brilliant Imagineering like Pirates of the Caribbean or It's A Small World or New Orleans Square or Carousel of Progress?!? Their 25 year old heads would explode trying to hype already excellent projects that spoke for themselves and needed no hype.

In fact, there would be no need for them on the payroll at all, for exactly that reason. The real Imagineers back then already did their work for them by creating brilliant shows and attractions that boldly and proudly spoke for themselves.

Walt would have probably lumped them in with the Sharp Pencil Boys, but more useless, and found a way to quietly fire them.

 

[LittleBuford]

I just deleted my comment, as I said essentially what you posted before reading your post.
Just thinking about the first concept art where Tiana was a Princess, we saw the boat in the tree...
Instead we got a Princess and the Frog IP with no princess, and no villain.

She’s still a princess—the dress everyone wants to see her in all the time is her wedding gown, and she appears in a suitably glitzy number in the finale. She’s certainly not the only royal to dress down when the occasion call for it:

But yes, I agree that the absence of a villain (or at least some sort of dramatic tension) is really unfortunate.

 

[Jedi14]

She’s still a princess—the dress everyone wants to see her in all the time is her wedding gown, and she appears in a suitably glitzy number in the finale. She’s certainly not the only royal to dress down when the occasion call for it:

But yes, I agree that the absence of a villain (or at least some sort of dramatic tension) is really unfortunate.

The blue dress from the movie and in the initial concept art is also a dress she wore to a costume party.

 

[Brer Panther]

So, who's a better Disney armadillo? Lari or the one from Pluto and the Armadillo?

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I vote for the latter. She actually moves.

 

[WorldExplorer]

There are actual armadillos living on Disney property. I've seen them at three different resorts.

They also move and so are better than Lari.

 

[Incomudro]

There are actual armadillos living on Disney property. I've seen them at three different resorts.

They also move and so are better than Lari.

Yes, I've spotted them from the monorail a couple of times.

 

[Brer Panther]

I have this mental image of an actual armadillo somehow making it inside Tiana's Bayou Adventure and encountering one of the Lari statues. Imagine how confused they would be.

 

[GhostHost1000]

There are actual armadillos living on Disney property. I've seen them at three different resorts.

They also move and so are better than Lari.

I have too. I was in line for the Haunted Mansion and one came out from
behind one of the up close tombstones. Talk about catching us all off guard lol.

 

[John park hopper]

Remember from my microbiology class many years ago armadillos and humans are the only ones who can carry
Mycobacterium lepromatosis --bacteria for leprosy.

 

[JoeCamel]

Remember from my microbiology class many years ago armadillos and humans are the only ones who can carry
Mycobacterium lepromatosis --bacteria for leprosy.

You have to contact one of the 10-20% that have it in their blood and contact the blood of the animal. About 10% of contacts result in the disease transmitting to a human.
They should have picked a nutria as it is a better representative of Louisiana fauna.
Should have done better research on their fact finding trips

 

[𝐌𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖓 𝐖𝖊𝖇]

You have to contact one of the 10-20% that have it in their blood and contact the blood of the animal. About 10% of contacts result in the disease transmitting to a human.
They should have picked a nutria as it is a better representative of Louisiana fauna.
Should have done better research on their fact finding trips

Probably due to Armadillos being native to Louisiana. FWIW, Nutria are an invasive, non-native animal typically eaten to cull it's population. Not sure if showcasing nutria sends the right message for Tiana's...

Nutria Nuggets with Bayou BBQ Dipping Sauce and Side of Cajun Fries $12.99

 

[Brer Panther]

Maybe they should retheme Tiana's Bayou Adventure to Pluto and the Armadillo's Amazon Adventure. Or should they save that for the Dinoland replacement?

 

[JoeCamel]

Probably due to Armadillos being native to Louisiana. FWIW, Nutria are an invasive, non-native animal typically eaten to cull it's population. Not sure if showcasing nutria sends the right message for Tiana's...

Nutria Nuggets with Bayou BBQ Dipping Sauce and Side of Cajun Fries $12.99

They could play the eco-friendly aspect of culling the nutria? The new feel good food

 

[Rich Brownn]

I love the fact that the name in Spanish means little armored thing. I can see them getting of the boat and pointing "What is that ... little armored thing?"

 

[Rich Brownn]

Remember from my microbiology class many years ago armadillos and humans are the only ones who can carry
Mycobacterium lepromatosis --bacteria for leprosy.

They do but they're not the only ones. Armadillos are often used in the study of leprosy, since they, along with mangabey monkeys, rabbits, and mice (on their footpads), are among the few known species that can contract the disease systemically.

 

[JoeCamel]

I love the fact that the name in Spanish means little armored thing. I can see them getting of the boat and pointing "What is that ... little armored thing?"

As with most things the Spaniards co-opted the Aztecs according to Georgia

"The armadillo is so named because the Aztec word for armadillo meant turtle-rabbit. The species name novemcinctus refers to the nine movable bands on the middle portion of their shell or carapace. Their common name, armadillo, is derived from a Spanish word meaning “little armored one.”

https://georgiawildlife.com/sites/default/files/Armadillo%20Fact%20Sheet_UGA.pdf

 

[Ayla]

There are actual armadillos living on Disney property. I've seen them at three different resorts.

They also move and so are better than Lari.

I've only seen one in real life...walking from the bus stop at AK to the entrance. lol

 

[TP2000]

I completely forgot about this. Is she still supposed to be meeting in this outfit?

Apparently she's dressed this way for meet n' greets at 1900 Park Fare, for $66 per person for dinner.

 

[JoeCamel]

I've only seen one in real life...walking from the bus stop at AK to the entrance. lol

I lived on the west coast of FL for 20 years in the sticks so I trapped and relocated dozens over the years

 

[Tha Realest]

Apparently she's dress this way for meet n' greets at 1900 Park Fare, for $66 per person for dinner.

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At least there she moves.