Smiley/OCD
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Expect HOURS LONG LINES…
We are going Thursday for a week and have 2 days scheduled for MK and I HOPE to ride it a dozen times.
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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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We are going Thursday for a week and have 2 days scheduled for MK and I HOPE to ride it a dozen times.
Casper Gutman
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Tiana pointing at some other AAs seems like a waste of a figure and awful storytelling (like hanging a giant banner that explains the plot). When was the last time WDW successfully built AA SCENES, ala Pirates, Mansion, WoM, Horizons, Spaceship Earth, Imagination, Splash, etc. rather then just posing one or two figures doing not very much in front of a screen ala Avatar, Frozen Ever After, RotR, etc.?
1000%.
Smiley/OCD
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Sorry, if I wanted to watch screens, I’d go to a movie…
Kirby86
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I don't think OLC is interested plus they have a few projects on the docket already eating up funds. Also they love exclusivity, now they have the only Splash Mountain and Princess and the Frog wasn't popular in Japan.
the_rich
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That's an over simplification of the ride. It's physicals sets with screens that is greater than the sum of its parts.
The Shaman in Pandora is a really well done scene, as is the build up to it. Don’t blame those scenes for the abrupt ending afterwards nor the sin of thinking one AA is enough to serve as a climax to a ride.
JohnD
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I was thinking a date also.
Casper Gutman
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I profoundly disagree. I understand and sympathize with folks who like the ride because it is the kind of three-dimensional world creation Disney doesn't do anymore. But a single off-putting AA gesturing vaguely to the side of the ride path is not a well constructed scene. It also strikes me that we know she is a shaman and the objective of the whole (distantly glimpsed) pilgrimage because we're nerds who read the published backstory. What establishes that in the ride?
See it’s clear to me from the ride that she is calling all of us to gather for a (presumed) religious purpose thanks to the scenes before of the Na’vi slowly marching with solemn silence along with us. My issue was what in the world are we marching for? First time I ride I expected one more scene where I would see Navi preforming a ritual around the white tree (Eway.). Instead I got a barely themed cave and the loading platform.
JohnD
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If that's really the answer, why that particular zip code and not 32836, the zip code for WDW?
Some additional information shared at a press presentation yesterday -
"Two Imagineers shared a few details about the Tiana project ahead of Friday’s Splash Mountain announcement. Charita Carter, executive creative producer, reiterated that Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be set in Louisiana in 1927. Carter said the characters’ costuming, hair and ambiance will reflect that era.
“She’s fantastical but she comes from a very real place. It’s a real location, a real culture,” Carter said. Members of her creative team traveled to New Orleans for inspiration.
The setting for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be one year after the conclusion of the animated film. Tiana will be portrayed as a successful entrepreneur with strong connections to her family and community, said Rod Robledo, executive creative director.
“She’s actually started an employee-owned company called Tiana’s Foods,” he said. The company logo has been seen on a water tower in a rendering of the future attraction.
That part of the attraction’s story also helps explain the lack of mountain that has been seen in Frontierland since the early 1990s. Louisiana, in real life, is mostly flat.
“What Tiana has done is purchased this old, abandoned salt dome mine, and that was turned into this operation called Tiana’s Foods,” Robledo said. Disney creative types saw such domes during a Louisiana visit.
“We thought to ourselves, ‘Hey, that’s the perfect way in for us to sort of explain why there’s this elevation there,’” Robledo said."
www.orlandosentinel.com
"Two Imagineers shared a few details about the Tiana project ahead of Friday’s Splash Mountain announcement. Charita Carter, executive creative producer, reiterated that Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be set in Louisiana in 1927. Carter said the characters’ costuming, hair and ambiance will reflect that era.
“She’s fantastical but she comes from a very real place. It’s a real location, a real culture,” Carter said. Members of her creative team traveled to New Orleans for inspiration.
The setting for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be one year after the conclusion of the animated film. Tiana will be portrayed as a successful entrepreneur with strong connections to her family and community, said Rod Robledo, executive creative director.
“She’s actually started an employee-owned company called Tiana’s Foods,” he said. The company logo has been seen on a water tower in a rendering of the future attraction.
That part of the attraction’s story also helps explain the lack of mountain that has been seen in Frontierland since the early 1990s. Louisiana, in real life, is mostly flat.
“What Tiana has done is purchased this old, abandoned salt dome mine, and that was turned into this operation called Tiana’s Foods,” Robledo said. Disney creative types saw such domes during a Louisiana visit.
“We thought to ourselves, ‘Hey, that’s the perfect way in for us to sort of explain why there’s this elevation there,’” Robledo said."
Disney World closing Splash Mountain soon to begin Tiana makeover
The countdown has started for the final splashdown of Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdom. The last day Walt Disney World visitors can experience the log ride in its current form will be Jan. 22. The …
www.orlandosentinel.com
JohnD
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But then again, I could still be grasping at straws.
JohnD
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Some additional information shared at a press presentation yesterday -
"Two Imagineers shared a few details about the Tiana project ahead of Friday’s Splash Mountain announcement. Charita Carter, executive creative producer, reiterated that Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be set in Louisiana in 1927. Carter said the characters’ costuming, hair and ambiance will reflect that era.
“She’s fantastical but she comes from a very real place. It’s a real location, a real culture,” Carter said. Members of her creative team traveled to New Orleans for inspiration.
The setting for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be one year after the conclusion of the animated film. Tiana will be portrayed as a successful entrepreneur with strong connections to her family and community, said Rod Robledo, executive creative director.
“She’s actually started an employee-owned company called Tiana’s Foods,” he said. The company logo has been seen on a water tower in a rendering of the future attraction.
That part of the attraction’s story also helps explain the lack of mountain that has been seen in Frontierland since the early 1990s. Louisiana, in real life, is mostly flat.
“What Tiana has done is purchased this old, abandoned salt dome mine, and that was turned into this operation called Tiana’s Foods,” Robledo said. Disney creative types saw such domes during a Louisiana visit.
“We thought to ourselves, ‘Hey, that’s the perfect way in for us to sort of explain why there’s this elevation there,’” Robledo said."
Disney World closing Splash Mountain soon to begin Tiana makeover
The countdown has started for the final splashdown of Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdom. The last day Walt Disney World visitors can experience the log ride in its current form will be Jan. 22. The …
"“We thought to ourselves, ‘Hey, that’s the perfect way in for us to sort of explain why there’s this elevation there,’” Robledo said.""
More like shoehorn a contrived explanation and storyline for the final drop.
Correct but January until easter is slow season at WDW and it will be open by then
Sort of...kinda...not at all
Ghost93
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I think PatF is a great choice for a Splash Mountain retheme, but it is a bit worrying that all the press for the retheme is talking about family, community, inclusion, representation and being inspirational and NOTHING about "fun, thrills, and excitement!"
Don't get me wrong, I think representation is important but I don't think it should be the selling point of a theme park ride. It should just be an added bonus.
Don't get me wrong, I think representation is important but I don't think it should be the selling point of a theme park ride. It should just be an added bonus.
LittleBuford
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I truly hate this backstory. Thankfully, the new concept art doesn’t seem to reflect it, so I hope it remains at the level of promotional verbiage rather than something we encounter much in the ride itself.Some additional information shared at a press presentation yesterday -
"Two Imagineers shared a few details about the Tiana project ahead of Friday’s Splash Mountain announcement. Charita Carter, executive creative producer, reiterated that Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be set in Louisiana in 1927. Carter said the characters’ costuming, hair and ambiance will reflect that era.
“She’s fantastical but she comes from a very real place. It’s a real location, a real culture,” Carter said. Members of her creative team traveled to New Orleans for inspiration.
The setting for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be one year after the conclusion of the animated film. Tiana will be portrayed as a successful entrepreneur with strong connections to her family and community, said Rod Robledo, executive creative director.
“She’s actually started an employee-owned company called Tiana’s Foods,” he said. The company logo has been seen on a water tower in a rendering of the future attraction.
That part of the attraction’s story also helps explain the lack of mountain that has been seen in Frontierland since the early 1990s. Louisiana, in real life, is mostly flat.
“What Tiana has done is purchased this old, abandoned salt dome mine, and that was turned into this operation called Tiana’s Foods,” Robledo said. Disney creative types saw such domes during a Louisiana visit.
“We thought to ourselves, ‘Hey, that’s the perfect way in for us to sort of explain why there’s this elevation there,’” Robledo said."
Disney World closing Splash Mountain soon to begin Tiana makeover
The countdown has started for the final splashdown of Splash Mountain at Magic Kingdom. The last day Walt Disney World visitors can experience the log ride in its current form will be Jan. 22. The …
Casper Gutman
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I fear that, with the emphasis on the concept in PR, its not going to be particularly subtle. Imagineering seems very proud of it. The artwork we've seen all seems to be variations on the first scene after the first falls. I would expect the "salt mine" theme to be very prominent in the Laughing Place (aka what should have been the other side, just because a concept is obvious doesn't mean it isn't also the best, you overthinking Imagineers).