Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Disneyland Watch & Discussion

[EagleScout610]

Clearly the spent most of the money on the finale and whatever was left on the old HDYD scenes. The imagineers then combined all the loose change they could find in their sofas and car cup holders to complete the old laughing place/ burrows lament scenes.

My friend rode a few weeks ago and he said he liked the first scenes and finale, but the "middle was kind of weird", in his words

 

[DLR92]

Found a video from a company that did work on DL's version of Bayou Adventure, complete with a construction shot of Burrow Lament that I feel perfectly sums up why this ride is a colossal nuke:

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It just illustrates how much nothing there is to look at Bayou, even with the lights on. Keep in mind, this exact spot would have had 15 figures to look at if you looked at Splash from this spot, even with the lights on.

Yes, according to Disney a single screen with 3D printed mushrooms and bottles is a much better sequnce than:

Brer Rabbit stuck in honey
Brer Fox sneaking up on him
Mama Possum and 2 babies
Mama Rabbit and 4 baby bunnies
Boothill Boys

I prefer the former scenes. Nothing in the ride currently flows in the new storyline.

 

[Professortango1]

Found a video from a company that did work on DL's version of Bayou Adventure, complete with a construction shot of Burrow Lament that I feel perfectly sums up why this ride is a colossal nuke:

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It just illustrates how much nothing there is to look at Bayou, even with the lights on. Keep in mind, this exact spot would have had 15 figures to look at if you looked at Splash from this spot, even with the lights on.

Yes, according to Disney a single screen with 3D printed mushrooms and bottles is a much better sequnce than:

Brer Rabbit stuck in honey
Brer Fox sneaking up on him
Mama Possum and 2 babies
Mama Rabbit and 4 baby bunnies
Boothill Boys

To be fair, the Brer Rabbit stuck in honey was replaced by the bongo frog. Still a downgrade, but you can't move the goalpost mid argument.

 

[Ghost93]

You can make a major overhaul to the story with some new dialogue, swapping out the LP or at least half of the LP scenes (which is just 2-4 frogs, the awful Tiana CGI screen and bare minimal theming) and some Facilier / ghoul projections and music changes on the lifthill with Mama Odie saving the day up top.

Although the old HDYD scenes would still be underwhelming you don’t really have to change anything story wise. And you can kind of look past the fact that it’s underwhelming if the ride is building to something. But it’s hard to do when the ride just so monotone and essentially flat lines the whole time.

Put Tiana in her real dress at the end. And it should be Louis playing a riff for us at the end (preferably the intro to Human again) right before unload instead of Mama Odie.

Yeah I don't think fixing TBA would be THAT expensive. I think the Disneyland version of Going Down the Bayou is perfectly paced (it's too dragged out in the Magic Kingdom version) and the finale is good. What kills the ride is the Dig a Little Deeper segment and the monotonous cheerfulness as riders go up the lift hill. There needs to be some suspense and a climax. They can swap out the screens with Dr. Facillier and do projection mapping for the shadows without spending a fortune.

 

[Model3 McQueen]

Yeah I don't think fixing TBA would be THAT expensive. I think the Disneyland version of Going Down the Bayou is perfectly paced (it's too dragged out in the Magic Kingdom version) and the finale is good. What kills the ride is the Dig a Little Deeper segment and the monotonous cheerfulness as riders go up the lift hill. There needs to be some suspense and a climax. They can swap out the screens with Dr. Facillier and do projection mapping for the shadows without spending a fortune.

You're right it shouldn't be difficult to fix. I'm confident they wont until leadership change arrives. The whole thing was uninspired from the get go. Everything from the "shrink" area to the lift hill IMO needs tension introduced, be it with Dr. Facilier or his minions. But it also needs to feel new. Disney's always been about storytelling more so than thrills, well up until recently.

And this is an opinion I feel strongly about, but that Zipadeedoodah replacement song.. secret ingredient I think.. is insultingly basic. Nothing can stop us now puts it to shame.

 

[Brer Oswald]

You're right it shouldn't be difficult to fix. I'm confident they wont until leadership change arrives. The whole thing was uninspired from the get go. Everything from the "shrink" area to the lift hill IMO needs tension introduced, be it with Dr. Facilier or his minions. But it also needs to feel new. Disney's always been about storytelling more so than thrills, well up until recently.

And this is an opinion I feel strongly about, but that Zipadeedoodah replacement song.. secret ingredient I think.. is insultingly basic. Nothing can stop us now puts it to shame.

Nothing was going to top Zipadeedoodah, and that alone is why the retheme was a mistake.

 

[Giss Neric]

My friend rode a few weeks ago and he said he liked the first scenes and finale, but the "middle was kind of weird", in his words

He's not wrong. The drop when we got shrunk until the lift hill before the big drop was weird and boring.

 

[Model3 McQueen]

Nothing was going to top Zipadeedoodah, and that alone is why the retheme was a mistake.

Oh %100. In particular im just saying the end song is horrible. Heck, happy by Pharrell Williams would’ve felt better. Secret ingredient is uninspired and lacking, like the retheme itself.

 

[D.Silentu]

I get how attractive it must have been in the design phase to write a signature song for the attraction. It just doesn't seem to be resonating with people. I would have had them singing a big chorale backed rendition of ‘Down In New Orleans’ for the finale. Something similar to what was used in Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee. I don’t think it’s too late.

 

[Professortango1]

I get how attractive it must have been in the design phase to write a signature song for the attraction. It just doesn't seem to be resonating with people. I would have had them singing a big chorale backed rendition of ‘Down In New Orleans’ for the finale. A version similar to what was used in Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee. I don’t think it’s too late.

The problem is "Dig a Little Deeper" is the best fit, but a scene like that wouldn't fit the story of finding musicians. It also could be potentially too similar to the Splash finale with a big gospel-influenced number and animals jamming to it.

But...it would be a ton better than what we have now.

 

[D.Silentu]

Admittedly, it’s the catchiest song in the film. Perhaps it wouldn’t be too much more of a thematic stretch to say the digging deeper in this case related to finding musicians in unusual places. I don’t mind the song in either spot, providing they zhuzh’d up the former laughing place to match the song’s energy.

 

[tanc]

I got around to riding this during my trip and I like it more than the WDW version. Considering what they have to work with, I thought the flow is a bit better. I wore a poncho and luckily I did because I would have been absolutely soaked if I did not.

I still prefer splash to this ride, but at least it’s better than the WDW one to me.

 

[Disstevefan1]

I got around to riding this during my trip and I like it more than the WDW version. Considering what they have to work with, I thought the flow is a bit better. I wore a poncho and luckily I did because I would have been absolutely soaked if I did not.

I still prefer splash to this ride, but at least it’s better than the WDW one to me.

Some say the reskin was designed for the DLR attraction and that's why it fits better in DLR.

 

[tanc]

Some say the reskin was designed for the DLR attraction and that's why it fits better in DLR.

Which I find ironic since CA splash was widely regarded as the worst one, how the situation could be opposite is beyond me but somehow Disney managed it.

 

[EagleScout610]

Which I find ironic since CA splash was widely regarded as the worst one, how the situation could be opposite is beyond me but somehow Disney managed it.

I don't remember anyone labeling DL's as "the worst Splash". If anything I saw alot of people saying it being the original version and re-using the original America Sings figures gave it edge over WDW's.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I don't remember anyone labeling DL's as "the worst Splash". If anything I saw alot of people saying it being the original version and re-using the original America Sings figures gave it edge over WDW's.

There were definitely people here preferring Disneyland's, but the general consensus among those that had ridden both was that WDW's Splash was superior to DL's, to the point that many people who otherwise dismissed much of Magic Kingdom would single out their Splash as one of the few rides definitively better in Florida. Most of the people bringing up the America Sings figures/higher number of AAs were DL purists.

I don't recall "the very best Splash" being a common discussion point among people who had done all three, but speaking personally, I felt that Splash was one of the few attractions that definitively got better each time it was built, and those improvements were very much tangible as part of the ride experience.

 

[mickEblu]

Which I find ironic since CA splash was widely regarded as the worst one, how the situation could be opposite is beyond me but somehow Disney managed it.

Most people liked that WDWs had more fully fleshed out sets and that it went slower and that the story was more coherent. So it would make sense that faster paced logs at DL would help to minimize some of the issues with TBA. You don’t have as much time to get bored of the barren sets with spotlights on the limited motion figures. With that said i doubt the differences are even noteworthy or really help the ride experience all that much. Id imagine DL’s is just marginally better for it. Of course I haven’t been on TBA at MK. Crazy to think there’s an even worse version than what I rode haha.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

Most people liked that WDWs had more fully fleshed out sets and that it went slower and that the story was more coherent. So it would make sense that faster paced logs at DL would help to minimize some of the issues with TBA. You don’t have as much time to get bored of the barren sets with spotlights on the limited motion figures. With that said i doubt the differences are even noteworthy or really help the ride experience all that much. Id imagine DL’s is just marginally better for it. Of course I haven’t been on TBA at MK. Crazy to think there’s an even worse version than what I rode haha.

I don’t think it’s worse, it’s slower but it doesn’t soak you if you sit in certain spots, certain scenes are more fleshed out, the shrunken frog scene has jumping fountains and you can hear more dialogue.