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

Dranth

Dranth

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We went mid-November and had our first ride on TBA. I waited a while to post anything so as to not be reactionary, but this is a bad update.

The characters don't show any personality, the dialog is repetitive and annoying, half the ride feels sparse and devoid of life, the human AAs in particular feel off and flail around way too much. Not only that, but the number of broken AAs and issues on a ride that has had a half a year to iron these things out is completely unacceptable.

Even from the get-go, when you first meet Tiana and watch her sit there mostly frozen waiting for each backed up boat to hit her sensor to activate you immediately get pulled out of the experience and it didn't get a whole lot better from there.

I don’t know who is responsible for what with this thing and without knowing the exact inner workings of the company and what execs interfered (if they did), how much leeway the team had etc. I am not comfortable pinning this on any one person or group but as a whole, the company failed with this redo.

At the end of the day, I know it is just a ride and still fun enough if for no other reason than the nature of the ride system itself, but this is a significant step back from what we had and a huge missed opportunity.
 
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Nickm2022

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Rode it for myself for the first time and my honest thoughts are it's a good ride, but it sucks seeing the Disneyland POV and seeing how because it's smaller it seems and looks so much more detailed and paced better. I do like the ride but it feels like a Winnie the Pooh Mr Toads, when it should be a Fantasy Springs like ride. That said I actually think it will be one of the few rides that get's better in time. As things will likely get added into the ride to enhance it like what happens to all the E-tickets. And I think once that happens it will feel more complete. I also think (a conterversial opinion) Disney could make this ride feel like a better fit with the New Frontierland/Cars expansion with better landscaping and new buildings.

Overall 7.5/10, Good theming, amazing AA and a stunning ending, just to much dead space and weird pacing.
 
Disgruntled Walt

Disgruntled Walt

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brideck

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Man, listening to the Music from TBA album for the first time tonight on Spotify and that thing kicks. I'm going to have to check out a bunch of the featured artists.

Is there a full list of everything used on the radio station in the queue somewhere? Even these 18 tracks don't feel comprehensive from what I remember from my wait in line...
 
RSoxNo1

RSoxNo1

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What has been the typical virtual queue experience for people. Once you check in, how long are guests typically waiting in the standby line?

I also expected this to drop Virtual Queue once Thunder goes down, but it doesn't appear they're going to do that on the same day.
 
Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan

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RSoxNo1 said:
What has been the typical virtual queue experience for people. Once you check in, how long are guests typically waiting in the standby line?

I also expected this to drop Virtual Queue once Thunder goes down, but it doesn't appear they're going to do that on the same day.
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Once our group was called today, we stood in the line for roughly 30ish minutes, but it moved pretty continuously.
 
Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan

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Finally got to ride this today. After spending so much time defending the (correct) decision to remove Splash and using POVs to really try and get a feel of it, it was an important moment for me on a curiosity level.

After seeing so much of the vitriol on here, I honestly did start to feel maybe I was gonna be let down. I had defended what I’d seen but what if, truly, in person it just doesn’t measure up and was not worth it? I’m very relieved to say my eyes didn’t deceive me from watching the POVs.

I loved this thing.

Loved the music, loved the aesthetic, the animatronics were impressive, and the whole thing just had a really nice and positive energy. Everyone I rode with in my logs was smiling and commenting along the way on things that impressed them. And outside the ride where I waited to people watch some, it was families talking about what a good time they had, and a few little girls particularly thrilled they got to see Tiana.

It isn’t perfect, no. Pacing is off indeed and indeed the story isn’t super clear (I maintain Splash’s wasn’t either). But the imperfections didn’t hold it down for me at all. I vastly prefer the aesthetics of the bayou and the fireflies to the aesthetic of Splash, so even in the somewhat quiet parts, I was loving what I saw.

There are a few things here and there I think could’ve (and should’ve) been tweaked, but overall I’m a very satisfied two time rider, as is my big Splash Mountain fan of a mom.

I’d hand it a solid 8/10. Will be hitting this every time I’m at the Magic Kingdom.
 
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Fido Chuckwagon

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Rode this over the holidays. With the exception of the final Tiana animatronic in the party scene, every single Tiana animatronic did not have its mouth moving when it spoke.

I agree that it’s a decent ride, just a shame that they can’t seem to ever have it working properly.
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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EagleScout610 said:
Country Bears are about to have back problems from carrying Frontierland
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Good point. After everything that is being worked on is closed/walled off, I assume country bears will be in high demand. I presume all shows will fill up now and there may even be a standby queue for country bears,

It will be interesting to see what happens.
 

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