News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure

[Smiley/OCD]

I'm still wish this were only happening on the West Coast, but I still would hope that they can do a great job with it...and then I look at what's happened to Pirates.

Maybe it's going to be great. And maybe they'll camouflage how out of place it will be. But seems pretty 50/50 to me as to whether we're going to be happy with it at WDW

I agree…like EVERYTHING else Disney in circa 2022, the best way to look at it is to hope for the best and expect the worst…

 

[LittleBuford]

I'm still wish this were only happening on the West Coast, but I still would hope that they can do a great job with it...and then I look at what's happened to Pirates.

Maybe it's going to be great. And maybe they'll camouflage how out of place it will be. But seems pretty 50/50 to me as to whether we're going to be happy with it at WDW

Pirates is still a great ride. First-time visitors unaware of the changes made to it are very unlikely to come away with the dire impression that seems to prevail in this forum.

 

[Kirby86]

Salt mines are underground.

Yeah and you go underground in that part of the ride. Also that's what the lead Imagineer said in the "research video".

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Pirates is still a great ride. First-time visitors unaware of the changes made to it are very unlikely to come away with the dire impression that seems to prevail in this forum.

Isn’t that fairly obvious on every thread on this whole website? We’re all super fans, discussing and, in many cases, arguing about the most trivial things from printing fonts to paint colors to wait times that are off by 15 minutes on the sign to arguing where the best spots are to see the fireworks…we’re the only ones with vested interest in these mundane trivial things…the same majority of first of second time guests that aren’t going to care about the official name of this ride are the same majority of guests that didn’t have a problem with Splash Mountain or if a few animatronics aren’t working up to our standards

 

[LittleBuford]

Isn’t that fairly obvious on every thread on this whole website? We’re all super fans, discussing and, in many cases, arguing about the most trivial things from printing fonts to paint colors to wait times that are off by 15 minutes on the sign to arguing where the best spots are to see the fireworks…we’re the only ones with vested interest in these mundane trivial things…the same majority of first of second time guests that aren’t going to care about the official name of this ride are the same majority of guests that didn’t have a problem with Splash Mountain or if a few animatronics aren’t working up to our standards

I feel that people in this forum have a tendency to get themselves worked up into a kind of hypercritical frenzy, cornering themselves into wildly hyperbolic characterisations that go well beyond what is tenable. To read some of what's been written here about Pirates, you'd think the ride had become an unrecognisable shell of its former self, whereas, in truth, it's largely the same experience with a couple of modified scenes. Another case in point: calling "Tiana's Bayou Adventure" an absolutely terrible name when it is, at worst, a bit bland and uninspired.

 

[Goofy Ninja]

It's not too late Disney you can change your mind. You can put this somewhere else. YOU CAN PUT THIS SOMEWHERE ELSE! PLEEEASE!

 

[LittleBuford]

It's not too late Disney you can change your mind. You can put this somewhere else. YOU CAN PUT THIS SOMEWHERE ELSE!

The aim is to replace Splash Mountain's current theme; placing the attraction elsewhere would defeat the object. I daresay they wouldn't even be creating a Tiana ride at the present moment if not for the existence of a SotS-themed ride they want to get rid of.

 

[Kirby86]

I feel that people in this forum have a tendency to get themselves worked up into a kind of hypercritical frenzy, cornering themselves into wildly hyperbolic characterisations that go well beyond what is tenable. To read some of what's been written here about Pirates, you'd think the ride had become an unrecognisable shell of its former self, whereas, in truth, it's largely the same experience with a couple of modified scenes. Another case in point: calling "Tiana's Bayou Adventure" an absolutely terrible name when it is, at worst, a bit bland and uninspired.

Removing the Wench auction in the grand scheme of things changed very little of the ride. Personally I always thought adding Jack Sparrow to the ride was an odd choice. I know the movies at the time were extremely popular but he sort of just felt like he was plucked from a diffrent pirates ride and pasted in the one we have.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

I feel that people in this forum have a tendency to get themselves worked up into a kind of hypercritical frenzy, cornering themselves into wildly hyperbolic characterisations that go well beyond what is tenable. To read some of what's been written here about Pirates, you'd think the ride had become an unrecognisable shell of its former self, whereas, in truth, it's largely the same experience with a couple of modified scenes. Another case in point: calling "Tiana's Bayou Adventure" an absolutely terrible name when it is, at worst, a bit bland and uninspired.

As long as you don’t consider yourself above criticism, like me, than I don’t have a problem…

 

[Kirby86]

They can’t though.. it doesn’t make any sense to have two log flume rides in the park, yes they could build a separate PATF attraction, but they won’t. What’s done is done, see you down the bayou in 2024

They are going to change the ride but I'm not sure why there can't be two log flumes. Universal has Jurrassic Park and Dudly Do Right in islands of adventure. Would it be smarter to have it in another park? Sure but if they went up to Chapek and said we want a new log flume based on DuckTales and he said yes nothing is stopping you from putting it in Magic Kingdom.

 

[LittleBuford]

Removing the Wench auction in the grand scheme of things changed very little of the ride. Personally I always thought adding Jack Sparrow to the ride was an odd choice. I know the movies at the time were extremely popular but he sort of just felt like he was plucked from a diffrent pirates ride and pasted in the one we have.

I, too, feel that the Jack Sparrow animatronics don't really gel with the rest. They irk me more than any of the other modifications that have been made to the ride.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

As if we even know the extent to which the attraction will be physically overhauled.

If indeed this is done by "late 2024", than I'm not expecting much.

Maybe they could start exterior work before the ride closes, like ToT in DCA, but I'm not sure if that's possible.

I'm thinking this whole thing will be closer to Snow White's Enchanted Wish than Frozen Ever After in scope, just on a larger scale.

 

[LittleBuford]

As long as you don’t consider yourself above criticism, like me, than I don’t have a problem…

Nothing or nobody is above criticism, except perhaps Dolly Parton.

 

[Disney_TX_Guy]

Hope that also means Facilier is back too. I'm Team "Are You Ready" up the lift hill to the big drop.

That would make a lot of sense. Also, when I met Jim Cummings virtually at Galaxy Con and talked to him about the ride I mentioned that people hearing "Gonna Take You There" is very fitting for the ride.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

You're speaking as if the ride has been revealed to us. As if historical accuracy couldn't possibly contribute positively to this attraction. As if we even know the extent to which the attraction will be physically overhauled.

Lot of people in this thread assuming too much and getting themselves in a twist over it.

People seem to be getting upset about a lot of things regarding this ride that don't seem all that exceptional for Disney parks going back to the very beginning.

They've got to get inspiration from somewhere, so I don't really see a problem with them doing research in Louisiana as well as going back to the source material of the film. It reminds me a little of people rolling their eyes at all the Joe Rhode-led research trips for his projects. If it might help the Imagineers to get a better feel for the environments and attractions they're creating and to develop new stories, it seems worthwhile.

I don't like the 'backstories' that require you to read signs plastered up on the walls to understand. Using research to come up with settings and storylines for rides seems fine and kind of what they've always done, though.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Pirates is still a great ride. First-time visitors unaware of the changes made to it are very unlikely to come away with the dire impression that seems to prevail in this forum.

Okay don’t mind me being off topic but… the biggest travesty for pirates is how they brought it to MK in the first place. A park with ample room, and they create an abbreviated version?

That was my biggest disappointment when I finally visited WDW, how much they bungled Pirates.

 

[LittleBuford]

Okay don’t mind me being off topic but… the biggest travesty for pirates is how they brought it to MK in the first place. A park with ample room, and they create an abbreviated version?

That was my biggest disappointment when I finally visited WDW, how much they bungled Pirates.

It doesn't feel bungled to me as someone more familiar with the MK version. It's a great ride, even if the Disneyland one is better.

 

[Disney Analyst]

It doesn't feel bungled to me as someone more familiar with the MK version. It's a great ride, even if the Disneyland one is better.

The only upgrade is the queue. The rest just made me wish I was riding the Disneyland version.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Okay don’t mind me being off topic but… the biggest travesty for pirates is how they brought it to MK in the first place. A park with ample room, and they create an abbreviated version?

That was my biggest disappointment when I finally visited WDW, how much they bungled Pirates.

If you never went before 2006, you didn't see the Pirates that was intended for Florida.

 

[LittleBuford]

The only upgrade is the queue. The rest just made me wish I was riding the Disneyland version.

I understand why you feel that way. Luckily for me, my default is the MK version, so I will always love it in its own right.