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

[Midwest Elitist]

It's the extra details and fluff that contribute to the dissonance.

"Tiana is committed to serving the best food in Louisiana to her guests, so she started her own food company ensuring only the finest ingredients are used in her restaurants" is a much tighter and stronger line than she cares about the "community neighbors" and "Co-op" those are modern marketing ploys shoe horned into 1920s

Less is more, show don't tell.

It's almost like you can easily tell what group they are marketing too! (which I'm a part of, but this is just lazy)

 

[brb1006]

but the movie never showed her actually running the business as a CEO in an employee -owned company....because in 1927 so many businesses had women CEOs and were employee owned.... ugh

Wait for the Disney+ series where they might show it.

 

[crazy4disney]

Do you have a clear picture of this? In the best image I saw it looked like a frog

Not sure if i did this correct but its on Scott Gustin twitter page

 

[Tha Realest]

It's almost like you can easily tell what group they are marketing too! (which I'm a part of, but this is just lazy)

I don’t think it’s a problem in marketing. This feels like an attraction conceptualized by a humanities department, and not, you know, world class artists.

 

[Midwest Elitist]

I don’t think it’s a problem in marketing. This feels like an attraction conceptualized by a humanities department, and not, you know, world class artists.

You're basically agreeing with me.

 

[UNCgolf]

Why in the world would they bother putting Br'er on the model? Was it just a massive oversight where someone copied the existing logs without another thought?

 

[tanc]

Honestly it looks cool I guess but there's a difference between concept and actual application. Not a fan of the water tower.

I guess the boat idea was scrapped?

 

[ToTBellHop]

They said there will be new characters. What if they don’t change his appearance at all and just rename Br’er Rabbit as “Bayou Steve”? Imagine the savings!

“There goes Bayou Steve looking for nutmeg, as usual!”

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Are people who've seen the movie, PatF, really surprised that Tiana is a successful businesswoman? Imagineering didn't make it up just for the ride.

She's supposed to be Gusteau, not Skinner.

 

[tanc]

Any more information regarding the interior?

 

[FigmentFan82]

Same way people (and cast) still call it Fastpass.

And MGM

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Any more information regarding the interior?

I suspect we may get more in the coming days. The Expo itself hasn't even officially started yet.

 

[WDW Pro]

I believe that's a windmill-powered water well, not a water tower

Shh... you're interrupting the frigid poultry's breathless defending of that which is defenseless.

 

[crazy4disney]

I don’t think it’s a problem in marketing. This feels like an attraction conceptualized by a humanities department, and not, you know, world class artists.

How dare you say that about a ride thats been in planning for over 5 years now

 

[tanc]

It was always just blue sky art they quickly pulled out to protect Disney+ from boycotts during summer of 2020. The tree destroyed sightlines, weighed too much, the attraction was never built to support such a thing, and it would have been a major issue to maintain.



I've been reporting on this for months. They went to Avery Island to try to create some sort of backstory for all of this. For whatever reason, they were impressed by the salt dome. Allegedly they wanted to turn the whole mountain into a salt dome background but the budget looks to have limited them to a few fake trees and a garish tower.



Crippled by its own need to present Tiana as a CEO.



Never doubt the power of an agenda and incompetence.

So you are saying the integrity of the mountain can't withstand it? And they have a very limited budget?

Uh oh.

Cost shouldn't be a factor if you're trying to do something right. Who knows how this will turn out. I think we are seeing the reason this was rejected by OLC lol

 

[Tha Realest]

You're basically agreeing with me.

Yes and no. I view marketing and conceptualization as different. If the concept is flawed - and I think it very much is, due in large part to the constraints they had to work with - no amount of marketing can gloss over that. Here, they had to work over a ride system with minimal changes. Yet, those changes seem like they were workshopped not by artisans or those with a background in entertainment, but rather a bunch of academics.

 

[Tha Realest]

Why in the world would they bother putting Br'er on the model? Was it just a massive oversight where someone copied the existing logs without another thought?

Again, it’s as if there are those in Imagineering that secretly hate this entire project

 

[Indy_UK]

Disney are going on about this update like they were going to open a new park.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I'm not sure I've ever seen a thread where so many people are so willing to jump to conclusions based off limited, incomplete, unconfirmed, or non-existent information.

We would all do really well to slow down, listen to the information that Disney puts out, and try to respond rationally. Especially on a weekend like this one where we know we'll be getting more information. Otherwise this thread is just begging to devolve.

 

[crazy4disney]

Again, it’s as if there are those in Imagineering that secretly hate this entire project

honestly how many true imagineers can like this over it getting a proper refurb and if they really wanted to have PotF ride do that as well....