Tiana’s Bayou Adventure SPOILER Thread

Professortango1

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mickEblu said:
Just checked out Poseidons review. Never heard of him before. Disagreed with much of it but he came across as fair and a bit more nuanced than some of the other reviews I’ve seen. But then towards the end came this line…

“While Tiana’s may have fewer animatronics, many of them are far more interesting in their complexity and are spread out more effectively, filling in many areas which were previously empty.”

In what world does this make any sense?

Many of them? So by many he can’t be referring to more than about a dozen as that’s about how many actual animatronics there are and are the only ones that have any sort of complex movements. The majority of the AAs in Splash were far more articulate than the the majority of the figures in TBA.

Filling in areas which were previously empty? They re literally all bunched up together and as a whole TBA has more empty areas when it comes to animatronics.

When someone says something that’s the complete opposite of reality I have to discount their opinion.
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Especially since the scene he showed on the screen when discussing previously empty scenes was the possum section with action happening overhead. Wouldn't call that empty.
 
Figments Friend

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Tha Realest

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Brer Oswald said:
All of the effects are working and the show scenes are on display. It’s also filmed at night (with the extra lighting) on an expensive camera. It’s not getting any better than this, at least not as far as a POV is concerned.
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This aged well.

It‘s really terrible how poorly this ride is performing. And, as many have noted, “B-mode” for any of the AAs only makes the long boring stretches that much more acute.
 
Dear Prudence

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IDK if this counts as a spoiler, so I will put it here:

I am never going to be someone who does the "Disney vs. Universal, this or that, " but, hot damn, Disney's recent out put has been embarrassing. I watched the Dark Universe videos yesterday, and I was very impressed. It's genuinely amazing how little Disney wants us to just fawn over. The TBA animatronic animals in the band barely have any movement, they look off model (again, how is that even possible?!). How was is that the retooled America Sings animatronics had better and more consistent movement than the brand new ones? It's amazing how other companies' output looks when they..... actually try? I am not sure if there's a nice way to put it.
 
Dear Prudence

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Tha Realest said:
This aged well.

It‘s really terrible how poorly this ride is performing. And, as many have noted, “B-mode” for any of the AAs only makes the long boring stretches that much more acute.
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There is no excuse for this, either. They were gunning for its predecessor since at least 2010, and this current iteration has been in development since 2018. There is absolutely so reason that a money with more money than God to be fumbling something that is basically fool proof so badly.
 
Dear Prudence

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Just thinking about when they put pelican figurines in an eating area in NOS, and the Imagineers took selfies in front of them like they had just made the second coming of the Sistine Chapel. Like I understand that the bar isn't even on the floor, it's underground at this point, but why aren't there any pelicans on TBA? I feel like that would actually make sense? I don't think that I am asking for too much, lol.
 
Bocabear

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I don't necessarily think the bar is on the floor...but it does seem less engaging then the original...which I guess at this point we all know it had to go...So moving forward, I really hope they can overcome the technical issues they are having by opening day. Despite me not caring for the idea of the redo and a lot of choices they made to get there, I think it has some charm, and hope people enjoy it...
 
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easyrowrdw

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hopemax said:
Rode yesterday, and had been avoiding the threads, but now we are wondering if there is a script posted somewhere?

On the 2nd ride, I heard Mama Odie say something about returning us to our proper size, and I asked my Dad, "When did we get shrunk?" So wondering what else we missed.
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I’m not sure about the script, but she says you need to get tiny and then you do a drop with a flash of light. That’s why Tiana and Louie are giant faces looking at you on the screen. I think they also say you were digging really deep or something like that.

TBH, I think they could’ve made the scale more distinct with respect to the animals. The earlier animals were big already so the big frogs didn’t stand out to me as much. I think the large toadstools and such worked better though.
 
Disone

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easyrowrdw said:
I’m not sure about the script, but she says you need to get tiny and then you do a drop with a flash of light. That’s why Tiana and Louie are giant faces looking at you on the screen. I think they also say you were digging really deep or something like that.

TBH, I think they could’ve made the scale more distinct with respect to the animals. The earlier animals were big already so the big frogs didn’t stand out to me as much. I think the large toadstools and such worked better though.
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I rode it today. I may have caught the ride at the right time but it was pretty clear to me when we had shrunk and why.

In the former splash mountain, where you see bear bear's butt and he says "there's nothing in here but bees" and you do that little dip down but rise back up, that's the part where Mama Odie shrinks you. After this part the frogs become gigantic. Up until this part the frogs have been small but now you're the size of a frog so they're big. While you're small you find some additional critters to add to the band. They might be small but if you dig a little deeper you'll find they're just as important And they too can really play.

So now you approached the main lift Hill from the former splash mountain and here's where Mama Odie returns you to normal size And just for fun of course you drop back down the other side of the main lift Hill. You then go to the finale scene where you see all the critters playing together including the frogs that are front and center but much smaller than everybody else.

Overall I liked the attraction. And I didn't expect to. I kind of expected to hate it. I didn't miss Dr facilier.... Instead I found myself enjoying the clever way that we were shrunk down and then returned to full size.

Some of the automotronics were more rudimentary than others. Some were quite advanced. But all in all there was quite a bit of them throughout the attraction. Not as many as splash but way more than anticipated. I stopped counting once we got past 24.

Disney said there would be dozens of new audio animatronics and at one point I thought that as long as they have 13 they can technically get away with using the plural sense of the word dozen. But once I hit 24.... Then it was quite literally dozens of new audio animatronics.
 
Disgruntled Walt

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Disone said:
Disney said there would be dozens of new audio animatronics and at one point I thought that as long as they have 13 they can technically get away with using the plural sense of the word dozen. But once I hit 24.... Then it was quite literally dozens of new audio animatronics.
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But the critters rocking back and forth...are you counting those in your definition of animatronics? I think the definition is very important when counting the AAs, because you get very different numbers one way versus the other.
 
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easyrowrdw

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Disone said:
I rode it today. I may have caught the ride at the right time but it was pretty clear to me when we had shrunk and why.

In the former splash mountain, where you see bear bear's butt and he says "there's nothing in here but bees" and you do that little dip down but rise back up, that's the part where Mama Odie shrinks you. After this part the frogs become gigantic. Up until this part the frogs have been small but now you're the size of a frog so they're big. While you're small you find some additional critters to add to the band. They might be small but if you dig a little deeper you'll find they're just as important And they too can really play.

So now you approached the main lift Hill from the former splash mountain and here's where Mama Odie returns you to normal size And just for fun of course you drop back down the other side of the main lift Hill. You then go to the finale scene where you see all the critters playing together including the frogs that are front and center but much smaller than everybody else.

Overall I liked the attraction. And I didn't expect to. I kind of expected to hate it. I didn't miss Dr facilier.... Instead I found myself enjoying the clever way that we were shrunk down and then returned to full size.

Some of the automotronics were more rudimentary than others. Some were quite advanced. But all in all there was quite a bit of them throughout the attraction. Not as many as splash but way more than anticipated. I stopped counting once we got past 24.

Disney said there would be dozens of new audio animatronics and at one point I thought that as long as they have 13 they can technically get away with using the plural sense of the word dozen. But once I hit 24.... Then it was quite literally dozens of new audio animatronics.
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Yeah, I caught it too. I hadn’t really noticed other frogs in the earlier parts of the ride. I was just comparing the sizes of critters throughout the ride. I still enjoyed the ride, though.
 
erasure fan1

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easyrowrdw said:
TBH, I think they could’ve made the scale more distinct with respect to the animals. The earlier animals were big already so the big frogs didn’t stand out to me as much.
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Maybe it looks better when you're seeing in person. But I agree the scale isn't all that convincing. The projection faces seem way off. The whole thing just doesn't scream you're small.
 
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easyrowrdw

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erasure fan1 said:
Maybe it looks better when you're seeing in person. But I agree the scale isn't all that convincing. The projection faces seem way off. The whole thing just doesn't scream you're small.
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After I rode it I went back and watched the video everyone was crapping on. I thought the ride was fun, but the video was boring. I really don't think ride videos convey the experience of being on the ride or provide an adequate avenue for judging the quality of a ride.
 

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