What a difference a day makes! Just 24 hours ago I was feeling fairly optimistic about the new Tiana ride, and then this arrived...
New Tiana’s Bayou Adventure details were announced at a recent media event - here are some highlights from the Laughing Place.
- The ride itself will be the same length as Splash Mountain — approximately 9 minutes at Disneyland and approximately 10 minutes at the Magic Kingdom
- There will be original animation created by Walt Disney Animation Studios that will be used on screens within the attraction.
- Songwriter and producer PJ Morton, a native of New Orleans, is creating an original song that will be heard in Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. He is also doing new arrangements of the classic songs within the attraction.
- Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, also a native of New Orleans, who can be heard playing all of Louis’ trumpet parts in the The Princess and the Frog. He is working to select songs from the film as well as iconic themes from New Orleans for use in the queue.
- The flora, the wildlife, the sounds are all authentic to New Orleans and of the period. The Imagineers made a point of validating their creative decisions via visits to New Orleans and the bayou and research at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
- There will be a radio show playing in the queue that talks about the celebration we’re about to visit and informs us that Tiana needs assistance. The radio playing it is based on c. 1930 Avrin radio and record player combination
- Naveen’s little brother Ralphie will be a part of the attraction as an Audio Animatronic playing the drums. The drum set he uses is based on a children’s set that includes a c. 1900 Chinese tom tom and a c. 1920 Zildjian and Chinese cymbals. The actual set is in the office of the New Orleans Jazz Museum director Greg Lambousy.
- The attraction will have 17 new characters, all represented by Audio Animatronics. This includes the critter band playing zydeco music.
- The attractions overall story will touch on some new themes
- Tiana’s father being a WWI veteran and what’s it like for an African American man to fight for his country back then
- Tiana’s mom made dresses not only for Charlotte but for other clients in the community which served as an inspiration for Tiana’s entrepreneurship
- New representation of the other nationalities that make up New Orleans including Philippines, Mexico, Caribbean, nations of Africa and China
- Tiana will have more new costumes and hairstyles beyond the Adventure Tiana we’ve seen
- Prince Naveen will play humorous role in the story
- Look for a sneak peek of new consumer products at the next ESSENCE Fest, which runs from June 29th through July 3rd, 2023
- While the attraction won’t necessarily be tied to the Disney+ series, they are working with Disney+ for continuity
- A chair designed by current and former YAYA students for Imagineering will be put into Disneyland’s Eudora’s Chic Boutique. YAYA is a place we visited where people aged 13 to 25 can learn to become artists. While there, each student paints a chair that is sold and the student shares in the profits.
Full article below.
Since the announcement that a Princess and the Frog based attraction would be replacing Splash Mountain, we’ve slowly received details on exactly what it would be. About a year ago, we got its name: Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. Since then, we’ve learned some details about the story inc
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What on earth?!? Is this still a log ride, or is it now a lecture series?
My head hurts, and a lot of this stuff doesn't pass the smell test. So I Googled. The sudden inclusion of Filipino's, Mexicans and Chinese into this log ride story just seems really... forced. Like something only an HR committee with no Internet access could come up with.
According to the 1930 US Census, the population of Louisiana was 2.1 Million and the state had the following racial demographics;
Whites = 63% or 1.4 Million
Blacks = 36.9% or 700,000
American Indian = 0.1% or 1,536
Chinese = 0.02% or 422 (Four hundred and twenty two people living in Louisiana in 1930 were of Chinese descent)
Japanese = 0.002% or 52 (Fifty two people living in Louisiana in 1930 were of Japanese descent)
Other = 0.02% or 545 (perhaps those are where the Filipino's and Mexicans came from for the ride?)
If I were from New Orleans, I would be a tad upset that the already colorful and fabulous culture of that uniquely American city was being divided up like that. Because the 99.98% of the citizenry isn't inclusive enough now? So you have to make up history that didn't happen and pretend there was a noticeable Chinese or Mexican influence in the city circa 1930? And you aren't going to give a nod to 0.1% of the state that was American Indian, but instead are going to celebrate the 0.02% who were Chinese?
The mind boggles at how the HR department makes that mathematic equation work, but I'm not surprised any more.
Did someone forget this is a fast moving log ride? Please tell me these educational lessons are restricted to the queue. Is the actual ride gonna have Tiana's dad fighting in World War 1?
No kidding. This is getting messy very fast. Now we're also celebrating WWI vets and 0.02% of the state population? Employee owned!
The Tiana Foods employee owned Co-op Salt mine, no villain, Celebration of Love/ NOS, inclusive of 9 cultures, Tiana’s WW1 dad, ingredient hunt stuff is all over the place.
You forgot about her mom making dresses for the local children which inspired Tiana's entrepreneurial spirit
very briefly before Tiana turned her businesses over to the employee's to own. Also, there's a big drop and a splash somewhere in there too.
