Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Disneyland Watch & Discussion

[MoonRakerSCM]

All in that wondrous D23 article I linked. I just noticed this part as well-

"As for Tiana’s cloche hat? “I imagined she is a person who walks into the bayou very often and gathers her own straw grass,” Muldrow says. “She hangs it up in a bundle and dries it, then crochets it into a hat. We used natural things right from the swamp.”"

Upon review of the 53 flailing Tiana AA's in the ride... she's not wearing a cloche hat anywhere. THE CULTURAL IMMERSION IS RUINED!!!!!

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

You gotta be kidding me. But I kept riling everyone up when I said they had the wrong priorities over and over.

Hey why are we still banned from the main thread? Everyone is now saying the same things we said over and over again!

 

[mickEblu]

Hey why are we still banned from the main thread? Everyone is now saying the same things we said over and over again!

Lol right? Now since there is definitive proof nobody attacks them for their opinions which all of a sudden match what we’ve been saying the whole time. We just had foresight.

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

I saw this quote from that Forbes article, pretty good-

"Disney once made a Haunted Mansion with 999 souls. They've now created an entire mountain without one."

 

[chadwpalm]

I never understood why they needed to have so much backstory in this attraction, down to the personalities of the animals. Very unprecidented. Did they know they were making a dud and wanted to generate hype? Or dare I say......justification?

Could you imagine in 1967 a press release coming out saying, "Meet the Pirate John Smyth. When he is not pillaging and burning down towns or auctioning off women, he likes to spend his free time crocheting and reading bedtime stories to his children. But be careful....he might be prone to tossing out a joke or two."

 

[Jiggsawpuzzle35]

Since ours probably won’t open until later this year, here’s hoping they heard all the negative backlash and add a couple of extra scenes to our version and also get rid of those dumb banners.

 

[davis_unoxx]

Since ours probably won’t open until later this year, here’s hoping they heard all the negative backlash and add a couple of extra scenes to our version and also get rid of those dumb banners.

Didn’t you hear?

Disney but the banners in bulk from Costco Business Center

 

[TP2000]

Could you imagine in 1967 a press release coming out saying, "Meet the Pirate John Smyth. When he is not pillaging and burning down towns or auctioning off women, he likes to spend his free time crocheting and reading bedtime stories to his children. But be careful....he might be prone to tossing out a joke or two."

No kidding. None of those animal personalities they talked about mean anything, or show up, or can even be sensed on this ride. And that's with WDW's slower ride system with staged stops and starts throughout. Now imagine it on Disneyland's ride system as your log bangs and flies through the flume at twice the speed.

There's got to be a whole bunch of Imagineers up in the cool hangout in heaven laughing now. They created this iconic Pirates auction scene, and not a single biography or backstory was written for any of them. And the audience loved it!

2024: Who are these people? I can't connect with them unless I know their backstory. I am NOT immersed without a backstory!

I could only guess what type of HR approved drivel the 2020's Imagineers and the Parks Blog writers would come up with to describe Old Bill the drunk's backstory, as he continues on his wellness journey. Here kihhty kihhty kihhhhty... hic!

 

[TP2000]

All in that wondrous D23 article I linked. I just noticed this part as well-

"As for Tiana’s cloche hat? “I imagined she is a person who walks into the bayou very often and gathers her own straw grass,” Muldrow says. “She hangs it up in a bundle and dries it, then crochets it into a hat. We used natural things right from the swamp.”"

Upon review of the 53 flailing Tiana AA's in the ride... she's not wearing a cloche hat anywhere. THE CULTURAL IMMERSION IS RUINED!!!!!

You are absolutely nailing it with these old Parks Blog quotes about this ride.

You can't make this up, because WDI already said it and put in on the Internet. On purpose.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

2024: Who are these people? I can't connect with them unless I know their backstory. I am NOT immersed without a backstory!

I really want to write answers to all of these people's backstories, but it would probably get deleted anyway...

 

[TP2000]

I really want to write answers to all of these people's backstories, but it would probably get deleted anyway...

It would be fun. It might be great. There's a helluva lot of material there to work with on that ride.

But yeah, it would all get deleted. Because, you know, this is very serious business this theme park stuff.

 

[Figments Friend]

Oh this is in no way an underhanded paid advertisement….

 

[TP2000]

Oh this is in no way an underhanded paid advertisement….




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"I AM IN AWED!"

My goodness, if there was ever a more perfect sentence representing our current age, that is it.

 

[Figments Friend]

"I AM IN AWED!"

My goodness, if there was ever a more perfect sentence representing our current age, that is it.

It is even better then ‘You Are The Magic!’



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[Rich T]

I agree with the suggestions that the DL version might benefit from being a faster dash through such a simple story:

“We need animals!”
“There’s some! There’s some!”
“There’s some small ones!”
“You did it! You’re a hero!”

 

[TP2000]

I agree with the suggestions that the DL version might benefit from being a faster dash through such a simple story:

“We need animals!”
“There’s some! There’s some!”
“There’s some small ones!”
“You did it! You’re a hero!”

If you can somehow work in the word "Recruit!" to your immersive backstory, you're hired!

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[TP2000]

Oh this is in no way an underhanded paid advertisement….




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When you first posted this, I assumed it was a joke Tweet. But then I went and read his Tweets for the past few weeks.

It's not a joke. He's really doing this. I am in awed.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

From @SplashMountainArchives, the refurbished logs for DL have moss on them now. Because bayou. Because adventure.

 

[TP2000]

From @SplashMountainArchives, the refurbished logs for DL have moss on them now. Because bayou. Because adventure.

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So it's still a log ride? Check.

 

[Rich T]

Ok, I just realized what it is about TBA’s “story” that really ticks me off, especially as a Princess and the Frog fan:

After all that pre-opening talk about food co-ops and community and Tiana’s Dad’s sacrifice for his country…

When all is said and done… What the creators of this ride ACTUALLY did…

They demoted most of the cast of The Princess and The frog into a brief cameo in the finale and made a conscious, deliberate decision to center the story around a bunch of new, generic-looking animal characters that COULD HAVE COME FROM ANY OTHER FILM.

What the hell???? Did they have so little faith in the source IP? Was this all, in the end, just a way to sell a line of new animal plushies?

I’m actually fairly certain that this project was approached with good intentions. But I think somewhere along the path, they lost their way and ended up with this bland, generic animal-fest replacing all the thrills and excitement and fantastic humor of the film’s world.

I’m disappointed, but not the least bit surprised.