Ne'er-Do-Well Cad
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There isn’t a single employee-owned shop in Hogsmeade.
Disneyland should have gotten an animatronic stage show in the restaurant, and WDW should’ve got an indoor New Orleans area with a boat ride on the other side of ROA.Disneyland doesn't need two attractions with bayou scenes. Especially since the 2024 attraction isn't doing anything meaningfully different than the 1967 attraction.
Wonderful attraction. I’d argue it’s better than any of the attractions Disney has seen it out stateside in the 21st century. Much like Splash, I love how Hagrid’s contextualizes a lot of its drops and thrill elements, weaving them into the storyline.View attachment 790850
See, now, this… THIS is an ADVENTURE. This DESERVES to have the word in its title. With three minutes of fictional peril, this roller coaster spins a simple, effective tale: Hagrid, being Hagrid, did not see the flaw in his lesson plan, and now you’re on a sentient, runaway motorbike.
It’s simultaneously thrilling and funny, perfectly in character, builds satisfyingly to a climactic peril/rescue/escape finale and ends with my favorite closing lines of all time: “I’d be grateful if you didn’t mention any of this to anyone back at Hogwarts. See you next lesson!”
No moral, no lesson (wonderfully ironic because it literally takes place during a lesson) and no forced-smile, hollow self-affirmation party. Just survival and FUN (and a unicorn encounter your teacher has just asked everyone to keep quiet about).
It only features a handful of AAs, but each one is used effectively. The coaster would still be thrilling without the story, but it’s the story—the ADVENTURE—that leaves everyone with huge smiles on their faces and warm fuzzies in their hearts.
Now if they’d just shorten the name… Wait a second—Tiana can have the superfluous words!
Hagrid’s Motorbike Adventure
Tiana’s Magical Creatures Bayou
There— Fixed both!![]()
If this has been posted already, just scroll on by.... Otherwise, here is a 360 of TBA. What strikes me most on this viewing is how un-PATF this ride is. What a missed opportunity. Oh well...
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Oh, geez. This started okay, and then fell apart.
Ms. Carter seems genuinely fun and likable, and seems like someone who' be great to sit next to at a dinner party. And her answer here started out fine with the "Tiana is so relatable because she's an American princess, she's a modern 20th century princess...." which is all true and what made her story unique in the Disney pantheon and what made her movie character fun.
But then after that... she could only devolve into describing a ride that has no plot, no conflict, and no resolution to that conflict. What's telling is that Ms. Carter shows her hand here that she is fully aware that Tiana's Bayou Adventure is just a ride built around HR talking points and kitchen decorations someone picked up at Home Goods.
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And In case you're forgot, "everyone is invited" guys. Unlike all the other rides at Disney World which were a little more selective with their guest lists and turned people away at the attraction entrance.
And In case you're forgot, "everyone is invited" guys. Unlike all the other rides at Disney World which were a little more selective with their guest lists and turned people away at the attraction entrance.
What's funny is that because of the height restriction the "everyone is invited" isn't technically true.
Was surprised at how big my tweet on this comparison got. It was just one of many dunks I’ve made on this attraction in the last week![]()
- Do NOT take one single more immersion trip as part of your fix! Keep the ERT in Glendale 5 days per week, focused only on fixing this. Reassign staff to cover the ERT's absence from other projects. Cancel vacations if you have to.
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Everyone is invited!*And In case you forgot, "everyone is invited" guys. Unlike all the other rides at Disney World which are a little more selective with their guest lists and turn people away at the attraction entrance.
Good grief!Does that person not realize that Splash Mountain was praised BECAUSE it used its drops to emphasize danger points in the story?
And even Pooh features the characters facing home-destroying winds, a flood and thieving monsters. TBA is too timid to offer even those kind of mild obstacles to overcome.
Do the defenders really believe TBA’s happy-happy grinfest is a satisfying “ADVENTURE?”
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