I wonder if they kept the little CBJ nod when they took Critter Country down for its refurb/rebuild. Then again they probably made it Apollo's since he's the raccoon of the land now
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Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Disneyland Watch & Discussion
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Come to Critter Country and enjoy all the ride!
mickEblu
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Can we talk about this sign though? It's hard to tell but the tail appears to be three dimensional and then the rest of the sign is flat? Am I seeing that right? Well that's one point for MK. The Critter Co-op sign is much better than this. Critter Country had/has some beautiful signs between Splash, CBJ, Pooh, Hungry Bear, the Pooh store etc. This sign is not up to par. Hopefully it looks better and more three dimensional in person.
Avastindy
Member
I have to say, its to the point that fans are more than capable of making better end products than official Disney now. Such a better and beautiful sign!
PiratesMansion
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Is that even a sign or is that a screen?
Ice Gator
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Are they trolling us here?
“oh so they complained about too many banners and pointless signs? let’s make them 3x bigger!”
Disstevefan1
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Lets see if Disney steals this fan art.
CaptinEO
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As predicted, a few months isn't enough time for slow working WDI to make any changes.
From Micechat:
www.micechat.com
From Micechat:
DISNEYLAND UPDATE - Send Us A Message From Regions Beyond!
You know that feeling you get when you go somewhere you love, but something feels off? That's how Disneyland has been feeling to me this summer. There's just a lack of... well... magic. Things feel
www.micechat.com
Consumer
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Why are they so confident it will be fixed when they list two reasons why it won't be?
mickEblu
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As predicted, a few months isn't enough time for slow working WDI to make any changes.
From Micechat:
DISNEYLAND UPDATE - Send Us A Message From Regions Beyond!
You know that feeling you get when you go somewhere you love, but something feels off? That's how Disneyland has been feeling to me this summer. There's just a lack of... well... magic. Things feel
Not enough time? Don’t open it til the start of the 70th anniversary next summer. That’s plenty of time to re-record some dialogue, fix some staging, add some more AAs (they should have a few they removed out back) add some projections/ suspense to the lifthill and play the song everyone wants to hear. Might not be perfect but would be light years better than what they opened at MK and would be better than disappointing everyone all over again. If they open this up in November that’ll be 6 months where they did nothing except work on giving us the exact same garbage from MK.
mickEblu
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D’amaro needs to call Potrock who needs to call Bruce Vaughn and tell him to put together a team that can fix TBA. Pull from past or present imagineers that didn’t work on TBA. The team who worked on TBA can’t fix it. But who wants to be the old White guy to mess with the DEI pet project?
CaptinEO
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Lets be real, even without the ego of senior imagineering and executives, the DEI layer makes this ride even more untouchable.
Micechat a few weeks ago pointed out that scott towbridge, who was in charge of galaxy's edge was reassigned to foreign parks, so maybe we will start to see change there in the future.
The egos of these creatives are too fragile. No one will admit to failure or react to guest feedback.
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mickEblu
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This was Charita’s baby and nobody likes the optics of being the one to to tell her she failed. Any change we see would be some half measure still under her leadership and guidance. Unless she herself can be swayed by all the negative reactions.
CaptinEO
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They should give her and all the WDI leadership a "research trip" to Orlando Florida to see the guest reaction to this ride.
Adventureland Veranda
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chadwpalm
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- In the Parks
- No
This group of people think they've created the best thing since the invention of the wheel. This ride is not going to be changed any time soon.
Much like the creators of The Acolyte, all these people think they are God's gift to the entertainment industry and changing the world through DEI policy.
It's all Disney mandated. Nothing is going to change.
DavidDL
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For what it's worth, Micechat's article also states that:
"Nearly every current and former Imagineer we’ve spoken to (who wasn’t involved with the project) has expressed some level of frustration, concern, or anger over the Bayou Adventure project-"
and,
"Unfortunately, one thing the Imagineers were not able to address before opening is the giant story hole in the scene before the big lift and drop, which is causing the bulk of the negative reviews at the Magic Kingdom."
So to at least some degree, some folks in the company understand there are issues. There's just probably nothing they can do about them at the moment. Of course Disney has all the money to address the issue but there's probably a ton of "bureaucratic red tape" those who want to see changes implemented have to cut through, first. We can only hope they (eventually) get around to addressing problem areas. At least we maybe have some minor tweaks to look forward to on our coast, until then.
"-due to the extra time Disneyland had, Imagineering was able to make important tweaks to the programming, lighting, and special effects."
That is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it. The difference between what Disney's queue signage and this one is night and day. Which is especially frustrating because we've seen they have the capabilities to do better. See: The Critter Co-Op sign or the newest Hungry Bear sign.
"Nearly every current and former Imagineer we’ve spoken to (who wasn’t involved with the project) has expressed some level of frustration, concern, or anger over the Bayou Adventure project-"
and,
"Unfortunately, one thing the Imagineers were not able to address before opening is the giant story hole in the scene before the big lift and drop, which is causing the bulk of the negative reviews at the Magic Kingdom."
So to at least some degree, some folks in the company understand there are issues. There's just probably nothing they can do about them at the moment. Of course Disney has all the money to address the issue but there's probably a ton of "bureaucratic red tape" those who want to see changes implemented have to cut through, first. We can only hope they (eventually) get around to addressing problem areas. At least we maybe have some minor tweaks to look forward to on our coast, until then.
"-due to the extra time Disneyland had, Imagineering was able to make important tweaks to the programming, lighting, and special effects."
That is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it. The difference between what Disney's queue signage and this one is night and day. Which is especially frustrating because we've seen they have the capabilities to do better. See: The Critter Co-Op sign or the newest Hungry Bear sign.
mickEblu
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Yeah I agree and it’s unfortunate.
It’s interesting the way the article frames the bit about the “imagineers not being able to address the giant hole on the lift-hill.” There is room to interpret that as a scene that is unfinished or malfunctioning and that they can’t speak on it or don’t have any insight. I don’t think that’s the case but it can be interpreted that way.
EDIT: never mind I skimmed over the part about “before opening.” But why are they speaking as if the Disneyland version has already opened and we saw that the lift hill is the same? One thing I need to stop doing is wasting any brain cells analyzing commentary from the likes of Micechat or Fresh Baked.
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