Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Disneyland Watch & Discussion

[Sailor310]

The five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

 

[Rich T]

After a stress-filled day, I’ve found landscaping antique car rides in Planet Coaster to be the most relaxing thing ever...

 

[CaptinEO]

Went on Splash and it was just as fun and charming as ever. Will miss this one a lot. Tower of Terror was painful but this is devastating.

 

[SuddenStorm]

Went on Splash and it was just as fun and charming as ever. Will miss this one a lot. Tower of Terror was painful but this is devastating.

Yep- I've had many people equate this closure to Tower of Terror but I think it's a different beast entirely.

Disneyland's Splash Mountain is among the last great additions to that park, and was designed by people who really understood Disneyland In a way today's imagineers don't.

How many Baxter rides are left untouched? Just Indy and Big Thunder?

 

[Brer Panther]

Yep- I've had many people equate this closure to Tower of Terror but I think it's a different beast entirely.

At least with Tower of Terror, they were honest about their intentions.

 

[CaptinEO]

Yep- I've had many people equate this closure to Tower of Terror but I think it's a different beast entirely.

Disneyland's Splash Mountain is among the last great additions to that park, and was designed by people who really understood Disneyland In a way today's imagineers don't.

How many Baxter rides are left untouched? Just Indy and Big Thunder?

I agree, it has the magic and charm that nothing else offers.

Indy and Big Thunder both had significant changes made in 2013. Supposedly Tony was involved in Nemo as well.

 

[EagleScout610]

I agree, it has the magic and charm that nothing else offers.

Indy and Big Thunder both had significant changes made in 2013. Supposedly Tony was involved in Nemo as well.

I don't think people count Nemo since it's an overlay/retheme of an existing attraction

 

[EagleScout610]

Oh, jeez, aren't the Three Caballeros animatronics still replaced by plywood cutouts?

Did Disney's animatronic maintenance team get laid off too?

As of this morning Caballeros are back!

 

[LittleMerman]

Really excited for the Princess and the Frog overlay!

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

The Mexico boat ride really predicted the state of rides in the future with extensive use of screens along the ride path and little to no robots. That was back in the 80s.

 

[VJ]

There's no turning back for Disney on this. Splash's days are numbered

time to be turning around?... if only you could!

 

[Brer Panther]

As of this morning Caballeros are back!
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Hopefully Brer Fox will be repaired and put back in too.

 

[EagleScout610]

Hopefully Brer Fox will be repaired and put back in too.

His fedora-wearing evergreen has already been installed

 

[Professortango1]

It also doesn’t really make sense to have a mountain in a Georgia swamp—or to put the ride in Frontierland to begin with.

You've never heard of the Red Hills of Georgia? And Splash Mountain doesn't really feature a swamp on the facade. It is a waterway, a mill, and a briar patch that has grown at the base of Chikapin Hill. It isn't the bayou.

And Frontierland wasn't the original place for the attraction, Critter Country was. Critter Country is themed the the wooded hills of the American South.

 

[Too Many Hats]

Having so little faith that the attraction has any hope that you want it to be fast-tracked just so you can get it over with as soon as possible. As well as saying he doesn’t even want to ride it anymore. Maybe it’s just how I’m looking at it.

Late reply, but to repeat what others have said -- the Disneyland version is 100% going to be replaced, at this point. Consequently I'd rather see the attraction put out of its misery than watch it suffer months or years on life support. I say this as someone whose favorite thing in all of Disneyland is the Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah finale.

I'm certainly holding out hope that the Orlando and Tokyo versions continue to exist, just so there's some version of the attraction out there in the world (and honestly, IMO, those are the superior attractions). But with the fate of the DL version sealed, I'm eager to let the attraction rest in peace and embrace something new.

 

[CaptinEO]

Late reply, but to repeat what others have said -- the Disneyland version is 100% going to be replaced, at this point. Consequently I'd rather see the attraction put out of its misery than watch it suffer months or years on life support. I say this as someone whose favorite thing in all of Disneyland is the Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah finale.

I'm certainly holding out hope that the Orlando and Tokyo versions continue to exist, just so there's some version of the attraction out there in the world (and honestly, IMO, those are the superior attractions). But with the fate of the DL version sealed, I'm eager to let the attraction rest in peace and embrace something new.

Anything can happen. Disney's earnings reports are not looking too hot.

Who knows what might happen with Splash. Anything can change.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

 

[EagleScout610]

Anything can happen. Disney's earnings reports are not looking too hot.

Who knows what might happen with Splash. Anything can change.

In the words of my dad "We could all get hit by a meteor tommorow so let's see what happens"

 

[Too Many Hats]

Imagine the optics if they don’t go through with the overlay. There’s no way Disney risks that, regardless of their financial situation.