Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Disneyland Watch & Discussion

[Californian Elitist]

As @Californian Elitist pointed out, I fully expect the attraction description to say the same as Splash does now:

Exactly. Of course they will warn guests. We know this already. There's no need to put a bunch of emphasis on the drop, especially at this stage. The drop is already there. We can see it. The story and how they plan to incorporate it matter more.

 

[Ne'er-Do-Well Cad]

Eh, I guess it depends on your tolerance level for "thrill". The drop is thrilling, but the rest of the attraction isn't. Its a 10 second thrill, and 9 mins and 50 seconds of a subdued experience. My opinion of course.

Of course. I just meant, like, relatively speaking, for Disneyland, a place that attracts families with young children.

I think people were doing mental gymnastics trying to make the PatF movie plot fit here. I never expected PatF, I expected what Disney told us back in 2020, a post-PatF plot about a Mardi Gras celebration.

It's possible this has been clear from the start and I just haven't been paying close enough attention. In any event, I'm on board with a jazzy, splashy boat ride to Mardi Gras celebrating Black joy, which the promotional materials seem to indicate we're getting. Far preferable to an attraction laser-focused on PATF. I just hope there's some sort of, you know, conflict/drama in the ride's story.

 

[SSG]

Flush it.

I present you with a sewer, clogged with Pooh.

 

[Rich T]

I'd argue it's possibly the most thrilling attraction in the park. I know adults who will ride BTMR and Space but not Splash, out of fear for that drop.

It'll be interesting to see what the ride's sensibility and target demographic actually turn out to be. PATF is a film very much aimed toward children, but much of the promotional material for TBA (the acronym we'll now be using for Tiana's Bayou Adventure, lol) has emphasized celebrating New Orleans and black culture and Mardi Gras, indicating this may be more of an everyone/family attraction and less princess and children-oriented than I initially assumed.

PatF, though, with its deaths, subtle cultural commentary and scary imagery, is aimed at a far broader age range than Song of the South (where a major plot point is a little girl getting mud on her party dress) ever was.

 

[Dear Prudence]

I definitely don't like the aspect that guests are going to be actively participating, like if I wanted to work, I'd be on the canoes, sir.

 

[Dear Prudence]

Exactly. Of course they will warn guests. We know this already. There's no need to put a bunch of emphasis on the drop, especially at this stage. The drop is already there. We can see it. The story and how they plan to incorporate it matter more.

But you'd be surprised how many people breeze by the current signs in the queue and then act surprised.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I am sorry, not sorry, as a designer, this looks like an amateur YouTube video cover talking about the project and not actual art for the project from a multibillion dollar company. No one can tell me that looks good!

It will look gorgeous when it fully realized in an attraction marquee out of real materials

 

[D.Silentu]

I knew the name was gonna be corny, but it's not as bad as I thought. It doesn't have enchanted or magical so that's a start.

I'm cracking up, you've just made me feel a bit better about the name!

 

[Dear Prudence]

It will look gorgeous when it fully realized in an attraction marquee out of real materials

I don't mean the logo itself, I mean the whole presentation of the graphics they're trying to use to promote it. Have you seen the graphic they are using on Instagram? It looks like it was made in the Android free editing app. It looks cheap and amateurish.

Edit: the "opening" text is barely readable.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I definitely don't like the aspect that guests are going to be actively participating, like if I wanted to work, I'd be on the canoes, sir.

You mean DAVY CROCKETT’S EXPLORER CANOES?

 

[D.Silentu]

One takeaway from the 2024 date is that we can look forward to them actually having something park related to talk about at D23.

 

[Rich T]

I definitely don't like the aspect that guests are going to be actively participating, like if I wanted to work, I'd be on the canoes, sir.

I’m certain that’s just Disney PR speak, in which “Actively participate” translates to “sit in a log.”

 

[D.Silentu]

Yes, I predicted it simply meaning that we will be encouraged to sing along at some point. Unless, of course, we're given magic gumbo ladles to shoot the spirits from the other side on our journey.

 

[Dear Prudence]

You mean DAVY CROCKETT’S EXPLORER CANOES?

You mean the "watch me make my ancestors embarrassed" canoes?

 

[Ne'er-Do-Well Cad]

You mean DAVY CROCKETT’S EXPLORER CANOES?

I’m cool with this name! If it opened today, it’d be called Davy Crockett’s Canoe Adventure. Which sucks.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I’m cool with this name! If it opened today, it’d be called Davy Crockett’s Canoe Adventure. Which sucks.

It'd be on par with the names of other rides, though. It's overdone, but also on par.

 

[Californian Elitist]

You mean the "watch me make my ancestors embarrassed" canoes?

Mine, too.

"Now you know we don't ride in boats, and we DEFINITELY don't steer canoes. We don't even swim. Get yourself out that canoe."

 

[Ne'er-Do-Well Cad]

I keep seeing Naveen River Journey being proposed on social media

 

[CaptinEO]

I like the name. Much better than names with subtitles and punctuation marks.

 

[CaptinEO]

No one will refer to it by its full name.

"Let's go on Tiana"

"Yeah, I wanna ride Tiana"

I see every little kid saying "Lets go on Tiana". Kids know characters.