mickEblu
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“To all those who come to this crappy place welcome. Tianaland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past -- and here youthful WDI interns may savor the challenge of where to put more Tiana theming.”
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Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Disneyland Watch & Discussion
- Thread starter Californian Elitist
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“To all those who come to this crappy place welcome. Tianaland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past -- and here youthful WDI interns may savor the challenge of where to put more Tiana theming.”
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
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"Here children can laugh and play. And man, can they playyyyyy!"
HALLELUJAH!
Disney Irish
Premium Member
And just like the Halloween Tree, I assume this will be gone once the holiday season is over.
mickEblu
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Sure but what about the 3 shops, E ticket and restaurant? Are they seasonal?
Disney Irish
Premium Member
True, but I wouldn’t call NOS and surrounding areas Pirates Land just because it has a couple shops, an E Ticket, a whole themed island, and a restaurant that aren’t seasonal either.
mickEblu
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So we re just going to discount the fact that the IP is spanning across three lands and nearly the entire west of the park at the moment? Also Blue Bayou isn’t pirate themed.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
I'm not discounting anything, but its a bit hyperbolic to say that almost the entire west side has become "Tiana Land". As outside of these lights I'm not aware of any other Tiana reference in Frontierland, which you even admitted is probably gone after the holidays. So Tiana by and large is still limited to just BC and parts of NOS. But please correct me if I'm wrong.
As for Blue Bayou, it is literally on the ride, so by extension its part of Pirates even if not directly pirate themed.
mickEblu
Well-Known Member
So for comedy to work sometimes you have to embellish a bit. That’s pretty much understood. No matter how you chop it up Tiana / PatF has 3 shops, an E ticket, a restaurant and now seasonal decorations in Frontierland. Spanning (like I said earlier) a good portion of the West side of the park.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
So who's gonna win Pirates or Tiana for supremacy on the west side? And do 999 ghosts have any say the situation?
mickEblu
Well-Known Member
Tiana for sure. She’s in 2- 3 lands (depending on the time of year), has 5 brick and mortar locations and they re all associated to a singular IP. TSI really has no connection to the pirates on POTC that we know of. It’s just all general Pirate theme as the ride was before they added Johnny Depp. I still don’t view POTC as an IP ride for obvious reasons.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Well you may not view POTC as an IP ride, but Disney sure does, and has tried to associate all pirate related things back to it for obvious reasons.
So if anything I think it would be a tie with Pirates encroaching from the east and Tiana encroaching from the west and HM stuck in the middle trying hard to remain relevant, and Pooh just trying to fend off both to stay alive.
Dear Prudence
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I rode it with my niece in 2021! I asked if we could ride in the back side by side and they said yes. That's so weird they said no to you!!!
mickEblu
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So for me that was sometime between late 2022 and early 2023 I believe. Maybe things changed?
Disney Analyst
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DavidDL
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Thank goodness for this!! Glad to have to have the waterfall back towards the end of the ride, too.
SuddenStorm
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Remember when we saw they had gotten rid of the Br'er Rabbit ornaments at the front of the logs, and that they didn't replace them with Louis/a frog? Just cut it out and made it generic?
Letting a small but important detail like this go is the epitome of modern WDI. There's no defense- it's a reduction without any upside. And it's the perfect representation of the attraction as a whole.
Letting a small but important detail like this go is the epitome of modern WDI. There's no defense- it's a reduction without any upside. And it's the perfect representation of the attraction as a whole.
mickEblu
Well-Known Member
If I was on this project one of the biggest boldest bullet points I would have had is something that read….
*wherever there was something it needs to be replaced with something equal or better.
Obviously this may not be possible in EVERY spot but it’s a something that should have guided them. But maybe that’s just not possible with a “smaller”budget and a team that doesn’t know how to get the most bang for their buck.
They replaced entire vignettes with screens
A sculpted 3D You May Get Wet sign of Brer Rabbit with a flat sign with generic font.
The Brer Rabbit ornament with nothing making the logs like every other log ride in America.
The list can go on for days.
Phroobar
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Imagineers have to do something with the bottles that drank when designing the ride.Why the actual f are they hanging Mama Odie bottles outside the Golden Horseshoe/Stage Door Cafe'?
Hopefully this is just for some kind of opening day/media related activities for the new attraction and then they are gone right afterwards. Otherwise,