News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress

SteveAZee

SteveAZee

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FettFan said:
1. In New Orleans, that would be m called a “levee breach”.
You don’t get any actual “waterfalls” until you go north to Tunica Hills, near the border with Mississippi.
And that’s not a bayou…mostly piney woods.

2. How the water got to Brer Fox’s lair was spelled out, if one bothered to actually read the “Rabbit Tales” newspaper signs in the queue.

Chick-a-Pin Hill is a wooded hill which served as home to many critters. The peak of the hill was marked by a dead-tree, which was home to the conniving Br'er Fox.

At some point, a raccoon named Rackety used the woods near Chickapin Hill for his moonshining, only for this to cause an explosion; with it being speculated that he used too many blueberries. The explosion destroyed the recently constructed dam of the Beaver Brothers, resulting in a flood which drenched Chickapin Hill and transformed it into what locals renamed as, "Splash Mountain".[2]
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I have to admit that even after three decades of riding Splash, this is the first time I've heard this backstory. Thanks for sharing.
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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I kept hoping this feature would have been cut...wouldn't it have been more beautiful and evocative of the location for it to instead be giant cypress trees...giving it a Louisiana Bayou feel instead of an industrial water tank? The whole storyline and styling seems so strange to me...At least we didn't get Tiana's Walk through Bayou Water Cycle attraction in EPCOT....
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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So we are still a year away from opening and the foliage is going out now? Seems like they would want to wait with the soft goods until the exterior is completed...unless they are just testing the color fastness and fade durability...
 
J

James Alucobond

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Bocabear said:
So we are still a year away from opening and the foliage is going out now? Seems like they would want to wait with the soft goods until the exterior is completed...unless they are just testing the color fastness and fade durability...
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Didn’t they say the water tower arrives this summer? Perhaps they plan on working through all of the Frontierland-facing alterations first to ameliorate the general appearance and will then turn toward the queue and interior. That said, foliage also went up for Journey of Water more than a year before the currently announced opening.
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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the foliage for JOW did go in early as well...It also did on 7 Dwarfs, but the trees faded badly...Hopefully they have a better source for the greens now.
 
EagleScout610

EagleScout610

These cats can PLAAAAAYYYYY
Premium Member
Bocabear said:
So we are still a year away from opening and the foliage is going out now? Seems like they would want to wait with the soft goods until the exterior is completed...unless they are just testing the color fastness and fade durability...
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Honestly it wouldnt shock me if they've done everything to Splash’s facade they're going to and can move on to other parts of it since both exteriors seem to remain relatively unchanged aside from no tree or briar patch
 

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