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

[DisneyDean97]

This is my new favorite phrase and I'm going to steal it.

100% nailed it. Spot-on.

The people driving this project are not entertainers. They're not even artists. Entertainment and art are too pedestrian, too vulgar. They see themselves as agents of social change.

We should have seen this coming when they added the "Inclusion" key... unfortunately they seem to value this key more than the "Show" and "Efficiency" keys...

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Yes, you have to give the villain a backstory that they're just misunderstood. I'm pretty sure that was passed into law.

I absolutely guarantee that if PatF were made today, there'd be a flashback of a child Facilier getting bullied (or worse) by the two banker brothers which is what drove him to take up dark magic.

 

[Bocabear]

but most importantly, does this now mean that Tiana's Palace will also be serving a good Chicken Adobo as well as Dim Sum and GUmbo?

 

[CaptainAmerica]

but most importantly, does this now mean that Tiana's Palace will also be serving a good Chicken Adobo as well as Dim Sum and GUmbo?

God willing.

 

[Mike S]

This is my new favorite phrase and I'm going to steal it.

100% nailed it. Spot-on.

The people driving this project are not entertainers. They're not even artists. Entertainment and art are too pedestrian, too vulgar. They see themselves as educators and agents of social change. And when you try to bundle social commentary into the innocuous package of a theme park ride (or, dare I say, a feature-length animated motion picture), that's when it comes across as propaganda.

And they wonder why Super Mario took them to the cleaners and whose single box office is bigger than Lightyear and Strange World combined and quadrupled. Pretty soon we might see Elemental added to that mix and maybe even Wish as well though that’s a Princess movie so maybe not.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

The part about WW1 feels like satire. How could that possibly be conveyed on a 10 minute log ride?

It'll be a newspaper clipping hung in an office in the queue. Or something like that.

People are just dying to blow this stuff out of proportion when 2 seconds of thought would be enough to realize it'll be background detail there for only the initiated to pick up on.

 

[LittleBuford]

This is my new favorite phrase and I'm going to steal it.

100% nailed it. Spot-on.

The people driving this project are not entertainers. They're not even artists. Entertainment and art are too pedestrian, too vulgar. They see themselves as educators and agents of social change. And when you try to bundle social commentary into the innocuous package of a theme park ride (or, dare I say, a feature-length animated motion picture), that's when it comes across as propaganda.

I don’t agree with your post at all. This is not my stance, and I’d like to make that very clear.

 

[Bocabear]

If it would be a tiny detail in a queue, why talk about it in a press release? Unless you wanted people to talk about it.....
I want to know more about Ralphie's back story and what his hopes and ambitions are for the future...And what about their cousins?

 

[LittleBuford]

Then maybe they should focus more on the ride experience.

I understand why they’re focusing on other aspects of the ride, even if I share your sentiment.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

It'll be a newspaper clipping hung in an office in the queue. Or something like that.

People are just dying to blow this stuff out of proportion when 2 seconds of thought would be enough to realize it'll be background detail there for only the initiated to pick up on.

The creative executives in charge of the project are the ones putting out this information, it's not something the fans made up.

If it's going to be a newspaper clipping hung in an office in the queue (and you're probably right), then why talk about it in your press events?

The issue isn't the detail per se. The detail isn't going to ruin the ride. But the detail shows that the creative focus is being spent on the most trivial crap.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I understand why they’re focusing on other aspects of the ride, even if I share your sentiment.

It makes sense now because of the goal of the project but I hope, eventually, we turn to the actual ride and not the coffee table book content.

 

[LittleBuford]

It'll be a newspaper clipping hung in an office in the queue. Or something like that.

People are just dying to blow this stuff out of proportion when 2 seconds of thought would be enough to realize it'll be background detail there for only the initiated to pick up on.

I agree to an extent, but the PR surrounding the ride has itself given outsize attention to these background details.

 

[Bocabear]

part of being a master story-teller is knowing how to edit and keep focus on the story....something that seems completely lacking in their own press releases... seriously....

 

[Bocabear]

THEY ARE DRIVING THE PR! People are talking about what their marketing team is putting out there....

 

[Tha Realest]

After Guardians, Millennium Falcon, and Tron, it’s clear an outsized amount of time, effort, focus, and money goes in to the queue relative to the attraction itself.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I agree to an extent, but the PR surrounding the ride has itself given outsize attention to these background details.

That’s the oddity here. Details no one notices have been a part of Disney rides since the start. They just weren’t so forthcoming with the “look what we did, guys!” posts.

Are we just supposed to applaud and move on with our lives like a kindergarten chorus show?

From now on, I shall respond to TBA posts with

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I agree to an extent, but the PR surrounding the ride has itself given outsize attention to these background details.

These details are the entire reason the project was approved in the first place (and made it through the COVID cuts when things like Spaceship Earth and Play! were killed).

Talk about background details... the "problematic" elements of Splash Mountain were so-in-the-background that in order to even be aware of them, you had to find a bootleg copy of a film that hasn't been released in almost 40 years.

This wasn't a good-faith attempt to entertain guests that happens to be getting distracted with social commentary and political pandering. The social commentary and political pandering are the entire reason this exists.

 

[Tha Realest]

THEY ARE DRIVING THE PR! People are talking about what their marketing team is putting out there....

We have had four detailed press rollouts on this attraction and we know very little of what we’re to experience on the actual attraction (attraction story, set pieces, et ). We do know, to the minuscule detail, that this will be culturally authentic.

 

[Drdcm]

It'll be a newspaper clipping hung in an office in the queue. Or something like that.

People are just dying to blow this stuff out of proportion when 2 seconds of thought would be enough to realize it'll be background detail there for only the initiated to pick up on.

Ok so I’m not someone who is overwhelmingly negative about this ride. I’m actually pretty optimistic and think I will like it. But why even mention it? It seems like they want a pat on the back or a gold star for including it.

 

[LittleBuford]

These details are the entire reason the project was approved in the first place (and made it through the COVID cuts when things like Spaceship Earth and Play! were killed).

Talk about background details... the "problematic" elements of Splash Mountain were so-in-the-background that in order to even be aware of them, you had to find a bootleg copy of a film that hasn't been released in almost 40 years.

This wasn't a good-faith attempt to entertain guests that happens to be getting distracted with social commentary and political pandering. The social commentary and political pandering are the entire reason this exists.

Again, I disagree wholeheartedly with your take, which I find both cynical and blinkered.