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

[Brer Panther]

Funny thing about the "no Dr. Facilier" thing - didn't the original "Louis chasing his trumpet" plotline have him? Or at least his shadow and the voodoo spirits?

Frozen is (very) loosely based on the Snow Queen. Plans by Disney for a more traditional adaptation were around all the way back to the 30s and 40s. Specifically, Disney were originally going to create animated shorts interspersed in MGM's 1952 musical live action Hand Christian Anderson film. A plan to create a feature length Snow Queen adaptation was dabbled with during the renaissance, then killed and revived AGAIN in he early 2000s. And even during the production of Frozen, they had considered making it hand drawn originally early in production.

And then Tangled was successful and they decided to make it as similar to that film as possible in an attempt to cash in.

Like, you can't tell me that Sven's "hoofed animal that doesn't talk but acts like a dog" shtick wasn't an attempt to duplicate the popularity of Maximus.

So it still looks like no villain right?

With our luck, the "villains" will probably be those three idiot frog hunters.

 

[EagleScout610]

The main ride marquee has been taken down in California.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

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The main ride marquee has been taken down in California.

I noticed that from the train earlier

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Disneyland even gets better construction walls.

 

[Kirby86]

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Those construction walls weren't in Florida's budget.

 

[LittleBuford]

And let’s face it….Dr. Facilier was the only really memorable part of PatF. Nobody really gave a crap about the rest of it

Speak for yourself.

 

[Incomudro]

I do legitimately think the general sense and atmosphere (until the lift bill at least) will be similar. They’re clearly paying attention to the music, it sounds like there will be a bunch of AAs and most likely quite a few more advanced AAs. I personally love that style of music, which might not be for everyone. Now I say this as someone who’s favorite ride hands down was splash. I suppose all good things must come to an end eventually… I suppose I can continue to be upset, or just hope for the best

I believe the ride will look beautiful.
The lighting, the sets, some background screens, will make Splash look stark and primitive by comparison.
We're getting the AA's too, so no loss there.
My biggest issue (aside from wishing they didn't redo Splash at all, but that ship has sailed) is the apparent deviation from the excellent excellent elements that the film provides.
Mostly the villain aspect.
It would have worked so well with this ride.

 

[Incomudro]

Down in New Orleans / Almost There in the first outdoor part of the ride.

Friends on the Other Side in the Laughin' Place.

Gonna Take You There (Going' Down the Bayou) at the bottom of the hill.

Dig a Little Deeper at the riverboat.

"They had one job," as the line goes.

 

[The Mom]

It is time to stop rehashing all of the same discussions about Splash Mountain. It is gone, and a new attraction is taking its' place.
People have come here to learn about, and discuss construction, etc of Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

All I know is... Tokyo Disney made the right decision.

They always do.

Which is why we’re planning our 4th trip there. After Disneyland Paris later this month. And Disneyland last October. All without any WDW visits and none on the horizon.

We used to spend three weeks a year at WDW, staying onsite. For years, it’s been the lowest on the Disney totem pole for us and we don’t really care when we get back.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

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.

Yet they felt the need to bullet point it in a major announcement on new details of the ride.

Which sort of encapsulates the entire problem with this attraction so far. And which you seen not able to understand.

EDIT TO ADD: apparently I’m late to the party…. Posted this before I read a bunch of posts saying the same thing basically. Ah well. I ain’t deleting it.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

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?

If the tips of his drumsticks are made in real life like they are in the pic, I’m gonna lose it. For real. I’m a drummer.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

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.

Well duh. Imagineers gotta get their all expenses paid research trip in. You know the gig.

If Nicholas cage’s pyramid ain’t in the background somewhere, all will have been for naught.

 

[RunForestRun]

I'll wait to give my opinion when it opens, whether it's good or bad. But I think they should have went with the story from the film.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

Does bring up the question will the Tiana and Naveen look as good as these newer AA's they are rolling out lately..

I'm sure by Destination D they may show more details...

One piece of art shows Tiana holding a lamp, and copying an existing AA design and reskinning it is cheaper than a ground up design. And this is Disney. So…

Just sayin’.

Though it’s a great AA.

 

[Dear Prudence]

They always do.

Which is why we’re planning our 4th trip there. After Disneyland Paris later this month. And Disneyland last October. All without any WDW visits and none on the horizon.

We used to spend three weeks a year at WDW, staying onsite. For years, it’s been the lowest on the Disney totem pole for us and we don’t really care when we get back.

Just a quick note here, the totem pole line, though common, is inaccurate. The actual bottom of the totem pole is considered one of the most sacred and important roles for a figure to hold.

Speaking of Tokyo Disney Parks, not ONLY is it cheaper for me to go all the way to either Paris' or Japan's parks from the Bay Area, the parks in Japan are actually maintained. I just don't understand why people are so complacent to spend that kind of money on parks that are so run down. (Lord knows the money isn't going to CMs.) For as many complaints about Splash's conditions (Also why are people acting like the ride didn't maintain itself?!), it's only a matter of a few months after TBA opens that it's not going to be working. Snow White's update stopped working after 3-4 months. ROTR never works.

 

[Dear Prudence]

Does bring up the question will the Tiana and Naveen look as good as these newer AA's they are rolling out lately..

I'm sure by Destination D they may show more details...

But this was in the Tokyo parks, where they actually care

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

it's only a matter of a few months after TBA opens that it's not going to be working.

It seems like everyone is assuming that they're going to take better care of TBA than Splash, but that's highly unlikely.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

Just a quick note here, the totem pole line, though common, is inaccurate. The actual bottom of the totem pole is considered one of the most sacred and important roles for a figure to hold.

Speaking of Tokyo Disney Parks, not ONLY is it cheaper for me to go all the way to either Paris' or Japan's parks from the Bay Area, the parks in Japan are actually maintained. I just don't understand why people are so complacent to spend that kind of money on parks that are so run down. (Lord knows the money isn't going to CMs.) For as many complaints about Splash's conditions (Also why are people acting like the ride didn't maintain itself?!), it's only a matter of a few months after TBA opens that it's not going to be working. Snow White's update stopped working after 3-4 months. ROTR never works.

Yeti.

Imagine if the monster at journey to the center of the earth didn’t move for more than a decade.

Oh wait. We can’t. Because that would never happen.

 

[Dear Prudence]

It seems like everyone is assuming that they're going to take better care of TBA than Splash, but that's highly unlikely.

And maintenance CAN be done, they just don't want to. And it's not just being an overly negative Nancy, they've repeatedly demonstrated their unwillingness to do the bare minimum