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

[FettFan]

If TBA is done very well and becomes successful, Tokyo may change their mind. I don't know how attached they may be to Southern critters as an IP.

Not about “southern critters”…. the Japanese people simply love rabbits.

The Importance of Rabbits in Japanese Culture

GaijinPot goes down the rabbit hole and looks at five ways the bunny appears in Japanese culture.

blog.gaijinpot.com

Peter Rabbit: Why the Japanese love Beatrix Potter

The Japanese love Beatrix Potter so much they have Peter Rabbit themed juice bars, florists, gardens and a replica of Potter's house - but why?

www.bbc.com

So a ride about a wily rabbit who constantly tricks a bear and a fox has a lot more staying power.

 

[JoeCamel]

Not about “southern critters”…. the Japanese people simply love rabbits.

The Importance of Rabbits in Japanese Culture

GaijinPot goes down the rabbit hole and looks at five ways the bunny appears in Japanese culture.

blog.gaijinpot.com

Peter Rabbit: Why the Japanese love Beatrix Potter

The Japanese love Beatrix Potter so much they have Peter Rabbit themed juice bars, florists, gardens and a replica of Potter's house - but why?

www.bbc.com

So a ride about a wily rabbit who constantly tricks a bear and a fox has a lot more staying power.

I think they also know they got the first string of designers for their money and are hesitant to replace the things they thought were #1 attraction with "new and shiny" just to drive merch sales and bury an unpleasant past. Bunnies are cute too.....

 

[danlb_2000]

New permit today...

4955 CARIBBEAN WY(SPLASH MOUNTAIN) - Terminations of low voltage equipment

 

[JoeCamel]

New permit today...

4955 CARIBBEAN WY(SPLASH MOUNTAIN) - Terminations of low voltage equipment

How specific.
I guess the electricians run the wiring and a special company terminates it? I would have thought both by one vendor but maybe a separate inspection? That does not sit right either., maybe there is a "special" (proprietary) termination they are using but I would hope they stay with standards that can be serviced and repaired with off the shelf parts.

 

[solidyne]

We also heard “How do you do” on the ferry back in February.

TTC-to-MK?

 

[LittleBuford]

Another similar case is Tokyo's Pirates of the Caribbean. While they did add Jack Sparrow to the ride like DL/WDW did, he was the ONLY alteration.

One of the Jack Sparrow animatronics replaced the frightened woman in the barrel.

 

[danlb_2000]

How specific.
I guess the electricians run the wiring and a special company terminates it? I would have thought both by one vendor but maybe a separate inspection? That does not sit right either., maybe there is a "special" (proprietary) termination they are using but I would hope they stay with standards that can be serviced and repaired with off the shelf parts.

The contractor is Pro Sound and Video, so these are A/V connections. It's possible that another contractor pulled the wiring and Pro Sound is just doing the terminations.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

One of the Jack Sparrow animatronics replaced the frightened woman in the barrel.

I know, the barrel was changed because it was a movie alteration they copied from DL/WDW. It wasn't changed because OLC deemed it problematic, hence why the auction and even turntables remain unaltered from opening day. Had DL/WDW changed the barrel figure to a generic male pirate figure and not Jack, it's a safe bet that OLC wouldn't have changed it either.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

I know, the barrel was changed because it was a movie alteration they copied from DL/WDW. It wasn't changed because OLC deemed it problematic, hence why the auction and even turntables remain unaltered from opening day. Had DL/WDW changed the barrel figure to a generic male pirate figure and not Jack, it's a safe bet that OLC wouldn't have changed it either.

Honestly they should get rid of the auction scene, not because it's bad but because Redd is objectively better than what was originally there.

 

[FettFan]

TTC-to-MK?

Yes!

 

[FettFan]

Honestly they should get rid of the auction scene, not because it's bad but because Redd is objectively better than what was originally there.

They need to fix the audio though. It’s too crisp and clear and it stands out like a sore thumb.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

They need to fix the audio though. It’s too crisp and clear and it stands out like a sore thumb.

You think the newer animatronic would look out of place next to the old ones?

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Honestly they should get rid of the auction scene, not because it's bad but because Redd is objectively better than what was originally there.

I think this is one of the first times I've disagreed with you here. We wants the [original] Redhead!

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

I think this is one of the first times I've disagreed with you here. We wants the [original] Redhead!

I just think Redd is cute honestly.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

I just think Redd is cute honestly.

Then you must have loved Jane in the Great Movie Ride!

 

[FettFan]

You think the newer animatronic would look out of place next to the old ones?

It’s like this though, when they created the new bride for the Haunted Mansion, Kat Cressida went in and recorded her lines, but the sound engineers did some mixing to the dialogue so that the audio would blend with all the other speaking roles in the ride (that is, the Ghost Host and Madame Leota).
According to Cressida, the goal was to make this incarnation of the Bride sound as if she was original from 1971.

Even the PotC movie dialogue added in 2006 (Geoffrey Rush, Johnny Depp, and Bill Nighy) was blended well with the existing audio. I’m guessing it was the same audio engineering team for both projects

They didn’t do the same thing for the new Auctioneer or Redd dialogue in PotC. The new auction dialogue is simply too clean, too crisp…and it’s audibly jarring

 

[FettFan]

Then you must have loved Jane in the Great Movie Ride!

Begs the question, though….
Since Maureen O’Sullivan was paid an annual licensing fee to use her likeness as Jane which transferred to her estate after her death in 1998, wouldn’t Disney also be legally required to make payments for continued use of her likeness in PotC?

 

[BasiltheBatLord]

Japan also has way fewer Black people, so there would naturally be less people objecting to the stereotypes of African Americans featured in the movie. I also wonder if some of the minstrel-like accents featured in the film aren't present in Japanese dubs.

I can't comment on the film as I haven't seen the Japanese dub, but the characters in Splash Mountain at TDL use somewhat archaic/old-timey Japanese to try to replicate the southern, down-home style dialect.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

I can't comment on the film as I haven't seen the Japanese dub, but the characters in Splash Mountain at TDL use somewhat archaic/old-timey Japanese to try to replicate the southern, down-home style dialect.

Here's part of the Laughin' Place segment in Japanese. Something I find slightly amusing is that certain sound effects (i.e screaming, laughing, gulping, etc.) are left completely untouched. I know for a fact James Avery's Br'er Bear laugh is kept the same in Tokyo's SM.

 

[Brer Panther]

I think you can still hear Jess Harnell's Brer Rabbit in the Laughin' Place scene (during the part with the frogs and turtles, they use the same English version of "Everybody's Got a Laughin' Place" that the Disney World version had in its Laughin' Place).