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

EagleScout610

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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.

I believe the cast of the Japanese SoTS dub was actually the cast for TDL Splash
 

Sir_Cliff

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Personally, I don't mind getting Disneyland updates as well in this thread, but I understand it might be a off-topic.

One thing that strikes me looking at the Tiana's Palace construction underway at Disneyland is that if any of the proposals people have mentioned about re-theming Pecos Bill's, etc. are going to happen, they had really better get moving. I would prefer they leave that section of Frontierland alone so the lack of movement gives me a little hope, but it does surprise me that they're not tying a restaurant to this new ride all about food. Then again, they just built the Ratatouille ride without the attached restaurant from Paris.
 

Stupido

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Yeah, I think it’s a little odd that they’re so radio silent on the Pecos retheme in Orlando. If they’re looking to open TBA in 2024, they’re running out of time to get started on it. Our group agreed on a September 2025 trip for Tiana, just in case she gets pushed back at all.
 

erasure fan1

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Yeah, I think it’s a little odd that they’re so radio silent on the Pecos retheme in Orlando. If they’re looking to open TBA in 2024, they’re running out of time to get started on it. Our group agreed on a September 2025 trip for Tiana, just in case she gets pushed back at all.
Sure it's odd, but it's not odd for Disney at all. How long was toy story land open before the restaurant? Or galaxys edge, or Ratatouille like has been mentioned with nothing? Who knows what their rational is most of the time. It sure isn't motivated by what the guests want.
 
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TheMaxRebo

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Yeah, if they’re both going to retheme it and are serious about Beyond Big Thunder, I think they should wait until they have a much better Mexican option near the Coco attraction and then close Pecos Bill in order to have minimal impact on dining capacity.

That's true, they don't have to do it all at once. ... though I hope they at least put up a beignet stand if they are going to be pushing the smell of them through the queue

But makes sense to just get the ride updated, then when (if) they do additions in the future they can come back and do a bigger update to that area of Frontierland
 

UNCgolf

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The problem with closing Pecos Bill for any extended period of time is the lost dining capacity, and unlike the major refurb the restaurant had in the 90s, there's no Adventureland Veranda to reopen instead.

Really, they should be adding to MK's dining capacity, not just doing a retheme.

They could re-open Tomorrowland Terrace full-time. On the other side of the park, though.
 

Tha Realest

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Yeah, I think it’s a little odd that they’re so radio silent on the Pecos retheme in Orlando. If they’re looking to open TBA in 2024, they’re running out of time to get started on it. Our group agreed on a September 2025 trip for Tiana, just in case she gets pushed back at all.
Maybe their grand plans have crashed against the cold, hard reality of P&R spending cuts given attendance projections and economic conditions
 

neo999955

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Personally, I don't mind getting Disneyland updates as well in this thread, but I understand it might be a off-topic.

One thing that strikes me looking at the Tiana's Palace construction underway at Disneyland is that if any of the proposals people have mentioned about re-theming Pecos Bill's, etc. are going to happen, they had really better get moving. I would prefer they leave that section of Frontierland alone so the lack of movement gives me a little hope, but it does surprise me that they're not tying a restaurant to this new ride all about food. Then again, they just built the Ratatouille ride without the attached restaurant from Paris.
This is a ot, but I had no idea there was a restaurant to go with Ratatouille in Paris. I did think it was odd they didn't open Gusteau's with it. Is the one in Paris nice?

Back on topic, I do feel re-theming Pecos Bills and small surrounding area would be better for making everything feel more seamless, but there's no doubt the loss of capacity would be unfortunate. Maybe they try to keep it to a 4-6 month refurb next year? Could they pull that off?
 

FettFan

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This is a ot, but I had no idea there was a restaurant to go with Ratatouille in Paris. I did think it was odd they didn't open Gusteau's with it. Is the one in Paris nice?

Back on topic, I do feel re-theming Pecos Bills and small surrounding area would be better for making everything feel more seamless, but there's no doubt the loss of capacity would be unfortunate. Maybe they try to keep it to a 4-6 month refurb next year? Could they pull that off?

Hire Gordon Ramsay’s team and they’ll have it done in 24 hours.

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Added bonus, we’d get to hear Ramsay call D’Amaro a Donkey to his face.
 
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Sir_Cliff

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This is a ot, but I had no idea there was a restaurant to go with Ratatouille in Paris. I did think it was odd they didn't open Gusteau's with it. Is the one in Paris nice?
It's decent, though overpriced. The Paris park in general still has sub-standard dining options (for Disney in general and especially for Paris).
Yes, I would agree that it is not the greatest Disney park restaurant but the food is decent. It is usually the most difficult to get reservations for in Paris, though.

The theme ties in with the last scene of the ride in terms of a restaurant set up by the rats themselves rather than Gusteau's, and you look in as you exit the ride:

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Back on topic, I personally think the Pecos Bill area is so far from TBA and so close to Frontierland (to paraphrase Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz) to really help easing a transition without being a little jarring in the overall context of Frontierland. The only reason I would think they would put it there rather than add a new restaurant is that it's the only space they have.
 
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James Alucobond

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Back on topic, I personally think the Pecos Bill area is so far from TBA and so close to Frontierland (to paraphrase Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz) to really help easing a transition without being a little jarring in the overall context of Frontierland. The only reason I would think they would put it there rather than add a new restaurant is that it's the only space they have.
Weirdly, I think it might actually make more sense? I don’t think the shooting gallery and Diamond Horseshoe are explicitly placed, meaning they could easily be situated in either the original Louisiana Purchase frontier or the far west. Everything that has been given a more direct tie to a specific state actually now follows a geographic throughline from the northeast down the Mississippi. You start in upstate New York at the Haunted Mansion, make your way past Pennsylvania at the Hall of Presidents, visit Tennessee at the Country Bear Jamboree while glimpsing Missouri across the river at Harper’s Mill, pass through the port in Louisiana between a hypothetical Tiana’s Place and Bayou Adventure, and enter the Gulf where you site the Pirates of the Caribbean. Going farther west from Louisiana instead of through the port takes you southwest to Big Thunder Mountain, and eventually onward to Mexico and Colombia.

Basically, potentially moving the southwestern restaurant closer to Big Thunder ultimately makes more sense than the current arrangement. What is more problematic than the geography is the time period of Bayou Adventure and whether or not it fits in the frontier.
 

RSoxNo1

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Tokyo may be open to a retheme... but not with PatF.

Tokyo very much has wanted lots of Disney IP historically. But they may be picky which IP they get.

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.

Anyhoo, if there is leverage Disney may have with OLC, it's if they create an attraction in the domestic parks that OLC wants very much. And they can have it... for a price.
Exactly, Tokyo isn't forced to rush on this. They can take a wait and see approach. They're building quite a bit over there already, so it's not like those parks will be starved for new additions.
 

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