Ayla
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I sincerely hope you are right.
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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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Has Disney ever come out and said that's the reason or is that an internet thing? I thought it was to make it look less "mountainy" to fit in with the geographical location of the new ride.
BrerFoxesBayouAdventure
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Disney themselves tweeted about it.
Disstevefan1
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As for ridership, it will be MOBBED when it reopens because its new, and after a while will be just as popular as Splash was because no matter what the theme, this is a fun floom ride.
FettFan
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You act like she was penniless before they met.
And Tiana was?
ToTBellHop
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Exactly, and Disney will have merely dropped a few hundred million dollars to have a couple rides be as popular as they always were.
The only real upshot here, for me, as that the ride was in DESPERATE need of a refurbishment and all of that work is included here. So it should be in great shape when it reopens.
I hope they keep it that way so we can still enjoy it 10 years from now. It's shameful how Splash looked in its final years.
JohnD
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Regarding ridership, that will depend on the music and theming. Splash was meant to be a happy frolic flume ride with catchy music and crazy audio. From what we're seeing so far about Tiana, I'm not optimistic.
Vegas Disney Fan
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It’s the DCA approach, take something that everyone already loves and spend boatloads of money changing it to something that will be equally as popular, and that’s less cohesive to the parks overall theme, purely for the sake of changing it, all while ignoring the glaring issues in the park that should be fixed but you don’t have the budget to do.
ToTBellHop
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Bah. I am beginning to wonder if they'll ever upgrade Big Thunder like the others around the world...it's a miracle we got Jungle Cruise updated.
Drdcm
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Ok I might not be remembering things correctly, so this isn’t a criticism or attack.
Didn’t Tiana save up money to buy a restaurant, but the real estate agents wouldn’t work with her? I assumed it was highlighting racism.
Again, it’s been a while, so could be misremembering.
ToTBellHop
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She was just outbid as far as I remember. Apparently the restaurant market in 1920s New Orleans was as hot as the housing market nationwide in 2022...
Bocabear
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pretty much...
I guess we are to believe her restaurant was so successful that she now had enough money to invest it into an employee owned business no longer having a restaurant but manufacturing reasonably priced, sustainable non-GMO and organic "foods"...
ToTBellHop
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As one did in the 1920s.
Drdcm
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Yeah I’m not a fan of the backstory. I haven’t yet decided on the tower.
Ayla
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No idea.
MerlinTheGoat
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No miracle about it, Jungle Cruise only received an update because they were in desperation mode trying to purge the perceived "problematic" elements of the attraction.
Big Thunder has little to nothing that would be found to be problematic. Perhaps someone might harp on the backstory a bit involving the Native American legends, but that would still be a pretty major stretch even for their absurdly obsessive committees (it's really just one small line of dialog on the riverboat as well).
I doubt WDW's Big Thunder will ever be updated at this point. The ride is in pretty horrible shape too and desperately needs a massive at least 1+ year overhaul. Nothing has moved in the flooded town scene for a few years now. Last i rode it, almost all of the bats were either static or missing, and the waterfall at the top of the first lift was broken. And yeah obviously the complete lack of anything in the third lift for well over a decade now. The ride has also become outright painful due to desperately needing a full track replacement. Something I believe every other version of the ride has already received over the past decade (at least California and Paris, not sure about Tokyo).
FettFan
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They’ll probably scrap “beyond big Thunder” and just make it a Coco-coaster.
Because why not at this point? Rip out all the original attractions and put in recognizable IP.
They’ll have an Animatronic Dwayne Johnson on the Jungle Cruise, throw in some of the coconut demons and an animatronic Te Fiti/Te Ka pop out of the center of the Enchanted Tiki Room.
And Space Mountain will become Star Wars Mountain with a nightly projector show. That is, after they cut the top spires off of it to be “less intimidating”.
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yensidtlaw1969
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The last ride was about a cute hopping bunny.
This idea people are floating doesn't really hold up when you consider that the drop isn't changing, the height requirement isn't changing . . . they're clearly not actually aiming to entice a demographic of young riders that weren't riding before.
It seems so much more about establishing a new look for the exterior without having to undo all that expensive rockwork and introducing some foreshortening to minimize the mountain-ness of that rockwork to the end of making story sense in Louisiana. It's not about trying to lure children into riding who would otherwise have been scared by a more intimidating exterior.
The massive drop with screaming riders and height requirement are still gonna fend off kids who aren't ready.