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

[James Alucobond]

I don't go to Disney World to see this. This isn't iconic. It's like something I see on my way to work every day. Except there's a tiara on top.

Obviously, something has to exist for a certain amount of time before it is worthy of any such status, but there was literally a water tower that served as the central icon of a Disney park for years. Except it had ears on top.

 

[Bocabear]

Point behind all of this is, they have gone too far and created a narrative that is so over-arching and not suggested by the source material at all... then doubling and tripling down on it so neither the characters or plot have anything to do with The Princess and the Frog.
How did we go from a charming musical adventure ride with a big thrill to an employee owned foods factory/salt mine with a big thrill... Baffling.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

The story we were telling not relevant to the audience now.

This is such a nothing statement, is it purely because audiences aren't familiar with who the Br'er characters are? Does recognizable IP need to be haphazardly slapped where it doesn't belong? I mean Haunted Mansion has Nightmare characters now, PotC has Jack Sparrow, and Jungle Cruise was slated to get Dwayne Johnson so it's not too out of left field that they feel the need to have Synergy™.

 

[JD80]

Man this thread is getting disgusting. How do you guys handle real life if you're this stressed out and angry about a ride at a themepark.

Can we just stick with construction progress.

 

[LittleBuford]

Man this thread is getting disgusting. How do you guys handle real life if you're this stressed out and angry about a ride at a themepark.

Can we just stick with construction progress.

Excellent point. Sorry for contributing to the derailment.

 

[JohnD]

I am a guest...All of my friends are guests....I don't know of one of them that connects with this storyline... So, not all guests... Maybe some guests...but judging from what I see out there, it is not a lot. At this point I would have preferred a book report ride...they have just gone too far in a vacuum...it seems like Tiana has become the "social justice community organizer and inclusivity princess" which is a big mantle for a girl who just wanted to open a restaurant.

Sometimes less is more. Join Tiana and her friends as you take a flume ride through the Louisiana bayou. That would have been enough and been fine with most guests. We understand retheming over time. (e.g. Meridia to Mirabel M&G). But, oh no. They needed to bog it down (pun intended) with co-ops., salt mines, "employee-owned" heavy-handed story lines that no one gives two flips about and beats you over the head with its progressive theme or whatever.

 

[Mireille]

The problem with Disney is they're such penny pinchers and won't spend money on anything new! And another thing, all this new stuff they're doing is terrible!

 

[FettFan]

PS: This guy secretly hates this whole thing.

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[kong1802]

All said, it's done and construction is underway. Let's hope for a great new ride, which I am still very hopeful we shall get.

Honestly, this is where everyone should be getting close to...

Acceptance is, after all, the first step.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

Honestly, this is where everyone should be getting close to...

Acceptance is, after all, the first step.

It's more reluctant acceptance in my case, like "yeah these characters are gone and never coming back but hooray for progress I guess".

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I still think Splash Mountain without the tree stump on top is like Cinderella Castle without its tallest spire.

They can repaint and redress the rest of the structure, but that same structure was designed as one complete piece with each element scaled and put there for a reason. Cutting bits offs, even if they seem to only be a small portion, can throw the rest of it off quite a bit.

Now I do think the full tree with boat on top would have been a bit much and too large a replacement, but maybe some sort of crowning detail (not a literal crown like the one they did build lol), would have helped, even if the intent was to make the mountain look smaller (an unrealistic goal given the choice to keep most of it intact).

 

[The Mom]

This is the topic:

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

Not Splash Mountain, Country Bears, etc.

 

[Incomudro]

I still think Splash Mountain without the tree stump on top is like Cinderella Castle without its tallest spire.

They can repaint and redress the rest of the structure, but that same structure was designed as one complete piece with each element scaled and put there for a reason. Cutting bits offs, even if they seem to only be a small portion, can throw the rest of it off quite a bit.

Now I do think the full tree with boat on top would have been a bit much and too large a replacement, but maybe some sort of crowning detail (not a literal crown like the one they did build lol), would have helped, even if the intent was to make the mountain look smaller (an unrealistic goal given the choice to keep most of it intact).

Exactly.
They're trying to retrofit a reverse forced perspective on a structure that was never designed for it.

 

[Kirby86]

I still think Splash Mountain without the tree stump on top is like Cinderella Castle without its tallest spire.

They can repaint and redress the rest of the structure, but that same structure was designed as one complete piece with each element scaled and put there for a reason. Cutting bits offs, even if they seem to only be a small portion, can throw the rest of it off quite a bit.

Now I do think the full tree with boat on top would have been a bit much and too large a replacement, but maybe some sort of crowning detail (not a literal crown like the one they did build lol), would have helped, even if the intent was to make the mountain look smaller (an unrealistic goal given the choice to keep most of it intact).

Agreed I think the main issue with trying to make the focal point of Tiana's Bayou Adventure the water tower is its a static object. More often than not people are drawn to movement, so even if the water tower is front and center a lot of people are still going to look at the drop.

 

[Drdcm]

Maybe they should enclose the drop all together. Use lighting effects to simulate whatever magic is going on and not have it open air for the drip itself

 

[GhostHost1000]

Maybe they should enclose the drop all together. Use lighting effects to simulate whatever magic is going on and not have it open air for the drip itself

Oh they can’t do that. That costs money

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Agreed I think the main issue with trying to make the focal point of Tiana's Bayou Adventure the water tower is its a static object. More often than not people are drawn to movement, so even if the water tower is front and center a lot of people are still going to look at the drop.

It's also much smaller than the mountain itself, which makes it harder to take your eyes away from it

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

Maybe they should enclose the drop all together. Use lighting effects to simulate whatever magic is going on and not have it open air for the drip itself

That's a better idea than just having you drop into swamp grass.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Agreed I think the main issue with trying to make the focal point of Tiana's Bayou Adventure the water tower is its a static object. More often than not people are drawn to movement, so even if the water tower is front and center a lot of people are still going to look at the drop.

I don't think it's meant to be the focal point, for the very reason you say. Obviously the drop will call attention to itself the way it always has.

It seems clear that the point of the water tower is much more about establishing a different sense of scale for the Salt Dome than there was for Chickapin Hill.

 

[FettFan]

I still think Splash Mountain without the tree stump on top is like Cinderella Castle without its tallest spire.

Or Space Mountain without its spires.