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

[neo999955]

When was TPATF set? I think employee owned is a pretty recent phenomenon.

Not sure about the term 'employee-owned' but the concept is quite old and embedded in American culture: https://www.employeeownershipfoundation.org/blogs/the-history-of-employee-ownership.

The movie takes place post WW1 in the 20s. So I guess the timeline for the ride is the late 20s or early 30s?

 

[TheMaxRebo]

When was TPATF set? I think employee owned is a pretty recent phenomenon.

They started during the industrial revolution, so been around for a while, though they have come and gone as far as when popular with the modern uptake starting in the 1960s, so not really the proper timing - though guess the idea is she was ahead of her time and a pioneer (along with just being a woman business owner)

 

[Drdcm]

I like the color and the style. I like that tiara on top of it. I also like how it boldly states that the company is "employee owned" for all to see. I think that it's a great social message for this ride and it's going to be a very interesting to see how they implement the theming into the rest of this attraction.

I do hope they change the drop at the end. On the original, I always felt the angle was WAY too steep. It always triggered my anxiety of falling just a bit too much. I think a 45 degree angle will be more gentle and that would open the ride to a wider and diverse group of riders that cant tolerate such a violent drop.

All in all, Disney has a great opertunity to make a much better attraction that promotes a positive social message and one that can be more inclusive to a wider, diverse audience while doing it.

Every once in a while you get me going and then I realize…

 

[LittleBuford]

When was TPATF set? I think employee owned is a pretty recent phenomenon.

It goes back quite a bit. Even the phrase "employee-owned" was being used at that time (I found the following sentence in a 1928 issue of the American Vocational Association News Bulletin: "The latter item is of especial importance in any employee owned corporation, which the American Cast Iron Pipe Company happens to be"). Still, it seems rather anachronistic featured on the main logo of a business from that period.

 

[Nubs70]

that sounds like a 4th grade book report.

Employee Owned for all to see? Who wants to think about employees and work while they are at a thousand dollar a day theme park vacation? Does she offer health insurance? and a living wage? now I am no longer having fun...I am thinking about work and taxes....
FAIL!

How is a single person, Tiana, being positioned as the "owner" owner of an employee owned company? Having trouble wrapping my head around that.

Should call it the "Happy Frog Foods" or something like that.

 

[Tha Realest]

How is a single person, Tiana, being positioned as the "owner" owner of an employee owned company? Having trouble wrapping my head around that.

Should call it the "Happy Frog Foods" or something like that.

And she’s royalty, no less!

 

[Ayla]

What did an old tree stump add to the sense of fun?

Neither feature sounds especially interesting when asked about in such terms.

To me, the water tower looks old-timey and therefore whimsical, like much else in Frontierland.

I would never describe Frontierland as whimsical. Fantasy land, yes: Frontierland, no.

 

[LittleBuford]

I would never describe Frontierland as whimsical. Fantasy land, yes: Frontierland, no.

Perhaps it’s because I’m British, but it’s all pretty whimsical to me. The Country Bears in particular.

 

[Ayla]

I do hope they change the drop at the end. On the original, I always felt the angle was WAY too steep. It always triggered my anxiety of falling just a bit too much. I think a 45 degree angle will be more gentle and that would open the ride to a wider and diverse group of riders that cant tolerate such a violent drop.

All in all, Disney has a great opertunity (sic) to make a much better attraction that promotes a positive social message and one that can be more inclusive to a wider, diverse audience while doing it.

It is a 45 degree angle.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

How is a single person, Tiana, being positioned as the "owner" owner of an employee owned company? Having trouble wrapping my head around that.

Should call it the "Happy Frog Foods" or something like that.

Employee owned doesn't mean equal ownership. There is still someone or some corporate entity that starts it and then the employees can buy into it or be awarded ownership in it

Publix Markets is an example of an employee owned company but doesn't mean they all have equal ownership


But I do agree something like "Happy Frog Foods" would be better for the up front naming .... Even if deep in the backstory it mentioned that employees were offered ownership share opportunities or something

 

[FettFan]

King Charles does own some enterprises. One of which is an ice cream brand made with milk from his fleet of cows.

I had some the last time I was at Buckingham Palace and it was pretty good.

I have never heard the phrase "fleet of cows" before. I kind of like it.

Might need to name my next bull "Nimitz".

 

[harrisonm]

New yellow paint going onto the barn (I'm guessing green paint is wax)

 

[Disney Analyst]

Perhaps it’s because I’m British, but it’s all pretty whimsical to me. The Country Bears in particular.

I agree, it is pretty whimsical.

Even Splash Mountain (which is in Frontierland at Magic Kingdom) was pretty whimsical.

 

[Bocabear]

wait, was that another water tower in Tumbleweed? Then it must be fun!
and yes, that portion is definitely whimsical...

 

[EagleScout610]

New yellow paint going onto the barn (I'm guessing green paint is wax)
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Hoping that's just a primer or something that will be used to blend another color, because that doesn't match Frontierland/the surrounding buildings in the slightest.

 

[James Alucobond]

Hoping that's just a primer or something that will be used to blend another color, because that doesn't match Frontierland/the surrounding buildings in the slightest.

Uh, aren’t the side-by-side Trading Post and Frontier Mercantile even more saturated versions of these yellows and greens?

 

[Nubs70]

Hoping that's just a primer or something that will be used to blend another color, because that doesn't match Frontierland/the surrounding buildings in the slightest.

I'm thinking purple and green are next

 

[DisneyCane]

Employee owned doesn't mean equal ownership. There is still someone or some corporate entity that starts it and then the employees can buy into it or be awarded ownership in it

Publix Markets is an example of an employee owned company but doesn't mean they all have equal ownership


But I do agree something like "Happy Frog Foods" would be better for the up front naming .... Even if deep in the backstory it mentioned that employees were offered ownership share opportunities or something

Also technically a single owner s-corp with the owner as the only employee is also employee owned. Maybe that's Tiana's legal structure?

 

[Nubs70]

Also technically a single owner s-corp with the owner as the only employee is also employee owned. Maybe that's Tiana's legal structure?

This needs to explained in the backstory

 

[WDWFREAK53]

I do hope they change the drop at the end. On the original, I always felt the angle was WAY too steep. It always triggered my anxiety of falling just a bit too much. I think a 45 degree angle will be more gentle and that would open the ride to a wider and diverse group of riders that cant tolerate such a violent drop.

All in all, Disney has a great opertunity to make a much better attraction that promotes a positive social message and one that can be more inclusive to a wider, diverse audience while doing it.

Your wish will come true. When the new attraction opens it'll have a 45 degree drop.