Smiley/OCD
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Hey, Bob Mackie is still alive…he could design her wardrobe…
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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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LittleBuford
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What would your design for Tiana’s bayou outfit look like? What specific aspects of the costume do you object to, and why?
Bocabear
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I think I covered the why...I guess the whole stretching and putting everything in the world on her is my problem...
her story arc was simple and sweet... this Foods Factory, Community Leader, Business Woman and explorer character was never suggested by the Tiana from the film...it is all a stretch...and what other characters are next.
Put any of the Disney characters in off-model clothes and they are just attractive college kids in clothes...not the embodiment of the iconic characters we have all come to know and love...
Aladdin in a business suit? Belle in shorts and T-shirt? Prince Eric in a leisure suit?
LittleBuford
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Her whole mission in the film is to establish her own food business, and while she may not have gone in search of it herself, she certainly ends up an adventurer in the bayou. I’m not sure how you can reduce all that to “simple and sweet”.
None of these analogies work, however, because these hypothetical outfits are wildly anachronistic, which Tiana’s isn’t.
Drdcm
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I don’t necessarily agree with you on all aspects of the re-theme, but I have to say this is my favorite post in a while. Credit is deserved for this one.
On a side note, I’m not thrilled about the outfit. I also don’t really care about it. That being said, there is no way I would know it was Tiana if it wasn’t explicitly spelled out for me. I might just be dumb though.
FigmentFan82
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It can be a slippery slope for sure if you start kind of rebranding a known and iconic princess character without any real precedent for it. I do like the new look, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily the right choice for the character. If I'm remembering correctly, the upcoming Tiana D+ show is will not have anything to do with the story they created for the ride. Again, it's not the worst thing that the ride has it's own story unique to itself and fits somewhere within Tiana's timeline, but as many have stated, this Food company thing just doesn't really seem like a natural progression of the character based on what has come before. Just because it came from WDI doesn't mean it was the right choice.
TheMaxRebo
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Personally I love when the characters wear different outfits - makes for more unique meets and changes things up a bit. I don't want the original outfits gone or anything but we can handle the fact people don't wear the exact same outfit all the time
FigmentFan82
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Wanting to open your own restaurant is not the same as open a food business co-op. They are not the same. That's not to say her success and ambition didn't lead her to expand into new businesses and such, but there's really nothing from the film that suggests she wants anything more than an amazing restaurant of her own.
My wife puts the movie on a lot. I am familiar with it.
Disstevefan1
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These discussions are super interesting, but the vast majority of guests don't think about this stuff, they just want to ride the ride.
There were even folks saying, "Too bad they are changing Splash to a restaurant."
There were even folks saying, "Too bad they are changing Splash to a restaurant."
Bocabear
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That is my point...her passion was cooking food and bringing people together through her food...and opening a restaurant to do just that. Now how she got into a commercial "Foods Factory" and salt mine is where it goes off the rails... It is anachronistically stretching the character's story. I have joked about a Snow White attraction should be all about her opening a retired miner's home, but that is the same sort of logic... She liked the 7 Dwarfs that were miners...so why wouldn't she turn that into a business? Why cant she be a strong modern business woman? It is ridiculous, but I think this character stretch is too. Have a fun Bayou adventure with the characters from the film and then pass by the Tiana's Palace restaurant in the last scene (like Blue Bayou in Disneyland) when you get off the ride you can go to the restaurant or the Beignet Cafe quick-serve. That would have been on-model and charming...
Wait until PETA and the ASPCA discover what 'employee owned' really means!!
LittleBuford
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No, it’s not. But it’s less of a stretch then claiming that nothing in the film would lead us to think she’s an adventurous businesswoman.
FigmentFan82
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And personally, I'm fine with all this stuff, it really doesn't move the needle too much for me in any one direction, but as others have pointed out, with the new story for the ride they've created, once you start pulling on some of the threads, the sweater pretty easily starts to come apart.
Bocabear
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is "less of a stretch" the measure of excellence that we are now reduced to? And as his pointed out, Wanting to open a restaurant for the joy and passion of cooking is a big leap from wanting to open a "Foods Factory" and salt mine... Re-adapting a charming story set in the 1920s through modern spectacles is not a great idea when it is still supposed to resemble the character in the movie....in my opinion....which of course doesn't matter... but for discussion's sake....
LittleBuford
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I myself have been critical of the coop concept, as my posts will attest. But that’s a very different matter from pretending that the the ride’s version of Tiana is a radical departure from how she’s portrayed in the film, where her desire to be a businesswoman receives far more attention than her identity as a princess. That’s the only point I’m making.
FigmentFan82
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Also though, this is the first image that was released for the Tiana D+ show...
Take from this what you will
Take from this what you will
WDWYankee15
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Also looks like she will be doing some exploring and adventuring from the looks of this photo.
WDWYankee15
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Also they missed the chance for synergy by placing her on a Disney Cruise Ship. This kind of looks like the Titantic... Ut oh!