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

[co10064]

What’s the source in the riverboat being removed other than some guy on Twitter?

Could we link to that Tweet? I would like to see it.

 

[solidyne]

The placemaking and sets within the ride are going to be top notch. What I'm most curious about is the soundtrack. It can be the determining factor between the ride being great but just missing something, or an instant classic. I think.

This is a major point. Not only will the compositional quality of the songs and surrounding soundtrack make a difference, but also the spacial implementation in (purported) AAs may make or break the attraction.

I’m not sure why everyone is surprised that they’re ditching the riverboat. Keeping it would have been a very prominent reminder of Splash.

True, but isn't the drop itself a prominent reminder? The track, the placement, the caverns, etc., all are prominent reminders.

 

[Bocabear]

Does it really matter if they kept the best set piece in the whole ride and repopulated it with new characters? Actually to do so would probably mean building a whole new boat....which would be fine too... but the attraction should have a riverboat in it somewhere as it does feature in the film in multiple scenes.

 

[flyerjab]

This is the Tweet I saw that makes the riverboat claim.

 

[flyerjab]

Also these Tweets as well. Take them as you will.

 

[Ayla]

Digital renderings are his source?

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Digital renderings are his source?

Not to say this is correct, but Disney does indeed use rudimentary cgi ride through to help with the design process. And sometimes they're released publicly. 7DMT had one, as did Tony Baxter's canned Little Mermaid ride from the early 90s. I was told one exists for Tiana as well.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Not to say this is correct, but Disney does indeed use rudimentary cgi ride through to help with the design process. And sometimes they're released publicly. 7DMT had one, as did Tony Baxter's canned Little Mermaid ride from the early 90s. I was told one exists for Tiana as well.

Oh boy, I hope the Tiana's CGI ride thru leaks!!!

 

[Bocabear]

If WDW wants to totally reset the ride, they need to remove as much of the vestiges of SM as possible. If the riverboat remains, it will serve as an ongoing reminder of the past.

Kind of like pulling down statues. If you remove a statue, then the historical events didn't happen.

yes....but they are not trying to wipe it out of existence, just change it to fit with the current times...or so they say. everyone in the world knows that they are re-doing a very popular and well loved ride...so reusing some of the set pieces would be no surprise, nor would they bring up bad memories for anyone.... Bur...I am sure the style and art direction on the new ride is going to be radically different than the beautiful cartoon-bright and cheerful sets of Splash...

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

They can't purge everything about Splash without demolishing the entire structure. Plus there will still be intentional references. The hanging possums are staying, and I expect other elements from America Sings as well. I don't know why they'd bother demolishing the riverboat, which again is more fitting with PATF than SOTS anyway. There was no riverboat in SOTS, whereas it's a prominent part of many PATF scenes.

 

[LittleBuford]

They can't purge everything about Splash without demolishing the entire structure. Plus there will still be intentional references. The hanging possums are staying, and I expect other elements from America Sings as well. I don't know why they'd bother demolishing the riverboat, which again is more fitting with PATF than SOTS anyway.

It’s the iconic finale. Keeping individual minor characters is one thing, but leaving the ride’s sendoff essentially unchanged is quite another. Again, I don’t understand why people are surprised that the boat is going.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

It’s the iconic finale. Keeping individual minor characters is one thing, but leaving the ride’s sendoff essentially unchanged is quite another. Again, I don’t understand why people are surprised that the boat is going.

There aren't even any Brer characters on the boat. The point of this ride is to purge SOTS, pretty much nothing about the riverboat evokes that film or it's characters. There was never a riverboat in that film. Whereas a riverboat fits perfectly with PATF. The decapitated mountain however is always going to be associated directly with SOTS.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

I‘m getting the feeling this is going to end up like he Navi River ride at AK, vibrant nature sets with screened areas to extend the scene and a few very impressive animatronics.

Fortunately they are using an existing ride with a long layout because the major downside of Navi is it’s too short.

It would change the overall feeling of the ride from a thrill ride to a slow boat ride but I think that’s what Disney wants.

 

[Disstevefan1]

yes....but they are not trying to wipe it out of existence,

Hmm, you could have fooled me.

Sure looks like it.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

I‘m getting the feeling this is going to end up like he Navi River ride at AK, vibrant nature sets with screened areas to extend the scene and a few very impressive animatronics.

Fortunately they are using an existing ride with a long layout because the major downside of Navi is it’s too short.

It would change the overall feeling of the ride from a thrill ride to a slow boat ride but I think that’s what Disney wants.

Navi only has one single animatronic (the shaman, the warrior at the beginning is a static face projected mannequin and the rest is purely flat projection). Tiana will at least have multiple dozen. That much we know for sure. The art has shown scenes with more animatronics than Splash had in those same spaces. That's why I'm skeptical of that Twitter claim about the finale only having 6, when even the first scene shows 11. It makes little sense to me for the finale to have fewer than the others.

 

[LittleBuford]

There aren't even any Brer characters on the boat. The point of this ride is to purge SOTS, pretty much nothing about the riverboat evokes that film or it's characters. There was never a riverboat in that film. Whereas a riverboat fits perfectly with PATF. The decapitated mountain however is always going to be associated directly with SOTS.

I’m not talking about purges or anything nearly that dramatic. I simply mean they’re trying to create a brand-new ride with its own feel. It’s no surprise to me that they’re going for an entirely different finale.

 

[mickEblu]

You know, as much as I loved Splash Mountain, I’ve always rooted for the retheme to be a success but they’ve been so stupid and careless about this whole thing that I am now officially rooting for them to fail. Just for the 2% chance that a lesson can be learned from all this.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I’m not talking about purges or anything nearly that dramatic. I simply mean they’re trying to create a brand-new ride with its own feel. It’s no surprise to me that they’re going for an entirely different finale.

And you gotta figure if they left the boat, similar voices on here would be like "SEE, they cheaped out! Didn't even change out the finale".

 

[Bocabear]

You know, as much as I loved Splash Mountain, I’ve always rooted for the retheme to be a success but they’ve been so stupid and careless about this whole thing that I am now officially rooting for them to fail. Just for the 2% chance that a lesson can be learned from all this.

problem with that thinking is assuming there will be a lesson learned.... I think today's Disney is less concerned about failures as they seem to happen a lot more often... they eventually move on to something else or just leave it and stop talking about it.
The ride really can't be a failure...at the worst, people will like the old version better but it will still be mobbed...The overall structure and design of the ride system will always be great...the rest is storytelling and set dressing.
I am sure they will do a decent job... just won't be what it was....

 

[Disstevefan1]

I have said it before and I will say it again, when this reopens, it will BE MOBBED, (guaranteed a virtual queue) because its NEW and folks are starved for NEW things.

Then after the newness wares off, it will be as popular as before because it's a fun log flume ride.

If they do the ultimate in stupidity and mess with the original ride track to make it more "inclusive", all bets are off.