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

[KeithVH]

OK. So, yeah . . .

Looking at the pictures can't ya just see how the area looks more and more like the Vieux Carre every day? Especially the big hill in Jackson Square?

<sigh>

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

OK. So, yeah . . .

Looking at the pictures can't ya just see how the area looks more and more like the Vieux Carre every day? Especially the big hill in Jackson Square?

<sigh>

Right, I forgot the Bayou is smack dab in the middle of the French Quarter.

 

[JoeCamel]

Right, I forgot the Bayou is smack dab in the middle of the French Quarter.

Can we just say the thematic consistency here will be strained at best?

 

[Kirby86]

I hope it stays solely because it's a cute little easter egg and a reminder of what was.

Same it's the type of Easter egg where if people know they know and if not it wouldn't pull eyes away from Tiana.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Can we just say the thematic consistency here will continue to be strained at best?

Yes!

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Can we just say the thematic consistency here will be strained at best?

On what grounds? It's so far from done, and we hardly know what purpose any of the individual known pieces will serve in the whole. Let alone how they plan (or don't) to make thematic sense of it.

I'm usually not one to say wait and see, but Disney's still holding most of their cards with this one, so I think we gotta hang in a bit longer. People are leaping to illogical conclusions and then getting themselves worked up about their own bad ideas. At its best it's exasperating.

So far we have no evidence that this will be any more thematically inconsistent than Splash, and nobody got worked up about that.

 

[𝕴𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖗97]

Disney has a habit of putting Easter Eggs of past attractions (allegedly there are references to Catastrophe Canyon and Lights Motors Action hidden in Galaxys Edge)...so maybe they'll keep Brer Rabbit's weather vane around as part of that.

Don't know about Catastrophe Canyon but here's the LMA tribute. On a speeder hanging on the wall somewhere, the Aurebesh letters spell out LMA and the tachometer is a clear replication. See below:

Aurebesh chart:

 

[JD80]

Totally agree. They are spending money where they shouldn't and don't spend money where they should.

Do you have invoices you can share?

 

[Disstevefan1]

Do you have invoices you can share?

Ha, you know Disney would never share that information!!

You're right, since they are saving a ton of money on animatronics, they can spend some money on the queue.

I hope they make it a shaded queue. They probably won't, but I hope so.

 

[JD80]

Ha, you know Disney would never share that information!!

You're right, since they are saving a ton of money on animatronics, they can spend some money on the queue.

I hope they make it a shaded queue. They probably won't, but I hope so.

You're the one saying with authority where they are spending money and whether or not it's well spent. I'm just trying to understand how you came to know these things.

 

[Bocabear]

You're the one saying with authority where they are spending money and whether or not it's well spent. I'm just trying to understand how you came to know these things.

another "Gotcha" moment?...

 

[Disstevefan1]

You're the one saying with authority where they are spending money and whether or not it's well spent. I'm just trying to understand how you came to know these things.

I have no authority, you have no authority, this is just a discussion board, to my untrained eye, they could have left a lot alone in this reskin of splash, in my opinion this queue area didn’t need to be demolished to be rebuilt, but then again that seems to be their process - see EPCOT.

Again, you are right, for all we know, they could be proactively preventing a sink hole.

 

[JD80]

I have no authority, you have no authority, this is just a discussion board, to my untrained eye, they could have left a lot alone in this reskin of splash, in my opinion this queue area didn’t need to be demolished to be rebuilt, but then again that seems to be their process - see EPCOT.

Again, you are right, for all we know, they could be proactively preventing a sink hole.

Which is valid opinion and worth discussing. Words matter and what you posted wasn't an opinion it was a statement of fact without any support. Such statements are not conducive to having a discussion unless you're speaking for a position of authority.

 

[Bocabear]

yikes

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Ha, you know Disney would never share that information!!

You're right, since they are saving a ton of money on animatronics, they can spend some money on the queue.

I hope they make it a shaded queue. They probably won't, but I hope so.

We just don't know anything about how the money is being spent. I think we have it on pretty good authority they increased the budget but that is about it

So maybe they have enough to do everything they wanted inside and do the queue too - and maybe th queue, being in the other side of the tracks, will become more connected to Louisiana and the Bayou, not really needing to visual can next to BTMRR or anything, who knows

I do agree if they decided to spend a ton int he queue in exchange for a significant cut to animatronics, that is not the best call/what I would have done

 

[Disstevefan1]

We just don't know anything about how the money is being spent. I think we have it on pretty good authority they increased the budget but that is about it

So maybe they have enough to do everything they wanted inside and do the queue too - and maybe th queue, being in the other side of the tracks, will become more connected to Louisiana and the Bayou, not really needing to visual can next to BTMRR or anything, who knows

I do agree if they decided to spend a ton int he queue in exchange for a significant cut to animatronics, that is not the best call/what I would have done

After thinking about it, maybe there was a drainage issue and there was water getting into the utilidors below.

That would indeed be an important and needed fix.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

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It looks incredibly cheap. The wood is just a freaking decal

The decal thing (instead of just using actual, you know, wood) does not bode well for what it's going to look like inside. They're clearly in extreme cost-savings mode.

 

[Rich T]

Can we just say the thematic consistency here will be strained at best?

WDW’s thematic consistency ship sailed away a long, long time ago. One could say as far back as MK’s opening day.

 

[Bocabear]

The decal thing (instead of just using actual, you know, wood) does not bode well for what it's going to look like inside. They're clearly in extreme cost-savings mode.

Replacing a decal is a lot faster than completely repainting and faux finishing when the sun fades it... That actually happens a lot with using high-res prints so that they can be replaced a lot quicker and much more easily if damaged... If indeed this is a printed finish...

 

[James Alucobond]

Replacing a decal is a lot faster than completely repainting and faux finishing when the sun fades it... That actually happens a lot with using high-res prints so that they can be replaced a lot quicker and much more easily if damaged... If indeed this is a printed finish...

I'm pretty sure it's actually not a decal based on other shots (and I don't think it would make much sense for this application), but decal maintenance is definitely not one of Disney's strong suits, as evidenced by the state of the wallpaper in MMRR.