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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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Kirby86
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It could go either way imo. I could see a Tiana and Naveen as Frog's for the weather vane. I could also see Disney going no one cares about a weather vane and leave it empty.
Friend is at MK right now, Br'er Rabbit is still up on top of the barn.
BagOfGroceries
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Was legit gone the day i was there. Either way, I’ll go eat some crow.
mickEblu
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Finally hearing this. I’m about an hour in. Man, what a great interview! But all his interviews seem to do is rile me up! Just a reminder we re not crazy and that one of the most important people in Disneyland history agrees with us and was pushed out by the company.
Somehow these new imagineers have Splash’s great layout and are still going to mess it up. I’m paraphrasing but Tony points out the groundwork/ track layout/ drops are still there for them to take us on an emotional journey and yet everything we’ve heard or seen points to there not being any drama or suspense. Meaning the lift hill will have the same happy tone as the rest of the ride not only lowering the suspense of the drop but giving us less of a payoff and change of emotion in the finale. In other words much more of a montone experience. Even if the imagineers hands are tied when it comes to the shadow man there has to be another way to introduce some suspense. Right now everything points to the retheme being one long ride through Happy Town. If they’re somehow keeping it a secret I would be very surprised. And if somehow Dr Facilier, his shadow or ghouls from the other side do end up making appearance I’ll always wonder if it was because they saw all of the negative feedback and changed course.
SuddenStorm
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It's amazing to me that today's crop of attraction designers don't understand that rides are not a medium for linear storytelling, even if a semblance of a linear story is important to guide the design of the attraction. That's what movies are for. Yet each new ride is a point A to point B linear story.
The best examples use the basic principles of a linear story- the initial setting, rising action, climax, then finale- but instead of focusing those around linear events they're more focused around emotional/experiential storytelling- like Pirates in Anaheim. The caves set the mood, the pirates in the village are the rising action, the burning town is the climax.
Some rides are 100% experiential- like Space Mountain. Some rides are 100% linear- like Rise of the Resistance (and the ride suffers for it). But the bona fide winners are blends of both.
You could turn off the audio, freeze the animatronics, send a log through, and you'd still be able to tell what's happening on Splash. Something I highly doubt you could do with Bayou
Figments Friend
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His name was attached to the original announcement to soften the blow to fans of the Attraction.
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Figments Friend
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Tony is usually there for every opening and reopening of anything at Disneyland.
He and the Park are ‘one’, and that has not changed.
I am sure he will be in the crowd on opening day just to witness it all…and yes, he will ride the Attraction to gage the experience.
Would love to be there to see his face when he exits….
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LittleBuford
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I created a poll about this if you’re interested. To summarise the results, it’s far from the case that everyone who rode Splash Mountain was able to follow the narrative. That isn’t a criticism: the ride was great regardless of how much of the plot one understood.
Intelligibility of Splash Mountain's plot
I created this poll in response to a discussion taking place now over in the Splash Mountain thread. How much of the plot did you personally understand from the ride alone? The options I've provided seem to cover the full spectrum, but please let me know if you think I should add any. For those...
New Structure Forming at Tiana’s Bayou Adventure in Disney World
New framing has been added to the top of the former Splash Mountain as Tiana's Bayou Adventure comes to life in Magic Kingdom.
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Smiley/OCD
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Yes, he will ride Tiana just to experience it…he won’t ride it as a Disney Invitee…Tony is usually there for every opening and reopening of anything at Disneyland.
He and the Park are ‘one’, and that has not changed.
I am sure he will be in the crowd on opening day just to witness it all…and yes, he will ride the Attraction to gage the experience.
Would love to be there to see his face when he exits….
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And you know this how?
Smiley/OCD
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IT’s conjecture, opinion, just like everyone else here…
aladdin2007
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if only that dumb tacky tiara would be yanked down while the scaffolding is there
With a quick 30 second Photoshop job, you can see how much more rustic it makes the tower look!
JoeCamel
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That tower looks like it just came out of the fiberglass prop shop, it needs some aging applied