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

SuddenStorm

SuddenStorm

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MerlinTheGoat said:
He disparaged overdone storylines that treat guests as if they're stupid.
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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.
 
EagleScout610

EagleScout610

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SuddenStorm said:
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.
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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

Figments Friend

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Sir_Cliff said:
The interesting thing about the Baxter comments is that it does seem he really isn't involved with this new attraction nor does he really know what they're doing with it. I guess that puts to rest the question of whether they were just highlighting the contributions of others.
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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

Figments Friend

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Smiley/OCD said:
Somehow, I don’t think Tony will be at the ribbon cutting when Tiana finally opens…I don’t think he’ll be invited, and I don’t think he’d show up.
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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

LittleBuford

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EagleScout610 said:
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
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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...
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Smiley/OCD

Smiley/OCD

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Figments Friend said:
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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Yes, he will ride Tiana just to experience it…he won’t ride it as a Disney Invitee…
 
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DCBaker

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Photos from today - scaffolding has gone up around the water tower.

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James Alucobond

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TrainsOfDisney said:
So does the restaurant at Disneyland. It’s how they do it now.
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I mean, Tiana's Palace is intended to be freshly refurbished according to the story. As for Bayou Adventure, the tiara at least is supposed to be newly placed and the logo just painted. The tower itself, however, is probably supposed to be a pre-existing older structure based on the moss growing up the tank stand, so it could probably stand to be roughed up a bit.

That said, I'm not entirely sure that's just how it's done now ... Plenty of the repainting in World Showcase has included aged finishes, even in completely new areas like the Ratatouille courtyard.
 
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