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

[Disstevefan1]

Now that the renders have been confirmed to exist, and if we’re going to take into account there’ll only be a handful of figures in the finale, alongside the concept art we’ve received thus far, I’ve counted around 26-29 figures total out of the supposed 48 or possibly more that are to be featured in total. A couple of those may be static figures, such as the turtles and frogs featured in the art

Well technically they publicly stated "dozens" so thats a minimum of 24, so we are ahead of the game

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

By my calculation, there will be (at least) eight human animatronics in the final scene, plus Louis, plus some lower-tech animal figures. That’s a decent number.

Not bad. Either which way it seems they’re taking the quality over quantity approach. For better or for worse we’ll be getting some fairly advanced AAs in sacrifice of a slightly larger number of lesser advanced ones. what’ll make or break the attraction is the placement and staging of said figures. I can imagine this will be more of a challenge at DLR with the breakneck speed of the logs

 

[Incomudro]

Not bad. Either which way it seems they’re taking the quality over quantity approach. For better or for worse we’ll be getting some fairly advanced AAs in sacrifice of a slightly larger number of lesser advanced ones. what’ll make or break the attraction is the placement and staging of said figures. I can imagine this will be more of a challenge at DLR with the breakneck speed of the logs

I'm remaining skeptical that the new final scene will be as grand as the riverboat scene.

 

[Disstevefan1]

I think the real reason for the re theme of Splash was cost saving; to remove all the old animatronics which were too costly to fix and/or maintain. They killed two birds with one stone with the re theme, lower costs to fix and/or maintain AND checkoff some DEI/SEG checkboxes.

 

[Honeycomb]

I think the real reason for the re theme of Splash was cost saving; to remove all the old animatronics which were too costly to fix and/or maintain. They killed two birds with one stone with the re theme, lower costs to fix and/or maintain AND checkoff some DEI/SEG checkboxes.

Could have saved some dollars by pulling the plug on those live-action remakes that nobody asked for.

 

[Stupido]

They weren’t terribly exciting. It basically just showed a monochrome surface map of the built structures for the finale along with rough placement for six figures (Tiana, Naveen, Louis, Ralphie, Charlotte, and Eudora). Some of the figures were even still T-posed.

Yeah, building on this if it helps:

Naveen and Ralphie were clustered together playing their instruments. Eudora and Charlotte were together, and then Tiana and Louis were together infront of the restaurant. It seems like some strange pairings to me, but I guess the emphasis is really being put on Tiana and Louis in this ride.

 

[Incomudro]

I think the real reason for the re theme of Splash was cost saving; to remove all the old animatronics which were too costly to fix and/or maintain. They killed two birds with one stone with the re theme, lower costs to fix and/or maintain AND checkoff some DEI/SEG checkboxes.

I don't think it's more cost effective to replace lots of less advanced AA's with a few of the more advanced types.
I could be wrong.

 

[EagleScout610]

I really wish I saw those renders.

Think this but Tiana others standing around buildings

 

[Disstevefan1]

I don't think it's more cost effective to replace lots of less advanced AA's with a few of the more advanced types.
I could be wrong.

I honestly think the old (hydraulic?) systems are simply too expensive to maintain NO SPARE PARTS and therefore replacement parts must be custom made which is very expensive and instead of a stop gap refurb, full rebuild with Tianas.

 

[WaluigiTime]

Think this but Tiana others standing around buildings

Everyone is only making those renders sound more entertaining.

 

[HauntedPirate]

i could see them updating epcots and alot more around the parks with these new animatronics they are making.

Suuuuure. And who's going to foot the bill for the AA's, not to mention absorb the hit for the downtime?

 

[HauntedPirate]

I only take exception with the "Frozen didn't fix Maelstrom's brevity" critique.

While it isn't THAT much longer, it does have added show space that Maelstrom did not have.



Frozen is roughly 1 extra minute from start to finish based on reviewing a few videos ... or a 5 minute ride vs a 4 minute ride.

Now critique of the art direction / set design / AA's is another thing, but I don't personally think Frozen is a short attraction, the ride time is decent for an attraction of this scale.

But it perhaps can still feel brief, which may be a result of Disney shoehorning the ride into a layout/ride type that doesn't particularly work for the story.

But it's a more complete experience than Maelstrom was.

How can FEA somehow be a minute longer yet have the exact same ride vehicles, system, path, etc. as Maelstrom?

 

[Midwest Elitist]

I honestly think the old (hydraulic?) systems are simply too expensive to maintain NO SPARE PARTS and therefore replacement parts must be custom made which is very expensive and instead of a stop gap refurb, full rebuild with Tianas.

I don't think the WDW models were old enough where spare parts would be an issue, they just got super lazy.

 

[Disney Analyst]

How can FEA somehow be a minute longer yet have the exact same ride vehicles, system, path, etc. as Maelstrom?

It doesn’t. They adjusted the flume when they redid the attraction.

They moved the load area, and added a new curved flume section for the Olaf / Sven scene, which is in the old load area. You used to load and go right into the lift hill.

 

[UNCgolf]

How can FEA somehow be a minute longer yet have the exact same ride vehicles, system, path, etc. as Maelstrom?

I don't think it has the exact same path -- I'm pretty sure they made some changes.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I don't think it has the exact same path -- I'm pretty sure they made some changes.

Here's a mock up someone did.

 

[Honeycomb]

I don't think the WDW models were old enough where spare parts would be an issue, they just got super lazy.

Exactly. The Pirates animatronics are older.

 

[WaluigiTime]

I am wondering if Disney is starting a slow process of going through older attractions and replacing hydraulic animatronics with more advanced ones that are more easy to maintain. Then if they deem it not worth a conversion they are just retheming the attraction.

 

[Dear Prudence]

I am wondering if Disney is starting a slow process of going through older attractions and replacing hydraulic animatronics with more advanced ones that are more easy to maintain. Then if they deem it not worth a conversion they are just retheming the attraction.

It's just amazing to me how non-Disney parks somehow maintain all of their attractions immaculately with a micro fraction of both resources and brand recognition.

Disney is just embarrassingly lazy.

 

[Rich Brownn]

Could have saved some dollars by pulling the plug on those live-action remakes that nobody asked for.

I dont mind the remakes if they try something different. "The Jungle Book" remake was superior to the cartoon. "Cinderella" changed just enough. But these shot-for-shot remakes are pointless. I think the nadir was "The Lion King" 'live action' which was a cartoon remake of a cartoon