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

ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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ddisneyd said:
I’m impressed they are even creating these murals and landscaping a year before everyone says it’s supposed to open
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I presume they’d like to get exterior work completed during the dry season so they can focus exclusively on the interior as summer rain returns next year. Once the mural is in place, it doesn’t really matter when it opens. They will obviously be providing the mural some protection against the weather so it can go several years before being repainted.
 
TheMaxRebo

TheMaxRebo

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I really like the style of the artwork for this mural, especially the one with Luis on it ... really feels like art you find on the side of restaurants and other buildings where people work.

Seem fun a bright and appreciate the detail/being hand painted/etc

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neo999955

neo999955

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In the Parks
No
I also think the artwork is really nice. Doesn't feel like it fits into the time period of the ride (based on what others have said, I have no idea - feels more contemporary to me) - but that doesn't really bother me. Would be interested to see if is shows itself within the ride at all.

I know people are saying it's incongruent with the ride itself, but we've barely seen anything from the ride, so hard to know yet. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if this is stand alone. I hope, if they do make a little New Orleans Sq maybe they add some similar art in it so it feels more cohesive together.
 
LittleBuford

LittleBuford

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Bocabear said:
EXACTLY! wrong style for 1920s Jazz age New Orleans. I remember when they trotted out these paintings in the ride development and I thought they looked like Mrs. Metzger's 5th grade art class playground mural. I understand they went to New Orleans and hired an artist to do paintings, but perhaps just because they hired someone to do it, doesn't necessarily mean it is good...and the style is completely wrong for the time period...Unless now Tiana is also an artist in her spare time when she is not traveling around the world looking for exotic ingredients or running her global foods factory coop...
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I don't think it's helpful to resort to hyperbole. Whatever may be thematically or chronologically off about the paintings, they don't look like a "5th grade art class playground mural", nor are they as anachronistic as you claim.
 
TheMaxRebo

TheMaxRebo

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neo999955 said:
I also think the artwork is really nice. Doesn't feel like it fits into the time period of the ride (based on what others have said, I have no idea - feels more contemporary to me) - but that doesn't really bother me. Would be interested to see if is shows itself within the ride at all.

I know people are saying it's incongruent with the ride itself, but we've barely seen anything from the ride, so hard to know yet. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if this is stand alone. I hope, if they do make a little New Orleans Sq maybe they add some similar art in it so it feels more cohesive together.
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From what I could find, the 1920s were dubbed "Dixie Bohemia" in New Orleans and I think this style fits fine - can definitely see examples in other murals and art fromt he time frame (maybe more so a bit after - in the 1930s etc, but pretty close)

Agree that if they use the style elsewhere to help tie things together it would be good .... but to me feels like something that could have been commissioned to be done at that time (or by one of the workers who had a art hobby, etc)
 
Stupido

Stupido

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I really love the murals. While they don't necessarily scream Princess and the Frog aesthetically, they do scream community, which seems to be one of the main intentions with this ride. Community is a main theme in PatF, and I really appreciate them expanding upon it here. There also seems to be a through-line of music which absolutely fits with PatF as well as New Orleans as a whole. I look forward to continuing watching this attraction come to life. Hopefully they're filming some behind the scenes for Beyond the Attraction Season 3 here ;)
 
networkpro

networkpro

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Yes
I can see the confusion introduced by the copy-eers as they've conflated modern New Orleans's public mural installations (over 140) and a fictionalized 1920's, but art nouveau was prevalent at that time.
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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Quite like the mural on its own merits. I am still struggling to see how it fits into the time period and surroundings of the ride, though, as it is reading as very contemporary to me.

A lot may depend on what they do to the rest of that area beyond the train station. If it shifts from a backwoods, rustic setting to a more urban New Orleans theme, then maybe it will all fit together nicely. I guess that's another big unknown at this stage!
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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networkpro said:
I can see the confusion introduced by the copy-eers as they've conflated modern New Orleans's public mural installations (over 140) and a fictionalized 1920's, but art nouveau was prevalent at that time.
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Art Nouveau was actually 1880s-1910 period...Art Deco was the style of the Jazz Age... 1919-1940.
The style of these murals was not from the time period...even the WPA murals were not this style...
 
LittleBuford

LittleBuford

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networkpro said:
I can see the confusion introduced by the copy-eers as they've conflated modern New Orleans's public mural installations (over 140) and a fictionalized 1920's, but art nouveau was prevalent at that time.
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Art Nouveau was not fashionable after the 1910s. The 1920s was the decade in which modernism went mainstream.
 
britain

britain

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Fox&Hound said:
The announcement brings me hope I just wish they would bring Facilier back; I think that would make so many people excited about this ride. I feel like he was one of the last great classic villains Disney has created, although I hear Wish is set to have a classic "pure evil" villain rather than the twist villain DIS has been so fond of lately.
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But if he’s in Tiana‘s new ride, how can they justify the shadow man retheme of the haunted mansion?

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_caleb

_caleb

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"Carmen Smith, Senior Vice President, Creative Development - Product/Content & Inclusive Strategies said, "I am humbled by the level of research and detail Walt Disney Imagineering has paid to bringing the authenticity of New Orleans to Disney parks and resorts to immerse guests in this empowering tale. When you visit Tiana's Bayou Adventure, we want you to feel like you have truly stepped foot inside the next chapter of "The Princess and the Frog" in a way only Disney can bring to life."

Reads to me they're saying, "We've done our homework, and this is authentic to the setting of the story we're creating."
 
MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

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So, the use of colors and abstractions isn't exactly anachronistic. Here is a painting done in France in 1906.

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However, I don't think they're going for "this could have been painted in the 1920s." It is very similar to the type of modern artwork for NOLA, Jazz, and Black history. See here:

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So, isn't that anachronistic to Frontierland or the 1920s?

Not if this area of Frontierland becomes New Orleans Square similar to Disneyland.

A modern mural in the style of NOLA murals depicting the Jazz greats of the the past (Luis the crocodilian) does 'fit.'
 
Magenta Panther

Magenta Panther

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_caleb said:
"Carmen Smith, Senior Vice President, Creative Development - Product/Content & Inclusive Strategies said, "I am humbled by the level of research and detail Walt Disney Imagineering has paid to bringing the authenticity of New Orleans to Disney parks and resorts to immerse guests in this empowering tale. When you visit Tiana's Bayou Adventure, we want you to feel like you have truly stepped foot inside the next chapter of "The Princess and the Frog" in a way only Disney can bring to life."

Reads to me they're saying, "We've done our homework, and this is authentic to the setting of the story we're creating."
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A story nobody's gonna care about.
 

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