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

[TheMaxRebo]

All good discussions. After some thought, I think would rather see many lower tech AAs (like we had in Splash) that creates a lot if kinetic energy instead of a lesser number of high tech AAs (like we will be getting in Tianas).

Hopefully a blend of the two ... Little Mermaid *almost* gets it right with having several impressive AAs but then still filling a lot of space with more simple ones ... Just a bit better execution would be good

 

[SuddenStorm]

Yes, I'm not one of those anti book report ride people.
I'd have preferred the ride stuck with the film.
I think it's a tremendous mistake to exclude the villain from the film who - as in the case of many film villain's and particularly Disney villains - is often the most memorable part of the film.
My hope is that the ride will still be well done despite his absence.

It's perfectly fine for a ride to borrow story beats from the film, as long as it is also able to tap into the emotional essence of the film, and create an experience that's unique from the film.

There is a huge difference between Peter Pan's Flight and Ariel's Undersea Adventure.

Salt Mountain using the major story beats from the film, as well as new renditions of the music would have been perfectly acceptable, and probably preferable to the nonsense WDI has been putting out for this attraction.

 

[EagleScout610]

Salt Mountain using the major story beats from the film, as well as new renditions of the music would have been perfectly acceptable, and probably preferable to the nonsense WDI has been putting out for this attraction.

They're forgetting one part of this marketing: ADVENTURE. Right now everything they've described makes it sound like they're discussing a TV show or smaller ride like Pirates where there's one thrilling moment and then they can pad the rest out. Not a 9 minute ride with multiple drops (And I swear if the reasoning for every drop is "Thanks Mama Odie!" I'm gonna loose it) that people well above PATF age range chicken out of because of the 50 footer.

 

[DCBaker]

Photos from today - three new tree-like structures have been added in the front and the scaffolding at the queue barn has started to come down.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

It’s also a world with modern murals, employee owned co-ops, and WW-II veterans. It’s quite the place apparently!

The Modern Art era extended from around 1860 into the 1970's, so that'd be the right period for 1927.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Photos from today - three new tree-like structures have been added in the front and the scaffolding at the queue barn has started to come down.

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The trees are intriguing.

I assume they are the trees seen here:

 

[TheMaxRebo]

The trees are intriguing.

I assume they are the trees seen here:


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Wonder if they will have the lights in them for the night time effects

 

[Disney Analyst]

The more I see of the mural in the real world, I actually like it. Wasn’t sure based on the mock version.

 

[Casper Gutman]

I'd be really interested to know what specific period-appropriate artwork inspired that mural.

 

[Basil of Baker Street]

I still believe Disney will get this one right.

 

[Bocabear]

This was more the style of the era... The WPA murals... an art deco mural looking like Tiana's dreams from the movie...

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Wait…. Are we not allowed to talk about salt domes? The actual inspiration for this thing? Not trying to be argumentative but that seems odd.

 

[ToTBellHop]

It’s difficult to tell with all that scaffolding, but this still looks pretty mountainous to me, and the water tower isn’t doing what people feared it would (diminishing the sense of height).

Don’t you dare compliment them!

 

[LittleBuford]

Don’t you dare compliment them!

I'm going to double down: the latest pictures confirm my sense that the retheme is not reducing the effect of height.

 

[Incomudro]

I don't like the Tiana mural, but it's deliberately crude, because it's supposed to look like it was done by the people that work for her company, and not by a skilled artist.

 

[James Alucobond]

Wait…. Are we not allowed to talk about salt domes? The actual inspiration for this thing? Not trying to be argumentative but that seems odd.

I’m sure you can discuss them relative to the look of what is being constructed since this is the construction update thread, but IIRC, a lot of what got pruned amounted to rhetoricals where the undercurrent was a generalized questioning of the existence of the entire project.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I'm going to double down: the latest pictures confirm my sense that the retheme is not reducing the effect of height.

Yeah, I think the outside will look great. Still need to hear (a lot) more on the inside of the ride but I’m cautiously optimistic. They obviously know this needs to be a home run and have budgeted well. The Imagineers just need to pull it off.

 

[LittleBuford]

I don't like the Tiana mural, but it's deliberately crude, because it's supposed to look like it was done by the people that work for her company, and not by a skilled artist.

I don't think it's supposed to look crude; it's consistent with the artist's own style.

At any rate, I'm beginning to view it less as an extension of the theming than as a reference to the ride itself. Sort of like Splash Mountain's own queue artwork, which clearly wasn't in a style appropriate to Reconstruction Georgia or the aesthetics of Frontierland:

 

[Incomudro]

I don't think it's supposed to look crude; it's consistent with the artist's own style.

At any rate, I'm beginning to view it less as an extension of the theming than as a reference to the ride itself. Sort of like Splash Mountain's own queue artwork, which clearly wasn't in a style appropriate to Reconstruction Georgia or the aesthetics of Frontierland:

Crude in the sense that the art is supposed to look like it's the work of a community of people.
A grass roots type of thing, and not the work of a single skilled artist.
The artist was chosen because her work conveys the look they were going for.

 

[JoeCamel]

Finally the cell towers have arrived, get those installed on the top and that 10g will really zing!