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

[LittleBuford]

I just wish every time something new was revealed it wasn't such an exercise in hoping that this isn't representative of the final experience.

The updates and publicity surrounding the ride have generally been very misguided. The worrying part is that these latest posters feel like a failed attempt to address people's disappointment with the earlier (plain) posters, which, ironically, now look much better by comparison!

 

[MisterPenguin]

One day, they will start actually showing glimpses of ride scenes and (hopefully) we will feel better. I just can’t get that excited by news that Tiana’s Foods now has $7 cucumber water.

That was meant to be pickled, that's why the need for salt!!

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I’ve still never seen a water tower in a swamp

 

[LittleBuford]

I’ve still never seen a water tower in a swamp

Is that a bad thing? Realism isn't something one typically associates with theme-park attractions.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Is that a bad thing? Realism isn't something one typically associates with theme-park attraction.

??? This is the company that made sure that each bicycle in the various world showcase pavilions is from that country?

 

[LittleBuford]

??? This is the company that made sure that each bicycle in the various world showcase pavilions is from that country?

Why compare World Showcase (which has a very specific mission) to the Magic Kingdom, which is chock-a-block with fantastical things we don't see in the real world?

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Why compare World Showcase (which has a very specific mission) to the Magic Kingdom, which is chock-a-block with fantastical things we don't see in the real world?

big thunder is full of historic mining equipment, country bears is in a historic variety show style and theatre. Frontierland Depot has historic railroad equipment, Tom Sawyer island has the historic fort and mills.

 

[_caleb]

I’ve still never seen a water tower in a swamp

Have you been to New Orleans?

Category:Water towers in New Orleans - Wikimedia Commons

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[TrainsOfDisney]

Have you been to New Orleans?

Category:Water towers in New Orleans - Wikimedia Commons

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Many times. I was born in Louisiana. If this was tianas streetcar tour of food I’d be down. Haha.

 

[LittleBuford]

big thunder is full of historic mining equipment, country bears is in a historic variety show style and theatre. Frontierland Depot has historic railroad equipment, Tom Sawyer island has the historic fort and mills.

Not that I think it matters (because fantasy trumps reality at Magic Kingdom), but elevated cisterns and water tanks were apparently a characteristic, and even necessary, feature of homes, plantations, and businesses in Louisiana until the early twentieth century, including along the bayou:

The Rise & Fall of the New Orleans Cistern

What structure is most characteristic of New Orleans architecture? Most of us might cite shotgun houses, cast iron balconies, Italianate villas or townhouses with...

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Is that a Cistern?

After living in Louisiana for 3 years now and working in the tourism and historic preservation industries, I have grown accustomed to a litany of questions from curious visitors to our state (and c…

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In light of this tradition, I wouldn't be surprised if TBA's water tower was intended by the Imagineers to enhance the ride's claim to "authenticity" (which is something the press releases have emphasised again and again, misguidedly to my mind).

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

because fantasy trumps reality at Magic Kingdom

Examples? I mean there’s a castle at the end of Main Street USA, but there’s also a castle in New York City so even that isn’t really fantasy.

 

[LittleBuford]

Examples? I mean there’s a castle at the end of Main Street USA, but there’s also a castle in New York City so even that isn’t really fantasy.

A towering Gothic castle at the end of a small-town American high street is pretty fantastical.

So are singing bears, singing birds (well, those capable of singing human songs!), an inhabited tree, flying elephants, a cruise combining the world's rivers, and a room that stretches, to mention just some examples.

I can't believe I'm having to defend the claim that the Magic Kingdom is, well, magical!

 

[mickEblu]

Tokyo's Beauty and the Beast ride has a lot of animatronics, too, but that ride still turned out pretty weak.

It does look kind of weak but I get the feeling that it’s one of the few non screen rides that’s tough to fully appreciate via ride through video. The queue and pre show look fantastic.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I can't believe I'm having to defend the claim that the Magic Kingdom is, well, magical!

The original Disneyland was never supposed to exist in a world outside or realism. It was a fantasy / ideal version of reality.

At the magic kingdom, the flying elephants exist in a fantasized “storybook” version of a circus. They don’t exist in Main Street.

And as I mentioned, there is indeed a castle in Central Park in New York City, a castle leading to a carousel in a park (the hub of Main Street at MK is sadly not much like a park anymore but that’s a separate complaint) is again a fantasy version of the real world.

 

[LittleBuford]

The original Disneyland was never supposed to exist in a world outside or realism. It was a fantasy / ideal version of reality.

At the magic kingdom, the flying elephants exist in a fantasized “storybook” version of a circus. They don’t exist in Main Street.

And as I mentioned, there is indeed a castle in Central Park in New York City, a castle leading to a carousel in a park (the hub of Main Street at MK is sadly not much like a park anymore but that’s a separate complaint) is again a fantasy version of the real world.

Fantasy always takes the real world as its reference point; that's why it's recognisable as fantasy.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

That realism has always played a big part in Disney theme parks and to suggest that details don’t matter is not in line with the history of the parks.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

That realism has always played a big part in Disney theme parks and to suggest that details don’t matter is not in line with the history of the parks.

Didn't that poster already show you the real-world historical basis for Water Towers in Louisiana, the very subject that prompted this train of thought?

No one's saying details don't matter. They're saying your nitpicking of this one is misplaced based on your own stated concerns.

 

[LittleBuford]

That realism has always played a big part in Disney theme parks and to suggest that details don’t matter is not in line with the history of the parks.

I never meant to suggest that details don't matter, and I'm rather surprised that that's what you took from my posts.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Didn't that poster already show you the real-world historical basis for Water Towers in Louisiana, the very subject that prompted this train of thought?

No one's saying details don't matter. They're saying your nitpicking of this one is misplaced based on your own stated concerns.

Louisiana does not have water towers?

 

[Sir_Cliff]

The original Disneyland was never supposed to exist in a world outside or realism. It was a fantasy / ideal version of reality.

At the magic kingdom, the flying elephants exist in a fantasized “storybook” version of a circus. They don’t exist in Main Street.

And as I mentioned, there is indeed a castle in Central Park in New York City, a castle leading to a carousel in a park (the hub of Main Street at MK is sadly not much like a park anymore but that’s a separate complaint) is again a fantasy version of the real world.

I really don't think "Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom" was supposed to be firmly rooted in realism.

It was supposed to be believable to the extent that it allowed for the suspension of disbelief rather than obviously fake, but do you really think the castle is where it is because Walt wanted it to resemble replicas of castles in some US cities rather than wanting a fairytale European castle to draw people down Main Street USA and into Fantasyland?