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

Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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Animaniac93-98 said:
I think they're just prioritizing other corners of the attraction first. They could technically do this area after the ride opens.
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I'm kind of curious to know what they are going to do with it. The current design fits Splash Mountain's story, but I'm not sure about Tiana's Bayou Adventure and the idea this is a "salt dome" rather than a mountain inhabited by critters.
 
yensidtlaw1969

yensidtlaw1969

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imagineer97 said:
Easy now, it was just a question. I didn't feel like scrolling back through the thread. Believe it or not, I wasn't being critical.
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Perhaps people would be more likely to take your comments at face value if you hadn't spent the entire thread being so needlessly critical.

Which isn't to say there isn't room for any criticism, but there's a particularly gross brand of it in this thread that you (among others) have taken many opportunities to indulge.

If you don't like how that colors the way posters interact with you I would suggest reconsidering your approach.
 
tanc

tanc

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I'm surprised Disney hasn't tried to show off more of what is inside the ride right now. I may actually consider going to the opening of this since I have a few remaining tickets from my last trip.
 
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harrisonm

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New foliage at splashdown area:
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WaluigiTime

WaluigiTime

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MerlinTheGoat said:
I'm surprised he made those comments in public on camera. As carefully as he words things there to not appear too negative, there's a clear admittance there that facial projected AA's are regarded as a mistake by the company, both show wise and also maintenance wise. I'd imagine the maintenance costs were a particularly strong factor in admitting this mistake, at least on the executive and accounting side.

A lot of the maintenance related issues mentioned didn't come as any surprise to me. I'd imagine being inside of a moving figure will cause more issues than if they were static as well (motion is likely to gradually cause misalignment and loss of focus, among other things). Fixing broken projector hardware is also a lot easier when said hardware isn't some weird semi proprietary tech that also happens to be embedded inside of a complicated robotic figure. So given what was said, I find it entirely plausible that these sorts of faces may be just as expensive to maintain if not moreso than a fully physical one. One thing I forgot to consider was the comment about deterioration of the paint used for the projection surface. When you expose paint to an intense lamp only inches away, that's going to cause rapid decay.

If these figures are as difficult and expensive to maintain as was said in the video, then that's probably more motivatation for Disney to switch back to physical than anything else (like guest satisfaction). I do get the feeling that Disney has been gradually moving away from face projection over the past few years. Hopefully that trend remains. As I said, I was told quite a while back that Tiana would not use face projection.
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I hope that at some point they replace the faces over at EPCOT and I wonder if it would be cheaper long term after the projectors start reaching the end of their lifespan.
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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WaluigiTime said:
I hope that at some point they replace the faces over at EPCOT and I wonder if it would be cheaper long term after the projectors start reaching the end of their lifespan.
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If the maintenance of the faces in WDW become too much of a burden, I bet they simply swap in static heads, remember this is WDW. Iger does not care about WDW.
 

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