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

[Bocabear]

Tiana's Salty Stories: A meet and Greet for Adults. $29.95 includes take home salt packet.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

They are fools if they don’t sell
Beignets there…

There was mention of the smell of beingets being in the queue so they gotta be somewhere .... Hopefully a dedicated store or stand, maybe just at modified Pecos Bill's

 

[networkpro]

Honestly after looking around the area over the past week, there's not much difference on the exterior of the attraction nor does the mural really stick out. So far it's just a bunch of superficial window dressing. Place making hasn't changed its ambiance one bit.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

It's currently not known, and construction hasn't seemed to really touch this area yet.

With talks of beignet smells being pumped into the queue, it's rumored this spot might have beignets, but nothing is confirmed as of yet.

It should be a store again. Splash Mountain's only store being the Splashdown Photos area hindered it from selling a good amount of ride-exclusive merch as well as hindering foot traffic from becoming too unbearable around the area. They can put a beignet cart on the side if they want to.

 

[Touchdown]

Westward Ho could always be the benigets stand, that location used to sell fries so there is (or was) enough room for fryers back there.

 

[Brer Panther]

It'd be weird if it wasn't still a store, seeing as one of the reasons this retheme was greenlit is apparently because Tiana merchandise sells really well.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Similar to the Universal tribute stores, Disney should sell both merch. and beignets in the gift shop for this this attraction.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

No work has been done thus far on the Briar Patch gift shop, and I have no idea what they plan to do with it. If anything at all. It even still has the briars sticking out.

I don't think Tiana is a big merch pusher either. Though there are some people at Disney who haven't put any further thought into it other than princess=profit. I've almost never seen any kids wearing her dress. We even saw several black kids dressed up as Belle and other princesses during our last several visits (though not Ariel either ironically). We'll see if the ride changes that.

I'd bet Louis is probably a bigger merch pusher than any other character though. Facilier as well, but I dunno if they'll even have anything for him, plus he's not in the ride. Maybe some of the new original critters will have plushies...

 

[ToTBellHop]

I presume it will end up selling a ton of princess stuff.

And some beignets, dammit! Surely, even if they don't have the ability to fry on-site, they can serve the crappy ones from the Disney Wish at minimum.

 

[Fox&Hound]

I have no doubt the new critters will have stuffed animals akin to how Disney pushed Chubie the little yellow bird on Mickey’s runaway railway.

 

[Fox&Hound]

I have no doubt the new critters will have stuffed animals akin to how Disney pushed Chubie the little yellow bird on Mickey’s runaway railway.

 

[_caleb]

It'd be weird if it wasn't still a store, seeing as one of the reasons this retheme was greenlit is apparently because Tiana merchandise sells really well.

Disney never said this was one of the reasons. It was just fan speculation.

Tiana is one of those princesses whose merchandise ends up at the outlets a lot. Maybe the company is thinking this ride will make her more popular.

I’d encourage you to think about this post from a different perspective.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Tiana is one of those princesses whose merchandise ends up at the outlets a lot. Maybe the company is thinking this ride will make her more popular.

Tiana is a “Disney Princess”, more Tiana = more Disney Princess exposure. It’s a franchise. I also imagine they will as others mentioned have plushies of the animals from the attractions

 

[celluloid]

I must correct myself. In my opinion, the real reason Splash was re themed was because Slash became too expensive to maintain, replacement parts either no longer exist and needed to be custom made which is very expensive.

In my opinion, Disney killed two birds with one stone. They knew Splash was getting too expensive to maintain and in the name of social justice they needed to erase Splash, so here we are.

But I think maintenance costs were the real reason camouflaged by social justice.

It makes sense because that is how business works. Their E-ticket needs the revamp and water rides are notoriously rough to upkeep, in particular because Disney neglects their infastructure.

Toy Story is a property used aplenty, nothing else really force like Cars so this choice fits except a Princess Tiana exposure.

A lot of us probably remember when Big Thunder was in such rough shape and there were proposed plans to utilize The Lone Ranger if it was a hit for synergy and cost benefit of the retracking that needed to be done with a refurb.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Princess and the Frog high merch sales have always been a myth. The property didn’t sell significant merch when the film released in 2009 and has never generated meaningful merch sales.

All one has to do is do the “SKU” count at your local Wal*Mart, Target, or even in the Disney Stores to see the very limited, if any, PATF merch on the shelves.

Successful Tiana merch is limited to mainly the green dress/tiara.

Still sells better than Wish merch lol

Those goats are languishing in Walmart while plush Pokémon continue to fly off the shelves.

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

Disney never said this was one of the reasons. It was just fan speculation.

I’d encourage you to think about this post from a different perspective.

Back in 2019, Tiana merch was hard to find. She was absent to an embarrassing level.

I distinctly recall being at a Disney Outlet store in December of 2018, and pretty much ALL the rest of the Disney Princess-ish dolls were in stock alongside their male costars, when I overheard a pair of teens LOUDLY complaining that Tiana was missing, as she ALWAYS was (their words).
The store had The Frozen sisters, Pocahontas, Jasmine, Snow White, and Mulan. No Tiana.

The online store also had almost no Tiana dolls/Halloween costumes or Tiana clothing in 2018, 2019, or early 2020.

 

[_caleb]

Princess and the Frog having high merch sales have always been a myth. The property didn’t sell significant merch when the film released in 2009 and has never generated meaningful merch sales.

How many dollars in revenue, do you think, The Princess and the Frog merch has brought in since the film's launch in 2009? And how does that compare to other IP (since you're claiming it didn't sell significant merch).

All one has to do is do the “SKU” count at your local Wal*Mart, Target, or even in the Disney Stores to see the very limited, if any, PATF merch on the shelves.

A SKU represents a single item. It's no indicator of how well that item may/may not have sold. Nevertheless, if you go right now to walmart.com and do a search of "Princess and the Frog," you get 13 pages of results. I know some of these items are not licensed by Disney and many are not carried in any/most stores, but is that not a lot?

Successful Tiana merch is limited to mainly the green dress/tiara.

I'd like to see a source for this, because I don't think you know what you're talking about. Also, what does it matter if the most successful item is the dress? Why is that an indication that PatF doesn't move merch?

I know it's your schtick around here to just sort of mock all things Disney with a bunch of negative assertions, but it doesn't work if you're just making things up.

 

[_caleb]

Back in 2019, Tiana merch was hard to find. She was absent to an embarrassing level.

I distinctly recall being at a Disney Outlet store in December of 2018, and pretty much ALL the rest of the Disney Princess-ish dolls were in stock alongside their male costars, when I overheard a pair of teens LOUDLY complaining that Tiana was missing, as she ALWAYS was (their words).
The store had The Frozen sisters, Pocahontas, Jasmine, Snow White, and Mulan. No Tiana.

The online store also had almost no Tiana dolls/Halloween costumes or Tiana clothing in 2018, 2019, or early 2020.

Are you being serious?

You remember a trip to a Disney Outlet store 5 years ago, and some teens were complaining, so that's an indication that PatF merch doesn't sell?

Maybe there wasn't any Tiana stuff because it was sold out?
Maybe Tiana stuff has been treated by store merch buyers as demographically-oriented and you weren't in the right store to see it?
Maybe demand for one or two PatF costumes is really high, but there is little demand for a broader variety from that IP?

 

[celluloid]

Maybe Tiana stuff has been treated by store merch buyers as demographically-oriented and you weren't in the right store to see it?

Could you elaborate on what you would mean by this?

 

[_caleb]

Could you elaborate on what you would mean by this?

Just pointing out that not seeing much Tiana merch in a particular store or area is not a good indication of its overall popularity or sales.