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

[_caleb]

This ride looks terrible so far, what's with all the fake plants on the outside? Apparently Bob Iger walked the ride recently and said it was "boring".

Hopefully these new board members can help get Disney back on track. I'd say the company is about 100 feet from the cliff, but still going too fast...

Exactly what I was thinking- what this ride really needs is new board members to weigh in on creative direction and technical execution.

 

[James Alucobond]

It always had fake plants.

Wait ... you're saying these briars and grasses were artificial?

Mind. Blown.

 

[EricsBiscuit]

What scares me is that if they tore everything out, that is very expensive which eats into the budget. That’s the same thing that happened to JII. They spent the whole budget hitting the previous ride and had nothing leftover to build the new one. Hopefully the budget here is big enough.

 

[Epcot82Guy]

What scares me is that if they tore everything out, that is very expensive which eats into the budget. That’s the same thing that happened to JII. They spent the whole budget hitting the previous ride and had nothing leftover to build the new one. Hopefully the budget here is big enough.

I think you may be onto a big challenge here. If the company goal is to distance, they are likely going to take that to heart. The problem is, for the general public, the new attraction has to exceed Splash to justify this. Replacing an attraction wholesale at the level of Splash is a tall, tall order. And, unfortunately, that scenario (i.e. an "as good" vs. "better") is still a project failure. Leaving aside any political aspect, it's tough to argue in this economy that spending a budget of this size to land basically where you were is a tougher sell.

I think this project is doomed to some level of failure. Not because I think the ride will be bad. (We don't know enough to make that call.). Rather, the requirements for "success" are so high (again, excluding the political issues), I'm not sure it's achievable.

 

[Dear Prudence]

First-Ever Images from Inside Tiana’s Bayou Adventure from ABC 20/20 Documentary
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The colors look wildly over saturated, like it's one of the Instagram filters from days of yore. This looks....really cheap. I hope it's just the colour values in these photos.

 

[Dear Prudence]

Only 1 AA in all of TBA confirmed and Iger is too too cheap to even put a skin on it!

It gets more nightmarish every time it gets shared.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

I've yet to see or hear anything that sways my opinion on this one way or another. Till next time.

 

[celluloid]

Imagine trying to distance yourself from any connection to the past troubles this attraction may have been connected to loose setting, and the first thing you show off of the interior is a tiny wooden building in a field.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Imagine trying to distance yourself from any connection to the past troubles this attraction may have been connected to loose setting, and the first thing you show off of the interior is a tiny wooden building in a field.

I know...a "cabin"? Really?!

 

[Epcot82Guy]

The colors look wildly over saturated, like it's one of the Instagram filters from days of yore. This looks....really cheap. I hope it's just the colour values in these photos.

I think that's likely. On one hand, it needs to look "fake" (or let's say "stylized") so that the blur between real and animation can work. I hope it, in person, dances that line well. Splash did well (especially at WDW) because it was a giant, fully realized cartoon set. This is a different approach. That doesn't make it bad at all. It just takes different skills and goals to accomplish.

 

[_caleb]

The colors look wildly over saturated, like it's one of the Instagram filters from days of yore. This looks....really cheap. I hope it's just the colour values in these photos.

You're looking at a photo someone took of their television screen with their camera phone from their living room and declaring the ride looks cheap?

Look two posts down from the one you quoted:

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[Bocabear]

the original Splash sets were also stylized and over-saturated....that was part of it's cartoon-like charm... None of those pictures bother me a bit... I am afraid of what they haven't shown yet...lol

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

I've created a new poll for measuring expectation levels on TBA: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/optimism-level-for-tianas-bayou-adventure.982698/

 

[_caleb]

I've created a new poll for measuring expectation levels on TBA: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/optimism-level-for-tianas-bayou-adventure.982698/

Why?

 

[Dear Prudence]

I think that's likely. On one hand, it needs to look "fake" (or let's say "stylized") so that the blur between real and animation can work. I hope it, in person, dances that line well. Splash did well (especially at WDW) because it was a giant, fully realized cartoon set. This is a different approach. That doesn't make it bad at all. It just takes different skills and goals to accomplish.

Disneyland did a very good job at creating a world that felt organic. It was less cartoonish (despite feeling closer to the original animation), and the colour palettes were more muted and less garish. I'm truly hoping the colors we saw in those preview images are just over saturated or weirdly filtered to make filming easier, because it just looks cheap.

I don't mind things that are stylized. The stage version of LION KING and the wolves in Frozen are really good examples of stylized choices that just *work*. A lot of the materials used for the LION KING costumes and puppets are things like foam and turkey feathers. The difference is that they don't look cheap.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Why?

Because I like polls. And we've seen some previews, heard from some people in the know (and not in the know), so I'm curious what the general feeling is around here. You don't have to vote in it, but don't begrudge me my hobby.

 

[_caleb]

Because I like polls. And we've seen some previews, heard from some people in the know (and not in the know), so I'm curious what the general feeling is around here. You don't have to vote in it, but don't begrudge me my hobby.

Not begrudging, just curious!

Asking people why they think what they think and do what they do is my hobby!

 

[celluloid]

I know...a "cabin"? Really?!

They are truly tone deaf.

 

[Epcot82Guy]

Disneyland did a very good job at creating a world that felt organic. It was less cartoonish (despite feeling closer to the original animation), and the colour palettes were more muted and less garish. I'm truly hoping the colors we saw in those preview images are just over saturated or weirdly filtered to make filming easier, because it just looks cheap.

Very true. It wasn't my personal taste, but there's no doubt it worked in the way you describe at DL. This whole project looks like it was designed for DL to me (and then ported to MK). So, there is some decent chance of your hope coming true. I guess we'll know eventually.

 

[GoneForGood]

I did some sleuthing. This scene with the shack comes right after where Brer Frog used to sit on Brer Gator. The tree with the knothole is where his tail used to hang/hid speaker (I think). I put together some...kind of shabby side-by-side images. I will do my best to explain.

You can see the hole and shape of the larger tree on the left is the same. The line in the tree us also a match.

I found this by watching videos and looking at blueprints of the OG. This one is self explanatory.

This one is a little harder to tell. But the chimney of the tree house was removed, making the indent on the tree. The shape of the tree is also similar.