Disstevefan1
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I think it was talk about the ride be more inclusive maybe that's where its coming from.
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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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Can both be true?
Tha Realest
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Some here have speculated that the landscaping changes were made to make the attraction appear less imposing than what preceded it
Drew the Disney Dude
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Many more photos from today as the 1-year documentation since Splash closed.
2nd and 3rd photos: the scaffolding that was covering the track going into the finale is gone now, as well as the black rectangle things being uncovered at the splashdown. No idea what those are called. Another good sign they are preparing for testing.
5th and 6th photos: I was finally able to get my camera to focus through the mesh. You can see the flowers in the 6th photo.
8th photo: I just realized today that the first lift hill out of the load station is visible from the new train station entrance, and there's no construction equipment here, on top of the rest of the visible track being cleared now.
ToTBellHop
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Perhaps they will tone down the ride by having the logs travel the opposite direction. No big drops if you go up them.
JoeCamel
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Dude, did you bring a Meade Celestron to shoot through?
Drew the Disney Dude
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Haha nothing besides adjusting the zoom distance on the camera. I got lucky with those 2 before my phone adjusted the focal point. I'm glad I was finally able to get some decent shots of what's happening behind the walls.
JoeCamel
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Wow, well done
This is how Internet rumors go.
Someone *speculates* Disney has the intention to make the ride *appear* less thrilling based on nothing but incomplete outside theming *seeming* to make it less thrilling... to them.
Then that transmogrifies into "Disney is making it less thrilling."
Being less thrilling and appearing less thrilling are two different things. And appearing less thrilling is a matter of opinion.
Disgruntled Walt
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It's not speculation that Disney intended to make the ride appear less thrilling. It's just a fact. It's already been done! The thorns are gone. The chute is more obscured than it was. Everything is darker, so there is less contrast when you look at it. It's not even as thrilling to look at.
Besides, I think having an evil fox "toss you" into a thicket of thorns after an eerie, anticipation-building lift hill is more thrilling than having Mama Odie "spirit you" down into a bunch of flowers after you've been frolicking through the bayou for 7.5 minutes. But maybe I just have a higher tolerance for thrill than others.
No, that's opinion.
SuddenStorm
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Plus, it's just common sense. Tiana's primary demographic is like 5-12 year old girls. I don't think highly of modern WDI, but I don't think they're that inept. Of course they'd try and make the facade look less imposing.
They're gonna have to make the ride seem a bit less scary than Splash Mountain, which was a rite of passage ride for many growing up going to Disney parks.
Sure, the Disney that got rid of Stitch's Great Escape for being too scary is the same Disney that is all about a bait-and-switch for children, enticing them to ride on something that *seems* not thrilling, only to make them cry later!
It doesn't look less thrilling to me.
yensidtlaw1969
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The drop is still 52 feet, and it looks like it.
Any child who would have been scared by seeing the drop on Splash will still be scared by this.
Seeing people plummet that fast from that high will be as deterrent as ever.
Any child who would have been scared by seeing the drop on Splash will still be scared by this.
Seeing people plummet that fast from that high will be as deterrent as ever.
ToTBellHop
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Exactly. Regardless of how it looks now, there will soon be logs plunging 52 feet with screams heard by the Liberty Tree Tavern. This will impact some 5-year olds.
RnRC does not have a scary story in the least, yet many are terrified as soon as they see a train launch.
No one will walk up to TBA expecting IASW.
I'm wondering if there's not some conflated theories going on in here. The question is whether or not the intent was to make it appear less imposing.
Planned? A happy accident? Or just an overlay and nothing more? Such speculation gives Imaginneering both praise and criticism based on whom you ask. If intentional, it was surely done for reasons. What reasons? If not intentional, why does it appear that way to some and not others. All are worthy of discourse.
As to the idea of making it less thrilling, again something else entirely, I can't imagine it being any less so for reasons already outlined within this thread by others. Then it becomes not only a question of how, but why.
But I agree, two different things. I don't have anything to add, so I'm gonna dip out. ♫♪♪ Time to be moving along ♫♪♪
Planned? A happy accident? Or just an overlay and nothing more? Such speculation gives Imaginneering both praise and criticism based on whom you ask. If intentional, it was surely done for reasons. What reasons? If not intentional, why does it appear that way to some and not others. All are worthy of discourse.
As to the idea of making it less thrilling, again something else entirely, I can't imagine it being any less so for reasons already outlined within this thread by others. Then it becomes not only a question of how, but why.
But I agree, two different things. I don't have anything to add, so I'm gonna dip out. ♫♪♪ Time to be moving along ♫♪♪
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pigglewiggle
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How can it be less thrilling when it is exactly the same height? You still know there is going to be a big drop when riding it, the anticipation is still there and most of all, you see the drop while you are at the top.
The argument this will be less thrilling is just non-sensical.
The argument this will be less thrilling is just non-sensical.
Disgruntled Walt
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I'm not saying they're doing a bait and switch for children. I'm saying that when you remove thorns and make the drop objectively harder to see (not a matter of opinion), you are removing a part of the thrill.
Likewise, when you remove a villainous figure from the plot, you remove some of the thrill. If Dr. Facilier were in this, I wouldn't be so adamant that they were trying to make it less thrilling. Facilier isn't in this ride for a reason, and it's objectively less scary without him.
I'm not saying the experience of the drop will be less thrilling. I'm saying it looks less thrilling. And without Facilier or some kind of high stakes, the ride in general will be less thrilling (and no, an ingredient missing and a party being ruined does not equal high stakes to me).
pigglewiggle
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Well in my youth I used to go on log flume rides with no theming at all, still thrilling. The story for Splash didn't make it thrilling for me at least, it was just the anticipation of the big drop, plus the small ones along the way.