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

[JohnD]

The entertainment industry uses Memorial Day (last Monday of April)

I know you meant May and just mistyped.

 

[LSLS]

I'll put in a guess it's right around July 4th. I with how dead that was last year, combined with some of the other holidays being more dead, I'd bet they want to try to use that to get an attendance boost.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

No idea when it’ll open but that animatronic is amazing, I still hate the mural and the backstory but Disney is slowly winning me over. Cautiously optimistic.

 

[dig311dug]

When are we going to get to the salt factory!?

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Could it be that late May starts previews for CM, DVC, APers, etc..., and then opens to the public in Jun or Jul?

I don't know, I feel like they would have been a bit more specific if they knew roughly when it was going to open. Like narrow it down to the month at least, or heck even "early summer".

The vagueness of it makes me think they're giving themselves some wiggle room in the events of a possible internal delay. Like I said in a previous post, my source stated that a new inexperienced project manager out at DL was pushing to re-allocate resources away from WDW in order to speed up construction on DL's version to get it open earlier. If approved, it would cause construction at WDW to slow down and cause a delay. That's a big if however because I wasn't given a followup as to whether this was approved. It wouldn't surprise me if it did though. That said, again I think May was probably too aspirational regardless. But that's just an assumption on my part, we'll see.

 

[celluloid]

June 21st. Pretty common official opening date frame for new theme park attractions that say Summer.

 

[Coaster Lover]

Before County Bears Opens? After Country Bears opens? Or about the same time? Usually, I'd think they'd want to keep the opening of two attractions in the same park as far apart as possible, but given how long of lines Frog Mountain may likely get, I feel like it would be smart to open the two right around the same time so the relatively high capacity Country Bears can absorb some of the excess crowds...

 

[co10064]

Can anyone make out the song the animatronic is singing?

 

[Mark48]

Everything is Satisfactual

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Also, I wonder if this ride will even have a prolonged period of previews and soft openings in the first place. It's not a new from-scratch build, but rather an audio/visual overlay of an existing ride on top of an existing ride system.

Frozen Ever After for instance didn't even have a soft opening from what I recall. And technically speaking, it underwent much more drastic alterations to the ride system due to the extended track through the former Maelstrom queue, and relocation/alterations to the load and queue. Though it also had a lot of technical issues at opening and went down quite a lot. One would hope Tiana doesn't have a repeat of those growing pains.

 

[fgmnt]

Cosmic Rewind also has great capacity and is very reliable, it has no need for the VQ, but it remains.

EPCOT has the real estate on shared pathways to absorb the 4,000 or so people that would otherwise be in line. Last thing MK needs is extra people standing around.

 

[Phineas]

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is set to open this summer - no exact date was mentioned.

Disney has shared a new look at the Tiana audio-animatronic.

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure to Open this Summer at Walt Disney World

Tiana's Bayou Adventure opens at Walt Disney World in Summer 2024!

disneyparks.disney.go.com

She’s…beautiful.

 

[JD80]

Lots of appreciation for the AA here. And here I was being led to believe that WDI is gutted and is a shadow of it's former self with no creativity.

Hmm.

I think it looks wonderful.

 

[JustInTime]

No idea when it’ll open but that animatronic is amazing, I still hate the mural and the backstory but Disney is slowly winning me over. Cautiously optimistic.

The mural looks better in person. Plus the whole courtyard will have a different feel when it opens. They have added these gorgeous navy and gold handrails you can already see that just screams NOLA. Honestly, it all looks better in person.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

I will admit the AA shown looks awesome…I look forward to experiencing it, but I’m still cautiously optimistic.

 

[MrPromey]

The entertainment industry uses Memorial Day (last Monday of April) to Labor Day (first Monday of September) as the "Summer Season."

Mostly because that's when they can get college students to work Summer jobs.

Which means it follows the school schedule of when most students are off on their Summer break.

But it can also mean the solar calendar following the Summer Solstice of June, July, and August, and ends the Fall Equinox of late Sep.

Or, it can mean just when it's seasonally hot, which for FL is Apr to Oct.

... or Disney could go with Australia where the seasons are reversed and we might be almost a year away, still.



But basically, it means whatever they choose for it to mean.

 

[MrPromey]

When are we going to get to the salt factory!?

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We got there the moment this project was announced.

You'll find plenty of that salt in every thread discussing this.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Could it be that late May starts previews for CM, DVC, APers, etc..., and then opens to the public in Jun or Jul?

This is what I said to Splash Archives when he told me the date, and we both seemed to agree with the likelihood.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

My hunch is that Tiana and CBJ will open/re-open simultaneously for one big reveal of a newly revitalized Frontierland or whatever.

I suspect the CBJ will reopen either before or with Tiana's Bayou Adventure, if for no other reason than Operations will want CBJ online to accomodate the influx of guests in Frontierland for TBA.

 

[Indy_UK]

Is it me or do these T1000 AAs always have a thing of waving their arms around? I see Kylo and Holdo do the same or is it just how they are programmed and the movement can be so fluid?