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

[Touchdown]

Alas, we have random animals talking for no reason (the wild alligators, John Goodman’s old hound dog) and it’s never brought up again.

No human is able to talk to the animals only once Tiana is a frog can she understand them. The only animals who talk to a human are Naveen and Tiana who presumably can only do so because they were humans.*

*Except Mamma Oodie but that is presumably part of her good voodoo powers.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

Brother Bear is a decent film, but totally lacking in the fun, whimsy, and vibrancy needed for the ride.

I would say the same thing about this new storyline for Tiana's Bayou Adventure. What's fun about a co-op?

 

[FigmentFan82]

I'm sad.

Hi Sad, I'm Dad

 

[LittleBuford]

I would say the same thing about this new storyline for Tiana's Bayou Adventure. What's fun about a co-op?

Not much in my view, but as others have pointed out (and Disney has since clarified), the co-op stuff is largely a backstory for the queue. If the concept art is anything to go by, the ride itself will still evoke the imagery and whimsy of the film.

 

[EagleScout610]

Hi Sad, I'm Dad

 

[_caleb]

Not much in my view, but as others have pointed out (and Disney has since clarified), the co-op stuff is largely a backstory for the queue. If the concept art is anything to go by, the ride itself will still evoke the imagery and whimsy of the film.

Seems to me that we'd get something similar if we were to boil down any attraction to a single storyline (backstory or plot) element.

"What's fun about
...animal poaching? (Kilimanjaro Safaris orginal)
...the history of communication? (Spaceship Earth)
...a jilted bride? (HM)
...agriculture? (LWTL)
...illegal logging? (Kali River Rapids)

As for construction, I noticed there's a second plywood box on the other side of the flume from the first and two more on either side just before the bend. I'm assuming these are to protect sensors or something?

ETA: Photo from The Site That Shall Not Be Named

 

[Disstevefan1]

Seems to me that we'd get something similar if we were to boil down any attraction to a single storyline (backstory or plot) element.

"What's fun about
...animal poaching? (Kilimanjaro Safaris orginal)
...the history of communication? (Spaceship Earth)
...a jilted bride? (HM)
...agriculture? (LWTL)
...illegal logging? (Kali River Rapids)

As for construction, I noticed there's a second plywood box on the other side of the flume from the first and two more on either side just before the bend. I'm assuming these are to protect sensors or something?

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ETA: Photo from The Site That Shall Not Be Named

Work Animals I tell ya!

 

[EagleScout610]

The more we see of Tiana moving in, the more I wonder if they're gonna do a wooden sign like the one currently at Splash, since the version the Disneyland model showed off doesn't fit at all with Frontierland.

 

[_caleb]

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The more we see of Tiana moving in, the more I wonder if they're gonna do a wooden sign like the one currently at Splash, since the version the Disneyland model showed off doesn't fit at all with Frontierland.
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Plus, it's so tiny! What is that, an attraction sign for ants?

 

[FettFan]

No human is able to talk to the animals only once Tiana is a frog can she understand them. The only animals who talk to a human are Naveen and Tiana who presumably can only do so because they were humans.*

*Except Mamma Oodie but that is presumably part of her good voodoo powers.

The problem is that it’s a spotty trait that isn’t written well and only exists to deliver exposition.

There are other animals that don’t talk, such as the turtle that pops up during Down on the Bayou and Mama Odie’s pet snake.

 

[danlb_2000]

As for construction, I noticed there's a second plywood box on the other side of the flume from the first and two more on either side just before the bend. I'm assuming these are to protect sensors or something?

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ETA: Photo from The Site That Shall Not Be Named

That makes a lot of sense. In an earlier picture you can see something in that area where the box was put.

 

[_caleb]

That makes a lot of sense. In an earlier picture you can see something in that area where the box was put.

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Thanks for posting this pic for comparison!
Yeah, sensors so they can hold logs at the top of the drop until the preceding log has cleared the sensors at the bottom.

Or maybe those were just lights or speakers or something.

 

[CntrlFlPete]

 

[JD80]

You are not putting sensors in a wooden box, especially on a water attraction.

They would go in some NEMA rated enclosure.

 

[danlb_2000]

You are not putting sensors in a wooden box, especially on a water attraction.

They would go in some NEMA rated enclosure.

The thought is that the wood box is to protect the sensors, or something else, while construction is going on.

 

[SpectreJordan]

The more I think about it…the new ride should have been Brother Bear.


Talking animals
Actual mountains and waterfall scenes
Takes place in the North American frontier, thus keeping with the “Frontierland” theme.

Added bonus “Brer” is just the southern dialect of “Brother”. So there was already “Brother Bear” in there from the get go.

Honestly, I really like this idea. A log flume ride with the Brother Bear theming could be great & the drop would be easier to explain.

But I don't think going from the old west & cowboys to the Canadian wilderness is that much of a difference than going to the New Orleans Bayou. Or Georgia for that matter. It's not apart of the USA, so that aspect of the theming would get broken up.

Maybe they could do a North America expansion for Animal Kingdom & do this idea there though.

 

[wdwmagic]

The thought is that the wood box is to protect the sensors, or something else, while construction is going on.

That's what it looks like to me

 

[SteveAZee]

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OMG. They're going to slice the guests!!! **We** are the missing ingredient!!!

 

[FettFan]

But I don't think going from the old west & cowboys to the Canadian wilderness is that much of a difference than going to the New Orleans Bayou. Or Georgia for that matter.

I think the big thing for me is that PatF is clearly set post-WWI, when we had the cultural shift of the Roaring 20s; Louis is a jazz trumpeter, Charlotte is clearly a half-step away from entering flapper-hood, electric streetcars are now rolling through the city, having replaced the old horse-drawn carts.

Even though Brother Bear takes place at the end of the last ice age (8,000-10,000 years ago) it still feels closer to the frontier than jazz music and electricity. Just remove the mammoths and it would easily double as the early 1800s Pacific Northwest.

 

[FettFan]

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No no no. That’s the Tron Coaster Game Grid Lightning Lane meant to separate paper and plastic payment methods from organic tissue.