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

[BrianLo]

Maybe but Joe is the only one that got the balance right. I can’t think of another good example…

And some would surely argue he was over indulgent. But he was largely contained to his one playground (Animal Kingdom); since it was always designed that way with his hand, it works collectively as a whole. Joe’s philosophies drove Galaxies Edge decision to be its own medium.

One can also make the argument it is what sets recent Imagineering apart from Universal Creative. Where their only real success comes when someone has done the encyclopedic prep work for them (J.K Rowling and WB for example).

It does produce very interesting, highly detailed lands. But it gets even easier to rely on source material, leading us to the design trends we’ve reached today.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Joe’s philosophies drove Galaxies Edge decision to be its own medium.

And that’s a great example - Scott is an incredible designer and I still say Spider man is one of the best attractions ever built but as a whole Galaxies Edge falls so flat.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

(which is why they also renamed the Tower of Terror over in California Adventure, as you yourself noted).

I noted it - but as a bad example. Tower of Terror is itself a brand, a very successful one. It make no sense to throw that into the trash.

 

[LittleBuford]

I noted it - but as a bad example. Tower of Terror is itself a brand, a very successful one. It make no sense to throw that into the trash.

I think what you're viewing as the issue with these decisions is the point: they want the replacement attractions to be viewed as independently as possible. Retaining the names of the predecessor attractions would directly undermine this aim.

 

[Touchdown]

One can also make the argument it is what sets recent Imagineering apart from Universal Creative. Where their only real success comes when someone has done the encyclopedic prep work for them (J.K Rowling and WB for example).

Gotta update your arguments, Veliciocoaster, Super Nintendo World, SLoP are all widely popular. Also construction pictures of all of Epic Universe look amazing.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I think what you're viewing as the issue with these decisions is the point: they want the replacement attractions to be viewed as independently as possible. Retaining the names of the predecessor attractions would directly undermine this aim.

It would make zero sense to keep the name of an attraction, which has been completely changed. It would cause further confusion, and make little sense.

You are right.

 

[aladdin2007]

Im wondering if the indoor drop is going to be exposed and lit now instead of in the dark.....it would ruin it if lit.

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

I reeeeally hope this will be an actual scene in the attraction, easily one of if not my favorite pieces of any art to come from this attraction thus far

 

[aladdin2007]

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I reeeeally hope this will be an actual scene in the attraction, easily one of if not my favorite pieces of any art to come from this attraction thus far

maybe in the laughing place? except that's where it was rumored to be screen heavy

 

[LittleBuford]

maybe in the laughing place? except that's where it was rumored to be screen heavy

Rumoured by whom?

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Rumoured by whom?

I think Alicia Stella claimed that the tunnel following the dip drop (where the spinning beehives were) would have projections of Louis on the walls. But that's only the first part of the Laughing Place and never had many physical characters to begin with. At DL and Tokyo, this tunnel doesn't even have any figures at all, whereas WDW had figures of the main Brer Trio (with Brer Bear being attacked by bees). Those particular figures are located further into the Laughing Place after the final small drop at DL/Tokyo.

I didn't listen to the entire podcast, but Alicia apparently also said there would be a segment of Mama Odie shrinking guests down to tiny critter size, with the dip drop being used as the "effect" for that transformation, and the final lift and drop being what gets us back to normal size. While I must stress that I haven't heard anything actually contradicting this claim (I have no specific information on the Laughing Place at all to say if anything is true or not), the shrinking plotpoint just sounds so random, pointless and out of place to me. So I dunno.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

We need these screens!

 

[BrianLo]

Gotta update your arguments, Veliciocoaster, Super Nintendo World, SLoP are all widely popular. Also construction pictures of all of Epic Universe look amazing.

I really don’t think you understood my argument at all. I’m talking about the encyclopedic massaging of everything imagineering does this days. Setting apart does not imply superiority. Sometimes it’s one of their own biggest hurdles. It’s one of the reasons imagineers can’t wrap their heads around Epcot. It doesn’t need justification that some craftsman in the 60’s found this material to build this facade for their fake companies pavilion. Epcot is an ode to worlds fairs, it doesn’t need Rohde to over explain it beyond that.

Nintendo is an example of a style guide and oversight Universal Creative has by a partner. It’s just like Potter. Most of their other product is creatively managed with their studio partners otherwise.

Celestial Park is a perfect example of what I’m getting at. What’s the story, what’s the justification? It doesn’t have one other than to be a very nice central spine with water and space elements woven in. It doesn’t have a good reason to have a nice Chinese restaraunt. Nor do I think it really needs one. Now take Disney Springs, which isn’t even a theme park and there’s some ten page story about why Morimoto’s is where it is on an old bottling factory.

This doesn’t make Imagineering better, but it’s what philosophically they do compared to Uni Creative that still loves to recreate media spaces you are familiar with, by and large.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

Add this to the list of random things for this attraction... now there's a display at the Spark Stem Fest at the Orlando Science Center this weekend.

Nothing new here, but an official look at the track layout is neat.

Link to article: https://orlando-parenting.com/a-parents-guide-tianas-bayou-adventure-with-kids/

 

[Tha Realest]

I didn't listen to the entire podcast, but Alicia apparently also said there would be a segment of Mama Odie shrinking guests down to tiny critter size, with the dip drop being used as the "effect" for that transformation, and the final lift and drop being what gets us back to normal size. While I must stress that I haven't heard anything actually contradicting this claim (I have any specific information on the Laughing Place at all), the shrinking plotpoint just sounds so random, pointless and out of place to me. So I dunno.

Random? No. It’s totally congruent with an attraction that seems to put outsized influence on salt mines, co-ops, and celebrations.

 

[Tha Realest]

We need these screens!

I think we’re about to get them!

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

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Add this to the list of random things for this attraction... now there's a display at the Spark Stem Fest at the Orlando Science Center this weekend.

Nothing new here, but an official look at the track layout is neat.

Link to article: https://orlando-parenting.com/a-parents-guide-tianas-bayou-adventure-with-kids/

I wonder if those cutouts were used for staging similar to what was described in the NOLA article. The figure on right looks interesting

 

[EagleScout610]

 

[Brer Oswald]

Leaving other considerations aside, why would you have expected them to keep the name of a ride they're totally retheming?

“Splash Mountain” has been a pillar of the Disney parks culture

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Add this to the list of random things for this attraction... now there's a display at the Spark Stem Fest at the Orlando Science Center this weekend.

Nothing new here, but an official look at the track layout is neat.

Link to article: https://orlando-parenting.com/a-parents-guide-tianas-bayou-adventure-with-kids/

Are they going to reference Kingdom Hearts in this? Might earn a few points from me.