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

[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.

 

[SilentWindODoom]

With Fat Tuesday coming and going while I was super busy, I've rushed to get caught up and... it's been a weird read to see things go from the same snark and hope battle that had been going on for pages to the announcement to hope to a weird existential crisis where people were wondering why we're even here doing this. Not what I expected.

These beignets can't hold a candle to the ones at Cafe Du Monde in real NOLA.

Disney has fallen so far. Can't even make beignets as good as a cafe in New Orleans. I have come in my thirty years of parks fandom to expect the food offerings there to exceed or at least meet the source material.

Now lemme finish this Pizzerizzo pepperoni pie.

Sure was a lot of hoopla for a weather vane you can only see if you squint. I guess it's camouflaged along with the rest of the exterior.

They made a big deal out of this thing and you can barely see it.

It's center as you enter the lift, the roofline drawing you to it, and will likely be even more attention-getting if Br'er Frog doesn't have a replacement.

I’d be fine with them doing this, especially if any expansion beyond thunder mountain was a frontier land reboot of sorts. Plus Im not a fan of peco’s bills so changing that out would be a plus for me

I've honestly never experienced Pecos, but I've never been a fan of Tortuga and I know (at least years ago) they have some overlap coming out of the same kitchen. Would they pause at redoing Pecos because of this?

I wonder if Tortuga were to go away from Mexican fare and lean more into the Islands how many dishes overlap between New Orleans and the Caribbean that could be included.

The size thing is common. A really great example of that is Buzzy from the closed Cranium Command.

He's depicted as this cute tiny little fellow but in the main theater area, the actual animatronic is frighteningly large.

You don't notice it because he's up on a pole being swung above you and if they'd actually made him small, he'd have been hard to see so it's a perspective trick since everything he's around up there is also larger than you think.

There was a picture someone posted to one of these threads that showed a woman on a riser making adjustments to his costume prior to original opening and with his cute smile, he looked ready to eat her whole.

Great Movie Ride and it's super human (not "super-human") AA's really made me realize how weird it is to see correct-scale human characters. They all look so tiny. It's one thing to see a person 10-20' away, but when it's an animatronic it feels like it should be larger.

Then again, I'm tall, so that may be skewing my perception. Going back to in-person meetings after two years of Zoom-only really reminded me how small other people are.

You should see all the silly meltdowns on Twitter. It's simply delicious watching grown adults metaphorically throw themselves into the fire over this re-theme. Sometimes I feel that I'm not 'living' life right because there is nothing I feel that passionate over. More power to them, though!

Having been on this boards, I have no idea what that's like.

Maybe it's just the name? When they tout to CONQUER THE MAGIC KINGDOM MOUNTAINS!!! Now, it just seems a bit off..You have Space, Big Thunder aaaannnnnd.....TIANA'S BAYOU ADVENTURE *EXPLOSIONS And a & heavy metal guitar riff* I dunno it just doesn't seem to fit right?

Maybe they should have still kept the Splash Mountain title but add the semicolon with the additional name...It's not like Expediton Everest: Legend of the Forbidden Mountain has that problem..Heck the title of Splash was all to tie in with the 1984 film and somehow it added the SoTS plot..

Because there are no mountains in the bayou and people would have complained about them putting one there.

Off modeling is pretty common I guess lately. Who the heck is this?

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Forget about who she is. Why the ever-loving crap is with the Fantasia Nutcracker Suite figures dancing in the puddles on the deck?!

Looks like the Tiana that'll be in the How Do Ya Do scene.
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I think we have our answer when it comes to the weird swinging motions. It looks from art that her right arm is going to be fairly still. I remember seeing other art with a similar pose. It would be doubtful she'd do the same motion as we saw in the video and then plant her hand that way. It was likely just a test of range of motion.

I just hope the secret ingredient ist screens

I didn't know you were German.

I think this movement was popularized by Joe Rohde and a few key other imagineers in the halls of Imagineering. We are now into the second generation wave of imagineers that were trained in this thought. Every thing needs an elaborate story and a reason to be.

The trouble is modern marketing has further jumped on it and details that were maybe there for the really keen to find are now pumped full force into the community. What was a nice level of neuroticism on Joe’s philosophical part is now a marketing encyclopedia.

As it is I don’t think there’s anything terribly wrong with the movement, though it makes things very costly and slow to produce. But we didn’t need the Silmarillion pushed on us while we wait for the Hobbit/lord of the rings, as it were.

I think marketing aside the queue will be somewhat reminiscent of modern Jungle Cruise, some piped in audio, props and some neat little references to what Tiana has been up to since her film. We’ll be loaded onto the logs that normally take the food cargo down stream and that’s pretty much more than 90% of guests will even need to know or actually pay attention to. Some audio will tell us we need to go retrieve the missing ingredient that was lost down stream as the setup for the journey. The outdoor initial parts of the ride will be pass the hobby farm (stuff growing) and cargo props. We’ll be off to the bayou as soon as we enter the primary show building (musical adventure ensues) and leave its borders essentially with the final drop, whatever ‘ingredient’ Tiana needed in tact. We arrive to the celebration at her restaurant in New Orleans.

And much like the Rohde examples... those who care can enjoy and those who don't will just enjoy the ride. I've not understood why people have gotten so in arms about the messaging. I've been saying for some time that I don't think the abundance of the messaging is meant for us, but is meant to appeal to those who complained about the original ride. Grease the squeaky wheel. It's no different from the storylines of other rides, but they talk a lot about it so the people who it will appeal to ooh and ahh and stop with the outrage.

 

[JD80]

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.

The plotpoint of shrinking is perfectly aligned with the movie where the main character become tiny critters. The call back to the movie doesn't seem out of place to me.

 

[JohnD]

I’m not fussed about the overall amount of AAs but I just want the scenes to make sense.

I envision where they will be sparse throughout the ride like Frozen ever after

Exactly my thought. I know some on this forum will get out their Excel spreadsheets and do comparisons. Whatever. That isn't what matters to me. I'm not going to worry about nickel and diming as to whether Splash or TBA had more AAs but whether the AAs add to the enjoyment of the attraction. As long as they are sufficiently throughout and no glaring holes, it doesn't matter to me the precise sum total.

 

[JohnD]

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The rain helped make the top photo look more like the finished product because the front area has yet been artificially filled by water.

 

[FettFan]

The plotpoint of shrinking is perfectly aligned with the movie where the main character become tiny critters. The call back to the movie doesn't seem out of place to me.

It doesn’t make sense as now Mama Odie is just as evil as Dr. Facilier, seeing as how turning people into animals to hide his crimes was the entire catalyst for the movie.

Both Remy and Tough to be a Bug handled the shrinking problem much better, simply by having the queue’s proportions morph as you walk through.

“It’s so subtle that you probably didn’t notice it…but your brain did.” - Harry S. Plinkett

 

[Andrew25]

Why would they block the view of the drop? That's an odd choice.

 

[FettFan]

a bit but how many times do they need to use the word party

Iger and his toadies at TWDC think the guests are all drooling idiots.

And that is how Genie+ came into being.

 

[Surferboy567]

Are they going to do the Pandora bioluminescent effect with the water?