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

[SilentWindODoom]

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

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When I first saw this pic, I was considering joking that that Florida rain is crazy, because I didn't think it could possibly be that it got that full just on a day's rainfall.

That Florida rain is crazy.

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

To make the mountain look smaller.

These are great photos, thank you!

Re: The first two, I wonder what's happening around the bottom of the Drop - That Green Railing looks permanent, so there's likely some theming to obscure it that hasn't been installed yet:

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There's always been talk about Splash getting past mandates for railings by never closing long enough so it remained grandfathered into the old regulations. I wonder if this is a place where the long closure has finally got them. The art looks like it will be well hidden. Hopefully any other new railings are as hidden.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

To make the mountain look smaller.

They're not actually hiding the drop - it is still plainly visible through and around the trees. With water falling, logs dropping, people screaming, and splashes splashing it will only be even more evident than it is now.

There's always been talk about Splash getting past mandates for railings by never closing long enough so it remained grandfathered into the old regulations. I wonder if this is a place where the long closure has finally got them. The art looks like it will be well hidden. Hopefully any other new railings are as hidden.

I think it's safe to expect that the railing and clearance issues that Splash had will have been resolved during this closure. Hopefully well resolved.

 

[SilentWindODoom]

They're not actually hiding the drop - it is still plainly visible through and around the trees. With water falling, logs dropping, people screaming, and splashes splashing it will only be even more evident than it is now.

Yes. I was meaning to describe why the trees were in a location which partially blocks the old view of the drops, not why there is a concerted effort to hide the drop, which I don't think we can say is being done.

 

[dmw]

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I'm bored so I keep looking at Tiana stuff, now we wait to see what "REAL soon" really means.

M I C - See you real soon
K E Y - Why, because we want your $$$
M O U S E

 

[JohnD]

Was that green railing always there, and just obscured by the briar patch? It doesn't look new to me...

It would appear so. In Splash, it was a bunch of briars.

TBA Concept Art

 

[zipadee999]

It would appear so. In Splash, it was a bunch of briars.

TBA Concept Art
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It looks like there are two lights attached that point up towards the drop. Perhaps on Splash it was just covered by the Briar Patch

 

[JohnD]

It looks like there are two lights attached that point up towards the drop. Perhaps on Splash it was just covered by the Briar Patch

Whether briars or foliage, it looks like that fence has always been there for lights to light up the drop at night.

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

Whether briars or foliage, it looks like that fence has always been there for lights to light up the drop at night.

Why does that read like the last sentence of a high school essay

 

[JohnD]

Why does that read like the last sentence of a high school essay

I'll take that as a compliment.

 

[Indy_UK]

See Disney, people get excited about new things when you can actively see progression and they seem to be wizzing through things.

 

[ddisneyd]

Remember shortly before Tron came out and they hid the opening date in some artwork for something else? Have we had anything like that, do we think?

 

[JohnD]

Remember shortly before Tron came out and they hid the opening date in some artwork for something else? Have we had anything like that, do we think?

Not yet. But the Tron post was very self-aware about dropping a hint. We haven't seen anything like that for TBA yet.

 

[Incomudro]

The best photos are photos of scaffolding coming down.

I really like the area alongside the Cypress Trees.

 

[Incomudro]

I’ve noticed that in photos also, I do hope they have a plan to hide that.

Given the thoroughness of the exterior re-do, I'm quite confident they'll be hiding that railing.

 

[CaptinEO]

I hope we get dozens of limited motion figures (we probably won’t) A scene full of these simple, limited figures is far more effective than a scene that’s barren and inhabited by a single A-1000. I can hardly remember the last time Disney did the former.

That’s why old-school imagineering was so effective. They used the cocktail party technique. Every scene was full and there was something going on wherever you looked. Even if the figures weren’t overly advanced, the scenes were full and there was something to see everywhere you could think to turn your head (Think Pirates!)

Modern WDI seems to be content with the Frozen Ever After technique. They don’t want you to look around in a scene and look for details, because there aren’t any! They will plop down one or two impressive A-1000s, and then purely focus your interest specifically on those sparse animatronics. Looking around will result in you noticing lots of empty walls.

This 100%!

 

[harrisonm]

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Based on the progress, TBA should see previews for the attraction by mid April - early May? I would think

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

I hope we get dozens of limited motion figures (we probably won’t) A scene full of these simple, limited figures is far more effective than a scene that’s barren and inhabited by a single A-1000. I can hardly remember the last time Disney did the former.

That’s why old-school imagineering was so effective. They used the cocktail party technique. Every scene was full and there was something going on wherever you looked. Even if the figures weren’t overly advanced, the scenes were full and there was something to see everywhere you could think to turn your head (Think Pirates!)

Modern WDI seems to be content with the Frozen Ever After technique. They don’t want you to look around in a scene and look for details, because there aren’t any! They will plop down one or two impressive A-1000s, and then purely focus your interest specifically on those sparse animatronics. Looking around will result in you noticing lots of empty walls.

Splash Mountain had a ton of legitimate AA's filling out its scenes, not just limited motion ones. Especially the finale, which was packed full of ones of this caliber-

These aren't A1000's or even A100's of course, but they still move with great range and fluidity of their own. And there is again a LOT of them. When all of them were present and fully functional, WDW's finale had 17 of these figures and DL had 26.

It would be a substantial downgrade if Tiana replaced these with only a single digit amount of real AA's and filled the extra space with spinning/wobbling props ala Little Mermaid. Regardless of how advanced the new ones are and how many of the extra props there are. Again, not everything has to be as advanced as that Tiana figure, but there does need to be some level of quality consistently in the other figures. Just figures on the same level of those old Splash ones would be perfectly acceptable though and would still blend in well with the newer ones.

Unless those Splash figures were what you meant by "limited motion" figures. What I consider limited motion are all of the spinning/wobbling sea creature props in the Little Mermaid ride (outside of the main character animatronics), which I would again not want a repeat of. At least not as a substitute for what were originally much more elaborate figures in Splash.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Whether briars or foliage, it looks like that fence has always been there for lights to light up the drop at night.

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Just to affirm again, I believe it IS new:

 

[EagleScout610]

Looks like Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear Louis and Mama Odie are causing a commotion downstream