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

[celluloid]

Realistically, Energy never had a wait.

So if you’re only getting 1000 guests through the doors, Guardians is not only serving more guests per hour (which effectively is what you want with capacity) but also pulling them from the rest of the park for a consistently long amount of time (something Energy excelled in).

Even with virtual queue, the multiple pre-shows, queue, and ride experience are at least a 30 minute experience (even when the queue is absolutely minimal).

So if you can give 2000 guests the experience in an hour, you’re effectively removing 1000 guests per hour from the park.

Even if we’re generous to Universe of Energy and call it an hour-long experience, that’s still an only 1000 guests fully pulled from the park for the hour assuming the extremely underutilized capacity it always had.

Guardians pulls no one who does not care for rollercoasters, or anyone under 42 inches, or that do not like rollercoasters or rotating thrill rides. It actually causes more people to wait around and take up capacity in other attractions, dining and venues near and far of the park.

Near the end no one cared about Ellen's Energy Adventure. But the ride system as a whole was over 40 year old and based on properties without the connection even the refurb in the mid 90s had.

But all this moot at the attraction also did not do what Disney wanted, which was replace something and gain more attendance out of it to match the ROI.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

 

[Disney Analyst]

Curious new plant?

 

[JoeCamel]

Curious new plant?

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Elephant ears?

 

[EagleScout610]

Am I going crazy or did they put new rockwork over the spot where Br'er Fox's shadow scene was? That buldging rock on the right wall looks like its exactly where it was.

 

[Mikomike12]

Am I going crazy or did they put new rockwork over the spot where Br'er Fox's shadow scene was? That buldging rock on the right wall looks like its exactly where it was.
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It's a bit lower out of view from the outside

 

[Dear Prudence]

Because in order to criticize the retheme, a case is made that the drop now looks shorter giving children a false sense of how scary-thrilling it will be, or, it makes the drop now look taller, scaring off children who might enjoy it.

Neither side has actually presented any evidence that there is an intention to use forced perspective. Are the flowers getting smaller or larger as you look up the hill? We don't know. Neither do those claiming that in this new reconstruction that there is actual forced perspective being used.

But it does serve has a whipping rod, as ephemeral as it may be.

Truthfully, the drop never looked bad from the perspective of not being on it, it was the Moment of Truth when you saw the entire rest of the park that your life flashed before your eyes.

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

Updates from the forbidden site... but I think they're cool so I'm sharing the images anyways

More new plants outside this queue

Briar patch is now walled off

The play area sign was finally removed, so it seems that the play area won't be returning

Scaffolding up in front of the barn

 

[FettFan]

Being 5'-6" I REALLY hated that song... Society makes us already feel bad because we are short... the song felt unnecessarily mean... I would love to have been 6' tall....

Well, look on the bright side…. At least you’re not the living meme that is Randy Newman.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Well, look on the bright side…. At least you’re not the living meme that is Randy Newman.

This has lived in my head far more than it should since I first saw it on MadTV many years ago! Scarily accurate!

 

[DCBaker]

Here's a 4K video of log testing earlier this afternoon from multiple angles, along with some sparks at the end in the queue.

 

[Rivergirl05]

I'm so excited to see the finished product! I know they announced summer but I was wondering if anyone knows if that is memorial day, June or July?

 

[DCBaker]

Photos from today, with the first few looking at the recently added plants.

 

[JoeCamel]

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I don't think the vines/flowers on the tower work, seems to be very much in progress but they strung them like christmas lights and plants don't grow like that

 

[BagOfGroceries]

Well, look on the bright side…. At least you’re not the living meme that is Randy Newman.

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THAT VIDEO FOR YEARS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

Photos from today, with the first few looking at the recently added plants.

What am I supposed to do with all of these photos now?

 

[EagleScout610]

Here's a 4K video of log testing earlier this afternoon from multiple angles, along with some sparks at the end in the queue.

1:00 that flash right before the log came over the drop, first look at a "magic" effect for the drop scene?

 

[JoeCamel]

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What am I supposed to do with all of these photos now?

Post them!

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

1:00 that flash right before the log came over the drop, first look at a "magic" effect for the drop scene?

@1:00. That's just a bug flying across the field of view.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

Some unique angles from today on top of the other photos shared by others.

The last photo is a view of the load station from Big Thunder.