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

[celluloid]

Change can be difficult, and it's okay to feel uncertain or upset about it.

However, I want to reassure you that IMO the rethemed ride will still have the same high-quality animatronics, music, and fun, but with a new theme that represents a more inclusive and positive message.

I think the change still stings even if the new ride is equally as good. As we see all the work and money that is going to go into the project to get the result.

That could have gone anywhere else for a park that needs it everywhere else.

Chikapin tree should be coming down next month if it is going to happen.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Change can be difficult, and it's okay to feel uncertain or upset about it.

However, I want to reassure you that IMO the rethemed ride will still have the same high-quality animatronics, music, and fun, but with a new theme that represents a more inclusive and positive message.

It's important for Disney to continue to evolve and grow with the times, and this change is a step in the right direction towards creating a more welcoming and inclusive environment for all guests. I hope you can keep an open mind and embrace the new experience when it opens!

Did Bob Iger pay you to say that?

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Change can be difficult, and it's okay to feel uncertain or upset about it.

However, I want to reassure you that IMO the rethemed ride will still have the same high-quality animatronics, music, and fun, but with a new theme that represents a more inclusive and positive message.

It's important for Disney to continue to evolve and grow with the times, and this change is a step in the right direction towards creating a more welcoming and inclusive environment for all guests. I hope you can keep an open mind and embrace the new experience when it opens!

You can reassure everyone on here that it will still have the same high quality animatronics all you wish, but the overwhelming consensus is that there will be many less figures than with Splash.

Don’t even tell me that yeah, but most didn’t work, so it doesn’t matter…we all know that maintenance all but disappeared the last few months it was open, so that’s not a valid argument.

I REALLY hope that Tiana WILL surprise the doubters, myself included, but with the mouse’s recent track record, I’m not hopeful. If the attraction fails, I feel sorry for everyone who wanted Tiana to be a boost for inclusion, because that’s just going to get the pro-inclusion/Tiana fans just as upset with Disney as those who are against this and it will be nothing short of a big slap in the face to the Tiana fans…I guess as Asia sang, “Only Time Will Tell”…

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

You can reassure everyone on here that it will still have the same high quality animatronics all you wish, but the overwhelming consensus is that there will be many less figures than with Splash.

Don’t even tell me that yeah, but most didn’t work, so it doesn’t matter…we all know that maintenance all but disappeared the last few months it was open, so that’s not a valid argument.

I REALLY hope that Tiana WILL surprise the doubters, myself included, but with the mouse’s recent track record, I’m not hopeful. If the attraction fails, I feel sorry for everyone who wanted Tiana to be a boost for inclusion, because that’s just going to get the pro-inclusion/Tiana fans just as upset with Disney as those who are against this and it will be nothing short of a big slap in the face to the Tiana fans…I guess as Asia sang, “Only Time Will Tell”…

I think Disney fans always feel this way when a ride goes down for a refurb or retheme. You never know what you’re going to get with Disney so we lower our expectations hoping we’ll be pleasantly surprised by it.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

 

[JoeCamel]

I think Disney fans always feel this way when a ride goes down for a refurb or retheme. You never know what you’re going to get with Disney so we lower our expectations hoping we’ll be pleasantly surprised by it.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

We have been conditioned that way by years of disappointments

 

[Alanzo]

Did Bob Iger pay you to say that?

No, just trying to have an optimistic outlook on the future. Also for whatever reason my four year old loves PATF, Tiana, and the part of the song "Friends on the Other Side" where Keith David goes "yeeeeesssssssssss......".

Lots of motivation to hope this ride is a raging success in my household, animatronics and otherwise.

 

[DisneyDebRob]

Someone just posted pics of the workers already picking up the stuff for inside of Tiana’s Bayou!

I kid . I just have this feeling that it’s going to be screens everywhere. Been conditioned to think the worst. Probably wrong. Please have great AA’s, please.

 

[Brer Panther]

No matter how many fancy animatronics (I'm not expecting as many as Splash Mountain) and special effects the retheme has, if the storyline is lame, there's no sense of tension, and the connection to the movie is flimsy, chances are it's not gonna be all that great. All the information we've been getting about it so far doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

And I'm still not convinced that Disney is not doing this because they have good intentions.

Also for whatever reason my four year old loves PATF, Tiana, and the part of the song "Friends on the Other Side" where Keith David goes "yeeeeesssssssssss......".

They're going to be really disappointed by the fact that Dr. Facilier isn't going to be in the ride.

 

[Alanzo]

No matter how many fancy animatronics (I'm not expecting as many as Splash Mountain) and special effects the retheme has, if the storyline is lame, there's no sense of tension, and the connection to the movie is flimsy, chances are it's not gonna be all that great. All the information we've been getting about it so far doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

And I'm still not convinced that Disney is not doing this because they have good intentions.

They're going to be really disappointed by the fact that Dr. Facilier isn't going to be in the ride.

"Noooooooooo!"

She'll just have to make do with Tiana and the rest, I suppose.

 

[FettFan]

"That sounds like upkeep" Bob Iger.

“Where do you think you are? Universal or something?!”

 

[danlb_2000]

"Think there is enough room in here to bury all the animatronics?"

 

[celluloid]

Are they

A: Looking For Water?
B: Looking for budget
C: Just Lookin?

 

[Midwest Elitist]

Are they

A: Looking For Water?
B: Looking for budget
C: Just Lookin?

Lookin' for a little bit of adventure in the retheme plans.

 

[celluloid]

Lookin' for a little bit of adventure in the retheme plans.

Dang, they will never be done then.

 

[zipadee999]

Lookin' for a little bit of adventure in the retheme plans.

He’s lookin’ for, a little bit of trouble, time to be turning’ around. Careful Brer Construction Worker better mend your ways, you’re headin’ for trouble one of these days!

 

[celluloid]

It happened one of them "hope the series is a hit" days. That's the kind of way when you can't open your mouth without a bit of synergy layover ideas coming right out of it.

 

[J4546]

I still think this will be a great ride when its reimagined. Look forward to it!

 

[EagleScout610]

From over there. The main ride sign has come down.

So has the sign at the entrance of the queue. The little decal next to it is the only place Splash's name still remains

 

[_caleb]

Some nondescript mill somewhere, that maybe is the bayou or something

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Given Disney's track record for creating immersive and engaging theme park experiences, there's reason to be optimistic that the rethemed ride could incorporate a positive message while still being fun and exciting. The imagineers have a lot of creativity and expertise when it comes to creating dark rides with compelling stories and thrilling drops, so it's reasonable to expect that they could create a ride that is both entertaining and uplifting.

The people who HAD experience making said quality attractions are long gone from WDI. During the past couple of years, there were mass firings and resignations at WDI. So even the people involved with Star Wars, Avatar and the current/upcoming Tokyo projects aren't there anymore. Disney isn't even running on fumes anymore.

Charita Carter for instance doesn't have a creative background, she's an accountant. And Carmen Smith is in TV standards and practices. Those are the "project leaders" for this ride. If I didn't have information that Tony Baxter and even Bob Weis were significantly involved in this ride (even the Disney executives realized their own teams weren't going to cut it), I would have zero hopes for Tiana. Carter's one contribution to the project seems to be the salt mine co-op backstory, which pretty much everyone hates and will be a sore spot even if the rest of the ride is good.