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

[nickf456]

I would love to see a Little Mermaid dark ride with a darker edge with more Ursala, as she is one of the stronger renaissance villains IMO.

I really wish WDI would have gone with a Dr. Faculier's lair (in place of the Laughing Place), and had somewhat intense voodoo magic leading to "Are You Ready" as guests ascend the lift.

 

[TomboyJanet]

I think from this thread and many other comments like....everywhere...it's clear that the key to the success of Disney is that mix of light and dark, like in Epic Mickey, Kingdom Hearts, all of those games are trying to tell you something man!! lol

But in all seriousness, The thrill part has to be there too. A good story has a conflict to overcome and a ride with a story should be the same. Otherwise it's just a simulation of an activity.

 

[Brer Panther]

You think they're still going to do that gag where they replace Brer Rabbit being caught in a beehive with Louis being stuck in a prickle bush?

 

[JoeCamel]

You think they're still going to do that gag where they replace Brer Rabbit being caught in a beehive with Louis being stuck in a prickle bush?

This being Tiana's food co-op it will be a pickle bush......

 

[Smiley/OCD]

This being Tiana's food co-op it will be a pickle bush......

Wouldn’t that be in Living with the Land at Epcot?

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Wouldn’t that be in Living with the Land at Epcot?

Makes you wonder if the IP was originally destined for that attraction or that competing WDI overhaul plans were blended together to form the incoherent co-op story narrative for Splash. The premise certainly makes more sense for LwtL.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Makes you wonder if the IP was originally destined for that attraction or that competing WDI overhaul plans were blended together to form the incoherent co-op story narrative for Splash. The premise certainly makes more sense for LwtL.

There’s no way they were going to put PatF in LWTL.

 

[_caleb]

Makes you wonder if the IP was originally destined for that attraction or that competing WDI overhaul plans were blended together to form the incoherent co-op story narrative for Splash. The premise certainly makes more sense for LwtL.

So you are predicting the ride’s story will be incoherent?

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Makes you wonder if the IP was originally destined for that attraction or that competing WDI overhaul plans were blended together to form the incoherent co-op story narrative for Splash. The premise certainly makes more sense for LwtL.

If Bob I ever decided to shoehorn an IP into one of the last PURE science/nature experiences at WDW, I’ll tap out…I LOVE that ride!!

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Wouldn’t that be in Living with the Land at Epcot?

Although you need lots of salt to make the brine to make pickles so I guess it’s possible…lol

 

[TheEPCOTHistorian]

The premise certainly makes more sense for LwtL.

Don't worry, the 'legacy fans' were going to love it when Tiana stared directly at the boat and said, "Here in the bayou, we're learning to live with the land!"

 

[MisterPenguin]

Well, you know... that desert scene* looks a lot like salt flats!

And is that a rain forest, or a swamp?

And that farm... just like the 1920s....



*In which we're told it is still teeming with life, but doesn't show any.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

So you are predicting the ride’s story will be incoherent?

Yes.

 

[JoeCamel]

Although you need lots of salt to make the brine to make pickles so I guess it’s possible…lol

And that is the magic, if you grow the cukes on a salt dome you get a pickle bush, that Tiana is one smart princess

 

[TomboyJanet]

So you are predicting the ride’s story will be incoherent?

If it involves a 50 foot plunge during a happy part of the story then yes! Think of a reason a good guy would throw you over a 50 foot waterfall that isn't contrive or stupid. My guess is "Mama Ode: well I gotta get you back home somehow down ya goooooo!!!" Which would make me cringe and then cast her as the villain of the ride. Like I said that would be enough for me to see this ride as another Journey Into YOUR Imagination or Stitch's Great Escape.

At that point they may as well filled it with celebrities and called it Superstar Log-o!

I've actually thought long and hard about it and that's the main problem I have right now with the re-theme. Like I said before SM was cool because of it's inconsistent tone giving you a "what comes next" feeling, and it had a real plot with conflict and resolution.

Think about the story of the Frozen ride long enough and you'll realize after you enter the Ice Palace NOTHING makes sense at all. Elsa throws you out immediately for some reason (what did we do wrong?) and then an ice monster throws us down another water fall and they all celebrate like that didn't just happen.

For lack of a better term I feel like they went a bit overboard on the "Special part is you!!" mentality Like the whole ride is going to be one big "we can do it!" speech, which would be fine for an omnimover but NOT FOR A THRILL RIDE WITH FOUR DROPS! (plus three tiny ones)

 

[TheEPCOTHistorian]

Think about the story of the Frozen ride long enough and you'll realize after you enter the Ice Palace NOTHING makes sense at all. Elsa throws you out immediately for some reason (what did we do wrong?) and then an ice monster throws us down another water fall and they all celebrate like that didn't just happen.

I just laughed for way too long at this, but it's so unbelievably true. The fact that Elsa has zero sense of hospitality causes you to nearly die twice, but let's just sing and forget about it!

 

[MisterPenguin]

I just laughed for way too long at this, but it's so unbelievably true. The fact that Elsa has zero sense of hospitality causes you to nearly die twice, but let's just sing and forget about it!

You clearly overstayed your welcome and deserve whatever comes to you!

Most rides don't make sense under scrutiny.

 

[Riviera Rita]

I expect they will have a Beignet stand there. They have Beignets in Disneyland so why not at The Magic Kingdom.

 

[TomboyJanet]

You clearly overstayed your welcome and deserve whatever comes to you!

Most rides don't make sense under scrutiny.

Yeah but at least they have something happening in them that makes more sense than that. I could say in Pirates you explore a mystical cave go back in time and see what events caused that cave. Haunted Mansion you explore a haunted house and find out the Ghosts were expecting you and want to show you their lifestyle in hopes that you will join them when you die, as well as revealing some of the darker things that went on in that mansion in a sort of history lesson, since they are ghosts they don't see anything odd about this. Mr Toad seems like a dream sequence Mr Toad had when he fell asleep in his garage, OR Mr Toad is so crazy hell spat him back out. Splash Mountain's plot was obvious if you just listened to what Brer Rabbit said. Your place in the story is as his friends going along and accidentally getting mixed up with Brer Fox after the Buzzards let you into his lair. B. Rabbit saves you both by directing you and him to be chucked into his house, where he knows we'll be safe. EVEN the great movie ride had a hijacking plot that bent the fourth wall and wound up with you finally settling in the happier land of OZ.

With this it's a combination of blunting a cool ride and just making it basically Toxic Positivity.

 

[Brer Panther]

If it involves a 50 foot plunge during a happy part of the story then yes! Think of a reason a good guy would throw you over a 50 foot waterfall that isn't contrive or stupid. My guess is "Mama Ode: well I gotta get you back home somehow down ya goooooo!!!" Which would make me cringe and then cast her as the villain of the ride.

My guess is that the fifty-foot waterfall won't be part of the story at all. It'll just be seeing Mama Odie at the top of the lift hill, she shows off the secret ingredient (assuming they don't go the "the secret ingredient was YOU/love/friendship/what have you" route) and then we go down a waterfall for whatever reason.