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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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Surferboy567
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Anything is better than what we have there, I truly mean that.
That being said, IF THEY TOUCH FIGMENT we are gonna have problems.
lightningtap347
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I think the general audience will be able to enjoy it at the most surface level, but I can't realistically see this sticking as one of the classics.
I don't know how to properly say what I'm feeling without making it sound like I think the average park guest is an idiot (which is not what I'm trying to say), but I feel like there's a big enough glaring hole in this attraction now that even the average, non-hyperactive Disney board fan will be unable to muster up anything beyond surface level mild compliments to describe the ride, which I feel is a massive failure. I'm not articulating that correctly, as I am an idiot lol.
I guess I'd say that this isn't good enough to get the average guest to tell their friends and family to visit, and it certainly isn't good enough for those who care way too much about theme parks
Brer Oswald
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Anything would be better, but if they dump millions into something that still ends up being mediocre, we will be stuck with that version for 25 years. As it stands now, it could go anytime. Do it right or don't do it at all.
I have to take a trip every two years. It’s how DVC works.
I am trying to rent my points out instead, but nobody wants them.
Can I interest you in a stay at the Boardwalk?
It won't help if the result is the most unambitious and social media-engineered final product possible. Journey Into Your Imagination is an epic fail, but it's a genuine epic fail. They weren't doing cold, lifeless market research to get to that result. It was evil and miscalculated in a genuine way.
With this it feels like they were too many cooks, and too little ingredients. Not enough budget. And it's definitely on the imagineers that Facilier wasn't even considered. Why not? I can't see management vetoing his inclusion. The ideas weren't all there either.
Smiley/OCD
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When it goes down in January for its annual maintenance, it will come back with a new banner…Tiana’s Bayou Adventure: Under New Management
One of the main problems I have with the whole thing is that you can't just look at the scenes and go "Oh here's how we got from A to B and why" Take the first three scenes with Louis and Tiana:
"OK Tiana is in the barn...Louis is causing trouble in the garden? Now we're listening to music? And music again?"
Now compare it to the same scenes in Splash:
"Fox and Bear are clearly bad guys looking to catch Br'er Rabbit. Uh oh they caught Br'er Bear instead!" It was like a Looney Tunes episode brought to life. This new ride is just fluff.
"OK Tiana is in the barn...Louis is causing trouble in the garden? Now we're listening to music? And music again?"
Now compare it to the same scenes in Splash:
aladdin2007
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just visually even the photo comparisons are shocking, we will never see that level of detail and artistry again. tba is void of all of it.
yensidtlaw1969
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Not actually what I said.
No need to reframe someone else’s thoughts to fit a narrative.
Sir_Cliff
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For me, the difference is that very few people and even fewer small children would have been excited to go on a Song of the South ride because they loved the film. The ride was always promoted more on the basis of the 'splash' or drop rather than as a ride through the world of Song of the South and, indeed, the IP was chosen because it suited the ride system rather than the other way around. So, I think most people deciding as to whether they were going to go on the ride were deciding based on whether they wanted to brave the thrill aspect rather than on the basis of the characters.
I would imagine Princess and the Frog is different because it is a film to which particularly children will likely have a connection and the IP will be a draw in and of itself. For similar reasons, I suspect if there is a thrill element to any Moana ride they eventually build that it will be relatively mild.
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Adventureland Veranda
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I found the Test Kitchen sign after the lift hill to be highly immersive. Hey look the employee owned co-op has a break room too!
DisneyHead123
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Agree, and I think the “princess phase” in particular is something that skews towards younger children. Probably most common around age 2-7.
Brian
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I for one think the attraction is fantastic. You can tell the plot was written by someone who was actively engaged in exhaustive research (while sampling a cornucopia of adult beverages) in New Orleans. We start by looking for a spice or something in the bayou, but forget about that eventually and turn our attention to finding animals who can play instruments. We find a few of the animals, uh shrink for some reason and find some more of the animals, then go splashy on the waterfall, and realize the spice was inside of us all along. The foregoing, combined with the inclusion of the animal musician animatronics we have all come to know and love, make it an instant classic. I eagerly await the opening of the meet and greet for the fan favorite trumpet beaver and horn playing bear, which meet and greet will no doubt comprise most of the land to be developed as part of the Beyond Big Thunder project.
Incomudro
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For sure.
It's still a log flume.
It'll still be fun.
And it's an attractive ride with some good music.
