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

[Trauma]

That's cool, keep insulting a grandfather who wants to have fun with his grandkids. I'm sure Walt would love that about you.

I’m not insulting him.

He said the only thing that matters is if kids like the ride.

He is wrong.

Anything else ?

 

[Chippah]

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:
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"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:
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View attachment 789059"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.

Just random animatronics, so people can say, "Oh, wow! Did you see those animatronics!!!"

 

[Chi84]

Unfortunately there are quite a handful of regular posters who regularly bash, dismiss and just straight up bring down the conversation every chance they get. I would suggest a heavy use of the ignore feature.

Absolutely. And it doesn’t take long to figure out who to block.

 

[JD80]

Anything else ?

Take a break.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

Well, I hope WDI got some good food while they were here researching, because I’m just not seeing where that all went.

A weathervane…

 

[Brer Oswald]

Or.. ‘Tiana’s Bayou Adventure: With Br’er Rabbit’


So the fix for the redo is this (ala Journey Into Your Imagination ‘09 to With Figment ‘02).. Tiana’s planning her critter band party just like the first redo but she discovers a new critter has wanted to join in on the fun, Br’er Rabbit and it happens he’s looking for his laughing place.. so what better way to get a laugh than to hijack/screw up/prank Tiana’s party plans every step of the way, Tiana getting annoyed with him ala Dr. Channing until the very end when Tiana finally learns from Br’er Rabbit “Everybody’s Got a Laughin’ Place, it’s just people need to take the time to look for it.” and it ends with her, her friends, and Br’er Rabbit and some reused AAs from the previous ride laughing altogether at the end/finale

Just a way to rub salt on the wound like With Figment did on the fan complaints surrounding the redo, under the masquerade of a “return/comeback”.

The sad thing is...I could see them doing something like this

 

[Brer Oswald]

I get your point, but that seems to also speak to the horrifically bad management and leadership of WDW, and Magic Kingdom Park especially, over the past 20 years. That park is so woefully under capacity that it's nearly criminal. No wonder the guests are breaking out info fistfights regularly now, the pressure is too high in that park.

The leaders who have been in charge of Magic Kingdom Park are not good showmen, and they have no sense of hospitality. Or so their decisions over the past 20 years would seem to show.

I just posted this over in the Disneyland version of this thread, where the general sentiment from the West Coasters on this new ride is unimpressed and disappointed, but there's still a mild hope that it will somehow be improved with Disneyland's faster and more frenetic version of Splash Mountain's ride system. But at Disneyland, even if Tiana's Bayou Adventure is a noticeable downgrade from Splash Mountain, there's a couple dozen extra rides for customers to work with during their day, and almost a half dozen extra E Tickets at Disneyland compared to Magic Kingdom.

That would seem to lessen the pressure on Tiana to be the big hit at Disneyland it does not appear to be at WDW.

Magic Kingdom Park = 8 E Tickets, including Tiana's Bayou Adventure
Disneyland Park = 13 E Tickets, including Tiana's Bayou Adventure (and that's counting MMRR as a D Ticket)

MK E Tickets (Jungle, Pirates, Tiana, Thunder, Mansion, Small World, Tron, Space)
DL E Tickets (Jungle, Indy, Pirates, Mansion, Tiana, RoTR, MF:SR, Thunder, Small World, Matterhorn, Submarines, Space, Star Tours)

It is absolutely a worse scenario for MK than it is DL. Even if this ride stinks in DL, it doesn't really matter.

At MK, it was the equivalent to DL's PotC. And there are way less attractions in general. Absolute disaster.

 

[seabreezept813]

I'm afraid - and actually of the belief that most adults will judge it like you little girl does.
"Tiana!"
"Mama Odie!"
"Pretty Colors!
"New!"
That's more than good enough for most adults.

It makes me wish my 3 year old could ride.. would love to just watch her riding it

 

[Prince-1]

There will be massive crowds for a few years, and then we enter the long term.

And then it will still continue to have long lines.

 

[Chi84]

It makes me wish my 3 year old could ride.. would love to just watch her riding it

I thought it looked gorgeous in the video and the music is great! We’re taking the whole family in November so we’ll get to assess it in person. Video doesn’t always do justice to the real thing.

 

[CampbellzSoup]

I showed my kid the ride through on both and he said splash mountain is “way better” he’s three

 

[JD80]

Yeah I guess I should.

The fact the conversation has devolved into “It doesn’t matter that the ride sucks because people will still wait in line for it” has me upset.

I figured at some point Disney fans would hold the company accountable for their actions. If this latest disaster isn’t enough nothing really is.

If I attacked you somewhere in a previous post I apologize. I just don’t get this insanity.

Does no one else care about the quality of the product ?

The world is big and has a varied amount of opinions. You should not be angry and rude to those that have different ones.

 

[seabreezept813]

While I don’t disagree with holding Disney to a standard I do think that part of what is missing in these discussions is seeing through a child’s eyes. I miss the Great Movie Ride terribly but I love Mickey because it’s fun but mostly because of the magic my kids have experienced riding it.

 

[Incomudro]

Yeah I guess I should.

The fact the conversation has devolved into “It doesn’t matter that the ride sucks because people will still wait in line for it” has me upset.

I figured at some point Disney fans would hold the company accountable for their actions. If this latest disaster isn’t enough nothing really is.

If I attacked you somewhere in a previous post I apologize. I just don’t get this insanity.

Does no one else care about the quality of the product ?

It doesn't matter if we try to "hold the company accountable."
The riders will be there.
That's all that matters to the company.

 

[Professortango1]

I’m pretty new to this forum overall and I just hope that this thread isn’t representative of how every conversation on every new thing goes because this has been miserable lmao

I’m all for criticizing The Mouse because there’s a lot of it they deserve but this has been genuinely way too much nonsense and hullaballoo for no legitimate reason.

I think the frustration and ire is because Disney was once held to a higher standard which is why we all became fans of the parks. But for the past decade or so, Disney has been consistently shoddy with cheap rethemes. So far it has been retheming an attraction with some objective issues like Maelstrom, Stormrider, Screamin, DCA's TOT (even though this was my favourite version of the ride), Snow White, etc. So people can argue that the storytelling isn't up to Disney quality, but people could also shrug and point out that the attraction it replaced needed some adjustments.

This is the first time they have messed with a beloved classic since Tiki Room, and Splash is far more beloved by guests. And while many were vocal about their worries considering Disney's history of lackluster rethemes, these were always dismissed by the hopeful crowd on here. And every time a new element was confirmed and seemed off, the critical crowd would point to these as evidence that we should be worried, but they were still waved away by those who cheerlead for Disney and told "wait until you ride it to form an opinion." The whole "we don't know the whole thing" excuse kept being used time and time again to squash all objective discussion of this project.

And now that we have the full attraction available...it turns out the criticisms were appropriate. And many of the folks who kept shouting down criticisms are now expressing their own dissatisfaction. I'm not a doom and gloomer, but it is annoying to have pointed out many of the issues years ago and been told my complaints and observations aren't valid only now that we are officially stuck with this, now we can all say the same thing.

There's nit-picking and there's wearing rose-coloured glasses. Maybe we need to start listening to the folks in-between.

 

[seabreezept813]

I showed my kid the ride through on both and he said splash mountain is “way better” he’s three

Ya the 6 year old asked if we could ride Splash after we ride Tiana’s. In the past she’s been scared of hills.. like the tiny drop on Pirates and Frozen so her openness to riding is new. But maybe she’s just getting braver.

 

[Trauma]

Did someone hand out talking points to the Sheild?

They all show up at once with:

The ride will have long lines so that’s all that matters.

Thru the eyes of a 4 year old the ride is great!


Well those seems like some great reasons to destroy Splash.

It all makes sense to me now.

 

[SuddenStorm]

I showed my kid the ride through on both and he said splash mountain is “way better” he’s three

Smart kid you got there.

 

[davis_unoxx]

It’s a shame, Disney took the best E Ticket for overall experience at all of Disney World, at least the Magic Kingdom. And turned it into the the worst E ticket in the whole park.

They pretty much turned a Porsche 9/11 into a Prius and marketed it as better, what a shame.

 

[Trauma]

It’s a shame, Disney took the best E Ticket for overall experience at all of Disney World, at least the Magic Kingdom. And turned it into the the worst E ticket in the whole park.

They pretty much turned a Porsche 9/11 into a Prius and marketed it as better, what a shame.

It doesn’t matter.

People are going to wait for it anyways.

I also showed the ride to my Daughter and she rolled her eyes and walked away. I think that means she can’t wait to ride it.

Did I mention it’s going to have long lines and that means it’s amazing?