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

[eddie104]

This. It has great small fantasyland darkride set ups but put in too large of an attraction. Makes me think this entire ride as it stands was made for a smaller dark ride with a smaller footprint but were advised to spread it out for SM.

Yep the Imagineers probably had an idea for a PATF ride on the drawing board but were forced to place the concept into Splash’s layout.

 

[Vclguy90]

Yep the Imagineers probably had an idea for a PATF ride on the drawing board but were forced to place the concept into Splash’s layout.

That's the thing. This would've been such a great smaller dark ride and would've been super popular!! Not a fail in this situation.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I do wonder if this attraction is gonna work a lot better at Disneyland, based on the scale and flow of that version.

Was it designed for Disneyland and then made to fit in the MK version?

@wdwmagic any insight?

 

[monothingie]

Can't post your honest opinion in this thread without getting in trouble for violating forum rules, eh?

And yet I’m still here.

 

[CastAStone]

Here is our video from today's preview

That looks like something my 8 year old will absolutely love.

It really does!

 

[Disney Glimpses]

My final verdict is that this would have worked better as smaller C ticket dark ride around 4-5 minutes versus a 12 minute E ticket attraction.

Imagine all those scenes put into a smaller layout.

It would work much better instead of having to fill out all those spaces previously filled with physical sets like Splash had.

I do agree. It feels like a D-ticket retrofit into an E-ticket's ride system.

 

[seabreezept813]

Previews cancelled for whole day, some people were in line for 4 hours and then told to leave.

There's a rumor that were was a small fire somewhere on the attraction.

Tiana is closed rest of today...

Didn’t the tiki room set itself on fire too after a bad refurb?

 

[CastAStone]

Didn’t the tiki room set itself on fire too after a bad refurb?

Yes.

 

[IanDLBZF]

Didn’t the tiki room set itself on fire too after a bad refurb?

Yes, as the Enchanted Tiki Room Under New Management. Lasted 13 years before getting snuffed.
Cause of fire is unknown, probably some sort of wiring issue.

 

[Squishy]

Sounds more controversial than Splash Mountain

 

[aladdin2007]

I find it odd that the queue seems so nicely detailed with sets and props,,,yet the ride scenes couldn't? For what they spent there, that could have gone to more filled out show scenes instead.

 

[aladdin2007]

I have one positive thing about this whole mess, the little bear in the middle on the left side...is the cutest!!!!!!!!

 

[lightningtap347]

Sounds more controversial than Splash Mountain

Sounds like trying to find something to be mad about as a "gotcha" for making the change to me.

 

[SuddenStorm]

Sounds more controversial than Splash Mountain

It's definitely the more controversial ride, but not because of this.

It's controversial because it sucks, and Splash was excellent.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I find it odd that the queue seems so nicely detailed with sets and props,,,yet the ride scenes couldn't? For what they spent there, that could have gone to more filled out show scenes instead.

I don’t actually think the ride is a sparse as some suggest. Dark videos perhaps don’t show it well, but everything is pretty lush. A far cry from the literal dark emptiness of Dinosaur, for example. I’d like more critters, of course, but there should be something to look at the entire ride. Arguably more to look at for the first few minutes than the predecessor had.

 

[Trauma]

I don’t actually think the ride is a sparse as some suggest. Dark videos perhaps don’t show it well, but everything is pretty lush. A far cry from the literal dark emptiness of Dinosaur, for example. I’d like more critters, of course, but there should be something to look at the entire ride. Arguably more to look at for the first few minutes than the predecessor had.

Yeah if you consider foliage as something to look at.

It doesn’t have the same density of interesting details. Once Splash got rolling you were immersed in a world of big set pieces and tiny details all working together to tell the main story and flesh out a backstory all at once. I little bit of humor here, a little bit of scary there. The ability to capture your attention in new and interesting ways every time you got on another log.
The music just carrying you along for the journey always enhancing the emotions of the moment.

Splash was an artistic masterpiece. Simple yet complex, whimsical yet scary. When you were inside that log there was no place on Earth you would rather be.

I always looked at Splash as culmination of all that Imagineering had learned over time manifested into a single attraction.

If I had to explain to someone what the “Magic” of Disney was without words, I would simply have taken them on Splash.

It should have stood forever in the Magic Kingdom as a shining example to all generations as to what the soul of the Walt Disney company is made of.

Imagination, ingenuity, storytelling and magic.

That has been lost now.

Its replacement might have fancy animatronics and cool lighting packages, but it has no soul.

We have lost the crown jewel of the Magic Kingdom and I am immensely saddened by that.

 

[Jedi14]

I don’t actually think the ride is a sparse as some suggest. Dark videos perhaps don’t show it well, but everything is pretty lush. A far cry from the literal dark emptiness of Dinosaur, for example. I’d like more critters, of course, but there should be something to look at the entire ride. Arguably more to look at for the first few minutes than the predecessor had.

There's really only one dead space area and some static figures could fix it.

 

[JustInTime]

Seems the universal opinion is that it’s much better in person than it is on that POV video. People who have actually ridden it seem to be really loving it.

 

[Vclguy90]

I do wonder if this attraction is gonna work a lot better at Disneyland, based on the scale and flow of that version.

Was it designed for Disneyland and then made to fit in the MK version?

@wdwmagic any insight?

I mean Disneyland's is a bit quicker so the pacing may work "better?" But you can't fix the laughing place and the unclimatic drop. There is just no crescendo to it.

 

[JustInTime]

I mean…the ride layout is still fun, of course. That double dip should feel like the boat tunnel in Willy Wonka.

I suspect it will feel like Navi River Journey with drops.

I think the experience as a whole will be totally different in person and much better than Navi. We will see. People I know personally have ridden it and are loving it.