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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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EricsBiscuit
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Who said they need Dr Facilier to have some conflict? Why not make the plot about loading hoards of cash she has been hiding from the newfangled IRS onto logs and then hurrying as fast as possible to make the deposit on a new location before the big bad businessmen steal the prime real estate?
The mist of Blackbeard in Pirates also lasted about a day as well
SuddenStorm
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What's weird is how insulting this is to their audience.
Does Disney think so little of their fans that this is the level of writing they think they need for us to comprehend the attraction?
There's no subtlety, it's just hitting us over the head with plot.
Tiana doesn't exist as a character- she exists as a narrator for plot exposition. Which I guess is because we are the main character. Which is stupid.
Does Disney think so little of their fans that this is the level of writing they think they need for us to comprehend the attraction?
There's no subtlety, it's just hitting us over the head with plot.
Tiana doesn't exist as a character- she exists as a narrator for plot exposition. Which I guess is because we are the main character. Which is stupid.
Brian
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Disney PR outside the attraction shooing away the media as it's on fire for the second (?) time:
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TalkToEthan
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I don’t want to be Disney’s “friend” or “ingredient” nor do I want to be “the magic”
I miss the days of just being a guest
I miss the days of just being a guest
JoeCamel
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1927 in New Orleans? She had a rumrunning business on the side. IRS was a burr on the butt of a frog but the mobsters were the real deal.....
EricsBiscuit
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Actually this would make a much better story line. Smuggling alcohol through the bayou to get to the party!
“You gotta dig a little deeper to find where you left the rum”
JoeCamel
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"Look out for the revenuerrs!"
Sir_Cliff
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To be fair, when Tiana said "your very special spice makes us complete", she was referring to someone else in the log. I also hear she thinks you probably shouldn't "be true to the very unique thing that makes you you" and meant that for someone else. She actually kind of thinks you need to work a little on yourself.
If you take it as her being passive aggressive and purposefully complementing the other guests while ignoring you, you may enjoy the ride more!
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SilentWindODoom
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Oof. Rough place to start. But it sounds like you caught another to be able to compare. Or got a ride.
I've heard multiple people not realize that was Louis. I originally saw this figure on the aerial shot and knew it was coming. I wonder if I only was so immediately sure because of this.
Obviously, there's a big difference in the scale and a whole lot of difference in budget. A land with four D-through-B-ticket attractions and one E-ticket are apples and oranges. But the ingredients are so similar. Everything failing and gripe except for the comparison to an original is there. But because they're not to the same scale, they're not as big a problem. I defended Rapunzel having no conflict or Gothel because it doesn't seem the goal of the ride. It's trying to be a little romantic tour of their relationship.
But just as the Mansion, Pirates, and the Jungle Cruise are three completely different rides which share so many similarities (not the least of which is Marc Davis's gags), I look at Fantasy Springs and see just about everything someone has complained about here and there. That makes it funny to see some people demonizing one and praising the other or even suggest soliciting the services of the other company when they're both WDI.
We can't still be doing this.
There's stuch a tiny space you've got to thread between the Mansion and Small World show buildings. It's similar to the journey to Indy in Disneyland or (hopefully) Moana in the future. And I don't know if they want to cut off the vehicle access there.
Doesn't French Quarter still have their table service restaurant shuttered? Did they ever do anything with that space? Seems like an easy choice.
The storytelling works and the final effect is great, but the rooms are so wide and the ceilings so low. The squatness of these spaces brings so much attention to the unthemed ceiling. But it looks like we're speaking of comparing the two on different qualities.
Not to mention it explains why Tiana's just sitting down in the middle of her crazy romp. She's waiting for Louis to get out. I wonder... is it possible the separation was due to a worry of having nothing at the end of the frog song straightaway?
ChesireCat11
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Another fun easter egg...
UNCgolf
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Oh absolutely; Beauty and the Beast is far from perfect. The outdoors scene is especially bad -- not that it's totally bad overall, but you spend far too much time there. Riders should move through there and into the library rather than just floating around in that space for such a long period.
I'm solely talking about the big picture rather than individual aspects; the entirety of Beauty and the Beast looks more interesting to me than the entirety of TBA. But that's not because TBA is terrible (or because BatB is an A+ attraction). On the other hand, I'd much rather ride TBA than the Peter Pan E ticket at Fantasy Springs.
SilentWindODoom
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Now that I've finally caught up, I'm closing a bunch of tabs. Watched the Lottie's Eye cut again, and it's the first one that's really lingered on Lari. For the first time I realized his eyes are the Haunted Bust/Orlando Portrait Gallery effect. It's quite effective. No wonder the eyes are lit. Cool little detail. But he's gotta be around more.
TP2000
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As of last week, it has been five (5!) years since Star Wars Land opened at Disneyland. The only thing they've added to the land since then is a Mandalorian walk around guy, and this barely movable droid that starts the fireworks show each night.
Moth
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What do you mean? Space Mountain is right there on the other side of the park.
Homemade Imagineering
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I’m warming up to this the more I see from better POVs and the overall queue. The queue seems to be the best part, I love that radio loop & I hope it’ll get posted online eventually. Anyways, there are some nice details alongside the flume on those outdoor portions, & the music within the attraction is mostly solid for me. Within that quiet stretch between the Rara Band & Tiana the musical arrangement of Goin’ Down the Bayou really reminds me of the music from the Frog Forest in Knott’s Bear-Y Tales. Probably one of my favorite bits of music from the attraction so that helps to make up for the lack of substance in that area. Overall while still imperfect in many ways, there is alot of good things to acknowledge about the attraction. Some of its shortcomings are made up for in other spots of the flume where SM was a little more lacking in scenery. I do think with another refurb of the attraction, adding in some additional animated figures would go a long way and is something I strongly encourage WDI to do
MerlinTheGoat
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Dunno if this was already posted, but I found a reaction on the ride from Royce Alcoser, former imagineer. He used to do painting, skinning and costuming for animatronics (including some of the repairs of several of DL Splash's AA's some years back). He also made some really cool conceptual images of the Swamp Boys in festive Mardi Gras outfits. I was initially fooled into thinking they were the genuine thing and would be included in the ride too, but they were created as part of his own personal collection of props and personal reproductions (which in general are very good). Shame the TBA team didn't use these ideas and scrapped all of the old figures (at least at WDW).
Anyway, here's his video on TBA. He was previously very optimistic about this overhaul btw. But as you can probably tell from the thumbnail, not so much anymore... Basically the same criticisms most everyone else has levied towards the attraction, but it's still interesting to hear these things from imagineers who have a background in art and especially AA skinning.
Anyway, here's his video on TBA. He was previously very optimistic about this overhaul btw. But as you can probably tell from the thumbnail, not so much anymore... Basically the same criticisms most everyone else has levied towards the attraction, but it's still interesting to hear these things from imagineers who have a background in art and especially AA skinning.
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MerlinTheGoat
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EDIT- Disregard this post, I think I was mistaken and it's just difficult to spot due to that prop being so dark in the video.
I just noticed in the Mousesteps video that they not only took out the banner outside before the finale scene (which was mentioned already), but they have also removed the banner inside the finale room too. Dunno if this was already known. The ones attached to the mill and across the garden are still there though sadly...
I just noticed in the Mousesteps video that they not only took out the banner outside before the finale scene (which was mentioned already), but they have also removed the banner inside the finale room too. Dunno if this was already known. The ones attached to the mill and across the garden are still there though sadly...
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ThemeParkTraveller
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For the finale room, do you mean the Princess Tiana & Prince Naveen banner?