gorillaball
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That doesn't bode well for my "chance" at AP previews next week.
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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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Raineman
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Bob's gotta protect the secret Disney formuler.
Incomudro
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Like most of today's movies.
TomboyJanet
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When the POV started I was actually excited. The beginning scenes outside were pretty cute and had dancing plants and stuff, and as a Tomboy I do love Tiana being all explorery, but once they got into the show building and I saw bland home depot fake plants where the first fisherman Goose was I was like "Oh.....we're doing this aren't we...."
There was a lot of darkness which I thought was something everyone complained about in Dinosaur so......why is this still happening? There were some nice animatronics and the music was nice, the bayou song fits well with flickering lamps and stuff, but some of the AAs look like they've been there since 1971, and were planned for Western River Expedition but were left in a storage building for all those years and the fur is dusty and cob webbed.
There was a long stream of animatronics that were now reduced to cobbles of 3 or 4 then blankness, and they removed the possums????? WHAT??!!! They were in the concept art!! What was wrong with possums being in a bayou? Then more darkness and Tiana saying something and a cheap screen of Mama Ode replacing where brer rabbit taunted his nemesis' before the ride fell into the more dangerous territory of the laughin' place. Here we have the shrinking scene which makes NO sense and is poorly executed into what I THOUGHT would be the salt mines but it seems more like a hollow gopher hole where someone lost a bottle and some keys. Then NOTHING! The entire laughing place scene looks like a stage on It's a small world when the dolls are taken out for repair. Seeing a loose cable lying around between the mushrooms would not look out of place to me.
Then we have Mama Ode AS I PREDICTED, THROWING YOU OVER THE FALLS FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER! Making her the DE-FACTO villain of this ride. Even more so I think I heard Tiana question where we went so this was done behind her back anyway. I really don't trust that lady.
I don't really have much issues with the finale, aside from the forgettable and indecipherable song that is nowhere near Zip a dee Do Dah Quality. I can't believe they managed to make the song from Runaway Railway more catchy.
This leads me to my MAJOR concern here....
If this version was this disappointing imagine the CALIFORNIA VERSION! The boats move much faster, the lighting is much less dynamic, the scenes are arranged much longer and there were WAY more animatronics to fill it up. This means that ride is shaping up to look like a B-rated version of this one at best. I bet they will just use the same soundtrack instead of keeping it unique like it was on Splash, It will be very incoherent, My beloved hitchiking alligator will be replaced by a plant, and NO MORE CUTE GIGGLING BRER RABBIT HIDING!!!!! :O That was my fave animatronic ever!
There was a lot of darkness which I thought was something everyone complained about in Dinosaur so......why is this still happening? There were some nice animatronics and the music was nice, the bayou song fits well with flickering lamps and stuff, but some of the AAs look like they've been there since 1971, and were planned for Western River Expedition but were left in a storage building for all those years and the fur is dusty and cob webbed.
There was a long stream of animatronics that were now reduced to cobbles of 3 or 4 then blankness, and they removed the possums????? WHAT??!!! They were in the concept art!! What was wrong with possums being in a bayou? Then more darkness and Tiana saying something and a cheap screen of Mama Ode replacing where brer rabbit taunted his nemesis' before the ride fell into the more dangerous territory of the laughin' place. Here we have the shrinking scene which makes NO sense and is poorly executed into what I THOUGHT would be the salt mines but it seems more like a hollow gopher hole where someone lost a bottle and some keys. Then NOTHING! The entire laughing place scene looks like a stage on It's a small world when the dolls are taken out for repair. Seeing a loose cable lying around between the mushrooms would not look out of place to me.
Then we have Mama Ode AS I PREDICTED, THROWING YOU OVER THE FALLS FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER! Making her the DE-FACTO villain of this ride. Even more so I think I heard Tiana question where we went so this was done behind her back anyway. I really don't trust that lady.
I don't really have much issues with the finale, aside from the forgettable and indecipherable song that is nowhere near Zip a dee Do Dah Quality. I can't believe they managed to make the song from Runaway Railway more catchy.
This leads me to my MAJOR concern here....
If this version was this disappointing imagine the CALIFORNIA VERSION! The boats move much faster, the lighting is much less dynamic, the scenes are arranged much longer and there were WAY more animatronics to fill it up. This means that ride is shaping up to look like a B-rated version of this one at best. I bet they will just use the same soundtrack instead of keeping it unique like it was on Splash, It will be very incoherent, My beloved hitchiking alligator will be replaced by a plant, and NO MORE CUTE GIGGLING BRER RABBIT HIDING!!!!! :O That was my fave animatronic ever!
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Disstevefan1
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Dan Deesnee
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Are there any scents pumped into this ride? Like beignet's?
I mean, if not, what a total wasted opportunity. You sell them outside the ride and get everyone hungry right as they are getting off.
I mean, if not, what a total wasted opportunity. You sell them outside the ride and get everyone hungry right as they are getting off.
I think there’s a beignet smell in a certain part of the queue.
Disstevefan1
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I was thinking, its possible they may look at how Tiana in WDW is received, consider all the views and comments and make corrections to the DLR version.
Lets see what happens.
Lets see what happens.
TomboyJanet
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I hope so. It would be wild if they decided OK we'll add all the AAs back in and make it the superior version. Ironically this time the Florida one opened before the original.
Also Wait I noticed in the POV It looks like the "FSU" gopher is STILL IN THE HOLE?
Or am I just seeing things
MerlinTheGoat
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It's not the gopher. It's something mechanical, looks a lot like a security camera with night vision.
TalkingHead
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Hope the queue has a Live Laugh Love sign to complete the inspirational Kirkland’s decor theme
TomboyJanet
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I wonder where they put all these things now that they are removed? I hope they don't just toss them into a furnace.
On the other point, I just watched the Splash Mountain video I took from Cali and......Idk how this is going to fit in it at all. There are SOOO MANY things in the laughing place scene that by comparison this is going to look like you replaced an intricate model of Rome with three sand castles and a lego house
DANGIT!It's not the gopher. It's something mechanical, looks a lot like a security camera with night vision.
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I wonder where they put all these things now that they are removed? I hope they don't just toss them into a furnace.
On the other point, I just watched the Splash Mountain video I took from Cali and......Idk how this is going to fit in it at all. There are SOOO MANY things in the laughing place scene that by comparison this is going to look like you replaced an intricate model of Rome with three sand castles and a lego house
Drdcm
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Enhance…It's not the gopher. It's something mechanical, looks a lot like a security camera with night vision.
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MerlinTheGoat
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I'm sort of morbidly curious now just how similar or different DL's version will even be. One known difference so far is that they've enclosed the first drop entirely for some reason (whereas WDW's remains open). Despite WDW opening first, DL was the original one they designed this attraction for. So it stands to wonder whether it will turn out any better, as WDW would theoretically be a square peg in a round hole situation. I don't know, but I don't hold out hope for their version either.
For what it's worth, Splash Archive has stated previously that Disneyland would retain SOME of the old America Sings figures. I don't know how up to date this information is however. WDW didn't reuse ANY of its old figures, despite leaving a TON of their former positions entirely vacant.
The existence of the shrinking detail regarding the former Laughing Place might also have thrown a wrench into some prior inside info. That piece of concept art showing Naveen and Tiana in the boat didn't make it into WDW's version (two of the hanging possums from Splash were also visible in this art). Archive claimed that at Disneyland, this scene would be located in the old Laughing Place where the dog in the boat was located (reusing his boat prop). But again, I don't know if this is still the case as this was from a while ago. Unless they scrap the detail of guests being shrunk down and do something different at DL, it wouldn't make any sense to have Tiana and Naveen down there.
Back in that first We Call it Imagineering episode, I will note that they featured a list of the scenes in the ride and the associated AA's specifically for the Disneyland version. It seemed to line up pretty much exactly with the scenes at WDW though, with no hint of Naveen being present in anything other than the finale.
@SplashMountainArchives
Sorry to ping you as I know you've been exceptionally patient and very gracious with my comments in the past. But have you heard anything recent about the current fate of some of the old America Sings AA's for the Disneyland version? Or whether that scene of Naveen in the boat is still going to be featured somewhere in the ride?
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Disney Unveils New Webpage for Tiana's Bayou Adventure
Disney Unveils New Webpage for Tiana's Bayou Adventure
Disney Unveils New Webpage for Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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SilentWindODoom
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Funnily enough, I can hear the comments in my head of people screaming about how terrifying the giant monster Tiana and Odie heads are.
From what you're seeing? I'm not one to say that people watching YouTube can't come up with proper criticism or don't get a voice, but the quality of screens has proven in the past to differ hugely between video and our eyes.
Although the strength of the language throughout suggests these words may not help.
Oh, come on, man. If you're going to do it, do it right. How did you miss "Synergy"? Synergy has gotta replace messaging. It's a much bigger part of the Iger Ideology. It's worth losing the alliteration.
Yes. You can smell beignets while you're in the kitchen where beignets are cooked and there are a fresh batch out on the table. The place where it would smell like beignets.
Disstevefan1
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Ha, one reason to not include synergy, every time Disney tries to be synergistic, its 1 + 1 = -3
Messaging is Iger's number one priority!
Ismael Flores
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I have missed some of the posts and might have been mentioned but has anyone commented on the first scenes of the outside portion?
So the log goes thru an area showing lots of vegetables and stuff planted. During the day in videos it looks kind of cool but the videos of night s the area looks so dark and void of anything to see. Anyone know if it is actually like that?
Also couldn’t help noticing the awkward and moment of just a couple corn stalks swaying and as if dancing to the music.
What makes this so out if place and awkward is that it looks like it is just couple stalks doing this while everything else is static.
The question that came to my mind if first when i first started to watch the video was
Ok i see where this might takes us, swinging corn = fun whimsical theme but why only those?
Then we enter the ride and no where in the ride does that whimsical/magical theme continue.
How simple would it have been to use simple swaying movement on the greenery in areas that are now dark and devoid of anything.
Referring back to Splash and other dark rides some of the most effective elements are simple three dimensional puppets with springs that make ears bounce or heads sway.
Why not think out of the box.
The same approach should have been considered for some of the Tiana AA’s that just sit frozen until triggered by the logs. Have her do simple movements even if it means a slight swaying to the movement in between triggers
So the log goes thru an area showing lots of vegetables and stuff planted. During the day in videos it looks kind of cool but the videos of night s the area looks so dark and void of anything to see. Anyone know if it is actually like that?
Also couldn’t help noticing the awkward and moment of just a couple corn stalks swaying and as if dancing to the music.
What makes this so out if place and awkward is that it looks like it is just couple stalks doing this while everything else is static.
The question that came to my mind if first when i first started to watch the video was
Ok i see where this might takes us, swinging corn = fun whimsical theme but why only those?
Then we enter the ride and no where in the ride does that whimsical/magical theme continue.
How simple would it have been to use simple swaying movement on the greenery in areas that are now dark and devoid of anything.
Referring back to Splash and other dark rides some of the most effective elements are simple three dimensional puppets with springs that make ears bounce or heads sway.
Why not think out of the box.
The same approach should have been considered for some of the Tiana AA’s that just sit frozen until triggered by the logs. Have her do simple movements even if it means a slight swaying to the movement in between triggers
splah
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one of the things in the marketing that is a pet peeve but they say “season” after Mardi gras every time. As she celebrates “mardi gras season”
In this vein, the party is never described in the dialogue as anything other than a party. What’s the party for and Mardi gras isn’t mentioned at all. Are they afraid of the Mardi Gras connotations?
In this vein, the party is never described in the dialogue as anything other than a party. What’s the party for and Mardi gras isn’t mentioned at all. Are they afraid of the Mardi Gras connotations?