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

[TomboyJanet]

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It's not the gopher. It's something mechanical, looks a lot like a security camera with night vision.

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DANGIT!
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]

It's not the gopher. It's something mechanical, looks a lot like a security camera with night vision.

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Enhance…

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

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DANGIT!
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

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?

 

[wdwmagic]

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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[DCBaker]

Tiana's Bayou Adventure has also been added to My Disney Experience, along with a guide and video on the main section of the app.

 

[SilentWindODoom]

That would have been a great opportunity to do large Animatromics of their heads. A bit intense but when you reaize friends it's fun. Also minor expression details easier since close and mechanics would have room.

Funnily enough, I can hear the comments in my head of people screaming about how terrifying the giant monster Tiana and Odie heads are.

Idk about that. Like I said I feel like the aesthetic to this ride is much less adventure in new Orleans than it is "got off at the wrong exit on the Jersey Turnpike late at night and lost in Jersey swamplands full of mosquitoes". Vibes. I'm thoroughly uninterested in fake plant varieties or food smells that are just sound and fury (or smell in this case) signifying nothing. And the screens are both low quality and quick looping, from what I'm seeing and frankly if I wanted to stare at a screen id take my phone out and play the same clip and wow I just imagineered all in my own!

I go to Disney to see the impossible become possible before my eyes and to be in adventures with things I can't do on my own. I can attend a party with food. I don't need a log flume to do it

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.

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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.

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 think there’s a beignet smell in a certain part of the queue.

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]

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.

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]

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

 

[splah]

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?

 

[dreamfinding]

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?

I mean, Mardi Gras has religious connotations.

Also - if we were really celebrating Mardi Gras, Disney would be selling king cake.

 

[splah]

I mean, Mardi Gras has religious connotations.

Also - if we were really celebrating Mardi Gras, Disney would be selling king cake.

If they’re afraid it’d be stronger if the party was to celebrate the business anniversary or something like that

But then they have this weird vapid phrase “mardi gras season” which is meaningless. It’s trying to be everything to everyone and ends up just landing with a thud.

I would love to buy some king cake!

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

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?

It's supposed to be Louis who is causing the stalks to move, since there's a static figure of him stuck in the log behind them. Problem is...well he's static, very obviously so. So it's not obvious to everyone that he's the one who is supposed to be moving them.

 

[dreamfinding]

But then they have this weird vapid phrase “mardi gras season” which is meaningless. It’s trying to be everything to everyone and ends up just landing with a thud.

Precisely. Marie Gras just means “Fat Tuesday”. It’s like saying we’re celebrating Fat Tuesday season.

I would love to buy some king cake!

They need to go down to Houma, LA and bring in the bakers to WDW for it to be legit.

 

[dreamfinding]

It's supposed to be Louis who is causing the stalks to move, since there's a static figure of him stuck in the log behind them. Problem is...well he's static, very obviously so. So it's not obvious to everyone that he's the one who is supposed to be moving them.

Example: my spouse watched the video 3 times before he finally realized it was Louis.

 

[Ismael Flores]

It's supposed to be Louis who is causing the stalks to move, since there's a static figure of him stuck in the log behind them. Problem is...well he's static, very obviously so. So it's not obvious to everyone that he's the one who is supposed to be moving them.

Oh wow, i did not even notice a figure, this is in the outside portion?
So the stalks move but they could get him to sway as well, talk about missing the details in design

 

[zipadee999]

I think there is a major element that was left out for this attraction. Most of us know that some young ladies enjoy showing some taboo upper body skin for the camera while going down the final drop. Shouldn't they be offered Mardi Gras beads after they get off the ride?

Replace the old water cannons with launchers that shoot Mardi Gras beads up to them

 

[Ismael Flores]

It's supposed to be Louis who is causing the stalks to move, since there's a static figure of him stuck in the log behind them. Problem is...well he's static, very obviously so. So it's not obvious to everyone that he's the one who is supposed to be moving them.

Ok just rewatched that part a couple times. I see it now, it looked like a giant squash. Still makes me wonder how simple it would have been to have made his tail swing. They went thru the trouble of making the stalks swing

 

[WorldExplorer]

Those swaying corn stalks are definitely going to be the first thing that breaks and never gets fixed.

 

[James Alucobond]

Ok just rewatched that part a couple times. I see it now, it looked like a giant squash. Still makes me wonder how simple it would have been to have made his tail swing. They went thru the trouble of making the stalks swing

They probably just should’ve put the moving stalks up behind the overturned wheelbarrow, shaking the wheelbarrow slightly and swaying the stalks as if he’s digging with his unseen snout.

 

[SobchakSecurity]

Has anyone taken a ride on the Railroad to see if the windows to the finale are still covered? It seems like the view has been preserved, but views from the Railroad and Peoplemover seem to be forgotten when they build/renovate things (i.e. the dark tunnel under Tron and the Peoplemover experience through the Space Mountain exit queue and ride building itself being completely destroyed).