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

[SuddenStorm]

Tiana's B Mode Adventure

Remember when people were saying this retheme was a good thing because Splash Mountain was run down (on both coasts)?

I feel like making the new ride less reliable than both Splash Mountains is the ultimate troll on Disney's part.

 

[Tha Realest]

Remember when people were saying this retheme was a good thing because Splash Mountain was run down (on both coasts)?

I feel like making the new ride less reliable than both Splash Mountains is the ultimate troll on Disney's part.

Disney partially accomplished what it wanted to in the retheme: get rid of the pesky 1) source material and 2) maintenance intensive AAs.

Well, one out of two ain’t bad.

 

[orky8]

I’m at Tokyo Disney now and while loving it, it’s depressing. You see what Splash Mountain could have looked like with animatronics maintained. You see how new rides (Fantasy Springs) should operate. Frozen has AAs that put Tiana to shame (I rode Tiana during previews and everything seemed to be working, but still pales in comparison to Frozen in Disneysea). You see what a purpose built Frozen ride could have been (amazing, is the answer). You see that instead of Rapunzel’s tower above bathrooms it could be part of an astonishing ride with a Rapunzel AA singing from it. We can disagree about whether Splash needed retheming, but holy buckets the U.S. parks are so grossly mismanaged and something needs to change.

 

[John park hopper]

Rode it for the first time today. I didn't hate it, but meh, probably a one and done for me. I definitely enjoyed Splash a lot more.

Quick question: I was kinda taken aback by the Tiana animatronic on the last scene (party), she only moves her head while she sings, the rest of her body was completely stiff, idk, it looked weird to me. Is this intentional, or was she on b-mode?

The body is stiff cause Disney stiffed us with this horrible redo attraction

 

[John park hopper]

I’m at Tokyo Disney now and while loving it, it’s depressing. You see what Splash Mountain could have looked like with animatronics maintained. You see how new rides (Fantasy Springs) should operate. Frozen has AAs that put Tiana to shame (I rode Tiana during previews and everything seemed to be working, but still pales in comparison to Frozen in Disneysea). You see what a purpose built Frozen ride could have been (amazing, is the answer). You see that instead of Rapunzel’s tower above bathrooms it could be part of an astonishing ride with a Rapunzel AA singing from it. We can disagree about whether Splash needed retheming, but holy buckets the U.S. parks are so grossly mismanaged and something needs to change.

The Japanese have totally different mind set I remember reading an article US company contracted with the a Japanese company to build some part. In the contract it said no more than 10% defective parts. When it came time to deliver there was a pallet of defective parts.

 

[Trauma]

Remember when one of the justifications on this board for destroying Splash was because it wasn’t all working?

Well it took Tiana’s just a few weeks to be much worse.

I will never understand how this rides failure was so predictable, yet so many posters here advocated for this project.

 

[John park hopper]

Remember when one of the justifications on this board for destroying Splash was because it wasn’t all working?

Well it took Tiana’s just a few weeks to be much worse.

I will never understand how this rides failure was so predictable, yet so many posters here advocated for this project.

we are not allowed to say

 

[Streetway]

we are not allowed to say

Is it that deep or bad of a thing that it has to be secret?

 

[LittleBuford]

Remember when one of the justifications on this board for destroying Splash was because it wasn’t all working?

Well it took Tiana’s just a few weeks to be much worse.

I will never understand how this rides failure was so predictable, yet so many posters here advocated for this project.

I don’t think anyone predicted so many technical issues so early on. It’s fair to point out that many expected or feared that the ride wouldn’t turn out well, but what we’re seeing now is by any measure surprising (and very disappointingly so).

 

[Trauma]

I don’t think anyone predicted so many technical issues so early on. It’s fair to point out that many expected or feared that the ride wouldn’t turn out well, but what we’re seeing now is by any measure surprising (and very disappointingly so).

Well I’m lumping technical issues in with the ride not performing well. Even if the ride is at 100% it is still lackluster. When even Drew is down on the ride you know it is an unmitigated disaster.

 

[Tha Realest]

I'm guessing a lot of these new A1000 figures will start having lengthy breakdowns within the first few months of operation. They have serious trouble maintaining far smaller quantities of these types of AA's in entirely dry attractions. Imagine how a much larger quantity in a very wet environment would do. I don't want to think about what it will look like after a year or so, they'll probably just be abandoned outright same as Splash's figures. And it may even end up in worse condition due to the figures being so advanced.

@MerlinTheGoat needs to change his name to NostradamusTheGoat

 

[Tha Realest]

I’ll take the under 90 days…

Winner winner

 

[Tha Realest]

For as many complaints about Splash's conditions (Also why are people acting like the ride didn't maintain itself?!), it's only a matter of a few months after TBA opens that it's not going to be working. Snow White's update stopped working after 3-4 months. ROTR never works.

Ding ding ding

 

[LittleBuford]

Well I’m lumping technical issues in with the ride not performing well. Even if the ride is at 100% it is still lackluster. When even Drew is down on the ride you know it is an unmitigated disaster.

I suppose what I'm getting at is that some of the "told you so" posts here are retconning things to make it seem as if everything that's gone wrong with the ride was utterly predictable, and I just don't think that's particularly accurate or helpful.

 

[LittleBuford]

Winner winner

Fair enough. I guess some were predicting such failures this early on. I still find it surprising that so much of the ride is so consistently down so early in its life. I don't think we've seen anything quite this bad before, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

 

[Tha Realest]

I suppose what I'm getting at is that some of the "told you so" posts here are retconning things to make it seem as if everything that's gone wrong with the ride was utterly predictable, and I just don't think that's particularly accurate or helpful.

It was predictable though, as evidenced by the many who predicted it.

But, set that aside. You say everyone’s in agreement now. Fine. What’s the solution? TBA seems doomed unless it gets a massive reworking, which seems unlikely.

Shouldn’t a constructive solution going forward be to be far more discerning in terms of what’s a necessary or worthwhile investment in the parks going forward?

 

[LittleBuford]

But, set that aside. You say everyone’s in agreement now. Fine. What’s the solution?

I would shut the ride down and do whatever needs to be done to fix the technical issues before reopening it, even if that takes months. Running it the way they are seems untenable to me.

Shouldn’t a constructive solution going forward be to be far more discerning in terms of what’s a necessary or worthwhile investment in the parks going forward?

I don't agree with this. Disney shouldn't be hobbled by fear that their future projects aren't going to work properly, and nor should we want them to be. The problem is with their implementation of the project, but with the project per se.

 

[Epcot82Guy]

While I can't speak from insider knowledge, I would guess a fair bit of ego, hubris and "megacorp" separation is also lurking within the causes of this troublesome mechanical (and artistic/storytelling) situation.

 

[Jedi14]

It was predictable though, as evidenced by the many who predicted it.

I think it’s more that some are using this as an excuse or some form of justification to say that they always knew it would end up like this because they didn’t like the idea of the retheme to begin with. I like the ride and hope they deal with and fix the problems, but using this as an “I told you so” does not feel genuine.

 

[EagleScout610]

The problem is large numbers of 1-2 movement figures breaking down at once isn't a good look, brand new attraction or not. In the case of Bayou it turns into "Enjoy these frozen foxes and bears because they're all you've got until you see Tiana 3 scenes later" because there's nothing else to draw your eye from the mannequins except for the screens.