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

[co10064]

It's truly wild hearing the claim that Tiana looks so off model that children won't be able to recognize her. First off, she doesn't. Secondly, that's really such a discredit to Anika Noni Rose whose stellar voice work really brings Tiana to life. I know I might be biased, but I think Anika is truly in the golden trio of princess voice actors with Paige O'Hara and Jodi Benson. To be frank, Tiana wouldn't be Tiana without Anika Noni Rose's inspired acting.

I've been lucky enough to ride Tiana's Bayou Adventure (with all the animatronics working none the less), and found it ridiculous that anyone would claim it was difficult to understand whose ride it is. If you have any clue who Tiana is, you'll know exactly who you're adventuring with.

IMO the first three Tiana animatronics are very clearly her, but the last one at the party scene doesn’t capture her very well at all. The first time I saw the ride through POV, I had to double check that it was actually Tiana and not one of her family members or friends.

 

[BagOfGroceries]

BTW Rode it first thing when it opened, top of mountain Odie was all broken except for the mouth. Everything else worked perfectly.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

Looking at the ride time, from the start of Tiana flailing and saying "Hey kids, let's go find a tiny frog band!" to when you are restored back to full size, that is over three minutes of the attraction.

That means, give or take, almost 30% of the entire ride time is driven by a story premise to go find a six inch tall frog band that, by definition, can't even be heard by the people dancing at the party.

Seriously, how does that idiotic concept even get past the first story pitch meeting?

 

[Jedi14]

Looking at the ride time, from the start of Tiana flailing and saying "Hey kids, let's go find a tiny frog band!" to when you are restored back to full size, that is over three minutes of the attraction.

That means, give or take, almost 30% of the entire ride time is driven by a story premise to go find a six inch tall frog band that, by definition, can't even be heard by the people dancing at the party.

Seriously, how does that idiotic concept even get past the first story pitch meeting?

At this point, you seem to be obsessed with this ride more than anyone else.

 

[RenDeVieux]

So every human musician in the entire city of New Orleans and surrounding area is booked for the evening and therefore the only solution is to venture out into the bayou to find little animals that can play music and bring them back to New Orleans to play at the party.

Uh, OK.

As a Nola native…not finding musicians over Carnival season/Mardi Gras on short notice tracks. Those guys usually book gigs weeks in advance (I can’t speak
for a century ago..)

 

[donaldtoo]

Looking at the ride time, from the start of Tiana flailing and saying "Hey kids, let's go find a tiny frog band!" to when you are restored back to full size, that is over three minutes of the attraction.

That means, give or take, almost 30% of the entire ride time is driven by a story premise to go find a six inch tall frog band that, by definition, can't even be heard by the people dancing at the party.

Seriously, how does that idiotic concept even get past the first story pitch meeting?

 

[Disney Analyst]

At this point, you seem to be obsessed with this ride more than anyone else.

lol, ain’t that truth. May be time to grab a margarita and chill out.

 

[EagleScout610]

Also another minor nitpick - At the start of the ride, when outside, Louis calls out "Hello? Any tiny musicians?" Wouldn't that line have worked better in the scene where he has his head stuck in a log before Odie shrinks us?

 

[celluloid]

At this point, you seem to be obsessed with this ride more than anyone else.

Yes, but that should have been a couple of people in WDI.

 

[celluloid]

The adventure is in trying to find the mcguffin. I agree it's weak sauce but let's not kid ourselves and think this was going to be anything other than a C-ticket. (on a good day) without any real stakes or conflict, it was always going to be an episode of Dora the Explorer. At least with trying to track down a missing ingredient or even Louis's trumpet there were some stakes, some sense of story progression.

As-is, the story progression ends the minute the attraction starts -- we find a band instantly. Horrah! Or should I say, Hallelujah!

The Mcguffn is a mcguffin because it leads to conflict. It is wasted and therefore not a Mcguffin.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

Now that the dust has settled and we have had time to process this disaster, we should begin to put its place in the portfolio in perspective.

Considering the attraction's embarrassing, juvenile storyline, gaps of sad nothingness, cringeworthy dialogue, absence of any conflict, and lack of emotional engagement, is this Disney's worst E-Ticket attraction in the world?

What E-ticket ride in the global Disney portfolio, of this scale, is actually worse than this when we are not grading on a curve of pity?

 

[EagleScout610]

Here's the D23 presentation on Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Somehow it doesn't really help the ride any.

 

[GhostHost1000]

Here's the D23 presentation on Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Somehow it doesn't really help the ride any.

Too bad they didn’t take questions

 

[Tha Realest]

Too bad they didn’t take questions

They didn’t take questions during its development so why start now?

 

[TDLFan]

I get they didn't want to use the movie as a premise, fine, but if the theme was finding music for a party, there were so many wonderful singers/musicians to come out of New Orleans in that era. Even making this a mild edu-tainment attraction would have been a much better route. If they were opposed to having Tiana finding the real musicians, finding animals who were a play on the character such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, ect. would have been delightful. Really Showcase the rich musical history. The making of videos led me to believe this may have been the avenue they were headed due to all the talk of how significant this attraction was. I've done a lot of music work with children in inner city schools, so this attraction just rubs me the wrong way, aside from being some of Disney's poorest work, it could really have been something special and a testament to great African American artists AND Tiana. It did neither.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

That feeling when you realize you've mucked it up and now you have to pretend to be happy with it in front of hundreds of people.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Oh, I finally went on this. It was fine. It would be a cute little thing on its own. As a replacement for Splash it underwhelms. But it absolutely is better in person, especially since the nostalgic smell of Splash remains. It just doesn’t have the same impact, especially with the drops and the story.

 

[Incomudro]

Oh, I finally went on this. It was fine. It would be a cute little thing on its own. As a replacement for Splash it underwhelms. But it absolutely is better in person, especially since the nostalgic smell of Splash remains. It just doesn’t have the same impact, especially with the drops and the story.

It was fine, but it could have (should have) been amazing.

 

[Disstevefan1]

I heard from folks who went to the Halloween party they go on twice as they opened the standby and it was only 30 min wait.

 

[Brer Oswald]

It was fine, but it could have (should have) been amazing.

It already was amazing before. A waste of money IMO. Had it been an addition and added capacity, it would have been great!