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

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donaldtoo

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Epcot81Fan said:
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?
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celluloid

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Magicart87 said:
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!
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The Mcguffn is a mcguffin because it leads to conflict. It is wasted and therefore not a Mcguffin.
 
Epcot81Fan

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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?
 
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TDLFan

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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.
 
Brer Oswald

Brer Oswald

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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.
 
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Incomudro

Incomudro

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Brer Oswald said:
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.
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It was fine, but it could have (should have) been amazing.
 
Bocabear

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I think going the route of introducing real life Jazz performers from the early 20th century would have really really derailed the entire ride and made it about something other than the source material....
I think they wandered too far away from the movie already...."Finding music for a party" really feels like a "design By Committee" choice. It doesn't seem to celebrate the actual source material at all... Maybe I will like it better in person....
 
monothingie

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I’ve ridden it 3 times in the past 2 days.

Most of the sophisticated AAs are not functioning properly. (No movement, not synced to voice etc). Set pieces are falling apart and the queue looks like it’s been running for 2 years and not 2 months.

The ride is boring and difficult to understand, even more so with all the storytelling elements broken.
 
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