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

[Vegas Disney Fan]

I'm 99% sure he was the creative lead for Disneyland in the '90s and early '00s? I could be wrong.

His popularity within Disney's leadership plummeted in the late '90s and '00s and as far as I know never recovered.

I think Kim Irvine has done a better job internally of remaining popular- but she also comes across as more of a 'yes' person who is willing to toe the company line.

Wonder if it was fallout from him being the lead designer of DL Paris (EuroDisney) and its early struggles?

Which coincidentally is still the most beautiful Disney park in my opinion.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Wonder if it was fallout from him being the lead designer of DL Paris (EuroDisney) and its early struggles?

More like Rocket Rods… (I love Tony but… )

 

[Bocabear]

Wonder if it was fallout from him being the lead designer of DL Paris (EuroDisney) and its early struggles?

Which coincidentally is still the most beautiful Disney park in my opinion.

Disneyland Paris' early struggles were never related to the design of the park....and I agree it is the most beautiful park. From what I have been told the real problems were related to overbuilding resorts that were not necessary at the time it was built. I think now it is more widely accepted , but on it's opening, the crowds were not there yet.

 

[bpiper]

From Touringplan's Sept 4 Disney Data Dump blog article. This for the period Aug 27 thru Sept 2.

Attraction Downtime Worst Offenders​

For the third week in a row (and with no prospect for getting knocked off its pedestal any time soon), the worst offender of the past week was Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, which was unexpectedly down for an astounding 41% of the week – its worst week since we starting tracking it. The worst day for Tiana’s was clearly on August 27th, when the ride was down for 82% of the day. But it was also down for more than half of the day on August 28th. On average, Tiana’s didn’t open until 11:15 am this week. But on two different days it was down until significantly into the afternoon.

 

[MaximumEd]

Just got back from a trip and got to ride this several times. I noticed in the mill scene where the first Tiana is located that there seemed to be some loud machinery noise in there like a bad bearing in a pump, or something like that. Don’t remember this in Splash. Anyone have any info?

 

[gerarar]

TBA just passed 100 days of Virtual Queue use!

What was originally supposed to be short-lived after opening, now has no ending in sight!

And because of that, probably triggered Tron to finally ditch its VQ...a blessing in disguise?!

Final Day Stats (9/29):
7am: 160.6 secs, or ~3 mins
1pm: 3.0 secs*
*the morning 7am drop lasted longer than afternoon 1pm drop

BG 95 (-80) is the last BG called for the day at 5pm (MNSSHP tonight ).

Notable stoppages:
9:00 - 9:14am
9:25 - 11:06am

Average pace: 5mins/BG

VQ Drop Mean/Average:
7am: 6m -> 6m (+0)
1pm: 1hr 4m -> 59m (-5m)

That does it for Day 100 of Tiana's Bayou Adventure!
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