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

MerlinTheGoat

MerlinTheGoat

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monothingie said:
There were even credible reports that some of the imagineers working on this took glee in destruction of set pieces from Splash, so I won’t share the same optimism that you have about the creatives on this.
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I heard "credible reports" that Kathleen Kennedy has been fired for the 700th time as well. Stop believing culture war idiots on twitter.

The "optimism" i've reported about the creatives is not my own. I'm merely relaying information about what was shared by someone who was connected with people involved in the project. And prior to late last year, this optimism did not exist whatsoever. The source hated the project as much as (if not moreso) any of the most negative people here. The original plan was awful. This opinion did a complete 180 after they learned the new plan. And while I can only go on second hand opinion here, I was also given a lot of objective details that have since been confirmed as true. So until I see the final version of the ride, i've decided not to automatically assume it will be garbage for a change. Likewise, it will take a lot to convince me it's actually good as well.

I don't think this will go down as another Imagination v2/3. Or the countless other replacements for classic E tickets that I've hated. What extremely little has been shown of this attraction looks like a cut far above anything they've built in multiple decades.

monothingie said:
The Shamen was featured in promo material and via concept art as early as 2015.

The AA for MMRRR were featured as early as 2018 in concept and promotional material.
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I don't really understand. Is your argument that the lack of animatronics in the photos means there aren't going to be any?

It's your right to hate the ride if you want. But it is going to have animatronics. Quite a lot of them. A fact at this point that Disney and many others have confirmed, not rumor. Disney keeping them hidden doesn't prove their nonexistence.

Homemade Imagineering said:
This statement alone kills any credibility I have for Brayden’s statements. 17 total animatronics is comical, there are more than 17 shown in the concept art released combined, and “dozens” indicates at the very least 24
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Someone here who claimed to know things said it was at least twice even that number. That's quite a lot, though whether it will have as many as Splash, I don't know. My biggest concern at the moment is that the finale is properly filled out. While I'm currently inclined not to assume Splash Archive's claims about it being sparse are accurate (given my reasoning as stated multiple times before), it would indeed ruin the ride if that was a relatively empty scene.
 
_caleb

_caleb

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monothingie said:
Yeah so great that even Tony Baxter, lending his name as a symbolic participant in the design, gave up on it.

There were even credible reports that some of the imagineers working on this took glee in destruction of set pieces from Splash, so I won’t share the same optimism that you have about the creatives on this.
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Can you point me to one of these credible reports?
 
Homemade Imagineering

Homemade Imagineering

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@cupofchai Now that we’re further along in the process has your information changed or relatively the same? I’m curious whether those previous finale renders align with what you described as being an impressive finale, if I’m not mistaken. I’m hoping most of this is hearsay, the 17 animatronics claim is hilarious to me. I’d also wager the Bob Iger claim is complete BS, there’s no way any of the AAs have been installed in the middle of a construction zone (way too early to make judgements). Even splash looked this way early on according to Dave Ensign’s backstage videos before opening
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

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monothingie said:
The Shamen was featured in promo material and via concept art as early as 2015.

The AA for MMRRR were featured as early as 2018 in concept and promotional material.
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They’ve likewise already previewed a bunch of AAs in promotional material for TBA as well. I’m confused what you are concluding, that there are no animatronics on this ride?
 
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DKampy

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monothingie said:
The Shamen was featured in promo material and via concept art as early as 2015.

The AA for MMRRR were featured as early as 2018 in concept and promotional material.
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How early did they show the AA’s in the actual show scene… because we did see Tiana snd Louis in concept art
 
Dan Deesnee

Dan Deesnee

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This ride looks terrible so far, what's with all the fake plants on the outside? Apparently Bob Iger walked the ride recently and said it was "boring".

Hopefully these new board members can help get Disney back on track. I'd say the company is about 100 feet from the cliff, but still going too fast...
 
Markiewong

Markiewong

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monothingie said:
About a year before.
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This video is made before it was installed, you can see it through the different background. The MMRR animatronics were not shown at all before the attraction opened, neither were the Rise of Resistance animatronics and look how that ride turned out.

Fact is, Disney sometimes shows things in advance and sometimes doesn't. In the case of Navi River Journey the animatronic was really the only thing to show off beforehand..
 
Tha Realest

Tha Realest

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Markiewong said:
This video is made before it was installed, you can see it through the different background. The MMRR animatronics were not shown at all before the attraction opened, neither were the Rise of Resistance animatronics and look how that ride turned out.

Fact is, Disney sometimes shows things in advance and sometimes doesn't. In the case of Navi River Journey the animatronic was really the only thing to show off beforehand..
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Maybe if Rise installed the AAs earlier in the process half of them wouldn’t be in B-mode
 

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