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

Brer Oswald

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Pay wall: https://www.nola.com/entertainment_...utm_source=reddit.com#tncms-source=featured-3

No pay wall:


Someone got a sneak peak apparently, they said Disney confirmed the animatronics will have real faces.
Interesting. Based on the description, I can place the band Critters around where the geese were, Louis where “Time to be Moving along” was, and the first Tiana where the bunnies and Time to be turning around was. That’s a lot more spaced out than I was expecting.
 

_caleb

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Regarding the drop and perspective:
  • For Splash, the drop was from meant to be from the top of Chickapin Hill down into the briar patch at the bottom of the hill. The viewing perspective from the front was looking back up the hill from the briar patch. And apparently the viewer is critter-sized, because the briars were huge.
  • For TBA, the drop is meant to be from a low hill down into the underground salt dome. It seems the viewing perspective is intended to be from surface level, part way down the drop before the log plunges below the surface into the salt mine below. It seems like the viewer is now meant to be human size (looking at the frogs on the log at the turn).
 

DCBaker

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"Just outside the barn, multiple poles will sport loudspeakers hooked to a PA system, “like at the beginning of ‘Grease,’” Robledo said. They will broadcast an old-timey radio show featuring reimagined New Orleans classics performed by an assortment of local musicians gathered by multiple Grammy winner Terence Blanchard."

Ah, that might explain this new pole from my last set of photos.

 

rd805

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Also, a lot of people impact what we get in a ride beyond imagineering - I find it sad/unfair how quickly people are willing to attack and belittle current imagineers en masse with almost no insight into their work or environment. We don't see how many drafts, suggestions, and plans imagineers present/pitch internally. They don't pick funding or have the final say on what gets built, they do the best they can within limitations. I would argue we're still getting excellent work from Imagineering in the present day, even if at a much slower pace / with a lot of budget cutting. I think RotR and Guardians are really wonderful start to finish. I know people dislike the screen-based Mickey and Minnie - but I find it so charming and fun, evoking similar feels I got first riding classic rides. The new lands they've built are beautiful and show wonderful detail (not to say they're perfect, don't need more live performers). Not trying to say the quality is the best its ever been, but come on, don't be mean just to be mean.
Imagineering is doing the best they can - yes. The problem I think MOST dedicated fans have are as follows: The amount of NEW attractions - why come back to WDW if there isn't anything new? 2) Unused / dead space (SGE, Dinoland, WoL) 3) The amount of time it takes to get attractions built. The YEARS is a travesty.

When you put these points in comparison to how Universal is trying to grasp more sharehold of theme park goers, Disney majorly pales in comparison; even when the attractions they are actually producing are good (like the ones you mentioned).
 

DCBaker

Premium Member
“ Cranes” at the load station.

Are they messing with us?

Most likely this - @wdwmagic took this photo a couple months ago as it was being lifted.


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mickEblu

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