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

[DCBaker]

Here are the dedicated spots for Tiana's Bayou Adventure on the Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort websites.

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/attractions/magic-kingdom/tianas-bayou-adventure/
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/tianas-bayou-adventure/

 

[Dranth]

Perhaps I'm a terrible Disney fan, but I had never heard of these characters before we rode the ride. The only thing I knew from the movie was the song.
On the ride the sound quality wasn't the greatest and could not understand what most characters were saying, so we just watched the animatronics, listened to the music and enjoyed the ride. I never did a deep dive into what the ride was about because frankly did not care. We just liked it.

I think this is pretty normal.

 

[LittleBuford]

Are we pretending the story to Splash was confusing now? Honestly, it was arguably the most clearly conveyed ride narrative in the Magic Kingdom.

“Please don’t throw me into that briar patch.”
“Briar patch?”

I don’t think the reverse-psychology aspect of that scene was all that clear to those unacquainted with the narrative.

 

[Incomudro]

Are we pretending the story to Splash was confusing now? Honestly, it was arguably the most clearly conveyed ride narrative in the Magic Kingdom.

“Please don’t throw me into that briar patch.”
“Briar patch?”

Perhaps I'm a terrible Disney fan, but I had never heard of these characters before we rode the ride. The only thing I knew from the movie was the song.
On the ride the sound quality wasn't the greatest and could not understand what most characters were saying, so we just watched the animatronics, listened to the music and enjoyed the ride. I never did a deep dive into what the ride was about because frankly did not care. We just liked it.

That's the way it was for me.
I knew the rabbit was being pursed by the bumbling fox and bear, and that he escaped in the end.
I didn't get him convincing them the throw him into the brier patch as a plan of escape.
Aso, I'm lucky if I got to ride this ride eight times in my entire life.
Most of those rides separated by a minimum of a one year interval.
You forget a lot about a ride in that length of time.
It's kind of new every time.

 

[plutofan15]

The ride is now an essentially a princess ride. Target audience young girls age 5-15.

It is possible that to prevent the young ones, particularly the little princesses from balling their eyes out and not wanting to go on the ride, they've muted the more "thrilling" aspects to help prevent this.

Yeah, no.

 

[plutofan15]

the complaining

That is what people do best here.

 

[Tha Realest]

Are we pretending the story to Splash was confusing now? Honestly, it was arguably the most clearly conveyed ride narrative in the Magic Kingdom.

“Please don’t throw me into that briar patch.”
“Briar patch?”

This revisionism happened just around the time some of the more bizarre narrative choices began to be released for the new ride. “The old ride didn’t make any sense either.” Pretty transparent what they were trying to do.

 

[plutofan15]

I had a similar thought, the discontent over the office isn’t because it’s an office, it’s still a result of the ride being based on a co-op.

Walking through a skippers office, full of maps and navigational tools, sounds fun.

Walking though Indiana Jones office, full of artifacts, sounds fun.

Walking through the offices in Flight of Passage and MIB, full of aliens and technology, sounds fun.

Walking through a co-op office sounds boring, when I envision a restaurant or grocery store office I picture work schedules, invoices, bills… none of that sounds fun.

It’s not that the office is a bad idea, it’s basing a ride on a co-op that’s a bad idea, it just doesn’t sound fun or exciting.

And yet nobody has seen this "office' yet. I will wait to see the final product before deciding if it is a bad idea or fun and exciting.

 

[Tha Realest]

And yet nobody has seen this "office' yet. I will wait to see the final product before deciding if it is a bad idea or fun and exciting.

Are we talking BBC or NBC version?

 

[plutofan15]

Are we talking BBC or NBC version?

That's what she said.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

This revisionism happened just around the time some of the more bizarre narrative choices began to be released for the new ride. “The old ride didn’t make any sense either.” Pretty transparent what they were trying to do.

The hoops people have to jump through to defend this...

 

[Tha Realest]

The hoops people have to jump through to defend this...

Yeah, they even posted a poll where 70% said they had no problem tracking what was going on in the ride. This thread, incidentally, opened the day WDW Splash closed and details were starting to trickle out about TBA

Intelligibility of Splash Mountain's plot

I created this poll in response to a discussion taking place now over in the Splash Mountain thread. How much of the plot did you personally understand from the ride alone? The options I've provided seem to cover the full spectrum, but please let me know if you think I should add any. For those...

forums.wdwmagic.com

 

[LittleBuford]

This revisionism happened just around the time some of the more bizarre narrative choices began to be released for the new ride. “The old ride didn’t make any sense either.” Pretty transparent what they were trying to do.

The hoops people have to jump through to defend this...

You’re making some very strange assumptions here. What do you make of a poster like @Incomudro, who is one of those who found Splash Mountain narratively unclear yet did not want it rethemed?

 

[tanc]

it no longer says late 2024, whether that's just me grasping straws or not idk. but seems like there is a chance they are ahead of schedule?

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

You’re making some very strange assumptions here. What do you make of a poster like @Incomudro, who is one of those who found Splash Mountain narratively unclear yet did not want it rethemed?

I'm enjoying this conversation, but perhaps we ought to move to the other thread. I'm going to quote the posts and head over there.

 

[LittleBuford]

Yeah, they even posted a poll where 70% said they had no problem tracking what was going on in the ride. This thread, incidentally, opened the day WDW Splash closed and details were starting to trickle out about TBA

Intelligibility of Splash Mountain's plot

I created this poll in response to a discussion taking place now over in the Splash Mountain thread. How much of the plot did you personally understand from the ride alone? The options I've provided seem to cover the full spectrum, but please let me know if you think I should add any. For those...

forums.wdwmagic.com

“They” is me; there’s no need to be evasive.

Contrary to the weird spin you’re trying to put on it, the poll was not intended to diminish Splash Mountain in order to make Tiana’s Bayou Adventure look better. I loved Splash Mountain and am by no means taking for granted that its replacement will be anywhere near as good. I’ve said as much dozens of times now, but some of you are intent on ignoring anything that doesn’t fit your either/or framing.

 

[dig311dug]

Tron's attraction page went live 205 days (6 months and 24 days) before it officially opened to the public.
So by that math, this unfortunate re-do of splash mountain will open ...

Thursday, August 15, 2024​

 

[Dranth]

Yeah, they even posted a poll where 70% said they had no problem tracking what was going on in the ride. This thread, incidentally, opened the day WDW Splash closed and details were starting to trickle out about TBA

Intelligibility of Splash Mountain's plot

I created this poll in response to a discussion taking place now over in the Splash Mountain thread. How much of the plot did you personally understand from the ride alone? The options I've provided seem to cover the full spectrum, but please let me know if you think I should add any. For those...

forums.wdwmagic.com

Wait, are you using a user generated poll posted on a self-selecting fan site as proof that the splash story was easy to follow? One that says under 50% of people who are big enough fans to go through all the effort to find this site, sign up, read the specific thread, and then bother to vote completely understood the ride?

Sure, I think most people who have been on it a few times could put together a very rough outline, but I doubt a majority got the full picture.

 

[tanc]

Tron's attraction page went live 205 days (6 months and 24 days) before it officially opened to the public.
So by that math, this unfortunate re-do of splash mountain will open ...

Thursday, August 15, 2024​

Summer does sound the most probable to be honest, just in time for a water ride. I'd say August or September is what my estimate would be.

 

[Andrew M]

According to concept art you are plunging into water with lilly pads and flowers, right? I feel like the concept of plunging into thorns and then water below made so much more sense. Sigh….

Unless you are somehow turned into a frog mid-ride? That would also explain away why there's a mountain in the middle of Louisiana..