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

TrainsOfDisney

TrainsOfDisney

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Incomudro said:
Things that have brought people, sometimes generations of people and families great pleasure do matter.
Why would theme parks like WDW be so popular if such things didn't matter?
And it's sad to see the destruction of anything that has brought people great joy.
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Joe Rohde has an excellent post on his instagram about how Disney Theme parks become sacred spaces - they don’t exist in the real world so they are sacred / set apart / special.
 
SplashMountainArchives

SplashMountainArchives

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MerlinTheGoat said:
The source i've spoken with has an excellent track record as well. On both this attraction as well as many others. They were the one who broke that initial info dump I posted back in 2022. While everyone else was assuming this was still a low budget overlay with hollowed out sets and very few AA's. This includes the amount of new original major characters being created. And later (again before anyone else) that the AA's would not be face projected. I was also told in June last year that the attraction was going to open significantly earlier than originally planned, some at WDI pushing for 5-6 months earlier. That all ended up being spot-on.

I'll reiterate that I think the renders Archive posted do originate from Disney, not fanmade fakes. My contention is the way in which people are trying to extrapolate information and jump to conclusions based on what is and isn't present in them. These renders are extremely simplistic and were clearly being used for internal testing for certain figures and angles, they're not in a remotely complete enough state to be making any concrete assertions about how many figures will be present in the final show-ready scene. Whether these assertions are from Splash Archive, or from his friend who got ahold of the renders and was simply relayed their own claims, I do not know. But I suspect there is some mistaken information involved here.

When Archive first posted about these renders on Twitter in July of last year, he claimed that it would only have six animatronics, as the official finalized number. That post is still up for reference-

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When Archive was informed that he was missing three additional characters that had already been confirmed over two months prior to this tweet, he changed the number to 9 in a post on this forum. And he said that 9 was now the true final number with no chance of any additional figures beyond that. Something i'm inclined to believe is not the case. I suspect that Archive's numbers were inferred based on counting how many characters physically appear in the renders, and that they adjusted that number after they discovered that Disney had already confirmed there were more.

To reiterate, the fact that every one of these renders demonstrates a different combination of characters (one of them without any characters at all, and another showing two in a basic t-pose stance) should at least serve as a warning not to jump to conclusions about what the final count will be.

At this point, I am not the only one on this forum who heard that the ride will have a very impressive quantity of AA's. I don't think anyone has been told a specific number yet, or they're keeping things close to the chest if they have been. But several people with good track records here have independently heard from their own sources that the "dozens" claim by Disney is the real deal. And not just a meager 24 or even 36, but considerably more still. Allegedly something that should satisfy people who valued that particular aspect of Splash.
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I didn't mention the King, Queen, and Big Daddy because they weren't confirmed to me to be in the finale, they were supposed to be staged in the beginning of the attraction but their placement wasn't consistent, nor made sense, so they were placed in the finale for the Mardi Gras celebration that takes place at the end of the attraction.

And as for the rest of the critter figures that the PR team keeps mentioning with every update, the critters are the focus point of this attraction, and they aren't advanced but that's not to say that's a bad thing, it allows the team to fill in the area with a lot more figures of the quality that you see for the fish in the Little Mermaid attraction in MK and DCA. The 17 new figures are all the human cast with a few of the characters having up to 2 and even 3 figures spread throughout the attraction, just wanted to clarify that.
 
MerlinTheGoat

MerlinTheGoat

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SplashMountainArchives said:
I didn't mention the King, Queen, and Big Daddy because they weren't confirmed to me to be in the finale, they were supposed to be staged in the beginning of the attraction but their placement wasn't consistent, nor made sense, so they were placed in the finale for the Mardi Gras celebration that takes place at the end of the attraction.

And as for the rest of the critter figures that the PR team keeps mentioning with every update, the critters are the focus point of this attraction, and they aren't advanced but that's not to say that's a bad thing, it allows the team to fill in the area with a lot more figures of the quality that you see for the fish in the Little Mermaid attraction in MK and DCA. The 17 new figures are all the human cast with a few of the characters having up to 2 and even 3 figures spread throughout the attraction, just wanted to clarify that.
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There was a sketched diagram shown of one of the new new critter figures at D23 in 2022, the otter. With a number of drawings of some of the poses and motions it's being designed to perform. I assume this isn't an A1000 figure (that designation is likely relegated to much larger figures), but it's most definitely not "simplistic" either. The facial expressions alone appear capable of a similar range of expressions to the Rocket Raccoon AA from DCA's Guardians ride. A very far cry from the likes of Little Mermaid's cheap spinning/wobbling props.

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The images of the finale my friend claims to have seen very recently were said to contain way more AA's than whatever you've seen. "Easily as many AA's as Splash" is again the exact phrase used to describe this specific scene. And not the barely moving or static props like the majority of Little Mermaid's. Any additional ones beyond the major human characters and Louis i'm sure won't be A1000's, but Disney can and does use plenty of other AA models that are less advanced and expensive, but still capable of a great range of motion of their own.

The AA figures in Splash Mountain are ancient primitive designs by today's standards (they originated from a mid 70s attraction), but a large number of them still looked and moved great to this day when maintained properly. The Hall of Presidents uses three advanced AA's for the figures with speaking roles, but a much larger population of less advanced figures which still have a significant amount of movement of their own.
 
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drizgirl

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Incomudro said:
Nice to see that they've moved in a bit of a direction away from cold corporate "Foods" to Fun.
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It's almost like they've seen a lot of people saying online that the ride doesn't look "fun".

I've got news though. A Louis photo prop out front doesn't change a thing about how fun the romp through the food co-op turns out to be.
 
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