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

[Pi on my Cake]

Thank you, I now have a better visual of what it looks like. Looking at before and now photos it does look more swamp like and less Southwest like.

Keep in mind when looking at photos that new builds always are made brighter and more vibrant than they are actually meant to be since the sun bleaches everything. In a year or two, it should blend in with the surrounding greenery much better and look more natural. But if they painted it trying to make it look exactly how they wanted it to look it would be washed out in a year.

The same way Toy Story Land isn't head ache inducingly bright anymore and the castle doesn't look like Pepto Bismal anymore. Sun bleaching is a big thing in florida

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

they really needed that boat (or something) up top. It’s giving me Snow White / fantasyland vibes.

It’s like a fairy tale hill sticking up over the swamp.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Keep in mind when looking at photos that new builds always are made brighter and more vibrant than they are actually meant to be since the sun bleaches everything. In a year or two, it should blend in with the surrounding greenery much better and look more natural. But if they painted it trying to make it look exactly how they wanted it to look it would be washed out in a year.

The same way Toy Story Land isn't head ache inducingly bright anymore and the castle doesn't look like Pepto Bismal anymore. Sun bleaching is a big thing in florida

That’s a really great point! I was just thinking last week about how less severe both SWL and Pandora looked. Not faded, but not as sharp. I don’t know why i didn’t apply that thinking to this lol

 

[Pi on my Cake]

That’s a really great point! I was just thinking last week about how less severe both SWL and Pandora looked. Not faded, but not as sharp. I don’t know why i didn’t apply that thinking to this lol

It comes up in discussions around nearly every new thing Disney builds that it looks too bright and too unnatural or fairytale-esque. Then you wait 2 years and those complaints go away. The sun is the one putting the finishing touches on every project

 

[Splashin' Ryan]

They overdid it with the florals even by their own models and concept standards though. They added so much moss you can no longer see the definition in the rockwork which seems pointless now. Also, salt domes have no or very little vegetation on them so it doesn't stick with that storyline either. And as some have pointed out, the surrounding rockwork hasn't been changed to match either such as on the Briar Patch Shop, around the drop loop, and likely the rockwork directly behind and hidden by the construction walls closest to pirates. Even the new florals themselves don't really pop despite there being so many because its all the same throughout, all the same size, all the same grouping and clustering, and very little exposed rockwork to actually give it contrast and pop. Really makes me wonder who designs these now in imagineering. I'm as exhausted as anyone else here with the "Disney isn't what it used to be" posts here but it's definitely true here. Just because the individual elements look good, doesn't mean it looks like a cohesive whole.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Just a green muddled mass lacking distinction or focus. At least it isn't a tarp.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

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Looking at them next to one another makes it look like even more of a downgrade. Spinach Mountain aside, the lack of a focal point on top makes it look like it's missing something. Might be because we've had the stump there for so long but even a smaller version of Mama Odie's boat would make the difference.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Looking at them next to one another makes it look like even more of a downgrade. Spinach Mountain aside, the lack of a focal point on top makes it look like it's missing something. Might be because we've had the stump there for so long but even a smaller version of Mama Odie's boat would make the difference.

Hopefully they’ll see that too and add something up to. Doesn’t even need to be fancy like a boat. Just,… something.

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

Hopefully they’ll see that too and add something up to. Doesn’t even need to be fancy like a boat. Just,… something.

Put a big hat on top of it.

 

[donaldtoo]

Put a big hat on top of it.

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Or, maybe this hat…?!
Sorry, best I could do with the markup on my phone…!!!!!

 

[DryerLintFan]

Or, maybe this hat…?!
Sorry, best I could do with the markup on my phone…!!!!!

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I like your drawing! But i wouldn’t expect shadow man to be featured at all because it said this was the further adventures of Tiana, and shadow man died in the movie.

Which is a shame because his is my favorite song

 

[donaldtoo]

I like your drawing! But i wouldn’t expect shadow man to be featured at all because it said this was the further adventures of Tiana, and shadow man died in the movie.

Which is a shame because his is my favorite song

Thanks, it was done pretty quickly…!!!
I’ve actually never seen the movie all the way through, but, his was the only hat from the movie I could remember…!!!!!

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

I like your drawing! But i wouldn’t expect shadow man to be featured at all because it said this was the further adventures of Tiana, and shadow man died in the movie.

Which is a shame because his is my favorite song

He would make the lift hill really cool.

 

[SilentWindODoom]

They overdid it with the florals even by their own models and concept standards though. They added so much moss you can no longer see the definition in the rockwork which seems pointless now.

Well... the rockwork wasn't pointless when it was built. Yes, it is pointless now because it is a relic of a past creation. They could reshape the entire mountain, but that would take plenty of extra time.

Also, salt domes have no or very little vegetation on them so it doesn't stick with that storyline either.

Okay. I was confused as well when I jumped in here. And there's plenty of pages and no one wants to go back. Really wish we had a Penguin-style recap at the start of the thread of everything. Maybe when we hit 420, since it's a big round number people will remember to go jump to.

So, benefit of the doubt. But I can't help but find it hilarious this post happened soon after someone yelled at someone else for posting the picture of the salt dome in Louisiana that's covered in vegetation. No shade. Just funny happenstance. I myself had to ask what the crap the salt dome was because all photos when you search that are craggy peaks with coloration, funnily enough, closer to Splash.

And as some have pointed out, the surrounding rockwork hasn't been changed to match either such as on the Briar Patch Shop, around the drop loop, and likely the rockwork directly behind and hidden by the construction walls closest to pirates.

It's been observed that while scaffolding has gone down around the parts that would interfere with testing, work has begun on the heretofore untouched parts. It seems they're being efficient in work on the project because they're trying to get it done quickly. No work done yet, but we'll see. It doesn't seem there's any indication they won't move onto the shop, one of the least necessary parts for the ride to function.

 

[Brer Oswald]

As if you could see anyway.

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You absolutely could see the Briar Patch when you were dropping. I used it as a cue for when to duck, to avoid getting water into my eyes (since I wear contact lenses).

 

[Brer Oswald]

they really needed that boat (or something) up top. It’s giving me Snow White / fantasyland vibes.

It’s like a fairy tale hill sticking up over the swamp.

It needed a striking willow tree.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

Just walked backstage behind the Tiana show building on the Keys to the Kingdom tour, and there is a truck back there right now with either multiple Animatronics or figures in plastic wrap and I wanted to take a video so badly.

95% of the scaffolding is down on the back that's not visible from in the park, and there were carts with the flora and foliage waiting to be installed still.

It's so neat to see what's happening in the back knowing those figures are about to be installed — if you guys ever want a phenomenal backstage view of not only Frontierland but many other areas, I highly suggest this tour.

 

[Ayla]

Just walked backstage behind the Tiana show building on the Keys to the Kingdom tour, and there is a truck back there right now with either multiple Animatronics or figures in plastic wrap and I wanted to take a video so badly.

95% of the scaffolding is down on the back that's not visible from in the park, and there were carts with the flora and foliage waiting to be installed still.

It's so neat to see what's happening in the back knowing those figures are about to be installed — if you guys ever want a phenomenal backstage view of not only Frontierland but many other areas, I highly suggest this tour.

Keys To The Kingdom is one of my all-time favorite memories of my Disney trips.

 

[Smiley/OCD]

As I said before…

 

[DryerLintFan]

Do you guys ever watch those sped up videos of artists painting things? It almost always looks like absolute garbage for a long time, but then in the final stretch they add detail’s and color and the camera pans out and it’s amazing.

Complaining about how it looks mid process just seems like a needlessly negative thing to hold on to. When the ride opens it might still look dumb but then at least the complaints will be warranted. It’s not finished.