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

[MerlinTheGoat]

Lights are purple tonight - this seems to be an *actual* test of the final color being decided on.

Are the purple lights only on the mountain, or in the water? I've noticed purple is a common color they light mountains up with.

Again referencing the concept render's lighting, which is more of a blue-ish color in the water and around the peak (with warm white for the upward tree lighting)-

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

are you hearing any music tonight?

I'm not there tonight, but per their posts, music is playing as normal.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

Are the purple lights only on the mountain, or in the water? I've noticed purple is a common color they light mountains up with.

Again referencing the concept render's lighting, which is more of a blue-ish color in the water and around the peak (with warm white for the upward tree lighting)-

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Nothing on the mountain yet, unfortunately.

 

[DCBaker]

Ted Robledo, Charita Carter and the Walt Disney World Ambassadors surprised the Chase Family in New Orleans with a trip to Walt Disney World to experience Tiana’s Bayou Adventure for the first time.

Disney additionally made Stella Chase an honorary Imagineer and WGNO reported another daughter of Leah Chase’s named Leah will have her voice featured on Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

The family was also presented with an official attraction poster.

Here's video from the event.



A link to the article on the surprise can be found below.

Disney surprises Leah Chase’s family with vacation to Disney World

“Tiana’s Bayou Adventure” is set to open at the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World this summer, and on Wednesday, April 17, The Queen of Creole Cuisine, Leah Chase’s fa…

wgno.com

 

[Doberge]

Tried searching the thread but didn't see anything about the interview with Charita and Ted on WDW Radio that came out almost 10 days ago. Nothing ground breaking but they did give credit to some individuals that worked on costuming and other parts.

Ted spoke briefly about the music and mentioned that the early parts of the attraction we hear different versions of the film songs. Given what we know about the different critter groups and what we think we know about plot of gathering different groups of critters to put their different music styles together at the end (presumably Morton's song), I took the comment to mean that we'll hear individual Zydeco, Rara, and Afro-Cuban jazz film songs early in the attraction. Sounds right?

Some have worried about the thrill of Splash being minimized and Charita confirmed as much. Specifically on the climb for the big drop she spoke of it previously being a scary anticipation on the hill (for Splash) but that the goal now will be a more joyous celebration. Earlier she also mentioned the drop as a historical "coming of age" event. So there you go, they're trying to minimize fear.

 

[ChesireCat11]

 

[Tha Realest]

Some have worried about the thrill of Splash being minimized and Charita confirmed as much. Specifically on the climb for the big drop she spoke of it previously being a scary anticipation on the hill (for Splash) but that the goal now will be a more joyous celebration. Earlier she also mentioned the drop as a historical "coming of age" event. So there you go, they're trying to minimize fear.

I have gotten over my lifelong fear of this attraction, but that climb is not joyous or euphoric (no matter how they change the music). If anything, up tempo will just escalate things ?

 

[celluloid]

Some have worried about the thrill of Splash being minimized and Charita confirmed as much. Specifically on the climb for the big drop she spoke of it previously being a scary anticipation on the hill (for Splash) but that the goal now will be a more joyous celebration. Earlier she also mentioned the drop as a historical "coming of age" event. So there you go, they're trying to minimize fear.

It is strange how people said this for months and were ridiculed that these things were not going to be a part of the attraction. Almost like people are pretty good at knowing where Disney was going with this and were right on the money.

 

[SplashJacket]

It is strange how people said this for months and were ridiculed that these things were not going to be a part of the attraction. Almost like people are pretty good at knowing where Disney was going with this and were right on the money.

I don't think approaching the drop's buildup differently is inherently a bad choice...

But that's just my take.

 

[Drew the Disney Dude]

I guess I'm going to Magic Kingdom tomorrow night...

 

[mickEblu]

I have gotten over my lifelong fear of this attraction, but that climb is not joyous or euphoric (no matter how they change the music). If anything, up tempo will just escalate things ?

I can’t understand how they can achieve “celebratory” when you’re inching up a lift hill. A lift hill that a good percentage of people are feeling nervous about even if slightly.

 

[Brer Oswald]

I don't think approaching the drop's buildup differently is inherently a bad choice...

But that's just my take.

I can't bring myself to agree because of how the lifthill and track layout was designed. It completely goes against the design intent. Had they made major adjustments to the layout, maybe I could see where this is coming from.

 

[headintheclouds]

I can’t understand how they can achieve “celebratory” when you’re inching up a lift hill. A lift hill that good percentage of people are feeling nervous about even if slightly.

Yeah. I get what someone said earlier in the thread about music changing things. But no matter what music is playing I’m still going to get that pit in my stomach (that I love so much) before the fall.

 

[headintheclouds]

I can't bring myself to agree because of how the lifthill and track layout was designed. It completely goes against the design intent. Had they made major adjustments to the layout, maybe I could see where this is coming from.

I mean intentions for Splash vs intentions for TBA are still two different things. It’s no longer Splash so whatever the intent for the original ride doesn’t matter anymore even if it’s the same ride system. Like my original comment stated however, my adrenaline will still be going regardless. Even more so with uptempo music.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

I don't think approaching the drop's buildup differently is inherently a bad choice...

But that's just my take.

You don't have to think it's a bad choice, it's fine if you prefer that. But there were people on here who were mocking those who claimed this was even happening at all, and that it was being done intentionally to tone the fear factor down. Even when Tony Baxter already said it was and criticized them for it (given his focus on this aspect, I suspect that this was the main reason he became disillusioned with the project and left). Lot of gaslighting. Now there's public evidence directly from the people in charge. So hopefully this is put to rest and this denial ceases.

I personally prefer it when even cutesy rides have some edge and fear to them. And i'm sad to see that gone from this attraction. I also agree with Tony Baxter's comments on this matter that it will likely negatively impact the experience. They had a stupidly easy way of avoiding this too even with the IP change, but they chose not to include him...

Yeah. I get what someone said earlier in the thread about music changing things. But no matter what music is playing I’m still going to get that pit in my stomach (that I love so much) before the fall.

Most everyone with a fear of falling will as well. But there's going to be a severe dissonance with how the scene is presented and how people who have that fear are feeling. It'll be a very bizarre situation to feel that sort of fear and anticipation while happy uplifting music and colorful visuals are blaring at you. At least with the scary buildup of the final lift, the drop made sense as a climax and almost came as a relief that everything was finally over. Without that buildup, the relief won't really work that way anymore.

 

[mickEblu]

You don't have to think it's a bad choice, it's fine if you prefer that. But there were people on here who were mocking those who claimed this was even happening at all or was intentional. Even when Tony Baxter already said it was and criticized them for it. Lot of gaslighting. Now there's public evidence from the people in charge. So that much can be put to rest hopefully.

I personally prefer it when even cutesy rides have some edge and fear to them. And i'm sad to see that gone from this attraction. I also agree with Tony Baxter's comments on this matter that it will likely negatively impact the experience. They had a stupidly easy way of avoiding this too even with the IP change, but they chose not to include him...


Most everyone with a fear of falling will as well. But there's going to be a severe dissonance with how the scene is presented and how people who have that fear are feeling. It'll be a very bizarre situation to feel that sort of fear and anticipation while happy uplifting music and colorful visuals are blaring at you. At least with the scary buildup of the final lift, the drop made sense as a climax and almost came as a relief that everything was finally over. Without that buildup, the relief won't really work that way anymore.

What did Tony say? I haven’t heard anything

 

[Brer Oswald]

I mean intentions for Splash vs intentions for TBA are still two different things. It’s no longer Splash so whatever the intent for the original ride doesn’t matter anymore even if it’s the same ride system. Like my original comment stated however, my adrenaline will still be going regardless. Even more so with uptempo music.

But it's still the same ride track. It's still the same facility. Many of the sets are still there as they were before, but now covered with new pieces.

Imagineering (at least back in the day) didn't design the show scenes separate from the track layout. It was all one cohesive project.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

So as good as that looks (and it does look magical) it just doesn't look like fireflies to me. Maybe some strategically placed blinking yellow bulbs? Or a laser setup? Was curious how it'd turn out but I can't say I'm that impressed unless they plan on supplementing it with other effects.

Taking a page from this:

Seems like projection-mapping and "swamp sounds" work nicely.

Or as is the case with Pirates, the rudimentary low tech solution became the gold standard. It's early days... but I don't think Tiana will top it.

Beautiful! But is it fireflies?

 

[SplashJacket]

You don't have to think it's a bad choice, it's fine if you prefer that.

Not saying I prefer it. I would've gone with "Are you Ready!?" from Friends on the other side like others have suggested.

Just saying it's not necessarily a bad choice.

The drop isn't really thrilling. The thrill is the anticipation of the drop, which, if you think about it, would primarily be thrilling to non-thrill seekers.

Splash's lift had exceptional suspense and story build-up which created thrill, but, if we actually think about it, I don't think masking a low-thrill element as more thrilling is an infallible design decision. Not saying it's bad, far from it, but I don't necessarily think you need to maximize perceived thrill.

In general, I would say make thrill rides be thrill rides, moderate thrills be moderate thrills, and light thrills be light thrills.

Splash masqueraded itself as a thrill ride when really its thrills were moderate to light. As I said before, I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, but I also don't necessarily think it's a bad thing not to overstate the thrills.

Not really interested in the prior discussion of whether people didn't think they were downplaying the thrill. I'm intrigued to see how it comes across on the ride.

 

[SplashJacket]

I think it'll be a pretty funny moment to have Mama Oddie chuckle as you fall off a waterfall, honestly fits her character. Loving, slightly sassy, slightly sinister.

Indisputably a different vibe, but not necessarily a bad one.