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

Ice Gator

Ice Gator

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rtmachine said:
I think they had at one time showed a boat on top of the mountain in the artist sketch, so the lift area could look similar to that painting as seen from the outside already.
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That’s still my main problem with the look of the new ride- cutting the tree and boat was a huge mistake, especially if we’re coming from Mama Odi’s house. That would have been the focal point of the attraction, and we could have gotten more glowing bottles on the exterior, hanging from the tree limbs. I just think it was a silly move to cut it. The “dome” looks off center- like it’s missing something- especially over at DL.
 
Bayou

Bayou

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Ice Gator said:
That’s still my main problem with the look of the new ride- cutting the tree and boat was a huge mistake, especially if we’re coming from Mama Odi’s house. That would have been the focal point of the attraction, and we could have gotten more glowing bottles on the exterior, hanging from the tree limbs. I just think it was a silly move to cut it. The “dome” looks off center- like it’s missing something- especially over at DL.
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they should have done something more than just a dome, but the tree and boat would have messed up a lot of sightlines. I think it would be too strikingly tall.
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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Ice Gator said:
That’s still my main problem with the look of the new ride- cutting the tree and boat was a huge mistake, especially if we’re coming from Mama Odi’s house. That would have been the focal point of the attraction, and we could have gotten more glowing bottles on the exterior, hanging from the tree limbs. I just think it was a silly move to cut it. The “dome” looks off center- like it’s missing something- especially over at DL.
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I'm not sure I agree. I suspect it either would have ended up looking a bit too miniature if they tried to go for forced perspective or way too big to the point it threw off the scale of the rest of the mountain if it looked anything like the concept art. Maybe they could have made it work, but not the way it looked in that first piece of art which suggest a giant tree and boat towering over Frontierland and the Rivers of America.
 
wdwgreek

wdwgreek

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How many feet tall is the structure when it has the tree stump? Maybe it's a height issue? Could a boat have made it over 200 feet?
 
SilentWindODoom

SilentWindODoom

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George said:
Well, if the bayou was 5 miles across and the frog had a torso diameter of 7 miles, the frog would overhang the bayou by a full mile on two sides! This seems unlikely. However, if the volume of the of the bayou was 1e12 cubic feet (used Bartholomew Bayou and assumed an average depth of 2 feet) and the volume of the average bull frog was ~ 0.02 cubic feet (calculated in two ways, 0.5 feet *0.2 feet * 0.2 feet or 17 oz (typical bull frog weight) to cubic feet, these are both rough approximations that don't take into account specifics of the bullfrog shape or the bullfrog's specific density). Anyway, that would imply that the maximum number of bullfrogs in the bayou would be 5e13 and that no more would fit. That's a LOT of frogs. However, it does assume that the frogs are packed in the tightest formation possible. A closest froggy packing structure if you will. So, I would say something like 1e13 would be the actual max number of frogs in this particular bayou and no more would fit. So, the implication is that unfortunately there will be a maximum number of that would fit in Tiana's bayou. Another thing that is not taken into account, is that an attraction actually used the maximum number of frogs (sculptures and animatronics in this case) would probably alienate people who had frog phobias or people who wanted to see main characters from the movie. However, the characters could appear many times in frog form, but this would be weird for all but one character. Even then, you'd have to be at the correct point on the story timeline.
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Okay, now tell me the air speed velocity of a laden African Sparrow.
 

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