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

[JustInTime]

But it’s mostly repainted and reused Scenery from Splash?

They actually stripped and built almost everything. Even the trees got new trunks.

 

[James Alucobond]

Good point- imagine an unabridged ride through where the dead space isn’t edited out!

I actually think a ride with a handheld camera will look better than this. A lot of this footage seems to be taken from a camera mounted on the front of the vehicle, which doesn't rotate to take in scenes for as long as a rider can. It only sometimes seems to switch to something handheld when necessary, perhaps with footage from a completely separate ridethrough.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Looks like Tokyo will be keeping their Splash, no way the Japanese execs would want this.

Also I’m hoping South Park does an episode on this an updated episode to their first Disney one.

They won't want this because the movie flopped in Japan, and they've pretty much refused to deal with it since then. But then again, it doesn't mean they wouldn't necessarily do something else foolish with the ride. They're doing a temporary Marvel Avengers overlay for their Small World...

That said, they still have no incentive to change their Splash. It's an very popular ride, pushes a good amount of merch and has a connecting eatery that gets good business as far as I know. This ticks all the boxes to just leave it alone. And they don't care about what Americans think of the source material either, which was the only reason why ours was changed to begin with.

They actually stripped and built almost everything. Even the trees got new trunks.

The tree trunks are mostly intact from Splash, just repainted and given new foliage. But a lot of the setpieces were indeed ripped out. Such as all of the critter homes.

 

[Trauma]

At least the mystery is solved why it’s going to G+ instead of ILL.

No one was going to pay $15 a person to ride this.

 

[monothingie]

Well enjoy it at its prime. (Before it starts falling apart) We’re stuck with this mediocre replacement for at least the next 20 years.

 

[Trauma]

LMAO

At least your holding back the anger better than I am.

 

[James Alucobond]

At least the mystery is solved why it’s going to G+ instead of ILL.

No one was going to pay $15 a person to ride this.

No one was going to pay $15 a person to ride Splash either, so ...

 

[KDM31091]

To me it just rings kind of hollow. There’s no suspense or excitement. Storyline is weak. Visually stunning, great animatronics, and very pretty at night or dusk. But otherwise, for all the hype, this needed to be amazing. And it’s not unfortunately.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

This is about what I expected. Could’ve been far worse but when compared to Splash in particular on a story level what we got just doesn’t quite hold up to it. Far from the worst ride at the resort but it’s done from being one of if not the best ride there to a pretty but forgettable middling one.

 

[invader]

What grade of school is it where you learn about plot, conflict, and climax? 2nd? 3rd?

 

[Joel]

Any ride that starts out by establishing itself as part of the Living with the Land universe is an instant classic in my book.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Special spice is very catchy, but the backing track sounds earily like another legendary dark ride one state north to my ear…

Interesting how Tales of the Okefenokee inspired Splash Mountain and we've come full circle with Monster Mansion and Tiana Bayou Adventure duking it out for theme park supremacy.

 

[Trauma]

No one was going to pay $15 a person to ride Splash either, so ...

As Disney fans if we keep relentlessly defending mediocre it’s all we are going to get.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Well enjoy it at its prime. (Before it starts falling apart) We’re stuck with this mediocre replacement for at least the next 20 years.

This is a ride that absolutely will not hit if it’s running in B mode. Even if all of the Splash AAs were busted (still more movement than the new critters) you had the beautiful cartoony sets to marvel at. Now it’s just dark voids…kinda like Dinosaur.

A shame. The music is actually pretty darn good!

 

[monothingie]

To me it just rings kind of hollow. There’s no suspense or excitement. Storyline is weak. Visually stunning, great animatronics, and very pretty at night or dusk. But otherwise, for all the hype, this needed to be amazing. And it’s not unfortunately.

Interesting they chose to record it at night. Outdoor scenes are probably not great in daylight.

 

[Brer Oswald]

At least your holding back the anger better than I am.

I stopped being angry a year ago. Laughed throughout the entire POV . There were two brief moments I stopped cause I saw something cool. One of those times was the return of the jumping fountains.

 

[Tha Realest]

This was the most pointless waste of hundreds of millions of dollars since they built the Galactic Starcruiser.

 

[markham]

I am 100% behind the decision to move away from any major attraction being based on Song of the South, and The Princess and the Frog could have made a great ride, but this ain’t it.

The story is so boring, it’s like we’re just following Tiana on a random day in her life. Whenever I hear an attraction is “set x months after the events” of the story/songs we know and love, it always makes me worry.

 

[bwr827]

At least the mystery is solved why it’s going to G+ instead of ILL.

No one was going to pay $15 a person to ride this.

Same with Splash. No one is ever paying $15 extra for an old flume ride no matter its skin.

 

[EagleScout610]

Well enjoy it at its prime. (Before it starts falling apart) We’re stuck with this mediocre replacement for at least the next 20 years.

Even when it was falling apart for the last few months Splash still told its story well. I can't say I expect this to be able to do so in that shape