_caleb
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I do not believe it is possible for TBA to please the majority of people posting in this thread.
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News Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress
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Incomudro
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Quite likely - no.
Disney took away a favorite ride of people, they are not happy and many are not going to give it a chance.
Still, Disney could have wowed us, and made it really difficult to deny that they did a better job.
_caleb
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I would categorize most of the people who post frequently here "lifestylers." The difference is that here, the incentive is to be negative.
My point was that several fans who were initially unimpressed by TBA warmed up to it after experiencing it.
I'm not willing to completely dismiss all opinions by early reviewers as biased, Just like I'm not willing to accept all opinions by armchair critics here as being honest/objective.
This. If Disney had taken the time and made something that truly blew Splash out of the water, I'm sure many of us would be more forgiving for the replacement. But they didn't. They took a solid C/D ticket and shoved it into the corpse of a great E ticket. If they had revealed this was something like Jungle Cruise or a smaller water ride like Pirates this may be a hit, but because its so closely associated with Splash it misses for many.
sedati
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Raise your hand if you knew the lyrics being sung in the "How do you do?" song on Splash Mountain (pre-internet).
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
Sir_Cliff
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Yup, my whole family heard it that like too!Raise your hand if you knew the lyrics being sung in the "How do you do?" song on Splash Mountain (pre-internet).
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
Musical Mermaid
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My family had the "Friend Like Me" Disney Sing Along vhs and that song was on it, so I knew the lyrics.Raise your hand if you knew the lyrics being sung in the "How do you do?" song on Splash Mountain (pre-internet).
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
Bayou
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I heard its not very good/fine from someone who had the opportunity to watch it
Sectorkeeper71
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I always heard it as “show us your *part of the male anatomy that also starts with “b”*Raise your hand if you knew the lyrics being sung in the "How do you do?" song on Splash Mountain (pre-internet).
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
MerlinTheGoat
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I heard the lyrics of How Do You Do as they were intended. Even as a kid. Granted I also grew up with the ride in an era when the speakers were still kept in good condition and were highly audible and clear. In the years that the ride was neglected, the audio was one of the things that went to ****.
The song was extremely catchy and good even without lyrics. But it was especially charming to see the various animatronics in the ride have synchronized mouth movements to appear like they were genuinely singing the lyrics. Like the geese providing the main lyrics, while the squatting bullfrogs providing the humming baseline and bobbed up and down to the rhythm. Yet another handful of details that are entirely absent in this new ride.
The song was extremely catchy and good even without lyrics. But it was especially charming to see the various animatronics in the ride have synchronized mouth movements to appear like they were genuinely singing the lyrics. Like the geese providing the main lyrics, while the squatting bullfrogs providing the humming baseline and bobbed up and down to the rhythm. Yet another handful of details that are entirely absent in this new ride.
I've been somewhat concerned from the beginning about it. The trailers haven't done anything for me, but it's the fact that Pete Docter hasn't returned to direct or write. Only one of the original writers HAS returned from the first one. The new director and writer don't seem to have much of note to their names. So I really don't know what to think at the moment...
Incomudro
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All though I knew it wasn't correct, in my mind I always heard "Sure enough havin' a fall."Raise your hand if you knew the lyrics being sung in the "How do you do?" song on Splash Mountain (pre-internet).
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
I kind of took it as the critters warning us what was up ahead.
WorldExplorer
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Raise your hand if you knew the lyrics being sung in the "How do you do?" song on Splash Mountain (pre-internet).
Lower your hand if like me and my family you thought the line "Pretty good sure as you're born" was "Pretty good show us your bum". Dozens of rides and we couldn't even guess what the line really was. Perhaps this is why the ride really needed to go.
I couldn't make it out so presumed it was something in French. In hindsight I don't know why my mind went to that.
_caleb
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LOL, me, too! That's crazy. I figured I was the only one who thought this!
Which Splash AAs appeared to be singing in sync with the music?
Sectorkeeper71
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I think the fishing birds in the first area were singing the song; I’m not sure if any of the others besides the ones all singing “zip” in the finale
I stopped paying attention to this thread for a bit and things have taken an interesting turn…
SilentWindODoom
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Love to hear it! I'll have to listen to that podcast for the rest!
I've been watching Green Acres while catching up on the thread. Was gonna mention how spooky that was.
Then I saw the first local election ad of the year. Now THAT's spooky.
The environment seems to be the thing the bayou most has in spades.
If there's possibly public backlash accusing the company of slacking on this ride from the same people whose words got this done in the first place perhaps?
In the world we're living today, outrage sells and many people who are selling their content to others lean into negativity because it's good business and it breeds loyalty and dependency.
But in fandom, where everyone is just talking like this... I don't feel there's any incentive to be negative. Of course, that doesn't mean things are generally positive. But that premise just seems flawed.
When they worked, all of them. Even the little FSU gophers would talk in sync. Only character without mouth movements that "talked" was Br’er Bear.
MerlinTheGoat
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Most of them outside of the most simple and static props, or the ones that had only normal speaking roles (so most of the cast outside the main Brer trio, but even Brer Rabbit in two scenes).
All of the fishing geese and bullfrogs in the first scene. Brer Rabbit and Mr Bluebird in both the first and final scenes you see them. The Porcupine at the campfire. The fishing frog sitting atop the alligator. Even the tiny hanging possums, despite being very simple props, still move their arms and legs in sync to the lyrics they're singing. The bullfrogs in the Laughing Place (Disneyland also had a lot of additional figures in this scene that would move their mouths to the lyrics, as well as throughout the other scenes too). Most if not all of the figures in the finale (when working correctly).
_caleb
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If you scroll back through this (or any of the other TBA threads) you can see how negative posts are met with like/love reactions and affirmational replies, while the few positive posts are ignored, mocked, or attacked.