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

[Bocabear]

I think going the route of introducing real life Jazz performers from the early 20th century would have really really derailed the entire ride and made it about something other than the source material....
I think they wandered too far away from the movie already...."Finding music for a party" really feels like a "design By Committee" choice. It doesn't seem to celebrate the actual source material at all... Maybe I will like it better in person....

 

[monothingie]

I’ve ridden it 3 times in the past 2 days.

Most of the sophisticated AAs are not functioning properly. (No movement, not synced to voice etc). Set pieces are falling apart and the queue looks like it’s been running for 2 years and not 2 months.

The ride is boring and difficult to understand, even more so with all the storytelling elements broken.

 

[monothingie]

Can I ask what happened to the touted nighttime lighting package from a couple of months ago?

It looks pretty decrepit now.

 

[James Alucobond]

Can I ask what happened to the touted nighttime lighting package from a couple of months ago?

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It looks pretty decrepit now.

Is that from tonight? Not sure, but it's possible it's modified slightly during the Halloween party. They frequently do that.

 

[monothingie]

Is that from tonight? Not sure, but it's possible it's modified slightly during the Halloween party. They frequently do that.

It’s from tonight. It’s been like this every evening I’ve been at MK this week.

 

[Squishy]

Can I ask what happened to the touted nighttime lighting package from a couple of months ago?

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It looks pretty decrepit now.

They just took some DMX floodlights and went home happy, surprised they didnt even bother with some lasers to create firefly effects or even a projector to create more detailed lighting effects..

 

[DarkMetroid567]

I heard from folks who went to the Halloween party they go on twice as they opened the standby and it was only 30 min wait.

To be fair, this is a substantial increase from Splash’s normal wait during Halloween parties.

 

[Kirby86]

To be fair, this is a substantial increase from Splash’s normal wait during Halloween parties.

I'd partly chock that up to the fact Tiana's is still new and the standby line isn't available during the normal day, it's just lighting lane and boarding groups. If I couldn't get a boarding group and was at the Halloween party I'd wait in line for Tiana's.

 

[KDM31091]

Now that the dust has settled and we have had time to process this disaster, we should begin to put its place in the portfolio in perspective.

Considering the attraction's embarrassing, juvenile storyline, gaps of sad nothingness, cringeworthy dialogue, absence of any conflict, and lack of emotional engagement, is this Disney's worst E-Ticket attraction in the world?

What E-ticket ride in the global Disney portfolio, of this scale, is actually worse than this when we are not grading on a curve of pity?

IMO yes it is pretty much the worst! It’s also insulting because they insisted they “knew they had to get it right” with this one, and here we are. Show quality is mediocre and ride is barely working, not making it through even one full day it seems.

This is why I have no confidence in the future additions. Will they be more phoned in, poor quality attractions?

 

[Tha Realest]

To be fair, this is a substantial increase from Splash’s normal wait during Halloween parties.

To be fair - no.

Thrill Data shows the wait was usually 30 mins at the start, maybe leveling off to 25-20 mins as the night went on.

 

[WorldExplorer]

And Splash was thirty years old.

 

[easyrowrdw]

Now that the dust has settled and we have had time to process this disaster, we should begin to put its place in the portfolio in perspective.

Considering the attraction's embarrassing, juvenile storyline, gaps of sad nothingness, cringeworthy dialogue, absence of any conflict, and lack of emotional engagement, is this Disney's worst E-Ticket attraction in the world?

What E-ticket ride in the global Disney portfolio, of this scale, is actually worse than this when we are not grading on a curve of pity?

Off the top of my head, I'd rank Tiana's ahead of Frozen, Ratatouille, Runaway Railway, and maybe Slinky. It's not a knock-out, but those rides feel way less inspired to me.

I consider the reliability problems separately from the ride. I think Rise is the greatest thing they've ever done, but only when it's actually working. Tiana's isn't anywhere near as good as Rise so when it doesn't work it's even more embarrassing for Disney.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

It's funny how people were coming up with ideas to make the rest of Frontierland more like New Orleans Square to accommodate Tiana, and Disney decided to go with something even more unrelated with Cars.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

It's funny how people were coming up with ideas to make the rest of Frontierland more like New Orleans Square to accommodate Tiana, and Disney decided to go with something even more unrelated with Cars.

What are you talking about? All they have to do is glue giant googly eyes to her delivery truck and give her yet another occupation as a racecar driver and it'll fit perfectly!

 

[Animaniac93-98]

What are you talking about? All they have to do is glue giant googly eyes to her delivery truck and give her yet another occupation as a racecar driver and it'll fit perfectly!

Glad to hear Tiana's Foods distribution has now reach other, non human, dimensions.

 

[Tha Realest]

It's funny how people were coming up with ideas to make the rest of Frontierland more like New Orleans Square to accommodate Tiana, and Disney decided to go with something even more unrelated with Cars.

I mean Pecos Bills is an easy switch but they were like “nah.” Says a lot.

 

[DarkMetroid567]

To be fair - no.

Thrill Data shows the wait was usually 30 mins at the start, maybe leveling off to 25-20 mins as the night went on.

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This is very surprising to me, but I guess I’m speaking for 2018-19. I used to work a ton of the Halloween party shifts at the Splash exit, and the line was *always* super dead. I think we were the least busy treats area too.

 

[Midwest Elitist]

This is very surprising to me, but I guess I’m speaking for 2018-19. I used to work a ton of the Halloween party shifts at the Splash exit, and the line was *always* super dead. I think we were the least busy treats area too.

Splash just has really good capacity, Magic Kingdom must have been hell during the construction.

 

[FettFan]

This ad just popped up in my YouTube app…even Tiana is just *done* with how badly her ride turned out!

 

[Brer Panther]

I love how in the ad they have her wearing her iconic green dress... y'know, the one that she doesn't wear at any point in the ride!