Walt Disney Imagineering shares new photos of progress at Tiana's Bayou Adventure in Magic Kingdom

Oct 11, 2023 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Mural progress at Tiana's Bayou Adventure

Posted: Wednesday October 11, 2023 9:35am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The official Walt Disney Imagineering account on Instagram has shared new images of Tiana's Bayou Adventure, currently under construction at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Mural progress at Tiana's Bayou Adventure

The update includes a look at the mural taking shape along the exterior of Tiana's repurposed barn (formerly the entrance to Splash Mountain), which will be home to the main office of her newest business.

Mural progress at Tiana's Bayou Adventure

Disney says that more will be revealed about the mural artwork and its connection to New Orleans later this week.

Mural progress at Tiana's Bayou Adventure

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Ice Gator3 minutes ago

This is what I meant earlier when I said the poster for the ride should have been more detailed and hand drawn like a lot of the other attraction posters. They have so much material to work with, and the Splash poster had so much going on in it. I'd love to see a version with Tiana and Louis going down the waterfall instead of 2-D outlines of the characters in the same color scheme.

Sirwalterraleigh4 minutes ago

WDI absolutely has to be questioned at this point? What are they actually building that is good? The track record is now looking very bad. Everything is too much…and the results are too short or have awful stories and/or re-ride factors. That’s if they work…which is a huge if. The only recent wdw addition that is anywhere close to on par with its hype is guardians…which I know is not for everyone. But it’s a fun coaster…it’s space mountain or rnrcoaster 2.0…:where Isaac Newton is enough. When it’s slow…mainly these mindless trackless efforts…they’re underwhelming. I know a lot of this is the management…because the nut at the top should long be gone now…but WDI has to make lemonade out of lemon ideas too

brb10066 minutes ago

Isn't Ray supposed to be dead? Why do we hear him singing a few times in the ride?

Vclguy906 minutes ago

I feel this ride is a ride-thru metaphor of the crisis Disney is in. An identity crisis. They have no idea who or what they are anymore and everything about this ride screams that. Duh, Tony Baxter left. It's hard to have a long-lasting relationship with someone with such a prominent and confident identity just to see them crumble over their own embarrassing way to stay relevant. It's a tough pill to swallow but who are these people anymore?

SplashMountainArchives7 minutes ago

Sharing these art pieces I worked on, just for fun I warned you guys, OLC will NOT budge on changing their Splash Mountain. Hope to make it out there soon

Figments Friend7 minutes ago

Mostly sadness, sadly. 😔 -

MouseEarsMom338 minutes ago

Maybe the PR team feels the same way and want higher ups to hear it too...

Sirwalterraleigh10 minutes ago

Not sure they’re saying this is?

DisneyHead12312 minutes ago

So apparently I am the only person in the known universe who actually likes the looks of this ride. I will say I’m not sure how well the big drop (which seems to say “thrill ride”) fits with the aesthetics. Ideally, this probably should have been a Fantasyland dark ride. It’s a very, very pretty ride. It takes me back to pinning beautiful things on my wedding inspiration board years ago (right down to the pink, purple and blue uplighting). Or to favoriting beautiful things on Etsy. This seems like an ode to sparkly, beautiful, princessy prettiness. Based on the reactions, presumably this is not where people wanted the ride equivalent of crystal tree centerpieces. Parents with small children probably wanted that more in a traditional dark ride, that princess obsessed little girls can ride without the scary drop that is for older kids. Adult park goers wanted a more gripping story with more grit, drama, and adventure. It’s a shame, because this really is just a gorgeous ride. Looks like they put all that sparkle in the wrong venue based on reactions though.

Ice Gator13 minutes ago

Yep. I was very thrown off by this. Especially with all the dead space in the ride. Not a single sight gag with the exception of Louis's butt saying "how low can I go?" and JuJu "stealing food".

Vclguy9014 minutes ago

Is it safe to say that they are going by the model of quality is not profitable? Obviously they've given up on the fans so is their plan not to make anymore? Or create a new fanbase that expects less of them because them at their great is too expensive? I'm really perplexed how every executive at Disney still has a job. I'm even more perplexed how people like Eisner and Lucas are backing them up? It almost feels like a conspiracy or some glitch in the matrix.

UNCgolf15 minutes ago

Cork board signs aside, I like most of what they've shown of the queue.

Tha Realest18 minutes ago

Despite the very poor reception of this attraction, let’s not lose sight of the fact that the leaders who championed this project accomplished exactly what they set out to do: Splash Mountain is no more, and they will never go back to it. Now, on to the next target -erm, project.