Disney announces opening for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World and a first look at new animatronics

Feb 13, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Tiana Animatronic

Posted: Tuesday February 13, 2024 8:40am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney announced today that Tiana's Bayou Adventure will open to guests at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in the summer of 2024 and at Disneyland later in 2024.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Tiana Animatronic

Splash Mountain had its last day of operation on January 22, 2023, and a summer opening of Tiana's Bayou Adventure represents an impressive timeline for the reimagining effort, months ahead of the original "late 2024" announcement.

The earliest and most optimistic estimates place opening around Memorial Day (late May) at Magic Kingdom, but Disney has yet to make any announcement beyond "Summer 2024."

There will also likely be various rounds of previews for Cast Members, Annual Passholders, Disney Vacation Club Members, Club 33, and it remains to be seen how the soft openings will fit into the timeline.

Disney also today shared a first look at the Tiana audio-animatronic that will be part of the attraction and also confirmed that there will be dozens of entirely new Audio-Animatronics figures. Along with Princess Tiana, Louis and Mama Odie, we will also see Eudora, Charlotte, Prince Ralphie, Prince Naveen, and others.

Watch the video below to see the new Tiana Audio-Animatronic in action.

The "coming soon" posters surrounding Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom have also now been updated to include the new Summer 2024 opening.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure coming summer 2024 mural

With Princess Tiana at the helm, this new attraction “digs a little deeper” into her story after the events of the Walt Disney Animation Studios film “The Princess and the Frog.” It is Mardi Gras season at Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, and the bayou will light up for a journey full of music, Mama Odie’s magic, and a whole boatful – log-ful? – of new friends, in preparation for a celebration where everyone’s welcome.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure coming summer 2024 mural

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ToTBellHop1 hour ago

There's also the confetti cannon that goes off at TDO every time someone actually pays rack rate at the Grand Floridian.

Tha Realest1 hour ago

If true this means the only working cannons at WDW are in Pirates.

MisterPenguin1 hour ago

Send them this... Which only proves that the blue lighting is appropriate!!

Incomudro1 hour ago

I don't have a source from someone close to the project at all. It was something that was stated by some people on this forum who claimed it was valid.

imagineer972 hours ago

But are the cannons there now? I don't remember who said they were taken out. The fence still being there doesn't actually mean the cannons are still there.

ToTBellHop2 hours ago

The cannons made the evac walkway wet, I believe. Granted, plenty of the other walkways are wet, too...since it's a water ride.

imagineer972 hours ago

I thought the fence was put in for guest safety because of the lift hill machinery (obsolete since they put lap bars in).

thepotat52162 hours ago

If the water cannons were taken out then the wooden fence before the mill house would not still be there. It was put in due to the water cannons.

imagineer972 hours ago

Someone said the water cannons were taken out during the retheme...does anyone know if that's true? @Drew the Disney Dude can you see them anywhere?

Fido Chuckwagon2 hours ago

They turned down water effects during covid (probably to prevent masks from getting soaked), so this is definitely accurate.

ChewbaccaYourMum2 hours ago

I'm so excited for that moment when we all could ride it finally and talk about the 98% of it that we haven't seen yet!

imagineer972 hours ago

Where did this idea come from? I interviewed Don Carson (one of the managing Imagineers on the WDW Splash project) back when the retheme was announced and all we had was the original concept art with the boat. He said: The "mountain" has "good bones" and I think it will support the changes they make. I've posted the full interview on here in some other thread, but I think he would have brought up the fact that the mountain couldn't support the boat if that were the case.