New Video - A Deep Dive into the Making of Tiana's Bayou Adventure with Walt Disney Imagineers

Mar 22, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Posted: Friday March 22, 2024 10:39am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The New Orleans Book Festival hosted Walt Disney Imagineering for a panel discussion on "Bringing Tiana's Bayou Adventure to Life," moderated by Leslie Iwerks.

In this 45-minute video, you can hear from WDI's Charita Carter and Carmen Smith and "honorary Imagineer" Stella Chase.

The New Orleans Book Festival brings the world's leading authors to Tulane University for a multi-day celebration of their works. The Festival features both fiction and non-fiction and convenes readings, panel discussions, symposia and keynote speeches. It provides an opportunity for outlets, authors and readers to interact with each other in one of the most vibrant and culturally diverse cities in the world.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure will open in the summer of 2024, but Disney has yet to announce a precise date.

The earliest and most optimistic estimates place a soft opening around Memorial Day (late May), which may put an official opening sometime in July.

The upcoming D23 Down in New Orleans event on March 23 provides Disney with one of two opportunities to announce an opening date; the other is the Annual Shareholders meeting on April 3.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure testing - March 4, 2024

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Figments Friend6 minutes ago

Perhaps, but there are several logs tagged and others with no tags. -

JoeCamel17 minutes ago

They gave the log a red card

Patcheslee22 minutes ago

Keep track of which have made the mandatory number of cycles?

Figments Friend26 minutes ago

Here now in front of the Attracton, logs are being cycled through. Good crowd here right now watching with me on the bridge. Some of the logs are tagged with red tags attached to the ‘rope point’ on the back. Not sure what the designation is for…but here is a quick snapshot - Another observation - The logs are stopping at the top of the lift hill. Hesitating…just for a moment. They are are not just tumbling over the lift as usual. May just be the spacing settings, waiting for the prior log to get out of the clearance range, but wanted to note it. Every single log is stopping at the top…as if it might be a part of the experience now. Two Imagineers just rode by with camera equipment set up in one of the logs.

ToTBellHop1 hour ago

Strange. They usually don’t highlight construction sites. That’s not magical. You’re supposed to think it’s a real waterfall.

Figments Friend1 hour ago

Agree. Not sure why they made it look that way, but perhaps they wanted to drive home the fact it is still under construction. -

mysto1 hour ago

Risky, could take down the internet for the eastern US. But seriously, there may be a tech hurdle involved, which means ut-oh spaghetti-o. True story: on a trip a semi full of spaghetti-o caught fire and closed the freeway. Waited in line for hours. That phrase has had meaning ever since. Every time we're in a traffic jam we muse that they shouldn't transport spaghetti-o across state lines without a hazmat permit.

SilentWindODoom1 hour ago

The wall behind it made it look like something weird and alien to those used to the view. I can understand it.

Vclguy901 hour ago

So they are really going to have 2 VQ's at the same time? So you can only ride one or the other if you opt not to do G+? Is this the confirmed plan? Or is something else planned for both VQ's?

Disney Analyst1 hour ago

Love @Drew the Disney Dude's optimism and positivity here.

ToTBellHop1 hour ago

I’ll be curious to see when they decide to take BTMRR down given the fact that it’s better to have both it and TBA open for the first few months with Standby open. Perhaps they push BTMRR out later into 2024. It was originally a January 2025 closure.

ToTBellHop1 hour ago

I was kinda shocked the waterfall was off on their announcement video. I like it much better with the waterfall on.

Figments Friend1 hour ago

Quick observations as I take a closer look…. Might be old news now, but the colored glass in the entrance door to Tiana’s Attraction is a nice detall. Also, some lights awaiting installation today.