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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monothingie7 minutes ago

“Talent will be required to ride over and over (and over and over) and will be expected to convey thrills and joy“

Purduevian23 minutes ago

Per Thrill data, it has only not sold out once or twice in the past Month. Although I do not know the mix or ILL vs Standby/VQ so it is possible that 7D is like 80% ILL and Tron is like 20% ILL. I actually think the VQ hurts ILL sales for Tron. I can for free get a 45min wait time for Tron, where 7D is hard to find under 80 mins.

ToTBellHop26 minutes ago

This is what you get when you have a high height requirement (for Disney) but not high thrill. It probably helps them more as a Genie option.

discos30 minutes ago

I have suspicions they make more off Seven Dwarfs even at the $11 price tag compared to TRON at $20. Seven Dwarfs constantly sells out every single day, whereas TRON has ILL availability pretty much at any point throughout the day. They are not usually selling out.

ToTBellHop33 minutes ago

53 year old rides are more popular but it is by no means hated.

𝕴𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖗9745 minutes ago

I have not been plugged in (haha) on Tron, is that the case?

ToTBellHop51 minutes ago

It would be tantamount to admitting your new E-ticket isn't all that popular. Oof.

Purduevian53 minutes ago

Yeah no inside information, but from publicly available information (price on ILL). It would seem like an odd choice to keep 7D on ILL and take Tron off.

ToTBellHop54 minutes ago

Nothing a guest will notice.

Starship82456 minutes ago

This is the first I'm hearing of ride system "improvements" what would those be?

Brer Oswald1 hour ago

If posts on here from two decades ago are to be believed, Splash/Tiana should be able to hit up to 1800 guests per hour. https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/ride-capacities-everest-and-splash-mountain.66949/ I know this slipped in later years. I’ve seen numbers as low as 1080 per hour. With the rumoured ride system “improvements”, I would expect that it would be able to hit the former target.

ToTBellHop1 hour ago

Tron does not hit that number. We also don't know the proportion of ILL to Standby for either. I have suspicions. But they are just suspicions.

Purduevian1 hour ago

From a quick Google search Tron does 1,680 pph. 7Dwarf mine train does 1,300pph. Tron sold at $20 per ILL today 7Dwarf sold at $11 per ILL today I know which one I'm keeping on ILL if I'm Disney

MisterPenguin1 hour ago

"Must be able to convey tortured souls condemned to awkwardly dance to something that might be identified as 'rap' by someone who only heard 'rap' described to them."