Disney to announce Tiana's Bayou Adventure preview details this week

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure preview
Posted: Monday May 13, 2024 9:03pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Following today's announcement that Walt Disney World will officially open Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom on June 28, 2024, Disney has provided more information on upcoming preview opportunities.

Disney says that details will be shared starting May 14 for preview opportunities ahead of the official grand opening for Florida-based Cast Members, Annual Passholders, and eligible Disney Vacation Club Members.

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Starship8243 minutes ago

Ok, name one in the last five years in the parks specifically, yes I know there a few examples on the studio side, but where is this "blaming the fans" because I haven't seen it recently.

Sirwalterraleigh7 minutes ago

Summit plummet is a bad example…the park is never open so NOBODY has to worry about that anymore 😬

Surferboy5678 minutes ago

Ah, that makes sense

Sirwalterraleigh8 minutes ago

None of the criticisms had anything to do with the video. 1. There’s no story/suspense in the ride 2. They don’t have enough AAs/characters in the scenes 3. It doesn’t make any sense. 4. It’s a bad use of PATF But have fun believing all that “experiency” stuff they pump relentlessly…it’s not like you were cancelling the next trip or anything

Incomudro8 minutes ago

Disney needs to get over the idea that giving kids a thrill/scare is a bad thing. So do parents of kids. The whole basis of their animated classics revolved around overcoming such a thing. It's the journey, reward, growth of conquering such a thing that worked so well. And conquering a "scary" ride does that too. I remember the feeling very well with my son's at Expedition Everest for instance when they were perhaps 8 years old: "Whoa, are we up for this?" I still have the picture on my bedroom wall. And going down Summit Plummet. We (my son's are twins) didn't do it the first year, but the next year we did it! I remember how the came up to my wife and cheered "We did Summit Plummet!" So thrilled!

Sirwalterraleigh11 minutes ago

Nah…this has been going on for quite sometime Everytime something doesn’t go well…it’s either silence or shade thrown at the audience Far too many high profile examples. Also…harmonious was stupid…like 8th grade with an we Erector set and a high budget. Nothing to “destroy”

JustInTime12 minutes ago

I’ve got a feeling this will hit different when experiencing in person.

Starship82415 minutes ago

Really? A bit dramatic much. There have been PLENTY of people acknowledging the downfall of Disney creative especially in these boards. People were excited for this attraction based on what had been seeing about the ride for the last few months like the animatronics episode and little that was showed in the last episode, my self included. I can also see people thinking this attraction being good based the things we had been seeing in Tokyo with Fantasy Springs, yes OLC runs the Tokyo parks, but the same WDI makes the rides.

monothingie16 minutes ago

Harmonious got tossed because it didn’t get the boost in revenue from merch, food, and beverage sales that was expected and because it was costly to operate. TBA is a response to fix a problematic Disney Attraction because of social and political issues brought about by a small but vocal contingent of people on social media, who had probably never set foot inside a Disney Park. Given the way corporate reacted to that, I have no doubt they wouldn’t hesitate to start attacking the fans.

Musical Mermaid18 minutes ago

The more I think of the plot for the attraction, the more confused I get. Looking in a bayou for musicians doesn't make sense to me as a story for a Princess and the Frog ride. I thought Louis was a unique circumstance, so wouldn't it be easier to find a human band? Maybe I missed the backstory and Tiana planned the party too late, so all the human musicians were booked at other Mardi Gras parties already. I also started to think of what it'd be like if this is what they used as a plot for something like the Little Mermaid. For most of the ride the only characters are Ariel, Sebastian and random sea creatures. Let's find some ocean animals to play in Sebastian's concert. There is no Ursula anywhere. Maybe you see King Triton using some magic to make you smaller for some ridiculous reason and you pick up some musical shrimp, then voila, you are ready to get big again for the concert and finally get to see the rest of the characters in the finale. I find the idea lame. I don't understand why they didn't use the plot of the movie. If they were doing a classic ride from scratch for Tiana, it wouldn't be nearly 10 minutes. It'd probably be closer to 3 or 4. The frog thing wouldn't be that big of a problem because they could still include at least 3 human animatronics of Tiana in different dresses: an "Almost There" scene, Charlotte's party where she meets Naveen, and a big finale in her classic green princess dress. They could also have a Dr. Facilier scene and a scene where Tiana and Naveen are frogs falling in love in the bayou. It's all from the movie and would've made a wonderful dark ride for families. We don't have enough of those. I still think that this was the wrong property for Splash's bones, it shows with how contrived the story is, but they can't undo that decision. They should be thinking of a plan B now though to improve what was delivered.

Phineas22 minutes ago

That’s the worst part though: my trepidation was never about Tiana! I adore her as a character, love her voice actress and her “I want” song is an instant ear worm. And she’s a great role model for young children watching-It’s great and wonderful to dream, but you have to help those dreams along yourself. Princess and the Frog is a charming film, and absolutely deserves its own attraction. But what they’ve come up with is a strange, monotonous mess.

WowFactor22 minutes ago

So, we've lost Splash and Tiana all at once? It's just sad...

Starship82423 minutes ago

I don't necessarily agree with this they have changed things when the vast majority of people don't like them. They completely destroyed Harmonious and didn't "blame the fans" for that. The idea that they're doing that is just not true imo, at least in the parks in recent years.

Cliff27 minutes ago

Disney's sharp creative decline in the past 5+ years in both, the parks and the studios has been glaringly evident. A big reason for this is that way to many of Disney's best creatives were either pushed out or they got tired of the mess and just quit and were snapped up by other companies. For those here that are sincerely shocked at how bad this attraction is and are shocked that Disney destroyed "Spladh Mountain" to make this???.. Shame on you. You have NOT been paying attention closely enough. There is no excuse for anybody to claim that this attraction failure came suddenly out of left field. This is a clear trend that too many people are refusing to aknowledge.....