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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Purduevian14 minutes ago

Bring this back to TBA... If it is able to hit 1800 people per hour. Assuming a 13 hour day and 80% ILL = 18,720 ILL riders per day. If they can sell each one for $20 you are looking at $374,400 a day or $136,656,000 a year. It would take TBA ~7.5 years to pay for 1 galaxies edge ($1b)

James Alucobond37 minutes ago

The text will ultimately be about the same size as the equivalent Splash Mountain sign if it ends up being stacked vertically.

TheCoasterNerd44 minutes ago

The size I mean. I honestly don't think it's the marquee though just based on that

James Alucobond51 minutes ago

We ... can't see any of it? Just the general shape. Whether or not it looks good will have a lot to do with the materials and execution. If the original model is an indication, the armature at the top may include a lily lantern, which would at least be somewhat charming.

TheCoasterNerd58 minutes ago

Yikes, that... doesn't look... good...

gerarar1 hour ago

According to BlogMickey, this was installed around the same area as the previous attraction sign:

Professortango12 hours ago

I was speaking about visiting Disney is general. Reservations and attraction closures are all I "research" before visiting. And for those closer to the East Coast, they would do even less research since reservations aren't in place anymore. If I saw a commercial or billboard advertising Tiana's Bayou Adventure as open, I would expect to be able to buy a ticket for the appropriate park and ride the attraction without issue. I might have to wait in line, sure, but I would never fathom that it would take additional steps and luck/money to visit the advertised attraction.

discos2 hours ago

Whether numbers are accurate or not, it's wild to think that one singular attraction can bring in that much money per year. Disney is laughing

pigglewiggle3 hours ago

I assumed we were discussing Disney World.

Purduevian3 hours ago

We will see, I haven't personally tracked it I can only assume that Thrill Data is correct. Also in the 30 mins since you sent that screen shot, Tron has moved out to a 3:20pm earliest time (30 mins of time passed, 30 mins of ILL time). Looks like 7Dwarf sold out around 10:55am this morning. Again looking at math. Lets assume both coasters run 1300pph (Unless someone with better data knows if Tron or 7D has a higher/lower throughput). MK is open 13 hours today meaning both rides have 16,900 rides to give away during regular park hours. If 7D is utilizing 80% of the line at $11 a ride. It will make .8*16,900*$11=X or $148,720 today. For Tron to make the same amount of Monday $148,720/(16,900*20)= X or 44% Is 44% or more of Tron's capacity going towards ILL? I have no idea, but it does "sell out" most days around 5-7pm There are a ton of assumptions in here btw so 7D may be more profitable than Tron, but it just seems unlikely. Side note this estimate would mean 7D brings in ~$54million every year in ILL sales

discos4 hours ago

See I don’t know if I buy that Tron sells out this much because for what it’s worth, over the last hour the ILL return window only moved up 10 minutes. It seems like by early afternoon everyone who wanted ILL for TRON has already gotten it. I’ve checked many other days as well snd it’s always the same. I’m still a firm believer Disney will take TRON off ILL once Tiana opens