Walt Disney Imagineering unveils progress on Tiana's Bayou Adventure Animatronics

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Louis Audio-Animatronic figure at Walt Disney Imagineering

Posted: Monday September 11, 2023 10:53am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

During this past weekend's Destination D23 event, Walt Disney Imagineering gave us a rare look inside the Audio-Animatronics Workshop as work continues on Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

Louis Audio-Animatronic figure at Walt Disney Imagineering

In the video below, a large audio-animatronic version of Louis is being assembled before being installed inside the attraction.

Speaking at the event, Disney Parks Chairman Josh D'Amaro said, "These folks are doing amazing work. They're hard at work on all the figures that we're just packing into this attraction. It's going to be such a great experience experience, bringing you a new story from Tiana's world that picks off right where that classic film left off."

Tiana's Bayou Adventure will open in late 2024 at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Disneyland.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure logo

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monothingie7 minutes ago

Is there wind in Florida?

ToTBellHop8 minutes ago

If it brakes and they try to fix it, tte top of the salt dome will collapse. See it while you can!

Mikomike128 minutes ago

I mean, it seems like it’s right after the mama odie scene off to the side and it goes pretty slow at the top.. so it probably won’t be much different than before view wise

monothingie24 minutes ago

The Magic Kingdom now has its very own Yeti. It won't make it more than a couple of months before it breaks.

HauntedPirate28 minutes ago

“We have them paying more than ever for tickets PLUS we’ve convinced them by our bungling of park capacity for 15 years that they have to pay to ride things?!?!”

HauntedPirate32 minutes ago

Depending on where exactly the mist is (I haven’t watched any video or seen any pics yet) you could only get a split-second view before dropping.

V_L_Raptor9 hours ago

Thing is, if you line up your shot just the right way, the boat does look like it has a butt crack...

MerlinTheGoat10 hours ago

No, I have a method of dealing with that. I duck down and shield them when I reach the very bottom, which is only a split second (I do this more to minimize getting wet, but it helps avoid the glasses problem too). Liquid water actually isn't nearly as much of a problem as fog. The glass fogging up is much more of an obstruction than a splash of water, it also lingers for much longer and sometimes even requires me to remove and wipe them. Water rolls off pretty much immediately, or it'll only leave small droplets and doesn't affect my ability to see all that much.

Mikomike1210 hours ago

You don't think coming up out of the mist revealing the view won't be cool?

Buried20KLeague10 hours ago

And now we know the front runner for the first thing that stops working and is never repaired.

ToTBellHop11 hours ago

Don’t your glasses get wet 3 seconds later?

MerlinTheGoat11 hours ago

I wear glasses, so I hope they don't fog up too badly from the mist effects. I have to shield my glasses on Universal's ET ride in its misty segments due to it being blasted at full force at guests. Same could happen with the mist projection that was used in Pirates if I let the vapor hit them. The calm layers of mist used in the fort bombardment scene doesn't cause any issues however. Seems to happen worse when it's more turbulent and thick right around the head. Makes me a bit concerned with these new fog effects since they look like they might be both thick and turbulent.