Ride system testing at Disney World's Tiana's Bayou Adventure

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Thursday March 7, 2024 10:54am ET · "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"
Ride system testing at Disney World's Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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Ride system testing continues this week at Tiana's Bayou Adventure as the attraction enters the final stretch toward its summer 2024 opening at Walt Disney World.


Logs have been spotted cycling at the former Splash Mountain's standard operating pace, with ride vehicles taking the plunge at a rapid pace.

Watch the video below to see some of the recent testing that has taken place during the evening hours at Magic Kingdom.

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.

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My friend from LA pointed out that they shouldn't have gone cheap by using the old logs... They should be bayou logs. Not cuts of timber lol
↩ replying to WondersOfLife
botched old logs is more like it, not good
The logs will be green with mold by August and black with the special swamp mold by October, anyway. Nice, rotten swamp wood. If you’re lucky, they’ll even be slimy when you touch them. Disney Magic.
↩ replying to ToTBellHop
Hmph. Some bromide!
↩ replying to ToTBellHop
If they didn’t clean them, they won’t even need to worry about this extra “theming”!
But if they scrub them too hard, they’ll start to leak…
↩ replying to Smiley/OCD
Just send over the power washers they bought for World Celebration.
↩ replying to ToTBellHop
Those will put a hole right thru them…
↩ replying to MisterPenguin
How dare you list the *special ingredient* for Tiana’s gumbo that we need to find?

Spoiler warning next time, please.
↩ replying to aladdin2007
. . . You do realize they’re 98% identical to how they were on Splash, right?
↩ replying to yensidtlaw1969
I think that was his point right? Botched and old. Sinking due to the resorts continued neglected maintenance.
↩ replying to yensidtlaw1969
Pretty sure that's the problem. Splash's vehicles weren't famous for their great condition.
↩ replying to Castle Cake Apologist
The ride vehicles will absolutely have received maintenance attention by the time Tiana’s opens. They’re not risking a log sinking in their expensive new attraction.
↩ replying to yensidtlaw1969
It's not just the concern about sinking. They are in desperate need of resurfacing/paint. Which I would assume is still planned since we're only in March and there's still quite a few months left.
↩ replying to yensidtlaw1969