First logs take the plunge at Tiana's Bayou Adventure as ride system testing begins at Walt Disney World

Feb 14, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Posted: Wednesday February 14, 2024 7:20am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Ride system testing has begun at Tiana's Bayou Adventure in Magic Kingdom as logs are once again taking the 40mph, 52.5ft plunge from the top of the former Splash Mountain.

Following yesterday's announcement that Tiana's Bayou Adventure will open in the summer of 2024, Walt Disney Imagineers began testing the logs last night.

Last night's test is the first time the ride has cycled since the closure of Splash Mountain in January 2023.

While the logs are carried over from Splash Mountain, the only visible change is that Br'er Rabbit has been removed from the front of the ride vehicle.

With the ride system remaining unchanged from Splash Mountain, the height requirement at Tiana's Bayou Adventure remains 40 inches, with a ride time of around 11 minutes.

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MerlinTheGoat5 hours ago

While I still don't know how complete that lighting package is, I think the blue used around the upper parts is too overwhelming. Blue works great as a way to illuminate water, as seen from the lower parts. As well as a few highlights on the hill itself. And some of that saturation is probably the camera's fault as digital cameras have known problems with capturing blue light accurately (film cameras don't have this problem btw). But even still, they needed some warmer colors like green and amber-ish white. As it is, I think that's way too much blue, which is saying a lot coming from someone whose favorite color is blue... In addition, I was expecting the drop itself to glow more based on what the render suggested (like maybe using some internal spotlights built into the sides or something). Again, not sure how complete this is yet given how much they've been fiddling lately.

Drew the Disney Dude5 hours ago

ChesireCat116 hours ago

sedati6 hours ago

LittleBuford7 hours ago

It started with the reveal of her adventurer costume last year: And continued with the reveal of her animatronic this year:

999th Happy Haunt7 hours ago

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say the last one. She’s probably going to appear in a different princess-ier outfit at the end of the ride anyways… so they can sell more dresses/dolls to children.

LittleBuford7 hours ago

OK, but that’s a separate criticism from the one I was referring to.

Tha Realest7 hours ago

Setting aside whether this existing ride lends itself to a “Princess” attraction, many of the critiques (mine included) is that the new garb and iteration of Tiana is drawn from “synergy machine” efforts to tie her into a long-gestating Disney+ series which we may never see.

LittleBuford7 hours ago

Not in the sense that people mean here, i.e., something that will primarily appeal to little girls. It’s designed to have the same broad appeal as any other family attraction at Disney. The critics can’t have it both ways: they’re complaining it’s a princess ride even as they’re bemoaning the fact that Tiana isn’t presented in her pretty royal dress.

sedati8 hours ago

The old exterior was only scary is how much of a mutilated and garish twin it was to it's charming predecessor in California. I'd also say that widening the flume (great idea for capacity) made the drop look much shorter by comparison. Anyway, while my dream was that the rock-work be completely re-worked, this solution by over-growth is still far better looking that what we had before.

sedati8 hours ago

Umm, actually- Disney was done and fine with the bright yellow because they're stoopid and don't know how imagineer anymur. Its only because real Disney fans complained that Iger gave bigger budget and brought in Universel artists to fix. I'm hearing budgit for ride now over 800 million. If you don't believe me, I'll send youtube link with googly eye thumbnail.

Magicart878 hours ago

And they'll be sprinkling many references in the attraction to reinforce that "princess" branding as well. Be it directly referenced in character dialogue, a banner saying "Princess Tiana", the iconic dress finale... and there's possibly even a tiara-centric subplot that's yet to be revealed.