Holy crap! I got busy for a few weeks and came back to 100 pages that swelled to 130 pages during the journey. But I made it. I figured with all that there had to be crazy reveals and dates and presentations and such. Not quite, but we did get to meet the critters and see the animatronics. Cool.
One thing I will note, which I didn't grab a quote to reply to... I was surprised I didn't seem to see anyone bring this up. If you did, I may have missed it during this insane binge, so I apologize. But the Kleptomaniac Armadillo seems like the obvious other half of the trumpet storyline that has been brought up a few times. He's going to show up a number of times and I did see it said he felt like a secondary storyline/Easter Egg sort of guy. There could be a B-plot of him swiping Louis's trumpet and cheekily hiding with it in the vein of the Pluto storyline in Runaway Railway.
This has come up a lot. Pecos Bill's and Tortuga Tavern share a kitchen if I recall correctly, and the Southwest and Latin fare probably were easy to serve from the same place. I wonder how much New Orleans cuisine crosses over with Tortuga to keep that relationship going... although I suppose they could shift focus to more French Caribbean than... well... Mexican.
Wait, I checked the menu... Tortuga is serving barbecue and Asian? Huh... Things have changed.
I associate that phrase with something different.
As I feel Pirates has shown to a lot of East Coast fans, sometimes a thing being yours trumps quality in your heart. So many little touches that have always been there and you fall in love with. The heart will always trump the brain in that respect.
This came in the middle of discussions on whether Naveen was disowned forever or just until marriage and jokes of succession. Until I saw the picture a few posts later and realized this was legit, I thought this was a joke description of her plan to poison the in-laws and assume the throne.
"Remember, it was all started with a princesstrepeneur."
I really really hope, if they had any sense, they kept the hanging possums for the bayou....I mean why not? Im sure we all had a favorite thing about splash, that would be mine. Also the shadow effect of the rocking chair behind the rocks in the queue? loved that...I hope they did something similar and just didn't close it up,, but knowing them...
I wonder if they'll reprogram the weasel to pop out and say "LSU" now.
Now, the other debate was the outside of the ride was being 'dressed' in some way to minimize how scary the drop is. This group included those claiming some sort of forced perspective was going on to that end. The people against that were people like me who basically said, "Ummm... can you point out where this forced perspective is? Are they making the flowers smaller or bigger as you go up the mountain?"
Hehehe. Once again, I'm unsure if I got lumped in here, but I was saying (around the time I last checked before the 100+ pages) that I didn't notice the forced perspective of the original ride until it was pointed out to me in this thread. Features did shrink towards the top and there was nothing surrounding it closely. Now with those shrinking features hidden by greenery and large props put right up against it... it feels like all the evidence of a purposeful attempt at the opposite. I felt that so much so that I just assumed it was fact. As for the flowers, they don't need to shrink because simply making it look like its real height is more than enough. Splash Mountain is less than 90' tall. Avery Island is 163 feet at its highest point.
But I think if they did it, it's simply to fit the setting rather than not scare children.
Huzzah! The mystery crates have arrived! I wonder what's inside. Doesn't say. Ah, classic box stacks a.k.a. the pinnacle of modern Imagineering. All that's missing is a random lantern placed on top. There's still time.
I don't know how long you've been in this thread, but if you missed it, that was solved hundreds of pages ago. Beignets. The crates are full of beignets Tiana is shipping down river.
Here's a video tour from today around Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
The bayou empty again. The water keeps getting filled and drained. Could it be that the lily pads are not static, but made to float on the surface? It would be the best look for them. Perhaps since they won't hang rigidly in the air during drainings, they're waiting until they aren't doing this as much to install them.
I really dig among all the fancy lighting the bare truth of the bright yellow lantern over the mill entrance. It tickles me that I can picture it attracting bugs and that actually enhancing the show.
I already had to replace two LED boards in two different celing fans and the LED board in my refrigerator has a temperature issue, I had it out multiple times and can’t track down the issue, it works well enough, so I am not going to pay $100 dollars for a new “light” for my refrigerator.
Wait... Why do your ceiling fans have LED boards?
Obviously I don't know how the final drop is going to play into storyline with Mama Odie but if I had to venture a guess that makes some sense..
Honestly, Mama Odie's always had that mischief streak to her. I can see her doing it just to make herself laugh.
[QUOTE="imagineer97, post: 10907558, member: 109397"]
[SIZE=1]Besides, I'm a king (can't you tell in my avatar?) and I can say what I wish.[/SIZE]
Speaking of mischief... Aye, I know what you are. And your heart's as cold as a white Christmas!
[QUOTE="Professortango1, post: 10907794, member: 113372"]
Yes, but the characters never spoke to us directly except for the vultures and the Take Me Along Gator.
Doesn't Br'er Frog speak at the start, filling in Remus's narration/exposition duties?
[QUOTE="Surferboy567, post: 10907697, member: 127930"]
“Tiana sure knows how to make a party special” is that what she is going to say at the top of the drop?
Mama Odie would actually be a good replacement. It makes sense for her to have omniscient narrator knowledge and it would be a good nod to the two narrators before her. This line really reads this way to me, a little cheery summation at the end of the adventure right after the party.
[QUOTE="Incomudro, post: 10911087, member: 101836"]
It makes me think how this current crew would bungle the queue of Expedition Everest - which I view as one of the very best queue's in all of the parks - were it a new attraction and they were tasked with the design.
Funnily enough, that's always been the comp I've had in my mind to the whole backstory debacle. We have the offices of the touring company, the museum, various different businesses that we're travelling through, so much detail and backstory and then a trip on a train while dodging a giant cryptid where not a thing of it really matters and no one without our brand of sickness notices any of the previously mentioned things.
It always felt like Everest and this project could quite easily be the same in that respect, the only difference being that they actually published this information to score points with the kind of people who wanted the change to be made.
[QUOTE="MisterPenguin, post: 10911421, member: 109956"]
The yellow of the building has been toned down with faux weathering so it isn't neon-yellow any more. A nice improvement.
Funny how waiting until things are done before giving one's verdict makes one look less... extremist.
As I went through pictures and saw more close shots of the building, it all looked worn just as people seemed to complain they wanted. I thought it was a trick of the whole thing looking better together with the accessories or hyperbole by those complaining, but I suppose it was done in post.
I will say that, while expressing earlier than the big mural complaints seemed to be a nothing-burger, the way it ended suddenly seemed odd. But I don't remember back then the amount of wall down to the stone and up to the soffit being the same. It looks less awkward now. Sorta balanced.
[QUOTE="splah, post: 10913349, member: 12019"]
Yeah it needs an intermediate layer that’s staggers from 1/2 the grass height to just about the water as it tapers out toward the boats and becomes more sparse.
Right now it looks like what it is. A wall of grass (I wonder how durable all these thin grasses are. will they start to wilt in the summer months)
It looks like a cartoonish version of [URL='
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/reeds-water-langely-british-columbia-58144806.jpg']the high grass at the edge of many lakes.
[QUOTE="ToTBellHop, post: 10913607, member: 888"]
I was appalled when I watched a video and someone pronounced “bayou” as “BAY oo”.
I did NOT smash the subscribe button!
Big [URL='https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oSGhhI8SVSw']kamehameha vibes. Oof.