Water Tower installed at Tiana's Bayou Adventure in Magic Kingdom

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Water Tower installed June 27 2023

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Posted: Tuesday June 27, 2023 10:53am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney Imagineering reached a major milestone last night with the installation of the first major new exterior set piece at Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Water Tower installed June 27 2023

The water tower, complete with tiara, contains the quote "Never, ever lose sight of what's really important!" on the back, and "Employee Owned TIANA'S FOODS Est 1927" on the front.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Water Tower installed June 27 2023

Tiana's Bayou Adventure attraction is coming to Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in late 2024.

Watch the video below to see Walt Disney Imagineering install the water tower.

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MerlinTheGoat7 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 Dude8 hours ago

ChesireCat118 hours ago

sedati8 hours ago

LittleBuford9 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 Haunt9 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.

LittleBuford9 hours ago

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

Tha Realest9 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.

LittleBuford9 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.

sedati10 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.

sedati10 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.

Magicart8710 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.