Tiana's Bayou Adventure (Now Open)

[tielo]

i just dont understand why they leave spots empty specially in dealing with a replacement ride, specially dealing with a replacement.
(budget)
i understand that maybe the budget for animatronics was limited, i get that, but, they couldnt put statues or anything? static little animals?

Isn't that because the ride in Disneyland is shorter and they modeled it for that ride?

 

[Nick]

Great to hear.

Why would he want to go on it 20 times.

 

[Freak]

Why would he want to go on it 20 times.

I got a better question: How was he able to go on it all of these times when the ride keeps shutting down every five minutes?

 

[Skold]

Drew has put so much time and effort into his (great!) coverage of this re-theme, it is like he now has Stockholm Syndrome about this ride.

 

[Clive]

I got a better question: How was he able to go on it all of these times when the ride keeps shutting down every five minutes?

Yeah, I gotta say, emphatically claiming the ride is running "flawlessly" when there's ample evidence it *isn't* is a weird look. You can like or even love the ride, sure, but there are plenty of clips/reports showing major show timing/animation glitches in addition to the numerous breakdowns.

 

[Lucky Planet]

Isn't that because the ride in Disneyland is shorter and they modeled it for that ride?

oh...... oh no. that makes sense

 

[Cup_Of_Coffee]

Why would he want to go on it 20 times.

Does he have a job? I feel Tiana is paying him on the side.

 

[tielo]

Does he have a job? I feel Tiana is paying him on the side.

I think Tiana should point him out as a stalker and get the police involved.

 

[Mad Dog]

Maybe he was a Disney plant.

 

[TheUniC6]

oh...... oh no. that makes sense

Does he have a job? I feel Tiana is paying him on the side.

Considering this was a retheme with not the highest budget in the world, Disney probably didn't want to bother with doing a more bespoke version for MK that would better take advantage of the space.

Both points make way too much sense considering Disney's recent business model and MO.

 

[tielo]

Does anyone know how much the budget for the re-theming was?

 

[HandsomePete]

Does anyone know how much the budget for the re-theming was?

Hard to see it being anything below $100M.

 

[tielo]

Hard to see it being anything below $100M.

That is almost worth 3 Symbolica rides! How can they do so little with so much.

 

[GAcoaster]

This was cheap for a Disney project...

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/disney-spent-142m-to-transform-splash-mountain-into-tianas-bayou-adventure-forbes/

 

[Nick]

This was cheap for a Disney project...

https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/disney-spent-142m-to-transform-splash-mountain-into-tianas-bayou-adventure-forbes/

It was rather expensive for a ride update that didn’t ultimately change much about the actual ride aside from the set pieces and AA’s, both of which are far fewer now though. I’d bet a large percentage of that money went to the AA’s and redoing the exterior of the mountain/briar patch to a bayou.

 

[Jerroddragon]

142 Million for both rides or just WDW?

 

[Mad Dog]

142 Million for both rides or just WDW?

The article says combined cost....But, I wouldn't give too much credence to this article. Its source quote is a linked in comment and the numbers are kind of contrived since it's based on costs of two unrelated Disney new attractions. Sounds like a clickbait article to me. And, very poor investigative journalism with no 'real' evidence or info as a source.

 

[HandsomePete]

Feels about right - for reference Frozen was somewhere around 90-95.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

Shill or no shill, everyone must eventually rise to the demands of the attention economy:

 

[belloq87]

The fact that every AA/figure in that scene is motionless implies a tech/programming problem, right? Not the figures themselves needing to be repaired.

So is this a product of Disney just rushing the attraction to completion for the summer?