Permits filed for show set installation at Tiana's Bayou Adventure in Magic Kingdom

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Posted: Tuesday April 11, 2023 4:18pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney Imagineering has filed permits today for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Concept art of first drop into the bayou

Assigned to Icarus Exhibits of Orlando, the permit is for "Fabrication and Installation of Show Set Items." The permit has a longer than usual expiration date, and is December 3, 2024. Thanks to danlb_2000 on the WDWMAGIC Forums for locating the permits.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure concept model - D23 Expo exhibit

Icarus has recently performed similar work at TRON Lightcycle Run and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.

Later this summer we expect to see a tiara-topped water tower added to the mountain, one of the most significant changes on the exterior.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure storyline graphics

Tiana's Bayou Adventure will open at Magic Kingdom in late 2024.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure logo

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EagleScout6102 hours ago

^This^ You can freeze the animatronics and turn off the dialouge in this moment and you'd still know that Br'er Fox was about clobber Br'er Rabbit while he's distracted laughing at Br'er Bear The same can't be said for Bayou where the scenes turn into "Tiana and Louis stand behind a bunch of animals" when you turn off the music and freeze everything.

Incomudro4 hours ago

Tiana's needs its AA's to function properly more than Splash did. The scenes in Splash worked even when static.

SplashJacket1 day ago

Well… rode it today, mostly clean sheet. Definitely a downgrade. Queue is an upgrade. Feels like it got 80% the way there and just faltered. Lots of noticeably broken effects despite never having ridden it. Flickering big Tiana screen, b-mode Tiana, broken lift screen.

Epcot82Guy5 days ago

They even took Splash out of the name. Wouldn't that fix it?? I mean, the bayous of Texas and Louisiana are known for their dry, non-humid climates.

JoeCamel5 days ago

Who could have foreseen there would be water in this environment?

splah5 days ago

do we know the most common cause for a particular function not working properly on these animatronic? I remember reading earlier that it's the moisture in the air that isn't playing nice with the all electronic AAs. What is the fix overnight to repair it if the malfunctions are limited to a couple functions and not the entire AA?

Disgruntled Walt5 days ago

No. No. Nooooooo.

mickEblu5 days ago

This is crazy talk.

RSoxNo15 days ago

The ride is good and there are parts that are certainly improvements over Splash. Having said that, the Animatronics weren't working particularly well on the two rides I've had thus far. I'm 1 for 4 in working Mama Odie animatronics. I haven't seen Juju, and the indoor Tiana's and Louis's have been hit or miss. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that the second half of the attraction (the double drop and beyond) is better than Splash Mountain. I certainly can't say that they cheaped out on this. Aesthetically, the exterior of the attraction looks much better than Splash every did.