Disney announces opening for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World and a first look at new animatronics

Feb 13, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Tiana Animatronic

Posted: Tuesday February 13, 2024 8:40am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney announced today that Tiana's Bayou Adventure will open to guests at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in the summer of 2024 and at Disneyland later in 2024.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure - Tiana Animatronic

Splash Mountain had its last day of operation on January 22, 2023, and a summer opening of Tiana's Bayou Adventure represents an impressive timeline for the reimagining effort, months ahead of the original "late 2024" announcement.

The earliest and most optimistic estimates place opening around Memorial Day (late May) at Magic Kingdom, but Disney has yet to make any announcement beyond "Summer 2024."

There will also likely be various rounds of previews for Cast Members, Annual Passholders, Disney Vacation Club Members, Club 33, and it remains to be seen how the soft openings will fit into the timeline.

Disney also today shared a first look at the Tiana audio-animatronic that will be part of the attraction and also confirmed that there will be dozens of entirely new Audio-Animatronics figures. Along with Princess Tiana, Louis and Mama Odie, we will also see Eudora, Charlotte, Prince Ralphie, Prince Naveen, and others.

Watch the video below to see the new Tiana Audio-Animatronic in action.

The "coming soon" posters surrounding Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom have also now been updated to include the new Summer 2024 opening.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure coming summer 2024 mural

With Princess Tiana at the helm, this new attraction “digs a little deeper” into her story after the events of the Walt Disney Animation Studios film “The Princess and the Frog.” It is Mardi Gras season at Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, and the bayou will light up for a journey full of music, Mama Odie’s magic, and a whole boatful – log-ful? – of new friends, in preparation for a celebration where everyone’s welcome.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure coming summer 2024 mural

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ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ1 minute ago

This addition, like the Ray and Evangeline stars just create big-ol question marks as to why they are being added. Were they always planned? Are Imagineers actively trying to "fix" the attraction with small tweaks here and there?

EagleScout6109 minutes ago

It's that scene from 1984 with the huge head but instead it's saying CO OPPPPPP.... CO OOPPPP

Brer Panther11 minutes ago

I can't make out what the employees are saying, I'll just assume it's "Tiana is such a strong female individual with her employee-owned food co-ops and her inspiring other girls of color to work hard and become big successes! Also, Disney is so woke!" or something along those lines.

donaldtoo1 hour ago

:facepalm:

Tha Realest1 hour ago

“Hey, it could be worse - the last group of workers that messed up were sent to work in the Star Wars Hotel.”

Jedi142 hours ago

There’s also a regular gumbo.

donaldtoo2 hours ago

No, Tiana has gone vegan with the plant-based “7 Greens Gumbo” at DLRs Tiana’s Palace… You know, because of all the Southern vegans that existed back in the 1920’s.

Disgruntled Walt4 hours ago

"Don't we sell meat products here? Do all these animals running around know that we plan to slaughter them?"

Tha Realest5 hours ago

“Why aren’t we invited to the party?” “I don’t know. Guess she doesn’t care about her employees that much after all.”

WorldExplorer5 hours ago

"Divorce? Isn't that a little extreme?" "She barely acknowledges he exists. It's been a long time comin' if you ask me."

Bocabear5 hours ago

That would make a great running post...."Things overheard from Tiana's Sweatshop Foods Factory Break Room"..... I'll start: "if we can get the critters to play music for a party for free, can we also get them to pack boxes and run the factory for free?

Disgruntled Walt6 hours ago

I can't make out what they're saying. So I'll fill in the blanks (forgive me, I think the recent weirdness of some of the other threads is rubbing off on me): "It's so strange how our boss can only move when the logs in the river through the middle of our factory start floating towards her." "Yes, and she keeps talking about how great those animals can play. Like, that's literally all she says. I'm a little concerned, because she ought to be discussing our company budget—how can we afford to let all these animals run loose in our food factory?" "I know, right! The incident with the bear sniffing up all the powdered sugar a couple months ago...I don't think the lawsuits have been settled yet, but it's not gonna be cheap." "Well, I ain't payin' for it. I say we charge the alligator that hangs around all day between his trumpet gigs. That in itself is weird, because alligators don't have lips!" "Well, maybe we should get back to work." "What are we even doing here, cooking? Packing food? Making beignets that will definitely not taste good by the time they get to where they're going?" "That's true. Who in 1927 is bulk ordering crates of beignets to be shipped somewhere? It doesn't actually make sense. You know what, I quit." "Me too. I'd say we could hitch a ride out of here on one of the company logs, but they're down for maintenance."