Opening Day at Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Virtual Queue and Lightning Lane Reaches Capacity In Seconds

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue

Posted: Friday June 28, 2024 7:27am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The virtual queue and Lightning Lane for Tiana's Bayou Adventure quickly reached capacity early this morning as the Magic Kingdom's newest attraction begins its first official day of operations.

The virtual queue opened at 7 am this morning, with the Magic Kingdom at capacity for Annual Passholders but still available for date-based tickets.

Capacity for the 7 am virtual queue distribution was reached in just under 3 seconds, which is typical for virtual queue attractions including TRON Lightcycle Run and Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind. A second opportunity to join the virtual queue was available at 1 pm, and that reached capacity in less than 2 seconds.

Guests with Genie+ found that the Lightning Lane was also at capacity by 7:01am, restricting its availability to resort guests only.

Based on the Annual Passholder previews, we expect a progression rate of around 5 minutes per boarding group for guests in the virtual queue.

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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 seen 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.