First Detailed Look Inside Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World

May 29, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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Posted: Wednesday May 29, 2024 7:38pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The latest installment of Disney's 'We Call It Imagineering' YouTube series takes us behind the scenes of how music is created for attractions and entertainment and includes the first detailed look inside Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

'We Call It Imagineering' Tiana's Bayou Adventure sneak peek

These first glimpses inside Tiana's Bayou Adventure confirm the mixed use of Audio-Animatronics, detailed physical sets, and projections.

'We Call It Imagineering' Tiana's Bayou Adventure sneak peek

The ride's story marks a new chapter for Tiana as she grows her business and as a thank you to her community for their support, she's throwing a party during Mardi Gras season. When it turns out there's been a mix up in the preparations and she's missing a band, Tiana invites us on a journey through the bayou discovering both friends familiar and anew for this last ingredient – musical critters!

After the thrilling drop, you'll soon approach Tiana and friends at her mansion, where Louis conducts a jazz band filled with all the critters we met on our journey. They play "Special Spice" along with Prince Naveen playing his ukulele and Prince Ralphie the drums. We've discovered the "Special Spice" making this joyful, one-of-a-kind celebration complete is in fact YOU. The melody continues as we approach Mama Odie, who acknowledges that this party wouldn't be what it is without you.

'We Call It Imagineering' Tiana's Bayou Adventure sneak peek

The sneak peek video from Imagineering, which you can watch below, shows the ride's loading area, show scenes, animatronics, the finale scene, and a listen to the all-new original song "Special Spice," composed for the ride by PJ Morton with vocals by Anika Noni Rose, the original voice of Princess Tiana.

Disney has announced preview opportunities for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom, which will run from June 2 through June 26, 2024, for various groups, including Cast Members, DVC members, media, Club 33 members, and Annual Passholders. The official opening for all guests is set for June 28, 2024.

Watch another short video below from Walt Disney Imagineering that shows more views of the ride during composer PJ Morton's visit.

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MaximumEd4 days ago

Just got back from a trip and got to ride this several times. I noticed in the mill scene where the first Tiana is located that there seemed to be some loud machinery noise in there like a bad bearing in a pump, or something like that. Don’t remember this in Splash. Anyone have any info?

bpiper14 days ago

From Touringplan's Sept 4 Disney Data Dump blog article. This for the period Aug 27 thru Sept 2. Attraction Downtime Worst Offenders For the third week in a row (and with no prospect for getting knocked off its pedestal any time soon), the worst offender of the past week was Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, which was unexpectedly down for an astounding 41% of the week – its worst week since we starting tracking it. The worst day for Tiana’s was clearly on August 27th, when the ride was down for 82% of the day. But it was also down for more than half of the day on August 28th. On average, Tiana’s didn’t open until 11:15 am this week. But on two different days it was down until significantly into the afternoon.

Bocabear16 days ago

Disneyland Paris' early struggles were never related to the design of the park....and I agree it is the most beautiful park. From what I have been told the real problems were related to overbuilding resorts that were not necessary at the time it was built. I think now it is more widely accepted , but on it's opening, the crowds were not there yet.

TrainsOfDisney16 days ago

More like Rocket Rods… (I love Tony but… )

Vegas Disney Fan16 days ago

Wonder if it was fallout from him being the lead designer of DL Paris (EuroDisney) and its early struggles? Which coincidentally is still the most beautiful Disney park in my opinion.

mickEblu16 days ago

Thank you. It’s annoying being able to read right through people that avoid critiquing (or go much softer than they would if they were being completely honest) TBA as they are afraid of being associated with those “crazy” Splash Mountain fans so they become hyper focused on the technical issues as if those are the only problems.

SuddenStorm16 days ago

If everything else was flawless, I'd be all for critiquing the Tiana animatronics and the terrible CGI depiction of Tiana in the Laughin' Place. But on the hierarchy of issues with the ride, the order is something like- 1. Splash was way way way better, so WDI really dropped the ball 2. The scene staging is elementary 3. The story is elementary. 4. The sound design is elementary. 5. The attraction is horribly unreliable- but even if it ran perfectly, we'd still have issues 1-4. 6. 7. 8. 9. WDI did a poor job translating Tiana's likeness to a 3D animatronic.

Ghost9316 days ago

Tiana's Bayou Adventure has many problems (mainly a terrible story). But Tiana's appearance, weight and "attractiveness" is not one of them. The adventure outfit feels like a big departure from the movie, but she looks a lot like Tiana in the final "special spice" scene.

SuddenStorm16 days ago

I'm 99% sure he was the creative lead for Disneyland in the '90s and early '00s? I could be wrong. His popularity within Disney's leadership plummeted in the late '90s and '00s and as far as I know never recovered. I think Kim Irvine has done a better job internally of remaining popular- but she also comes across as more of a 'yes' person who is willing to toe the company line.