The BIG Problem With Tiana’s Bayou Adventure

Thank you for telling me I "felt the grief of loss without understanding what those emotions were". My family and I loved this ride because of the spectacle and the songs. Please do not tell us that we don't understand our own feelings - you're not qualified to do that.

From people who road a preview of the ride and said it was “rainforest cafe the ride” things don’t sound good

personally im super upset because splash mountain was really fun and atmospheric due to its very dense show scenes, i couldnt possibly care less about the song of the south ip, and i think racism in any form is intolerable. that being said, the ride has hardly ANY actual connection to the movie, and they could have very easily just replaced the brer animatronics with unlicensed character designs. this ride went from 76 animatronics to 16, that is nothing short of a travesty, its practically going to be a six flags ride. this combined with the confusing storyline and also the removal of that extremely iconic silhouette with the tree, reducing it to a strange brown lump just sucks. they could have just gotten rid of the characters from the movie but instead they gut it for no reason and try to play it off as something exciting. the actual ceo of the company said the ride was boring yet theyre gonna open it as is anyways, the only actual draw the ride has is that the tiana animatronic seems pretty impressive, but was it worth losing 60 for? i doubt it.

I have no problem with Tiana. The problem I have is taking an existing successful attraction to switch it to make DEI quota. Let’s not BS about this. If princess and the frog was such a hit Tiana should have had a ride or experience done at that point.

Splash in no way was offensive at all, its literally lightly based on the animated portions and on the tales of brer rabbit, you cant even relate it song of the south since none of the ride is even paralled to the film when outside of the brers none of the other critters appeared in the film. Everything your mentioning about racism with splash and the assumptions is so dumb. I loved splash for the critters, the brers, and the songs and scenery its so dumb for you to assume everybody whos angry about this is racist when thats not even the case, even if it would have been replaced by something else like sword in the stone, lion king, or hercules we still would have been pissed. Its only the few right leaning conservatives who made it political who arent even splash fans that made it about race. Most of us splash fans are sad because our favorite characters arent being featured literally anywhere else, the music is banned, and the other critters are too obscure to be featured outside the attraction were sad and angry that a ride we loved is gone as it was a happy piece of our lives. We hope the critters come back in some form like in a new America Sings but we doubt it will since their associated with splash now sadly. And were angry that not one, but BOTH of them are gone, if it was only one we would have been fine but because both are gone its a good reason to be angry. And sure Tokyo still has theirs, but its much less accessable to travel there yearly than to disneyland/disneyworld. We are also bitter because disney, the disney fandom, and general public now dismisses splash mountain as if it was the second 911. Splash fans dont really have a place in the fandom anymore which just feels terrible. And when you add up the amount of animatronics that will be scrapped its around 180 all togethor, its sucks since they most likely wont keep any of the animatronics either, splash fans literally get nothing out of this no easter egg, last memorabilia, or any animatronics that stay its literally a huge lowblow for splash mountain. Splash should have stayed and disney should have created a brand new original Tiana ride for her.

The biggest problem. If it's only as good as Splash Mt. What was the point. You took the highest rated ride at WDW most years off line for over a year when you desperately need additional capacity. Most likely, it won't be as good. Based on Disney's recent projects.

I lost confidence in disney after webslingers. Splash mountain wasn't racist, song of the south was. All they have to do is make a mini series, or an animated movie utilizing the characters that are acutally on the ride, because they already have a skeleton of a plot laid out for them. would've been way cheaper, and would've made everyone happy.

The reason you're not going to see Ray the Firefly should be fairly obvious if you've seen the movie.

RIP Splash Mountain. Still wish we could've just gotten an extensive refurbishment of the original attraction than completely retheme it. I'm sure the retheme will be fine but I have so many memories of riding Splash Mountain whenever my family would go 5-7 times at the end of the day when no one was in line and the songs and characters are so memorable to me. It's hard to get rid of a theme that I have so many fond memories of.

Replacing a classic ride with fantastic design is hard. I lived the multiple interesting scenes, characters and story line. How do your match it?

For me, the bottom line is that Walt Disney (RIP) never wanted the parks to be a museum incased in ember but evolve and change with the times, and to me, that's what changes like this factor into.

They should have re-themes it to Pocohantas! It would have been great, she even goes over a waterfall in the movie.

???: So, how much money are you wasting on the re-theme? Disney: No. Let’s go to the hobby lobby flower isle.

I'm sorry, everyone on both sides are taking things way too serious. It's a ride. If you don't update the rides from time to time it gets stale and dated, but the basic ride is still the same. For me the biggest issue would be the overcrowding and waiting 300 minutes for a ten minute ride as well as needing a bank loan to take the family for a day out.

Changing a classic ride to a ride themed after a movie that came out like 15 years ago? Wtf are they thinking?

Splash Mountain was so offensive and raciat that everyone had to be told to be offended by it.

I have 1 major problem with Tianas new ride. I want an actual restaurant that overlooks the actual ride much like blue bayou or even that Mexican restaurant @ Epcott. A Cajun themed restaurant that overlooks part of the ride would be booked solid much like the other 2 mentioned above and it is a shame they are not doing it. I grew up with song of the south, I will miss both the movie and splash mountain. A tiana ride is an awesome idea. But they are falling short on the potential! ADD A RESTAURANT.

How about Disney stops re-skinning rides and re-invest the BILLIONS they make from the parks every year into new attractions instead? Disney keeps taking their park profits (the only truly profitable division of their business) and spending it on making garbage movies and tv shows for Disney+. We've entered the post-Disney era. Let the boomers have their nostalgia while the next generations have fun in Super Nintendo World. It's been fun Disney...

Disneys shooting themselves in the foot. Ugh.

Here's my take, as an ex-Disney CM and internet nobody. I don't like that they keep changing rides to recognisable IPs when that's the whole point. I feel like Tiana's is the least egregious of them all - the retheming of Maelstrom, Universe of Energy, and Test Track are far FAR worse. Splash was long overdue for a revamp because of all the reasons you said - it comes from a very racist, antiquated IP. It needed a refresh. I'm not even necessarily upset that they chose Tiana - though also as you pointed out, it's a better fit for Disneyland than Disney World. I wish they had done something different, more in line with the theming for DW Frontierland. Like, even the Pirates ride in Disneyland is more bayou themed - and that's great! I think, though, my biggest issue is that Splash was one of the three mountains - Space, Big Thunder, and Splash. Now it's Space, Big Thunder, and...Tiana's? It doesn't fit. I think they needed to keep the theming of that. Keep calling it Splash or something similar. (I will also point out that it's generally called Thunder rather than Big Thunder, so that still works). Idk it just makes me worried for the rides that still don't have recognisable IPs attached. Will they update Space to something like that? Thunder? Ultimately, I think it's a tough one to really deal with because the reason Disney does these revamps is to increase interest and therefore sales. They feel they need to. Which is sad, but the reality of what it is. Disney is forgetting the purpose of the various parks. Epcot was all about learning so they need to stop replacing all of the educational experiences with movie ones. If you want to have movie-themed rides - stick them in Hollywood Studios! It's the most obvious choice yet they never do. Of all parks, Magic Kingdom is the most obvious to have the princess-related rides, but I'd much rather something built from the ground up (like the Ariel ride or new Snow White rollercoaster) than a replacement of something. Making Splash Tiana's isn't the worst choice, but it needed to have the same simple, catchy name as Splash and, really, an overall fit in the area. Maybe Tiana's should've been in Disneyland and DW could've had Pocahontas.