Good afternoon, folks! Today I want to share some news that stuck out to me the most! So, let’s get started, shall we?! Disney has officially announced that Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be opening up at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in the summer and then later at Disneyland this year, possibly in the Fall or the Winter. Disney has shared the first look at Princess Tiana audio-animatronic coming to Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ride. We are almost there! Walt Disney Imagineering shared the first look at the Princess Tiana audio-animatronic coming to the new Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ride slated to open Disneyland and Walt Disney World later this year. “The figure is the latest in a line of cutting-edge, all-electric figures debuting around the world at various Disney Parks. The quality and make of the ‘Tiana-matronic’ brings to mind The Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast at Tokyo Disneyland and the reimagined version of Frozen Ever After that recently opened at Hong Kong Disneyland,” according to WDW News Today. The Princess Tiana audio-animatronic will be joined by figures for Prince Naveen, Louis the alligator, Mama Odie, Eudora, Charlotte, Big Daddy, the King and Queen of Maldonia and Naveen’s younger brother Prince Ralphie in the new ride. The storyline for “Tiana’s Bayou Adventure” will pick up where the 2009 animated feature left off. “Walt Disney Imagineering is creating an original, next-chapter story for Tiana. Within the attraction queue, guests will discover that she continues to grow her business with Tiana’s Foods – an employee-owned cooperative,” the Disney Parks Blog announced last year. “Combining her talents with those of the local community, Tiana has transformed an aging salt mine and built a beloved brand.” The ride is replacing Splash Mountain at both U.S. parks. In recent years, Splash Mountain has drawn heat since it featured characters and music from the 1946 animated feature “Song of the South,” a movie criticized for its stereotypes of black men and its romanticized view of the post-Civil War South. Fans called for Disney to redo the theme of Splash Mountain in 2020 amid a racial reckoning across the U.S. Along with the new ride, Princess Tiana fans can dine at Tiana’s Palace, the restaurant the character fought to open throughout the animated feature, or shop at Eudora’s Chic Boutique at Disneyland. The ride will open during the summer at Walt Disney World as I mentioned and an opening date for Disneyland’s version of the ride hasn’t been announced, but again it is slated to open up later this year. I think that it will draw a lot of people to come to Disneyland and Disney World. I think both parks will be packed. The stores will be really busy, the attractions and rides will be busy and everything else will be busy. For instance, When the ride opens at Disneyland, it will be busy all day and if that is busy, so will be other rides near the new ride which it would be Haunted Mansion Holiday, Winnie the Pooh, Pirates of the Caribbean, Big Thunder Mountain, Indiana Jones, especially Rise of the Resistance, Space Mountain, Radiator Springs Racers and etc… That is a reality! If far, were you, on the da that the new ride opens, I would buy genie plus because it will be very busy day.
I think that Disney will make the ride perfect for guest to enjoy and they want to get more attention than other theme parks like Universal and Knott’s which I want people to have more attention to Disney and not to give up easily on them even though you don’t like what they are doing.
So, what are your thoughts about the news of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure?! I would love to hear your thoughts and comments down below!
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