Tiana’s Bayou Adventure recently opened at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. This is the reimagined version of Splash Mountain, featuring the characters and music from Princess and the Frog. The ride covers the same layout, but it has an all-new story and upgraded animatronics. Is this ride better than Splash Mountain? Find out in this review!
Video Credits
Guardians Boarding Group (Paging Mr. Morrow)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qepDgOfe7VI
Princess and the Frog (Disney)
Song of the South (Disney)
Splash Mountain Tokyo (ElToroRyan)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh37dY8CA9I
Tiana POV (Disney Parks)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLmhNWq5kT0
Background Music
Zydeco Piano Party (No Copyright Audio)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx96e7dncnk
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This is a fantastic review, Canobie. Even as someone who greatly prefers Tiana to Splash, I really can't disagree with a single point you made in comparing the 2. I think your review is spot on & extremely objectively fair to both Tiana & Splash. Well done sir 👏
I loved splash mountain but I really think this is a great replacement it’s a very good ride
I like splash mountain better, tbh this version of splash mountain is like a curse, already having broken down for 4 hours straight one day and firefighters had to get involved
Does anybody know Canobie Coaster's roller coaster milestones? I know he already has a video about that, but here's what I'm looking for:
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So, Disney reused the plot of Super Mario Odyssey's VR mode for Tiana's?
I don’t know why this ride gets so much hate. It looks good to me
I haven’t ridden this but I’m surprised they didn’t do this theme with a dark ride I think it would’ve made more sense
There’s a HUGE park full of IPs kids love being built across the way, Disney needs to stay relevant if it’s to stay competitive. Kids love Tiana so I applaud Disney. You can’t depend on Elsa for everything 😂
I feel like him being dead is a lazy excuse not to include facilier.
He would have brought a sense of danger to the ride. They could have made something work.
It's lazy thinking
24:25 It’s called Special Spice, but what you said is an easy mistake to make. Didn’t mean to be that person, just wanted to point it out.
This positive review is refreshing, since this ride has been getting so much hate. Looking at it with the positive spin, a lot of the visuals are stunning on this ride. I just hope they add some tension in the future so it doesn't feel like a Fantasyland ride that has a giant drop for no reason.
Its just not as good, sure the tiana, louis, and odie animatronics are good but the rest are glorfied animal plushes, they dont have any animation compared with splash animatronics, and there is much more deadspace compared with splash.
I just hate how they couldnt atleast save even one splash critter to repurpose for the ride its such a disappointnent that we lost more than 130 animatronics in total for these 2 Tiana rethemes its such a huge loss
What coasters do you prefer over this ride?
I havent ridden it, but my impressions from watching POVs is that the ride seems very generic. Why Facilier, possibly the coolest Disney villain of all time, was sidestepped for a party theme is baffling to me
Louisiana is part of the western expedition, aka part of the original Frontier(land), so it fits the theme perfectly
It will never ever feel the same to me without the song at the end after the drop. That was so joyous and used to fill ME with happiness every time I rode Splash Mountain.
I am in the against camp for the redo, but, respect your opinion.
hate all the screens
My understanding (and if I'm wrong please let me know) is that they set the ride after the events of the film because they felt it might be insensitive to include Dr Facilier because he represents a cartoonish form of voodoo that might be considered offensive to practitioners of traditional voodoo. So they wanted to avoid offense with that and they preferred to keep it light hearted. In a way they're saying that the film the Princess and the Frog was enjoyable but problematic.
I can understand that. But it is a curious thing to have done. I personally love the character of Dr Facilier and he would have done a lot to build tension in the ride. But let's put my bias aside. If my understanding is correct, that means they decided to replace Splash Mountain with a ride based on characters from an animated film that they retroactively feel has offensive parts but it would be okay because they were just using some of the characters and leaving out the offensive stuff. Just a curious choice.
I actually enjoyed the retheme to tiana’s. Though I had no attachment to the original splash mountain theming. It was all about the drop for me since it was the first ride I went on that had a big drop.
In my opinion, the ride would be better if they made it a flat boat ride like Navi River Journey. Since the story has no villain, danger, or tension whatsoever, the drops are out of place, especially the big one, and only serve to take guests out of the experience since they clash so completely with the story being told. Disney did not attempt to make a story that fit with the preexisting layout and instead made a story that clashes with the layout. A Navi River Journey 2.0 where the focus was entirely on the sets, animatronics, and screens would have been great.