I definitely had higher expectations from the Imagineers, but I can’t be mad because those animatronics look clean and smooth 🤷🏾♀️😌 and I’m just happy Tiana has a ride.
The Good: - The shrink section is pretty clever, especially having the drop represent shrinking - Some really nice colors, especially in the lower levels The Bad: - No focus or plot. "Let's find some animals for the band! Let's find some animals for the band! Let's find some more animals for the band! Great, we found animals for the band!" Even Winnie the Pooh has the Heffalump and Woozles section. - A lot of the scenes are too empty - The screen effects and animatronics do not mesh together. The 2D screens are alright, but the 3D ones are downright uncanny valley. - NO BUILDUP ON THE FINAL DROP. This is former Splash Mountain, not Slightly Damp Hill. Braving the final drop was a rite of passage to me as a kid, not just "some drop on some ride".
Now like the old Disneyland Splash mountain use to be. Very light on the story. I suspect the two will be much more similar now (although DL is a faster flume).
Sanitised fun. No darkness, no drama, no danger. Only endless, struggle free positivity. “We’re going to the party, by way of giant drop.” Still beautifully themed for a log flume.
@@Stuntman707 it’s a theme park that caters to children and families. The drops are plenty of fun, there’s not a need for the uncanny valley of the past animatronics.
@@zarajenkins6948better than empty rooms, mid story especially coming from a really good movie, screens used to fill in rooms instead of real props, hearing the same bayou jingle repeat over and over
I know the guy is dead (?) in the movie and this is supposed to be set after that, but imagine how cool a spooky section with Facilier could have been. An awesome animatronic like those on the video combined with projections/light effects to simulate his living shadow, some trippy voodoo visuals and also his friends from the other side moving and manipulating stuff, while the chants and chorus of his song play on the background. This is cute but feels too saccharine and pointless at times.
the animatronics are really impressive and its better than i expected but i really cannot help but feel disappointed with the screens, it looks and feels so lazy especially when we know what disney are capable of with rides such as rise of the resistance using curved screens to make them feel more immersive and less flat and i cant quite put my finger on it but the ride experience overall just doesnt feel right in my opinion. amazing pov though, very much enjoyed it!
And the sad thing is that this is the new normal for Disney because they’re doing budget cuts less of the cool stuff and more of the screens very disappointing on the imagers part seems like the imagers don’t have an imagination anymore especially for the fact that they’re now doing IP only based attractions, there’s no original concept anymore for any rides nothings original anymore, so there’s no imagination that goes into it
@@TayWoode it's part of the charm of a TPR video. There are plenty of other high quality video channels you can enjoy that you won't have to complain about.
They should rename it to living with the land featuring Tatiana and her friends of the Bayou and the best part about it is that it got three drops that’s three more entertaining drops than the actual living with the land does
Why wouldn't they have used zydeco or cajun music. When the music does have a particular sound, it's more carribean than anything else. There was nothing on the ride that would make me want to ride it over and over like Splash Mountain did. I was really sorry to see Splash Mountain go. but if it was going then I was really wanting the new ride to be a worthy successor, didn't happen.
The first animal band that played "Gonna Take You There" was a Zydeco band. The second band played a Rara version of the song (festive music with origins from Haiti).
@@hipflipped Very true. There are people out there that will suck up to Disney's recently awful decisions and lie to themselves about it. They aren't willing to accept the fact that Disney is SCREWED when a little place down the road opens up next year.
Cute. Soulless, but cute. So the whole Adventure was to try to find animals that play music so you can go to a party? That's the story? Disney is supposedly the company with thousands of stories to tell, and this one was about band tryouts? What was the point? What was the story? That animals play music? That fireflies live in the bayou? That screens are apparently better than practical effects? I mean I understand the ride, but I just don't get its purpose. What happened to imagineering?
I loved the OG Mountain but I also love the colours and the music of this one, some the tunes on this really are so good and just as toe tapping. I kind of like the positive vibes this gives and great POV as normal and hey You are on Log Flume!
This seems somewhat more of a traditional log flume (EX: empty spaces) than being a ride connecting to a mass audience. Fairly lackadaisical than Splash Mountain with more passion and great atmosphere.
Disney's animatronics haven't advanced beyond Country Bear Jamboree from forty years ago, at least judging by this ride. They obviously don't care about cutting edge entertainment anymore. Just bring in that cash.
I love the animatronics and a lot fo the songs, but I wish that the ride was based on the events of the movie, instead of them coming up with a bland story
I mean I'll admit they killed it with the previous 'boat celebration" scene at the end from Splash Mountain but they really dropped the ball with the potential on this one. It looks gorgeous from the outside but the lack of story or presence of danger or conflict that Dr. Facilier could have SO easily provided makes me really think this is a downgrade from a ride that was already so old and outdated.
It would be a great flume ride if we had nothing to compare it to. But the Stories Matter team at Disney are definitely changing Disney. No drama, no villains, and no conflict does matter a lot.
The finale scene aka the party doesn't have NEAR the festivity of the original Spalsh Mountain showboat. And that song? Yawn. They should have kept the movie's music. That last scene screams for Dig a Little Deeper.
This video made me a lot more excited than the official disney POV, definitely feels more fun with all the music going and with people to enjoy it with!
Looks like a fun ride for new and younger families that know the Princess and the Frog movie. I liked all the little animal animatronics! Thanks for sharing!
Even cheaper/lazier than we were lead to expect. So much Screen use/abuse, but OK for a non discriminating five year old or a 'Disney Adult' I guess.....
Did you not see the animatronics and set pieces used?? There more than just screens being used and I don’t think 5 years really care if they’re using screens or not, and that’s really the target demographic for this kind of ride
@@daytonsouthall1137 Did you not see a large screen or projection for each of those (frankly kind of ho-hum) animatronics? Geez, Disney adults will do anything to stan the mouse. And yeah, "well 5 year olds won't care" is a pretty low bar to set eh? The true demographic is adult Disney nerds who will spend their money to spooge over any garbage the mouse throws to them.
I do wish they would have incorporated Dr. Facilier. If they would have used Friends On The Other Side and the voodoo images before the drop it would have kept the suspenseful elements.
I was really hoping for a Dr. Facilier scene, he is one of my favorite Disney villains, and I feel like they could have made a really neat area with his song
It’s not bad I was pleasantly surprised that they used a ton of animatronics, rather fluid ones no less Still…there’s not much of a story; couldn’t it have just followed the plot of the movie?
We have seen Disney do great ride rethemes before, such as Tower of Terror into Guardians, but that is because Guardians added something new They should have added more movie plot elements and more characters such as Dr. Facilier and Prince Naveen
That's it? That's Tiana's Bayou Adventure? That was just a bunch of cheap screens & no sign of Dr. Facilier! What a rip:( GGGRRRRGGGHHHHH Bob Iger Betrayed Us!
Dr. Facilier was taken to the other side at the end of the movie. It would make no sense story-wise to have him in a sequel ride. There's nothing wrong with having a light-hearted story that little ones can enjoy without getting scared.
@@MysTaeryColorful A few things: 1. Even if Facilier is dead in this storyline, he still has plenty of Friends From the Other Side that could still make an appearance. They had an amazing way to introduce dramatic tension to the story and somehow didn't. 2. This is the same company that retconned Emperor Palpatine back into existence "somehow", surely they could find some kind of excuse to use him if they wanted to (Shrek 4D had the ghost of Farquaad). 3. This is a flume ride with a 50 foot drop. It has something that is objectively going to be rather scary for little kids. Not having any darker story tones to build up the drop completely defeats the purpose of having a big drop on a ride like this, and makes it feel completely out of place.
I guess i have to disagree with a lot of people. I think that ride looks fun, i love the theme and colors, and the grounds are beautiful I think they did awesome
What was wrong with Splash Mountain? It was the most popular ride, it was beautifully themed, great story telling and the most buoyant (pun intended) ending of any ride with Zipitty-do-da. As rides go it was a masterpiece. Sure the ride is the same but we now have an incoherent story and a lot of screens... boring. They fixed something that wasn't broken and we got the expected result. My humble opinion, still love TPRs infectious optimism though.
It was old and outdated with barely -functioning animatronics, based on a movie so offensive to a massive part of the population that it should NEVER have been made into a ride in the first place. It was popular because it was the first ever fully-themed log flume, and the only water ride in a very hot park. The new finale song is just as delightful and catchy, with much more relevant characters that won't make people feel left out.
@MysTaeryColorful Splash Mountain was never outdated. It was a masterclass of a ride. Splash Mountain storyline was great, and it was fun to ride. Now we have a mountain with a random bayou, a lot of empty space, a queue that doesn't look like New Orleans, no jazz version of dig a little dipper, a terrible storyline that doesn't make sense, and a final song that doesn't even come close to Zipitty-do-da. I like princes and the frog and new orleans, but this ride sucks. Disney failed
@MysTaeryColorful peter pan's flight, Dumbo, and Jungle Cruise all had racist elements in the ride or were based off of racist movies and they are all still at the park
Some people love to complain just to hear their own voices. Also it’s crazy how many people all of a sudden became an imagineer. The ride looks great, and not everything needs conflict. Kids are going to love it, and that’s all that matters. These grown adults crying about the ride need to grow up. I can’t wait to ride it in person.
The more and more I watch this the more and more the lack of a story makes this ride look uneventful. Like most of the indoor animatronics are just spouting exposition or playing instruments and nothing else. Where is all the detail with little things happening all around you that you can miss on your first couple of rides? There were so many charming little things that told their own stories littered throughout Splash Mountain along with the better main story the ride was telling.
@@daytonsouthall1137 No I’m plenty familiar with the movie. It just looks so empty at times (after the dark drop that used to go underneath Brer Bear, the neon portion) . You’re assuming that I have an issue with the theming because I don’t like/don’t know the movie. My issue is that I knew the previous ride so we’ll that any empty space is super obvious. It’s like Disney phoned in the job, they could’ve added so much more throughout the ride. tl;dr: Great idea, poor execution.
I have never seen a ride stack boats so badly throughout its course like this. Quite possibly the worst operation of a Disney attraction I've ever seen. The scenes having no overarching plot or conflict at any point makes it terribly boring and uneventful, and there's no storytelling. The ride itself, the animatronics and all of the visuals are wonderful. The music is lovely. But the experience as a whole is very underwhelmingly monotone. It's a flop for what Disney is capable of, but even so, kids will still absolutely love this.
Japan is getting their Beauty and the Beast castle, a whole new area with beautiful exciting rides filled with lively animatronics and good story telling, creating a very good immersion like entering a new magical world. And….this is what Americans get. What is this? Did people in the US pay less than those in Japan? NOOOOO!! And this is what the company thinks people in America deserve. All the love and care for this doo-doo kiddy ride with no stakes and thrills. FLAT, non-moving Painting of Vegetables and cooking tools on the fence, and didn’t even at least glow in the night. Am I loosing my mind?! Who did they hire for the storyline and the environment? All the empty spaces and places in the dark. All those FNAF 1 level of animatronics other than the Main characters. All those dead props that’s not even moving or fun to look at. Did they hire people from Temu? What on earth is this? And Tiana is barely a princess in this ride, while her husband, the prince barely shows up except the last grand scene. What is this? “The Force is female”is not enough, now we’re going with “the FROG is FEMALE”? Also, where is the shadow man? And why aren’t the main characters temporarily turned into frogs? The movie is Princess and the ‘FROG’!! I did see frozen landscapes in Frozen rides, but why not main characters frogs in this? And where’s the river boat? The river boat is an important scene in the original movie, and now they removed it to turn it into a generic stupid looking building? A restaurant on a river boat, or a food party on a river boat, are good ideas. Why not keep the boat? River boat is important to where the story happened, and they removed it in the name of diversity and inclusivity? What is this logic? The same logic as the Snow White remake, removing the dwarves actors to make people with dwarfism happy? At least give us back the voodoo dude0. What is the fun without him? Tiana deserves a lot more than this, but now we can’t do anything big to renew or upgrade this ride. It is stuck like this, for likely many years, because it is Augh-ffensive to twitter dwellers to change what they think is perfect. Tiana deserves to be a princess. She earned it by risking her life and made hard choices. Look what they have done to our precious girl? Now she’s barely a princess in this story. She’s just a girl who cosplays as a princess in the grand scene, because she barely does anything princess related in the story. Putting on princess dress doesn’t make one a princess. It is the action of princess that maters the most.
Let’s explore the bore. I can’t wait to see what ride Disney ruins next but at least I won’t be at all tempted to spend hundreds on a ticket. Maybe they can add lights and brakes to Space Mountain and theme it after… something not offensive.
They should have kept the original movie script then it might have been a better ride as opposed to splash mountain cause then the villain would have been able to be included in the cast the original princess and the frog movie was great and have down in New Orleans been sung also during the ridge through also through the scenes as well
Not even that there weren't villains in it, but obstacles of any kind to give riders a feeling of tension and suspense. They could've had a hurricane scene in there for example if they really didn't want any villains while still providing some sort of danger to overcome but they couldn't even do that. But yes, bringing back Dr. Facilier should've been an obvious no brainer.
I love it! People can whine cry and scream all they want. It will be a fun ride once people get used to it. I think people need to be more open minded.
