NEW Tianas Bayou Adventure POV Reaction! Does it Live Up to the Hype? 

People are gonna ride this ONE TIME just to experience it. It won't be the classic that Splash Mountain was.

Definitely agree with missing Dr Facilier. He should have been the one that shrinks us, and then Mama Odie fixes us.

The ride imagineers: "Well it's a thrill ride with a 50ft drop, so let's theme it for babies too young to ride it... And it's a nine minute long ride so let's give it a twenty second storyline.. And lastly our movie had really colorful characters with a great villian so let's make it about a twitching okra plant and a static beaver with unblinking eyes and a washboard."

Us shrinking and growing bigger again a second later is soooo random

Not only is the Disneyland flume so much quicker but it’s also the only “log flume” ride of the two versions. WDW’s version is technically a boat ride system. This is why the Disneyland version also feels a little more thrilling to ride. Also, yes, Dr. Facilier should’ve been the one to shrink us down the first time and then the shrunken down part of the ride could’ve been more ominous. Then, Mama Odie could’ve been the one to save us and make us big again. Then that would’ve been perfect for the celebration at the end. In its current iteration, that actually wouldn’t be too hard for Disney to change since it’s all screen effects down there and all they’d have to do is change the lighting. In fact, it would be cool if there were two versions of the story.

Keep in mind, Tony Baxter was originally supposed to be spearheading the whole retheme, but apparently, he backed out of the project.

Heartbroken! This is aweful. Cant believe people aren’t super pissed. What a waste.

Many many corners cut and imagination fails. Really just looks thrown together quickly like they ran out of time and are still going to finish it up later??

I imagine the Disneyland version will have fewer gaps between scenes and won't have the ugly fence, but Disney definitely messed up with the story.

Why dont you two call it like it is? Its crap

As someone who lives in the real bayou in south Louisiana they definitely missed an opportunity as bayous are SUPER foggy especially in mornings and that would be cheap for them to add that to the water coming off just like it actually does.

It’s nearly impossible to reskin one of the most beloved rides of all time and make it better. Disney needs to stop letting activists make their movie and park ride decisions for them.

What a boring nothing ride now!

My hope is that once OLC saw this, Splash Mountain will be staying for a long while at Tokyo Disneyland. Fantasy Springs and new Space Mountain up next.

Tokyo 100% keeps Splash as-is. Now it's a matter of honor.

Wow, what a mess. Tiana fails across the board. And now we know why they didn't just keep Splash and build a new ride for Tiana! Embarassing for Tiana when the world lines up for Splash and the bayou stands empty.

Let us not forget when they announced this project....March of '20. Y'all had literally four damn years for this.........and this is what they disrespectfully gave fans. another slap in the face by Disney

not incorporating facilier was a massive mistake, this ride could have been on par with splash.

So they took their decades-long hit ride and turned it into a "cute, whatever" attraction that we assume "kids might like"

For my granddaughters - this will be first time -- they will love it and that is what counts.

Wait. Is it possible they meant to call it Tiana's Bayou Adventureland-Adjacent? Because I don't see any adventure whatsoever.

There is no sense of excitement, nothing is happening at any point in the new ride aside from tiana waving her arms around wildly. Not having the shadow man villain from The movie was a huge mistake, all in all I almost fell asleep watching the pov video. I’ll give it a 2.3 out of 100

This was a very fair breakdown of the POV, also more Christian please!!

Your always pretty spot on with your videos and your constructive criticism is appreciated but when you both say it’s “cute”, I don’t think that necessarily makes it a good ride. It’s a boring ride imo with no element of danger. The storyline is something you would find on Disney Junior. The best Disney rides always have a sense of danger but it seems as though Disney execs don’t want to scare the kiddos away from the franchise. The laughing place are doesn’t really contribute to the story at all. No thrill ride has ever been based on an animation/pixar IP so they want to make it as kid friendly as possible.

Some animatronics from the band are exactly the same as in the first scenes. It is very lazy just like the facade.

To the conceit that "at least little kids will love it," with regard to the deliberate absence of tension, we gotta remember that this isn't Snow White's Enchanted Wish. This is still a thrill ride, as you said, with a 5-story drop and a 40" height requirement. I saw a comment that said to them it felt like they'd grafted a Fantasyland dark ride onto a drop flume. Though not one of the ones with an antagonist... would Pooh and Toad fall into that category? Huh.

Band members... at tianas foods. So confusing

Pretty sure the wall has always been there. They just painted it.

This ride is just Navi river journey with a drop now.

It lacks "bite" and I am not a fan of the food mural at the beginning, but there is a lot of positives. I do.dig the finale for example. A lot of people have said this, but not having Dr. Facilier or the Shadow man makes the ride kind of safe and makes it less exciting.

My only real gripe with this replacement is that this ride is going to have to last a while, and I don't know how long people will want a Princess and the Frog IP hanging around the park. It's going to be really interesting to see how this ride ages.

That's not Tiana's restaurant in the finale. It's actually Tiana and Naveen's home. There's a small welcome sign at the entrance to the final scene that reads, "Welcome to Fleur de Bayou: Home of Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen".

I'd love to see more long form discussions like this. You were great on the watcher podcast!

I dont Like the Tianas Bayou Adventure. It doesn't have enough story line

Splash Mountain had a much more fluid storytelling concept, compared to Tiana's Bayou. I don't really see this attraction having a wait time that is more than an hour and a half, outside its honeymoon phase, which I give it about 6 to 9 weeks. It will have an average wait time range of about 70 to 85 minutes, but there will be a significant 20% drop in wait time 56 to 68 minutes around week 4 and 5, then it will drop further by 30% to 39 to 51 Minutes, during 7 and 8 weeks. Tiana's Bayou overall average wait time moving forward from week 9, will dance around 30 to 45 minutes, both are good times, but not great in terms of it being a premium E-ticket attraction, compared to Splash Mountain. Cons: Too many dead spots through out the attraction, in-between scenes The thrill isn't there, the story is lackluster, I'd rather watch the Disney flick, Tiana, on Disney+, than to ride this ride. Pros The ending is detailed through.

I want you guys to do a POV of splash mountain now and talk about what you would've done differently instead of what is there.

You and Christian should do a show more often! I like the ride but they HAVE to add a villain and clean up the storyline. They’re trying to avoid the voodoo angle since it’s has negative religious connotations for some people. We need more zydeco “party” music throughout and it needs to end with a more catchy song FROM THE MOVIE. You should get off the ride singing the song.

Nothing can compete with Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah at the end.

Not worth getting rid of splash mountain at all, glad tokyo atleast is admant on keeping their splash mountain

Wow. Your suggestions completely fix this ride!! How I wish they would have thought of all this. You came up with such amazing ideas!! I will be playing your version in my head when I finally get to ride this ride, lol!

Was not a fan of all those screens in that one area, like come on now. At the end at the "party" it works because it's simply another layer in the background with animated foreground objects, but that whole screen section just looks cheap AF. Also, the whole story about finding more members for the band, seems odd especially after flinging you through a garden that looks like it's some left over scenery from the OG DCA days.

This was great! ❤ More channels need to do a live play-by-play like this!

Good video, good critique. The ride clearly had a very limited budget that they chose to concentrate on a few areas of high-quality animatronics. But that leaves too much empty space. Plus the "story" is confused or simply absent. The lift hill is the biggest miss, something they could have easily done with Facilier to build much more of a key story moment.

The little guy playing the drums is Naveen's younger brother Ralphie and that is not her restaurant, it's their home.

The wall with the paintings look horrible. However, I’m guessing it was necessary for emergency exits or something. I just can’t believe Disney would be happy with that ugly painted wall. Yes, crates with vegetables, or a vegetable truck with flatbed and veggies on back

4:20 that wall had always been there, but painting it makes it stick out like a sore thumb. They should have just left it as is lmfao.

I've heard a lot of people complain about the fence going up the second lift. The fence was there during Splash Mountain's reign. It just blended in a little bit better with the outside of Splash and the drawing on it make it look a little cheap and noticeable. Speaking of the second lift, from what has been stated when you go up it Tiana is to the left, gently swaying her hands until a censor is tripped, then she will go into full motion and this happens again inside before going down the second hill. Some have said its kind of creep to see it in person because you expect them to be performing continuously as the character's in Splash did. My dear "close" friend Brer Bear and I spent so much time at this mountain, we have noticed the large amount of empty space throughout the ride. I get its at night in the bayou, but WDI stated these animatronics where the best of the best, but there is hardly any due to that you CGI'ed a hand drawn animation into Pixar videos. What I get out of it the story line was not good and we will put Tiana here and there and people will not noticed, well we did. People will love it and some, like me, will maybe grow to like it but this has not done any justice for Splash. WDI killed a ride for what? It is stated Bob Iger called it boring, with that I would have stopped all work and went back to story boarding to see what could be done. I am speechless that Bruce Vaughn let something like this happen. PS thanks for the two dance Okra WDI.

Yaaasss! I was so hoping they would play are you ready as your going up before the big drop! The movie has so many amazing songs I’m so sad they didn’t use more! I wish they would have stuck more with the movie. Still excited and can’t wait to ride!

Friends on the other side even has that climbing sound after the hand shake! would have been perfect for the big drop!

Hiya Dillon- I'm curious to see how our Disneyland version will be different. I know I'll see plenty of ride-throughs, but wondering how the "virtual cue" situation etc. will be on my next visit- next spring. Thanks for your objective scene by scene. I love how you look at it from a design perspective!

The exterior looks like the Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock. All that fruit salad on the exterior will be washed out and long gone within in a year. The interior is abominable. They took a ride that already had awkward liminal spaces, and increased them tenfold! Gah! Fix it by ditching the lousy music, replacing it with the original, keeping all the new stuff in place, cramming as many of the ORIGINAL America Sings (or the like) animatronics in there too, Change the name to Tiana's Splash Mountain Adventure or WTF ever. Say, "I'm sorry" to we whom you have chagrinned and insulted. Pray we forgive you. Y ya!

I like what you said about a dark side they could have totally thrown some voodoo in there, spirit faces, fog filled cemetery with mausoleums. Also instead of Louis bumping the log in the wrong direction it could have been an monster eddy (giant whirlpool) with projections helping the effect. Also like I mentioned in your other video, more lightning bugs, magnolias, they could do Louisiana irises. The ingredient walls def need to go. Overall I’m excited the way it looks a couple minor fixes could make this a great ride.

The new ride POV video suggests Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is pretty good. But, it’s not great. The biggest problem is the same problem Frozen Ever After has…namely, Disney didn’t stick to the original storyline. The new attraction should have told the Princess and the Frog story.

The light on the final lift hill reminds me of Space Mountain. They need to add more detail to this ride for sure! Too many dead spots and not enough happening from what I see.

Great thoughts! I feel like I’m in the minority, the only thing I don’t really like is that big wall/mural at the beginning. Everything else feels like a step up in my opinion. These are just my thoughts and totally cool if people disagree, but I think we often give Splash too much credit. It’s a huge nostalgia thing, the story I feel most people only know because they’ve been on it a hundred times, snd it was just outdated. Don’t get me wrong, one of my all time favorite attractions, but I feel the need to separate these two rides because they aren’t comparable. What they did with Tiana’s and all the insane animatronics and swamp environment I think is amazing. I think I’ll love Tiana’s once I can ride! Splash will forever be missed and was a huge classic for Disney. Tiana’s looks well done to me and a worthy retheme. Loved your thoughts, lots of great points made. Really enjoyed this one!

Hi Dylan and Christian. Thank you for showing this and giving your feedback. There are several areas that need a wee bit more attention; but we all know how Disney is. The final scene is absolutely brilliant. 💖

honestly ... kinda of a let down .. the ride up the final drop is just sooo MEH compared to OG :(

They Should've left it with the original story of Princess and the Frog. Think of the opportunities you had with the Shadow Man and his friends in that dark ride environment. Not to mention maybe and animatronic of him squishing Ray, sadly, right before the lift hill and then hearing the music, "Are you Ready" as you're going up the lift hill before the big drop. Adds suspense and a bit of danger/fear element which is what the vultures provided for splash mountain in that moment. This ride looks amazing with the effects and everything else but it lost a good opportunity for a better story line I feel. It's a little too happy lol

Oh. And they didn't improve or update the ride system at all. Actually, that checks out.

Bush gardens did got iconic Splash Mountain it’s smiler of Disney and universal Orlando

Tiana's trying to find critters to celebrate Mardi gras party for everyone

I am 100% on board with getting Dr. Facilier back for the ride. I had a similar idea before where His soul was damned to wander the swamp, always being monitored by the evil spirits he made deals with. I like the idea of having a fake out and diverting path. Having the guests go a different way, and get found by the evil spirits and Spirit version of the Dr. His motive would probably be once again to get you to strike a deal with a spirits.(Something along the lines of: I heard you were looking for band members. You should hear how my friends sing) We get lured down the drop and all the evil spirits are there to try and collect our soul. And someone steps in to intervene before the deal is made. I loved the scene where Dr.Facilier reaps what he sowed. I like to think for the ride, having Mama Odie intervene with the deal makes the spirits mad at spirit Facilier drag him away. But not before he grabs us, taking us up the hill. We get freed at the peak of the hill and as we slide down we see Facilier get swallowed

Disney needs to fire some imagineers. What a disappointment of a ride.

I would have loved Dr. Facilier appearing from the “other side” and taking you to the other side…the part after the last drop (that is now where we are shrunken to frog size). Then Mama Ode would have helped us escape at the big drop.

Also the last screen where you see Tiana’s restaurant is to pay homage to Raymond in my opinion. The Cajun firefly loves Evangeline a star (spoiler alert) but I think you see 2 star above the town.

But yeah, it's such a missed opportunity that they don't have more sense of peril on this ride. It's important and good for kids to learn how to face their fears. ❤️ You need that sense of danger on rides. 🙏🏻

36:50 I think it’s a different place since Tiana’s restaurant is there and it’s a mansion I think (Y’all quit the criticizing the attraction, it’s here to stay and enjoy while it lasts)

Between this and the Watcher Podcast, you do very well in the podcast setting!

Going to listen without watching because I don’t want visual spoilers. 😂

instead of the wall more ingredients? Impossible the ride already looks like a gigantic pantry

So very disappointing. I sure will miss how much fun and joy Splash Mountain brought to my Disneyland visit. This doesn’t even come close.

I really wanted this to be good but it's so very disappointing. You guys talk about the critter animatronics being a little more basic, but that's an understatement. They have only one-two movements each (eg. Side to side or foot tapping etc). I just think way too much money goes into the showstopping animatronics. The whole thing is giving Na'vi River Journey vibes where it's all just darkness, some foliage, some screens, and then a really expensive animatronic. And then there's the multiple Tiana's explaining everything to riders like it's designed for preschoolers. Such a shame

Yes the are you ready and made the drop more scary and the drums yes exactly that what i thought they would do

I think, at the end, when you guys were wondering why they're showing Tiana's restaurant again on the screens, it's like them zooming out when the ride ends. So, I think that's why they showed it twice. Then, they show Mama Odie saying goodbye. 👋🏻 I believe that's why they did that.

So the banner before the very first lift reads that the celebration takes place “At the home of Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen,” so that where we are supposed to be at the finale. It really does make you wonder though, doesn’t it? Like why wouldn’t Tiana hold this great celebration at her iconic restaurant, her shared dream with her father that was such a prominent point of the film?? The place where they already had a band if you’ll recall in the ending (Firefly Five plus Lou)..? 🤔 (P.S. The little boy playing the drums is Naveen’s younger brother) °o°

SO many dark and blank areas on this ride?! The animatronics are amazing but the concept and story is just meh …. I was really hoping so be wowed by this ride but it just doesn’t have the sense of danger or whimsy that the original Splash Mountain had. Not a big fan of the screens either. The concept and story are just not there. The original Slash Mountain and its music was one of our all time favorites!! Others than the improved animatronics this seems like a BIG missed opportunity. Disappointing over all. 😕

The soul is gone

That fence you don't like was also there when it was Splash

But if you’re gonna go on a ride, it should be both effective during the day and during the night. The animatronics that they use some were very, very current. Well others you can see are not current making the effects, especially during the last scene flawed because they really do not look Like they group together well. Also, there was a lot of space that they had to deal with and they did not do it well because the plants and everything looks very cheap even inside the ride. I really don’t think that the music was that grade either and it didn’t sound 100% New Orleans. New Orleans music stems from the gospel church and the song does not have that flare. It wasn’t a song that once you get off the right you’re gonna not to hum it and just forget it. Disney did not use it all to bake it better, but its flaws are going to showovertime.

The ride looks cute but honestly the story is a huge disappointment to me. Really big missed opportunity not using Facilier at all, his song is maybe the most popular from the movie! Just judging from the video, looks like a downgrade storyline and attraction wise, but an upgrade on the outside aesthetic.

9:45 what i think they dont realize is that Disney said that the ingredient they needed was a band for the celebration, not like actual ingredients.

This ride looks like it's themed to kids who are too short to ride it

This ride lacks so much from the first ride. Boring!!!!

In the end part it’s not Tiana’s restaurant it’s a place they are playing music at the very end where it’s small is the only part they show her restaurant

It’s a massive disappointment. They destroyed our splash for this lame theme. Sorry

You guys bring really great ideas up and wish the Imagineers got feedback from fans when designing this ride. The first sign needs something, flowers and plants surrounding it at minimum, more lights througout, more floral elements, a redraft of the story....with Dr. Facilier vs. Mama Odie idea. It's cute but not exciting and it's supposed to be a thrill ride.

Taina bayou adventure this Friday

i like princess and the frog and this looks really great in some places. it also has some boring sections and i don’t like the use of the screens. i get it though, since when we are shrunk they are looking at us through holes in the log,…right? love your alternate storyline with dr. facilier. and to those who keep saying, “but he’s dead!” i ask you,…but is he really? he’s the shadow man, a voodoo witch doctor. it could using him as the antagonist for this attraction would make it much more interesting. there’s just no tension. no sense of urgency. anyway, i’m still looking forward to riding it at dl next time i’m there (likely, 2025). thanks, dylan and christian!

They completely trashed the ride, so boring wont be riding it #bringbacksplash

I love your suggestions. Too bad they didn't consult you all first. I heard the ride in Tokyo will not change. So those missing the old ride can catch a plane and go East!

We demand MORE for this ride

I would have like to see the voodoo man before the drop

So the ride looks like we will see the food business, but then we dont, and then we need to find animals to play music... but we dont really focus on that, i dont get it

Does Christian have a channel?

🎉🎉800🎉🎉

As both a splash and tiana fan, its just alright. The animatronics look good but i really hate the screens. The timeline is also kinda weird to me. I saw some people saying how Ray was still alive in the ride even though Facilier isnt which i think they were referring to him singing Going Down the Bayou so thats a bit confusing to me. I wish they wouldve just done more new songs instead of recycling almost all of the og ones since they keep saying it takes place after the movie. I'm also personally just not happy with how Naveen is in a single scene, as far as we could see from the video, considering he's one of the main characters.

Splash Mountain had a better storytelling, for sure. And more Animatronics. Princess Tiana deserved a really new ride and not just a sort of makeover. Well, just my opinion. I have 50 years visiting WDW once a year and I think there are some attractions that You can set as “classics”. Pirates, Mansion, Big Thunder, etc… Splash Mountain, for me, had that status. It was a classic! You can improve, add new effects, do such things, but never get rid of them. But, again, It’s just an opinion from an old (and I mean it) Disney fan. Have fun, folks! ✌️

The idea was bad from the start. How do you make an "adventure" story without conflict, tension or excitement? The answer is you can't. That's literally what adventures are all about!

The story is definitely odd and lacking

I agree, not having Dr. Facilier 😢 was such a missed opportunity for the drop! I like Mama Odie, but there's no sense of peril or danger on this ride at all anymore. It's all about happy-go-lucky critters and nothing else 😂. Sometimes, you need a little danger to create that excitement. People always make the argument that Dr. Facilier is dead now, so they can't include him. But didn't he work with spirits? Don't you think they can just bring him back to life? That would be such a great continuation! They bring back dead characters all the time in horror movies, so it's not that big of a deal. They really should have included him!