What do you think of Tiana's Bayou Adventure?

There's no story. There's no climax. There's no antagonist. There's no "adventure". It is completely creatively bankrupt.

The lack of Dr. Facilier is criminal

I wish they had just followed the plot of the movie instead. Imagine Dr. Facilier and his spirit friends attacking the boats and sending you into the drop. It would've made for a much more interesting ride.

This is like the Direct to DVD sequel equivalent of a Disney Ride.

This video is SO much better than the official one Disney released. You can see and hear so much more.

They turned the Laughing Place into a laughing stock

This is why you don’t replace a Tony Baxter ride- the man is one of the best Imagineers of all time, no one knows how to craft and attraction with great story telling better than him

It's a GREAT day to be Universal.

This is just... extremely underwhelming. They went from a narrative-driven ride retelling a classic story to a generic log ride with randomly-placed Princess and the Frog animatronics.

Imagine how much better it would’ve been if we had the evil voodoo masks and facilier singing “friends on the other side” before the drop

That ride sucks. Plain and simple. I can't believe Disney making such and big disappointment of what once was one of the best rides they ever had.

No way the first Louis’ mouth is already broken

The ride queue can’t seem to decide if it exists in the real world or the cartoon world of the source material. Having cartoon photos next to a real life kitchen and larder is jarring (no pun intended).

This video made me want to book a trip to Tokyo Disneyland ASAP.

The vegetable section made me think I clicked on a Living with the Land POV for a minute.

I know everybody’s rightfully disappointed here but one thing I truly don’t understand is the music choices? Like what does each song have to do with each moment? It truly just feels like an iPod shuffle 😭

I still stand by my opinion that they should’ve used the OG movie story for this ride. HOW COOL would it have been to hear friends from the other side play ominously in the tunnel leading to the big drop?!?

This is pretty much Navi river journey with a drop.

Wow, this makes no sense. So…you went to basically Whole Foods and Tiana was there and said she needs to find some musicians who are also animals. So she asks you to go do that in the swamp. I guess that’s a ride. But then Mama Odie shrinks you or turns you into a frog for no reason. Maybe the point was that in order to find the frog musicians you had to become a frog? But then you are big again in two minutes. And then you go to some kind of party. My biggest question is why Disney doesn’t want to use the outfits and Tiana images from her movie. It’s like Galaxy’s Edge not wanting to use actual Star Wars characters. Maybe this is a rights payment residuals issue? They create stuff just for in-park use so they don’t have to pay the people who did the original Tiana stuff?

I’m disappointed. Tiana looks like her mom and not like Tiana at all. It makes no sense to come up with this weird confusing story and new music because the original film had so much to take from & truly great music. Ray singing down the bayou, Facilier singing friends on the other side, mama odie singing dig a little deeper and Tiana finishing it off with that beautiful “dreams do come true in New Orleans”! What was so wrong with sticking to the film?! How did they get this so wrong??

Iger said it was boring. He was right.

Glad Tokyo Disney is smart and would never change Splash for this

Seems like a let down. A ride without a Villain or danger seems so off. Walt always had two big elements Good and Evil, then Good wins in life.

7:23 Louis' mouth isn't moving wtf

Literally sticking cheap signs and projections with a lackluster storyline to boot. I like the song and animatronics. However, the predecessor filled every moment, so even if you had to sit there for 5 minutes waiting you’re entertained. There was always something going on. This ride missed the mark. And I’m sad that it did. Because Tokyo seems to not be having these issues with new attractions. Whoever designed this ride didn’t care to learn about why splash mountain worked in the space, they just wanted it gone. I’ve seen better rides at boardwalks.

The Last Jedi of Disney attractions

It looks beautiful but a bit boring. I agree it needs more “danger” and an antagonist.

Tiana's Rainforest Cafe Adventure

I am waiting from “Tom’s Honest Review”😂

How did they make a ride about cajun cooking and spices so bland?

Congratulations to all the imagineers! Impossible task to take New Orleans/Mardi Gras and make them boring and come up with an incoherent storyline from a film, but you did it!

this ride could’ve been so much better if they had it play out like the movie, with an actual antagonist, a glowing shadow realm scene where the laughing place is, and more of the of movie soundtrack

It's insane how much better this POV is than Disney's! That said, still kinda disappointed with the new ride. It's beautiful but there's too many empty spots, where the original ride had very full scenes at every turn. Not a bad ride, but definitely not a perfect one.

Not gonna lie, I was really hyped for this and I hoped they would do Tiana and her character justice, but this feels like a ride that was rushed due to time and budget constraints. The movie had the perfect villain, why not put him in the ride to add some much needed tension? The laughing place scene would've been a perfect spot to introduce him and have him be the reason you're turned into frogs. It would also give Tiana the opportunity to be the hero again. The figures are fantastic, but tweaking needs to be done for certain.

Former cast member from the original Splash Mountain in California here… I remember thinking back to 2010 (I had already left Disney to come back home and finish my college degrees) that The Princess and The Frog would make a wonderful replacement theme. (This was before “cancel culture” and everything else you hear thrown around.) The very real reality is that the children who visited the attraction didn’t have any connection to Song of the South; in fact, the only reason I had seen it was because I worked on the attraction. Most guests thought Briar Rabbit was Bugs Bunny. 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 The music from the movie and the story made for a wonderful theme update. Now with all of that said, I wish the attraction would have done a better job with the story telling. I think they should have stuck to using the movie’s story rather than what they went with. As so many are saying, this version does feel very lazy. Also, when seeing some of the animatronics and technology at the parks abroad, I’m struggling to understand why the animatronics now aren’t as incredible? Maybe they wanted to keep true to the ones in the original attraction, but those animatorics (at Disneyland) were from 1989. I’m all for the rebrand, and what they did is cute and fine, but I feel like they really missed an opportunity to make this attraction out of this world. 😕

How can you NOT have masks singing “ARE YOU READY? BUM BUM BUM BUM! ARE YOU REEEEADY?!” On your way up to the drop?

The purple Tiana banner things .. i found out what happened to the old roadway signs ! Thrifty ole disney😅

A big misstep in the lead up to Epic Universe, IMO. And frankly, Tiana deserved better. There’s absolutely no excitement or tension before that (previously) iconic drop, which is a big metaphor for current imagineering, TBH. Disney want IP only but zero tension, peril, or conflict. Boring.

I'm a MASSIVE fan of P&TF but this isn't a great tribute. People didn't want this and Disney should have proved them wrong. Repetitive character animatronics of Tiana & Louis (which aren't that lifelike tbh) when they should've really based it on the film - allowing for Father, Dr Facilier, Ray & the crocodile hunters to all appear too.

Okay, let me go ahead and say this, I think I found a way this could've been slightly better while sticking to a similar plot, BUT giving the ride some life and tension: Alright, for the first part of our journey where we enter the mountain, let's go ahead and spruce it up a bit, more lights, more visuals, put Dottie in, put Big Daddy in some scenes, make it seem like they're following us through the bayou, they can be the ride's slapstick if you will for the first portion. Maybe get a shot just like in the concept art of Naveen and Tiana on a boat together somewhere down the way, move a few pieces of land if need be. You can keep the musical animals, they're alright. Then, once we get to the first drop, rather than Tiana telling us to look high & low, perhaps the entrance to the party could be right behind her, "Alright all, let's get ya'll into that party and-" The noise of wind kicks up, as Guest turn to the first drop "Where ya'll going? Louis! Stop em!" Tiana would yell, Louis stands on the side, watching the log past "I can't! They goin' too fast!" Louis yells, before the log drops into the next part. "Oh boy!" "Louis! Where are they?" "They went down the stream!" "We gotta go get them!". From there on out, the bayou doesn't seem as bright anymore, a bit darker now, trees not seeming as friendly, as projections of shadows begin swirl around on the trees, as faint whispers begin to be heard "Friends on The Other Side...", perhaps even entering a voodoo cabin as they get closer towards the drop hill, with candles with green lined about, maybe a few voodoo dolls coming to life with green in their eyes. Maybe a Shiriki Utundu Easter Egg too, if you can do Idols & Curses in Tokyo, you can do it here too. Now we're onto Act 3, The Drop. As Guest come to the drop, they can begin to hear that faint chant "Bum... bum... bum... bum... bum..." & it gets faster "Bumbumbumbumbumbum! ARE YA READY?" As the music from the "Are Ya Ready? Reiprise" begins to fill the lift, how about installing a door at the top of the hill so they can project that giant Tiki thing that ate Dr.Falacier from the OG Movie, & only once guest get close, do we see Mama Odie wave her magic & say "Not today, baby!" before sending a bit of light at the Tiki, as the door burst open & guests take The Drop. The rest of the ride would be as is, with the acception that Tiana is dancing with Naveen at the party. There, I fixed the ride. All they had to do was turn the ex-Laughing Place into The Shadow Zone, The Other Side if you will. It wouldn't have been too hard. Am I an Imagineer now? Can I concept a ride? Or hey, better idea, DON'T CHANGE YOUR STAR ATTRACTIONS!

The first Louis is already broken 😐

Disney has now "Figmented"(ruined)Slash Mountain. I want to cry! Why is Disney so determined to erase all things classic Disney & replace it with a dry, no story, no magic overlay like this. At least have Tiana in her princess dress for one of the scenes. Joe Rohde, Bob Gurr save us. Disney, please start designing again with heart and a what would Walt and the nine old men think of what we have created here mindset.

Last year I went to the Magic Kingdom and this ride was closed (Because it was under construction) and I really missed being able to ride Splash Mountain, but as I was watching the Big Drop from a distance I remember thinking...."Tiana's ride is going to be So Epic with Dr. Facilier and a bunch of Voodoo masks and shadows singing ...Are you Ready??? before the Big Drop!..." And now there is no Dr. Facilier....No Voodoo masks...No Shadows....No "Are you ready?" Song....Nothing 😥💔 ...I feel sad.... I know he dies by the end of the movie but he could have come back from "the other side" just to be a part of this ride 😟

Splash mountain was whimsical and took you to a special place like when uncle Remus walked into the cartoon scene in the movie. It was magical this is not. Sorry

The people running Tokyo Disneyland must be laughing.

Where the heck is Dr. Facilier!?

The #1 rule in theme parks is: Whenever you retire a ride, whatever takes its place has to be just as good if not better than what it replaced. This is the TOTAL opposite! The ride has lost ALL of it's color, whimsy, and magic. This new ride is so dark and empty! There is SO much empty space from where they removed all of the other AA's from Splash. It's blatantly obvious Disney just didn't want to spend the money to create a worthy successor to Splash Mountain. If this was the plan all along they should have just demolished the entire ride and built something else. Disney REALLY missed the bar here! Sad but not at all surprised.

i REALLLLY WANTED TO LIKE THIS, but What was the story line? Those animatronics were horrible! Lottie looked like she had an allergic reaction..... and was that PRINCE NAVEEN? Bro very sad, virtual que or nothing DEF not paying for that ride, glad I watched it,

This ride pov is a million times better than Disney's 😂

Much better ride POV than Disney themselves 👏🏼 That said, this ride is an incredible disappointment compared to Splash Mountain. WDI really let us down with this one and I can see this getting the Harmonius treatment in a matter of years. Very sad

I thought there was gonna be at least one splash Mountain animatronic

Prediction: In two years this ride will be lazily re-skinned as “Tiana’s Bayou Adventure with Figment”

Does not fit the layout at all. This would have been a good ride on its own. The theming does not fit the thrilling aspects at all. This is terrible. There is no tension or suspense and the drops seem pointless now

This ride doesn't have the whimsical story Splash had. It was like to another land. It gave you the feeling when Uncle Remus walked into the cartoon world in the movie.

Im kind of disappointed honestly. There are parts that work like the ending scene and the good animatronics but they left out the green princess dress which is something I was most excited to see, the villain, and the sense of dread as your going up the final lift hill.

Tiana: Where did our friends go??? We have to find them!!!! Also Tiana: Dances with Louis happily literally 2 seconds later SEEING us. WHAT???

One begins the ride that was once Splash Mountain and finds that all the beautiful animals and their cute homes are gone and replaced with billboards of human commercialism. One enters the mountain and finds that it is now dark and all the happy animated animals in their bright world are gone, and then one soon finds the culprit, a giant fat crocodile that apparently ate them all. One follows some dark scary passages and finds an alcoholic old woman blind from diabetes and you fall into her delirium and immediately see her problem in the form of a giant liquor bottle, which leads to her liquor bottles scattered everywhere, even hanging from the ceiling. Then you drop into hell and pass a small party of drunken humans and then the damn nightmare ends and you get off the boat, with nothing memorable to take with you, not even the music.

It's a story too repetitive at every corner for a 10 minute trip. It could be good for a Frozen Ever After type ride or for Rapunzel. but this is a definitive NO for Splash. And i miss the Villain. 😓

Not impressed, they took out the fun on the ride. Also the big drop isn't part of the "story" at all.

Extremely disappointed in this update. It’s boring and has no storyline. Too many dark spaces and projections. I could do better with a bottle of whiskey while sitting in my bathtub than this stupid ride. This is an attraction I definitely will never ride.

Huge miss not having Dr. Facilier come in and inject some peril, not having "are you ready" playing during the final lift is also a missed opportunity.

The mouth isn’t moving on that first Louis animatronic….already

This ride and theme had so much potential. I don’t want splash mountain back but they did Tiana so dirty!

This ride is so disappointing. It’s more upsetting when you imagine how much better it could have been with like no more than 30 seconds of Dr. Facilier in the laughing place section. I expect this thing to see some real interesting wait time fluctuation when it leaves the virtual queue era.

Seriously what's happening with Disney, it's going from bad to worse

As much as most people are saying that this ride is really bad, it is not hard to fix. All we need is to replace Mamma Odie with Dr. Facilier. Then the ride makes sense. It would be a story about how Tiana is looking for a band for a restaurant with our help, but then we get shrunk down so Mr. Voodoo thinks that we can't find a band. Then, after we find a band while we are tiny, he tries to take our souls, and then we break the curse by getting to the end of the ride and listening to the band. Granted, still a bit cliche, but that's a better plot than Voodoo lady shrinks us down because she wants to while we are on the mission of finding a band.

Bring back Splash Mountain

Splash Mountain was a huge shoe to fill. This did not deliver.

This is about as good as the Star Wars hotel 🤣

We lost splash mountain for this….

“How’s this?!” Face down, ass up alligator is pretty funny, gotta admit.

The first Louis animatronic already has a broken mouth. Not sure these electric actuators are going to hold up.

Well, that was soulless and underwhelming.

Firstly your POV video is much better than the one Disney officially uploaded. I am noticing a lot of technical glitches this time. Those must explain the cuts in the version Disney released. But you seemed to stall for unusually long at the top of the first drop, and then Louis' mouth isn't moving when we first meet him. Now we're stuck outside the finale scene for an abhorrently long time. Then after all that you're apparently rushed through the finale scene which has the most to look at by a long shot. When the plot was first explained I thought it sounded decent if not a bit vanilla. But the execution is lacking. I thought we were going to find musicians for the band but right around the first corner and we've already found a complete band...so much for exploring the bayou and meeting little different critters along the way. Other than the (static) armadillo, they're all just thrown at us. I don't understand the removal of all the critters. I thought the bayou would be filled with them dancing and enjoying the music. Why can't there still be possums dropping down from the ceiling and critters all over? Have changes already been made because I could have sworn Louis said something like "How low can we go?" not "How's this?" Impressive animatronics aside, many of the critter animatronics seem extremely basic and lifeless. Didn't Mama Odie say something about making a"big splash" at the party? Are there multiple dialogue tracks? Maybe the tracks have a few phrases to avoid repeating since it's a slow moving ride. The big drop just plops you down into...nothing. No music. Weird.They could have decorated this whole area for Madi Gras. The finale scene composition isn't great. It just feels crowded but not grand. The lack of forced perspective I think. A Mardi Gras float or something with movement is needed. Final thoughts: Where is the drama? Where is the whimsy? Why is Tiana now Dora the Explorer?

A new ride should’ve been made if a Tiana themed ride was wanted. This is nothing compared to Splash Mountain.

Worse thing Disney has ever done gonna say it 😂

I don’t think that Disney got there’s money worth on this one. Looks like the spent most of the budget on fake flowers and plants

This POV is better than the one Disney released.

Confusing story line and looks pieced together. Some cute moments…. But what the heck are they trying to tell us?

No shadowman boooo they should just put it as a surprise ending

“Look how they massacred my boy”.

No Facilier? No Dark voodoo neon section?! Wow… so missed opportunities…

Looks pretty fun to me. But at 7:27, when we see Louis, his mouth is not moving with the dialogue, so I fear that the technical aspects may decline faster than we want.

It’s not a nostalgia thing for me, I understand that this ride needed to change, but the result itself just isn’t that impressive. I feel very similar to how I felt after riding cosmic rewind: no real story, no immersion, no true uniqueness. Leaves you with a lingering emptiness after you get off.

Truly a letdown. I’m confused about the storyline, I thought we were searching for the “secret spice” but now we’re searching for a band? But they were still lazy enough to leave the finale song that goes with the original storyline. The inside scenes are absolutely horrible too. Sure there’s a few impressive animatronics, but that does nothing without an engaging storyline. The long stretches of deadspace in the dark while seeing an animatronic in the distance are disappointing. It’s a pass for me.

So why is Tiana and Louis looking for animal musicians in the bayou? Doesn't this take place in New Orleans? Why not just hire a normal jazz band?

working with an existing ride system is always hard, but there is a lot of empty space here, particularly where the boats are held before each scene, also not a fan of the 'swamp water' but I understand it aligned to the theme, finale scene is nice but its not worth the wait I'm afraid

Hmmm… not sure about this. Anyway we can get Splash Mountain back 😭

It's so dark and empty in some of these scenes. At least with Splash Mountain, no matter where you looked, something was happening. Now, riders are just being directed to look at what's under a spotlight and not to look anywhere else? Knew this redesign was never going to work out, and glad others are seeing it too.

didn't louisiana salt mines use slaves?

No villain aspect. Lots of screens. Too many boats. It’s the downgrade nobody asked for.

Very underwhelming

Just noticed Louis mouth wasn’t moving in the beginning. Plus when they went down into the Laughing Place section, they went early and missed the lighting cue

Thank you for the daytime POV. Good contrast to Disney’s nighttime (partially cutted) POV.

So right off the bat the 1st Louis animatronic’s mouth didn’t move and then the boat got stuck. Swing and a miss.

One of the most hypocritical ironies about this attraction is the notion that Tiana's Foods is "employee-owned and -operated" while The Walt Disney Company, itself, very much is not.

There's no story. It feels like "under the sea" but with reptiles. The animatronics and set look great, it just felt empty and out of place. Pictures of vegetables is lazy.

So boring. Whoever thought up this storyline needs to be fired. Please, Disney, give Princess and the Frog the respect it deserves!

I guess it’s time to stop visiting Disney and start becoming an annual pass holder at Universal Studios.