Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Breaks Down During Previews
Replacing the beloved Splash Mountain may prove to be yet another costly mistake for Disney. If you’ll remember, Disney decided that, due to its ties to Song of the South, Splash Mountain was racist, so they’re replacing it with an attraction based on The Princess and the Frog. The new ride, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, is scheduled to open to the public in The Magic Kingdom on June 28, 2024, and it’s currently in previews for the press and online influencers. Today, the ride broke down and had to be evacuated. You can see video of the event below, courtesy of the best theme park influencer channel on the internet, Park Hoppin’:
That’s embarrassing, but it appears par for the course for this ride. According to That Park Place, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is being met with a cold reception. The Disney Parks YouTube channel released a video giving a point-of-view perspective of the ride before the previews began – probably because they knew the ride had problems and they anticipated the bad press that would follow. But it didn’t help because the video was ratioed, with 8.9k likes to 22k dislikes. On June 2, 2024, the day before the breakdown, previews were canceled after fire alarms went off. And when the ride occasionally did work, some of the animatronics weren’t functioning properly. In the clip below from a video by Theme Park Review, you can see that Louis, the alligator, isn’t moving his mouth as he’s supposed to:
This is a catastrophe for Disney, and as the ratioed video shows, it started before the previews even began. Their decision to replace the most popular theme park ride in the world because of phony racism charges was their first mistake and the likely source of the disproportionate dislikes on the video. But the ride is following the same pattern as Disney’s movies and TV shows that were created to push an agenda rather than entertain. The result is consistently that the creators pay no attention to quality – in this case, making sure the ride… you know… works – and it becomes a functional disaster that nobody likes. Part of me (a big part; most of my torso) is happy that an annoying move like this is blowing up in Disney’s face, but I still have to marvel at their gall at doing something they knew would ruffle feathers among Disney fans and parkgoers and not caring whether the ride was ready for prime time. They had to have tested Tiana’s Bayou Adventure before the previews, right? Like, maybe have a few Disney World employees try it out? The Disney Parks video suggests they did. So, why wouldn’t they delay the opening and make sure it ran properly before unveiling it? But maybe that’s giving them too much credit. When you do things for ideological purposes rather than creative or business ones, it breeds arrogance, and the result is a pie in the face, which ends up being the most entertaining part of the whole affair.
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What would be really funny is if they end up hurting so badly financially that they release Song of the South on DVD/Blu-ray. I guarantee it would sell like crazy; every collector on Earth would buy a copy. Not that I think they will; they’re full steam ahead on the crazy train, and they’ve removed the brakes. At most, they’d be stupid enough to put it on Disney Plus and make, at best, far less money than they would on physical media.
As for the ride, stay tuned for an article later today because it’s ain’t done breaking down.
Previous generations come from a time of Uncle Remus and Aunt Jemima and they were called racist.
Today’s generatiosn come froma time of P. Diddy and Cardi B. and they call you racist.
Before, you had chefs and cooks, but they’ve been replaced by sleazy pimps and drug dealers and gangsters, but Song of the South was racist?
Someone is not paying attention to the character assassination that is going on here.
Used to be an expression: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and this would apply to Splash Mountain. I remember being off the Disney train, and yet, someone dragged me there years ago, and I ended up having a good time. Used to be a place of joy, but part of that was tradition when you are walking thru that old town at the end and hear a Ragtime band or a Barbershop quartet. Hard to even believe that America used to be like that, from the state the country is in now.
All of this ESG is forced and it’s a bit ironic that this breakdown occurred, at a time when they release flop after flop after flop of movies. The movies don’t work, the ride doesn’t work and the ideas don’t work. It’s all so unnatural.
It’s been so long since Song of the South that I had to go look it up and watch it and listen to it. So, they called it racist. They also called Huck Finn racist, and it seems like both of those things were actually marketing and promoting integration, so go figure that revisionists would try to destroy that history.
It’s fascinating to watch old wholesome entertainment like Song of the South. All of them were country people just being free.
I sometimes get triggered by retro, vintage footage. While others despise America’s past, when I see it, I feel like I am being personally taunted by whoever is showing it to me, as if the implication is: haha, look what we shysters took from you.
So, they destroyed Uncle Remus, Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima. Wiping out the personal faces of the working class, only to replaced by Diddy and Fitty, and all in the name of racism.