FIRST Time Riding TIANA’S BAYOU ADVENTURE! | FULL RIDE POV and REVIEW!

Hey everyone! Welcome back or welcome to It’s A Small Vlog! Today, we have some pretty special footage to cover as we finally get to experience Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at the Magic Kingdom! This attraction is replacing the former Splash Mountain in Frontierland, so expectations are pretty high. In this video, we take a look at the crowds, queue, attraction in full, and give a lengthy review afterwards. I hope you enjoy today’s video!
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But what about you? How do you feel about Tiana’s Bayou Adventure? And how do you think it compares to Splash Mountain? Let me know in the comments below!
That’s all for now and as always, have a magical day!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:36 - Queue Line Overview
05:56 - Full Attraction POV (Front Row!)
14:53 - Attraction Review (Spoilers!)
26:19 - Outro

[@QuentrixMovies]

I knew this ride was doomed when they announced it would be a new story. The general reaction is basically what I expected.

[@yokedpredator2127]

Look how they massacred my boy

[@myartistryisunbound]

You can have really nice animatronics but if they aren't telling a compelling story then its all wasted.

[@itsasmallvlog]

Certainly. The technology has improved, but the creativity has backpeddled.

[@EverScrolls]

@@itsasmallvlog Hell, I wouldn't even say the technology improved since they break down so often and this is new.

[@itsasmallvlog]

This is the most real comment ever 😂

[@tex1892]

This is spot on they played it way to safe with this and made it boring and if I ever ride it, it'll just be just to cool off at the park and the music.

[@anitacollins3374]

I've not been on the ride yet, but had great expectations from all the hype and frankly from my experience with Disney's talented Imagineers. Based on what I saw from your video, I'm really sad and disappointed. I loved the movie and was hoping this would be just as great. If it were important, money, time, and other needed resources would have been properly allocated. This just saddens me. Thank you for sharing. I love what you are doing. Keep up the great work. 💜

[@itsasmallvlog]

Always a pleasure to report what’s new at Disney and provide some real, honest insight for you!

[@pachigg4253]

About time an honest review.......well done

[@itsasmallvlog]

Thank you so much.

[@ipdvb4853]

I hear you, I also appreciated diving more into Tiana's world and, yes, I'm also surprised we got something that... doesn't have ánything to do with why we love that world's characters. And that's not even talking about the very repetitive ("you found more musicians, yay") and bland use of 10 full minutes of ride time. Plenty of reviews have indeed positively reviewed it as "cute" and "fun" but geez, Imagineering should prioritize story more than anyone. Impressive technology is fun but it should only support story and emotion. I'm sure that's a direct Imagineering quote. I appreciate people being in tune enough with Imagineering principles to call out that this ride concept was just a big fail. ANYWAY, fabulous review video, I'm glad I found your channel.

[@itsasmallvlog]

Thanks for your insight! It's so hard to believe that nobody on the Imagineering team looked at this story and said “Hm, needs a little something.” There’s so much untapped potential here.

[@cmspusa]

When Bob Iger states its boring, then you have a problem. If they had a limited budget that is when WDI should have gone to Bob and asking for more money. The outcome of this attraction shows what you get when you rush it and think you have a great attraction, when in the end you don't. I possibly foresee this attraction going down for a few months while they put more money into it to get it to where it actually needs to be. My dear "friend" Brer Bear and I spent many days at this mountain and the revamp does not do justice. First the only "mountain" in the New Orleans area is on Avery Island. The back story of Splash does not even come close to what they did here. I understand WDI went this route possibly in order to get Tiana in this space, but for history sake possibly not the best choice. Disneyland's Splash had about 100 and WDW had 63 or so animatronics in their killed attraction and Tiana has about 29. A lot of dark dead space. Splash had you looking everywhere because there was more to see and it was done went the folks at WDI actually knew what they were doing. In time WDI may get this right, but for me right now they miss and missed big times.

[@TJHistory]

Bob Iger is a disgrace to Disney.

[@celestiadrools9551]

This is just like what Universal did with Jurassic World. If you know something isn’t right, then why rush it just to get it out, when you can take all the time you need to get everything right?

[@acornies8597]

your review is so spot on

[@myartistryisunbound]

I fell asleep watching the ride thru

[@laranjoeric]

Bring back Splash Mountain 🌊

[@davidbeers5386]

What a joke of a ride! Has nothing to do with the film. Disney has ruined this ride

[@justintime1234]

I do hope you share this review on all of your platforms. Because you're the most honest one I've seen. Not because your opinion matches mine, though I haven't ridden it, but because you actually processed with your mind and feelings what you experienced. I'm watching all of the reviews and it seems like most of the people who have posted didn't actually process any of the ride with their mind and feelings. They just looked around and said, oooh ahhh... and then that's how they reviewed it - "it was so cute and oooh ahhh..." In conclusion, I'm sorry you wanted to like it and didn't. I personally doubted it from the beginning so I don't have any disappointment in the results of this ride. Besides the fact that - My disappointment is that they tore out my favorite ride and replaced it with something with no excitement or anticipation or fun and really looks cheap and boring .

[@itsasmallvlog]

Thank you so much for the compliment! I genuinely appreciate it. I try to be as honest as I can be with everything I do on the channel, outside of just attraction reviews. As someone who knows when Disney puts their best foot forward or fails to deliver, I am critical because I love this company, and I know what they are capable of.

[@justintime1234]

@@itsasmallvlog I would rather vacation to Disneyland than anywhere in the world. Used to live in L.A. I love Maui but I love Disneyland more. I was a Disney kid In the 80s and knew all the things. I want to root for them and I want them to do well but I just had a bad feeling about this project from the start. I have no problem with the princess and the frog or Tiana or anything. That's why I think they should've just made a new ride instead of tearing out one of the main reasons people buy a plane ticket and Disney ticket. Anyways, best of luck with your channel.

[@itsasmallvlog]

I wholeheartedly agree. Again, thank you so much for your comment and sharing your insight. Part of what’s great about creating content here on KZbin is getting the chance to interact with viewers like you :)

[@jacksonreese-ei8ws]

While I have not rode it yet so I can’t say anything about the ride itself one thing I can say is that splash mountain as it was when it closed wasn’t in great shape. The animatronics were always busted and the lighting was always wonky so them coming in and cleaning it up and the top tier animatronics are great to have (and as much as I love Navi river that ride really is only for the one great animatronic, while these are really good and we have multiple!) the biggest issue I’d have now, which Disneyland won’t have, is being in Frontierland. It’s stirring between thunder and the rest of the land, but for what they could do it seems nice with the new train station and everything (sorry for the rant especially since I havnt rode it)

[@itsasmallvlog]

Thanks for your thoughts! I agree - Splash Mountain was not in great shape when it closed down, but that's where I think it might've made more logistical sense to simply give Splash Mountain a lengthy refurbishment. Replacing all the animatronics, investing money into the attraction, etc... and then give Tiana her own separate attraction. This would have resolved the issue of fitting in with Frontierland and the issue I have with this ride story-wise. (Although Frontierland might end up becoming a thing of the past sometime soon, but who knows!)

[@patskers1]

Thanks for the honest review. These are the reviews the Disney Higher ups need to see. Not the ones from the pixie dusters who will say whatever it takes to stay on Disney’s good side.

[@itsasmallvlog]

Appreciate you. I don't care what other people are doing or saying. I'm here to keep it 100% real as much as I can.

[@NathalieQuinoness]

Thank you for expressing your opinion and showing us the queue

[@CrazyManhog]

Its because they are saying the villan is offensive to Christian biblical culture 😂😂 And because Tiana is a princess ride and a princess ride cant be scary That is 100% ridiculous

[@user-uc6bc6od2b]

People are talking bad about the ride

[@Sophia_dream09]

Yeah cause I rode it yesterday and it’s boring. I miss Splash Mountain

[@user-uc6bc6od2b]

@@Sophia_dream09 I get it it's boring but think about it I'm going there for my 29th birthday when I was a little girl when I was a little girl I always want to become a princess I never got that chance Tina's bayou venture give me hope and give me Faith you can face anything when people want to come to the end of the day we should not be saying bad things about something I feel on what you're saying I understand you got to let it go yes it's been replaced think about it

[@katiepointer]

this ride sucks and it wil never be as cool or fun as Splash Mountain🤬

[@lightningforesthd3446]

Oh my God did I see what I thought I saw at 12:17?

[@lightningforesthd3446]

@Disneyland_Charles_Tm I think I can see the weasel's head from the ceiling.

[@TrekBeatTK]

Can we complain about their bland nomenclature? Nothing as punchy as Splash Mountain. Ernest P Worrell would nit be excited to ride this.

[@jennyoxton5767]

I want to ride it it looks so cool

[@magicalmousers]

It's crazy sad part of the queue being a salt mine which is mocking a lot of passed slave miners that were punished to death in Avery island and there disgusting pun signages all over. Sadly it's " the broccoli top hobby lobby floral warehouse racist salt mine slave sewage system Tefiti's bum popping out magical poopsy poos brown logs down the brown water mountain ". Such a waste of money and time. Abd yes beautiful Tiana deserves her own new land with a beautiful big attraction building,along with lots of places to eat, dance and create new forever memories with Tiana and her friends ❤👑🐸⚜️🤴✨✨

[@krazykat3297]

Don’t be ashamed to say it! It stinks!😝 Nobody asked for this remake. Splash Mtn 🏔️🐰🦊🐻was not a racist ride period. It was a FUN ride that brought so much joy to everyone no matter what background. The people that politicized this ride should be ashamed of the mediocrity of this ride