Disney has introduced the opening date for Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Disneyland simply in time for the Christmas 2024 season! This shares the most recent official information & particulars, plus preview predictions, comfortable opening hypothesis, digital queue vs. standby line, Lightning Lane standing, and extra!
In case you’re unfamiliar with it, Tiana’s Bayou Journey is a reimagining of Splash Mountain. The brand new-look attraction makes use of the identical experience system and is a log flume with an outside part, inside present scenes that includes Audio Animatronics critters, and several other smaller drops culminating in a single huge drop. Identical thought, totally different story and substance.
Tiana’s Bayou Journey picks up the story of The Princess and the Frog after the ultimate kiss, becoming a member of Tiana and Louis on a musical journey as they put together for his or her first-ever Mardi Gras efficiency. Throughout this celebration, friends hear authentic music impressed by songs from the movie. Tiana is main the best way and friends encounter outdated associates and make new ones alongside the best way as nicely.
This opening date of Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Disneyland was introduced through the “Horizons: Disney Experiences Showcase” or Parks Panel presentation through the 2024 D23 Expo on the Honda Heart in Anaheim, California. Disney Parks Chairman Josh D’Amaro supplied a sneak peek at idea artwork for the long run as well as and teased what was to come back in just a few years. He additionally shared extra near-term information, like this.
The truth is, there was a lot information through the D23 Parks Panel that Josh known as in associates Darren Criss and Skylar Astin for I assume what you’d name a rapid-fire montage tune of smaller-scale updates earlier than persevering with on with the present. The duo splashed via a singing medley of reports, together with the opening date of the reimagined experience at Disneyland this vacation season.
From that, we now know that Tiana’s Bayou Journey opens on November 15, 2024 at Disneyland.
Simultaneous with the debut of Tiana’s Bayou Journey, Critter Nation shall be renamed Bayou Nation.
Bayou Nation is located on the sting of New Orleans Sq. with shady bushes, mesmerizing music and an unlimited assortment of enchanting surprises. Friends will uncover a land crammed with pleasant woodland animals, from a trumpet-playing gator and an cute bear who craves honey to a musical forged of bears, frogs, and different critters.
Along with Tiana’s Bayou Journey, Bayou Nation would be the dwelling to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and the Davy Crockett’s Explorer Canoes, in addition to the newly reimagined Hungry Bear Barbecue Jamboree, which has one of the scenic eating areas in all of Disneyland. And don’t overlook to seize your favourite merchandise from Ray’s Berets, and Louis’ Critter Membership, and candy treats from Pooh Nook.
Whereas some areas of this reimagined land could open earlier, Disneyland will formally welcome you to Bayou Nation when Tiana’s Bayou Journey opens on November 15, 2024. (That means that the renaming is efficient on that date.)
Turning to commentary, our expectation is that Hungry Bear Barbecue Jamboree and the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh reopen earlier than November 15, 2024. The remainder of the ‘Nation’ land returning nicely earlier than that looks as if a protected guess, as nicely.
Though we’ve heard reviews that bookings are “surprisingly” comfortable this 12 months, October has been the busiest month at Disneyland lately, and that ought to stay true in 2024. A comfortable October might be nonetheless busier than this summer time has been–however we may see September catching individuals unexpectedly on account of Halloween being pulled ahead and ticket offers drawing to a detailed.
The purpose is that these closures have principally occurred because of the choices not being needed from an operational perspective, and that’ll probably change by mid-to-late September. As such, I’d hope that Disneyland can have no less than the experience and restaurant open by then. Hungry Bear’s reimagining shouldn’t be that concerned, so there’s actually no cause to delay past then. It wouldn’t shock me in the event that they’re open lower than a month from now, the truth is.
Past that, work on Tiana’s Bayou Journey has been shifting quick in the previous couple of months, which is an effective factor. That bodes nicely for the reimagined experience making its November 15, 2024 opening date.
On a damaging be aware, the model of Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Walt Disney World is now working–however has been stricken by issues. The experience suffers from in depth every day downtime that usually is a number of hours. On prime of that, it has a bunch of little points with staging, set design, and extra. (See our Tiana’s Bayou Journey Journey Evaluate: Failure, Flawed or Improbable?)
Even past the reliability and downtime woes, we’ve been hoping that Imagineers can be given extra time to repair the apparent points with the substance of the attraction. I’m unsure November 15 offers them the mandatory time to try this, however possibly it does. Both approach, it beats a race-against-the-clock opening to debut by fall break in October.
As for comfortable openings or affiliation previews, I wouldn’t essentially guess on or towards them.
Disneyland doesn’t do these almost as typically as Walt Disney World. On the preview aspect, that is probably as a result of there are a ton extra Magic Key holders than there are Annual Passholders at Walt Disney World. As such, Disneyland usually does Forged Member previews (and extra of them) as a substitute.
Generally there are comfortable openings, however they’re extra continuously for seasonal sights like Haunted Mansion Vacation, eating places, leisure or seasonal meals cubicles. And people often perform as a launch valve to drag ahead some demand, so Magic Key APs don’t descend on the park all on the identical day.
The opposite key distinction between Walt Disney World and Disneyland is that, because of the latter being extra of a neighborhood’s park, opening dates usually aren’t introduced as far upfront. Tiana’s Bayou Journey is definitely a giant exception to that, as its opening date is getting extra lead time at Disneyland than it did at Magic Kingdom.
That is probably on account of a need to share the information at D23 Expo whereas additionally setting a date that coincided with the beginning of the Christmas season. Regardless, the reason being immaterial. Somewhat, it’s the truth that Disneyland set the opening date of Tiana’s Bayou Journey so early that’s noteworthy.
This implies one in all two issues. First, that Imagineering is aware of ‘what went fallacious’ with Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Walt Disney World and is assured the issue gained’t repeat at Disneyland.
The second chance is that Disneyland doesn’t actually know when Tiana’s Bayou Journey be prepared and are simply erring on the aspect of warning and setting a conservative opening date. One which coincides with Christmas does make sense from an operational perspective. They’ll want the capability.
My guess–and hope–is the previous. I don’t assume it makes an entire lot of sense to set a date till potential reliability woes have been addressed. Tiana’s Bayou Journey has acquired a lot damaging consideration and phrase of mouth that it’s most likely generated far more badwill than buzz at this level. (And it value some huge cash, in addition!)
On prime of all this, there’s a two-week hole between the tip of the Halloween season and begin of the vacations. Throughout that point, which incorporates the extremely common Veterans Day vacation weekend, it may additionally make sense to to have the additional capability and pull ahead some demand. All a long-winded approach of claiming that I feel Tiana’s Bayou Journey is the uncommon case the place per week or two of sentimental openings truly would possibly occur at Disneyland.
Once more, a part of that is what I’m hoping occurs. I’ve already “lived via” one opening of Tiana’s Bayou Journey and it was not fairly. The issues with the Walt Disney World model haven’t even been absolutely addressed, however that’s largely as a result of it’s already operational, so it’s not as if crews can work across the clock on it. Greater than something, I don’t desire a repeat of that at Disneyland. So I’m actually hoping the issue has been preemptively addressed at Disneyland, or was a problem unique to Florida. However me hoping one thing doesn’t make it so.
In any case, we’ll preserve readers posted if/when previews of Tiana’s Bayou Journey are introduced or comfortable openings quietly start. You’ll be able to subscribe to our free electronic mail publication for immediate alerts.
Subsequent up, whether or not Tiana’s Bayou Journey shall be a part of Lightning Lane Multi-Move or Single Move at Disneyland. For reference, it’s a part of Lightning Lane Multi-Move (LLMP) at Magic Kingdom, which is identical standing that Splash Mountain had on each coasts. Nonetheless, it’s not essentially a foregone conclusion that Tiana’s Bayou Journey shall be LLMP at Disneyland. In any case, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway wasn’t, though it was at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
However, it’s actually exhausting to think about Disneyland giving a unique standing to Tiana’s Bayou Journey than LLMP. The extra arguments towards Tiana’s Bayou Journey getting Lightning Lane Single Move standing are that it’s a reimagining slightly than a brand-new experience and the truth that water rides merely should not as common at night time or when the climate is colder. And California is colder from November via March.
There are nearly no good arguments for Tiana’s Bayou Journey opening with Lightning Lane Single Move standing save for Disney wanting extra money…so don’t rule it out! Nonetheless, we’d say there’s no less than a 75% likelihood that it’s LLMP. Actually exhausting to think about the identical experience opening in the identical 12 months on each coasts and having a unique standing. However by no means guess towards Disney’s greed…therefore the 25% chance.
One other huge query is whether or not Tiana’s Bayou Journey will use a digital queue. Ugh. We hope not.
If Tiana’s Bayou Journey makes use of a digital queue at Disneyland past its opening weekend, it’ll be as a result of the experience is unreliable. Even with vacation season crowds, there’s no different cause for that transfer. Once more, California’s chilly winter climate all the time made Splash Mountain much less common this time of 12 months, so crowd management isn’t a compelling cause.
Regardless of Disney indicating that the digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Magic Kingdom would solely be used within the preliminary opening interval, it’s nonetheless utilizing a VQ over a month later through the early fall low season due to downtime. The digital queue makes it simpler to pulse demand and never have pissed off friends who wait in a bodily line for hours on finish whereas enduring breakdowns.
The underside line is that I may see a digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey for that first weekend and possibly via Thanksgiving no matter whether or not it has issues or is working easily, however it won’t use one indefinitely until it’s unreliable. And I can’t predict whether or not that’s the case. Once more, I hope it isn’t!
In the end, we’re wanting ahead to experiencing Tiana’s Bayou Journey opening on November 15, 2024 at Disneyland. The reimagined experience shall be one of many prime 3 hottest sights within the park–even in colder climate because it’s new and Disneyland diehards love all issues new–and assist take in crowds. No matter how anybody would possibly really feel in regards to the reimagining of Splash Mountain, that’s pretty simple. The experience was common earlier than and it’ll be much more common because of advertising and marketing and it being new. That all the time occurs, so it’s loopy to count on something totally different right here.
That’s actually the core of the apple. Tiana’s Bayou Journey is prone to be a crowd-pleasing attraction and one which’s common as a result of 1) something new is common for a interval, and a pair of) it includes a princess from a extra fashionable film than what it changed. Earlier than we even arrive at whether or not it finally ends up being a “higher” or “worse” experience, these elements alone will make it a must-do attraction for a lot of friends. It’ll probably rival Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and Radiator Springs Racers as the most well-liked sights in all of Disneyland Resort…no less than till an actual chilly entrance rolls into Southern California!
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