Disney is serving us lots of BIG news this weekend at its biggest fan event of the year — Destination D23 in Orlando!
We were hoping for an update on a NEW attraction coming to Disney World, and now we’ve got one to share! We check out the progress every day on the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ride coming to Magic Kingdom, and while we can see lots of updates to the outside, we just got more news about what the ride will be like INSIDE when it opens! Let’s check it out!
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will open in both Disneyland Park and Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom next year!
Disney had previously shared that the story of the attraction will take place about a year after the timeline of the Princess and the Frog movie, during New Orleans’ Carnival season, when Tiana is hosting a Mardi Gras Party for the people of New Orleans.
But Tiana realizes that the party is “missing a key ingredient” and she needs help finding it…
We know that we’ll see many of the characters we know and love from the film, as well as 17 NEW characters we’ll meet during the attraction’s story. We already know that these 10 characters will be making an appearance — many voiced by the same actors from the movie: Princess Tiana, Prince Naveen, Mama Odie, Louis, Eudora, Charlotte, “Big Daddy,” the King and Queen of Maldonia, and Prince Ralphie!
But now, we’re getting a FIRST LOOK at one of the animatronics from the ride! During the Disney Parks, Experiences and Products panel at Destination D23, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro shared a video that included a sneak peek of the Louis animatronic that will be added to Tiana’s Bayou Adventure!
While the video didn’t show him in his completed form yet, Louis, the famous alligator musician, is starting to take shape!
Disney shared a behind-the-scenes video, too!
@disneyparks Get a first look from Imagineers at a new audio-animatronics figure coming to Tiana’s Bayou Adventure 🐊🎷🎶 @Disney D23 #Disney #DisneyParks #TianasBayouAdventure #BTS #Tiana #Imagineering #DisneyNews #SneakPeek #DestinationD23
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is set to open in late 2024!
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