Disneyland reveals extra Tiana’s Bayou Journey particulars at D23 Expo – Orange County Register

A large bronze gold tiara atop a brand new water tower poking out of Splash Mountain’s hillside will boldly announce Tiana’s takeover of the basic Disneyland attraction when the Disney princess lastly strikes into New Orleans Sq..

Disneyland unveiled a scale mannequin of the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure makeover of Splash Mountain throughout the D23 Expo that kicked off Friday, Sept. 9 on the Anaheim Conference Heart.

Tiana’s Bayou Journey is scheduled to reopen in late 2024 on the Anaheim theme park.

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The tiara-topped water tower will likely be emblazoned with the brand for Tiana’s Meals. The neighborhood meals co-op was established in 1927, in accordance with the brand new backstory for the attraction.

The brand new Splash Mountain backstory finds the restaurateur-turned-princess opening Tiana’s Meals following the success of Tiana’s Palace restaurant within the 2009 “Princess and the Frog” animated movie.

In response to the backstory, the employee-owned meals cooperative is housed contained in the ageing salt mine inside the former Splash Mountain with growers planting crops alongside the waterway that flows across the famed mountain peak.

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Tiana’s Bayou Journey riders will ascend the raise hill by a mill home constructed into the aspect of the mountain powered by water troughs feeding a spinning water wheel.

Musical critters seen within the present scenes of the revamped log flume attraction will embrace an otter audio-animatronic enjoying a fiddle constituted of a tin can, tree bark and fishing line.

Magical lighting results triggered by the movie’s voodoo priestess Mama Odie will fill the hilltop cavern with glowing colours simply earlier than riders descend the log experience’s dramatic drop.

Tiana’s Splash Mountain land seize at Disneyland is anticipated to force the annexation of the Critter Nation attraction into neighboring New Orleans Sq..

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The primary aspect of Tiana’s takeover of Splash Mountain will open in a couple of weeks subsequent to the Blue Bayou restaurant — fixing the thriller of what’s been “cooking” in New Orleans Sq. for greater than a yr.

Eudora’s Stylish Boutique retail retailer will open at Disneyland in New Orleans Sq. on Sept. 20 with a portion of the brand new store devoted to Tiana’s Gourmand Secrets and techniques. The Tiana-themed retailer is called for the seamstress mom of the animated Disney princess.

A nook of Eudora’s Stylish Boutique will characteristic a interval present scene with a stitching machine, stitching model and aprons, in accordance with idea artwork for the brand new attraction.

Indicators within the window of the shuttered Le Bat en Rouge retail store proclaiming “One thing New is Cooking” led Mouse Watchers to speculate {that a} Tiana-themed eatery was coming to the New Orleans Sq. location. The brand new store is anticipated to promote clothes and cooking equipment.