Riders on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will drop into a Mardi Gras party with Louis the alligator conducting a jazz band of audio-animatronic bayou critters when the transformation of the former Splash Mountain ride is complete later this year at Disneyland. Walt Disney Imagineering offered a never-before-seen look at the on-ride experience inside Tiana’s Bayou Adventure during the latest episode of “We Call It Imagineering” on YouTube. opens on June 28 at Florida’s Magic Kingdom and in late 2024 at Disneyland in the former Splash Mountain attractions at both parks.
The latest episode of “We Call It Imagineering” focuses on the new attractions’s musical score by Grammy-winning musician PJ Morton who joined a group of Imagineers for a ride on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. ( ) Morton’s new song “Special Spice” with vocals by Princess Tiana voice actress Anika Noni Rose is prominently featured in the new attraction. The twin Tiana’s Bayou Adventure rides will tell an extension of the “Princess and the Frog” story that picks up after the final kiss between Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen.
The new backstory for Splash Mountain will follow Tiana and Louis the trumpet-playing alligator as they prepare for their first Mardi Gras performance. The ride’s backstory finds Tiana in need of a band for her bayou party and in search of a missing ingredient as she prepares to host a one-of-a-kind Mardi Gras celebration. As you might expect, that missing ingredient is yo.