As any person who will get to cowl the theme park business professionally, I really like to go to any park I can as typically as potential. Any day I’m not in a theme park, I’m wishing I have been. That is a part of why I used to be fairly excited for at the moment, Disneyland’s seventieth anniversary, as a result of at the moment, greater than a dozen “POV” movies of varied Disneyland sights and areas are actually out there to expertise with a Disney+ subscription. Now, if I can’t be on the experience, I can really feel like I’m, listening to the music and seeing every little thing the attraction has to supply.
In order that’s what I did very first thing once I awakened this morning. Total, the brand new POV experiences are stable, however once I was “using” Tiana’s Bayou Journey, I had an expertise that felt a bit of too actual as a result of the attraction wasn’t absolutely practical.
Tiana’s Bayou Journey Audio-Animatronics Are Not Absolutely Useful On Disney+
It’s not unusual when occurring any theme park experience for it to not be absolutely practical. Issues break down, and so generally animatronic figures are damaged, or different results might not be working. Nevertheless, I wasn’t anticipating that to be the case for a POV out there to stream straight on Disney+. And but, that’s precisely what I discovered.
Umm… so that is awkward. The final Tiana animatronic is not absolutely practical on the Tiana’s Bayou Journey experience by means of on Disney+. pic.twitter.com/ZYvYL6RMc0July 17, 2025
The audio-animatronic of Tiana through the finale social gathering sequence is standing inventory nonetheless. Her eyes and mouth look like shifting, however her arms and physique needs to be shifting round as effectively, they usually’re not. The POV digital camera is clearly working to keep away from drawing consideration to this.
The audio animatronics on Tiana’s Bayou Journey, at each Disneyland and Walt Disney World, have already constructed up a repute as unreliable. It’s removed from unusual to be on the experience and have one in all them not working. It’s only a bit wild that this POV was put up if that was the case.
One other Disney Parks POV Received Fastened Earlier than The Journey-By means of Went Dwell
Final month, for Could the Fourth, the primary Disney Parks POV options have been added to Disney+, and that included a full ride-through of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. One of many options of that experience that had been damaged for a very long time, giant cannons that transfer in entrance of the experience car, had been repaired shortly earlier than the experience went on the streaming service. It’s unlikely this was a coincidence.
And but, the identical care wasn’t given to Tiana. It’s a bit disappointing, to say the least. Tiana is a superb experience, even when it’s not working completely, nevertheless it’s clearly greatest when every little thing is functioning as supposed.
Contemplating I simply bought again from seeing Disneyland’s new Walt Disney audio-animatronic, essentially the most superior and spectacular creation of its kind, I do know simply how unbelievable these figures might be. Regardless of the purpose that fixing this could not be performed earlier than, I actually hope that this will get changed down the street with a brand new model with a functioning Tiana, even when that may not be the case the subsequent time I’m going on the experience.