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{{Infobox attraction
| name = Tiana's Bayou Adventure
| park = [[Magic Kingdom]]
| land = Frontierland
| type = Log flume
| opened = June 28, 2024
| designer = Walt Disney Imagineering
| height = 40 in (102 cm)
| status = Operating
}}

'''Tiana's Bayou Adventure''' is a log flume attraction in Frontierland at [[Magic Kingdom]] in the [[Walt Disney World Resort]], Florida. Based on the 2009 animated film ''The Princess and the Frog'', it opened on June 28, 2024, reusing the ride system, mountain and flume course of [[Splash Mountain]], which it replaced. A second version opened at [[Disneyland Park]] in California on November 15, 2024. Riders travel in hollowed-out logs through scenes set in a Louisiana bayou, culminating in a drop of about 52.5 feet (16 metres).

== History ==
Disney announced on June 25, 2020, that the American versions of Splash Mountain would be rethemed around ''The Princess and the Frog''. The decision followed years of discussion about Splash Mountain's source film, ''Song of the South'' (1946), and gave the company an existing large-scale ride system in which to place Tiana, who had not previously anchored a major attraction.

The Magic Kingdom version of Splash Mountain carried its last riders on January 22, 2023. Work that followed kept the essential engineering — the lifts, the flume channel and the main drop — while the interior scenes, figures, music and exterior planting were replaced. Where Splash Mountain's mountain had been dressed as a Georgia briar patch, the new exterior was softened with bayou planting, a water tower bearing the name of the fictional Tiana's Foods business, and a mural at the entrance.

The Disneyland version closed later, in May 2023, and opened in November 2024 in the land formerly called Critter Country, renamed Bayou Country in connection with the change.

== Story ==
The attraction is set after the events of the film. Tiana and her husband, Prince Naveen, have opened their restaurant, and Tiana has also established Tiana's Foods, an employee-owned food company based in a former salt mine. Preparing for a Mardi Gras celebration, Tiana realises that a key ingredient is missing — a band. She invites riders to travel through the bayou to recruit musicians for the party.

Along the route, riders encounter familiar characters including Louis, the trumpet-playing alligator, and a group of newly created bayou animals who play instruments made from materials found in their habitat. Later in the ride the logs pass Mama Odie, the blind priestess from the film, before climbing the final lift.

== Experience ==
After boarding an eight-passenger log, riders pass through an outdoor section evoking the bayou, with firefly lighting and planting intended to suggest Louisiana wetlands. Interior scenes combine Audio-Animatronic figures — more than a hundred were created across the attraction's scenes, including new figures of Tiana, Louis and Mama Odie — with projected effects and a soundtrack drawing on New Orleans jazz, zydeco and gospel styles.

The ride retains several smaller drops from its predecessor before the final lift. At the top, the log descends the main drop at roughly 45 degrees, reaching speeds reported at about 40 mph (64 km/h), and splashes into a pool at the base of the mountain. A final interior scene follows the drop, rather than preceding the unload area directly: the Mardi Gras celebration, in which the recruited musicians perform together. The closing number, "Special Spice", was written for the attraction by New Orleans musician PJ Morton, who also contributed arrangements of music from the film.

As with Splash Mountain, riders may get wet, most noticeably in the front rows and after the main drop.

== See also ==
* [[Splash Mountain]]
* [[Magic Kingdom]]
* [[Frontierland]]

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[[Category:2024 establishments in Florida]]