Kermit gets company, with Disney's new musical frogs

April 10, 2024, 11:21 AM · As promised, Disney today revealed the final batch of musical critter characters for its upcoming Tiana's Bayou Adventure ride.

Set to open this summer at Walt Disney World and later this year at Disneyland, the retheme of the former Splash Mountain will transport riders to the world of "The Princess and the Frog," with an adventure set after the events of that Disney Animation film.

We earlier met several of the characters who will inhabit the ride, which is set within a salt dome at the Tiana's Foods cooperative.

Today, Disney revealed a crew of frogs who will bring their Afro-Cuban music to the ride. Kermit, you have some new company in the Disney character family!

Tiana's frog band
From left: Felipe, Mayra, Isabel and Mondo. Image courtesy Disney

With this latest news drop, Disney has got to be running out of stuff it can tell us about the new ride before finally giving us a specific opening date. But we will have to wait to see if that's true, I guess.

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Replies (3)

April 10, 2024 at 5:46 PM

“With this latest news drop, Disney has got to be running out of stuff it can tell us about the new ride”

Sounds like a misdirection! Do you know something we don’t know?

April 10, 2024 at 8:41 PM

I was there just this morning. The mountain looks great, though I wish the water tower was mounted on top to honor the original tree trunk atop Chick-a-pin Hill. You kind of lose the striking sIilhouette without it. Crowds at WDW were very, very light on Monday, Tuesday and this morning again. If you can believe it, yesterday the Standby line for Avatar: FoP was at 25 min at around 2:30 pm!

April 11, 2024 at 7:50 AM

@fattyackin Same with Universal Orlando. Wednesday, the majority of the rides were pretty much walk on. Hagrid's was pretty steady with a 45 min wait time. Occasionally the sign read, 60 min. When we jumped in line, the sign read 45 min but the line never stopped moving so we were on and off in less than thirty!!!

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