Tiana's Bayou Adventure Breaks 87 Years of a Weird Disney Princess Canon

Over the past fewer days Disney fans who person managed to ride Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World person been among the archetypal to acquisition the continuation of Tiana’s fairytale aft the events 2009's The Princess and the Frog. The thrust itself serves arsenic a sequel successful attraction form, wherever guests travel Tiana and friends arsenic they enactment unneurotic a set for their Mardi Gras celebration. But determination are truthful galore much details revealed adjacent earlier you committee the flume h2o thrust for fans of the beloved Disney film.

One of the biggest authoritative reveals is that dissimilar the Disney Princesses that came earlier her—even arsenic acold backmost arsenic Snow White—New Orleans’ precise ain princess has a existent past name. In the queue for Walt Disney World’s attraction, fans person noticed that Tiana is referred to arsenic Tiana Rogers, girl of Sargent James Rogers, successful paper clippings and cooking awards for Tiana’s Palace and Tiana’s Foods (her culinary co-op). And this was intentional, Disney Imagineer Ted Robledo shared: “There’s truthful overmuch of her communicative that was touched upon successful the film, the narration with her father, a World War I veteran; her narration with her mother, [who] we similar to accidental was the entrepreneurial inspiration for her to beryllium the palmy businesswoman that Tiana is contiguous successful our story.”

See beneath for the in-universe confirmation of Tiana Rogers’ past name.

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The fairytale fandom has been precise tricky erstwhile it comes to the Disney Princess lineup and their authoritative titles. Technically Rapunzel could person taken Eugene Fitzherbert’s name—but it’s ne'er canonized successful Disney content, overmuch similar the different joined princesses including Snow White oregon Cinderella (can the existent Mrs. Charming delight basal up?). Even successful the lawsuit of The Princess and the Frog, Tiana did wed Prince Naveen of Maldonia, which would marque her Tiana Rogers, Princess of Maldonia, since she intelligibly kept her father’s sanction to grant him with her palmy nutrient institution successful New Orleans.

“Tiana’s communicative is going to beryllium furthered successful a caller bid that was announced,” Robledo continued, confirming that Disney Imagineers worked intimately with Disney animation to support wrong canon connected Tiana’s Bayou Adventure as the workplace prepares for her Disney Plus bid Tiana, which volition excavation a small deeper with what’s adjacent for the princess and her family. The bid volition absorption connected things like, “Her narration with her husband, who is from different state of apt of mixed race. It’s a clip of Indigenous radical and colonization. I deliberation that team, from what small we heard, is going to research that route. But I volition accidental this astir Naveen: we knew aboriginal on, and adjacent if Naveen plays a tiny relation oregon large relation successful this story, helium has a role—they’re a joined couple, they attraction astir each other. So to grant that, we privation to marque definite he’s included determination successful a existent way. And actually, it’s rather humorous, arsenic this small show of our story.” We can’t hold to spot Tiana and Naveen instrumentality with much adventures down successful New Orleans with Disney+ series Tiana, but for present going connected bayou log vessel rides volition bash astatine Disney Parks.

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is present unfastened astatine Walt Disney World successful Orlando, FL and is acceptable to unfastened soon astatine Disneyland successful Anaheim, CA.

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