Crews have removed all the scaffolding from the mountainous salt mine façade of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Salt Mine
At one point, scaffolding covered nearly all of the attraction’s façade. More recently, it remained around the mill on the left and on ridges on the sides of the mountain.
There’s no scaffolding to be seen now. However, we did see two crew members working right in front of the mill. The front of the building is decorated with a banner that was installed in early April and then temporarily removed.
The banner is purple with gold and green borders. With the scaffolding gone, we can actually read the banner now. It says:
Tonight Only
A Celebration of Family and Friends of New Orleans
At the proud home of Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen
Everyone is Welcome!
The base of the mountain is surrounded by real and fake foliage.
It seems crews are done installing flowers and plants on the mountain. When the ride was Splash Mountain, it was mostly reddish-brown rock. Now the rockwork is barely visible and the mountain is mostly green.
Flowers dot the top of the mountain. In the story of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, it’s an old salt mine. Tiana’s Foods now operates out of the mine.
Frontierland Train Station
More lampposts have been installed in the flowerbeds outside the Frontierland train station. These are wooden posts with black wrought iron lamps on top.
The lamps have decorative circles in their supports.
Work is done on refurbishing the train station’s stairs. But this area under the stairs remains blocked off as it holds other construction materials. There are several long planks of wood.
This staging area in front of the station was previously full of lampposts. They’re now gone as they have been moved into the ride’s queue.
Cords run across this dirt space that is clear of plants. Part of the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure rockwork that runs up to the station has been torn open.
There are two small square holes and one large hole.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Queue
In the queue, there are both wooden lampposts and blue metal lampposts. Unlike the posts in front of the station, these wooden lampposts feature floral carvings.
Behind construction walls, crew members on ladders were working on hanging a tension wire between two wooden posts. This is right next to the restrooms, which are open.
The posts they’re working on feature the same flower carvings as the ones with lamps, but don’t have the rounded tops. There are small metal hooks near the tops.
There were a couple of metal elements on the wire that the crew members were hanging.
Further in the queue, another crew member was on scaffolding around a larger post.
This post has a metal piece with several hooks encircling it.
The scaffolding sits in a garden full of large planter boxes. These feature fake plants like carrots and onions. There’s a green kiosk in the garden, too.
One wooden lamppost has a stripe of blue paint on it. Signs point to a farmers market (maybe the garden above) and a break room.
In the back left corner of the queue, we noticed display cases or windows on the walls of Tiana’s Bayou General.
It’s hard to make out what is in these windows, but they may display hot sauces. There’s a sign for hot sauces nearby.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will open this summer at Magic Kingdom.
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