Rumor Muppets to Take Over The Hall of Presidents

[UNCgolf]

The kids who KNOW about the muppets love them. There will be like 7 kids out of about 150 who actually know anything about them. But those 7 kids are hardcore fans. I have a little kid in our camps named CJ who has a collection of puppets at home and his favorite attraction is Muppet Vision.

Just because kids aren't exposed to something doesn't mean that thing doesn't appeal to them. It just means the advertising team isn't doing a great job, or parents just aren't introducing their kids to Muppets.

Didn't they bring back Muppet Babies recently?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Didn't they bring back Muppet Babies recently?

Yes, but I'm guessing preschoolers probably don't entirely understand the concept of the presidency.

 

[Parker in NYC]

Didn't they bring back Muppet Babies recently?

Yes. Never before has "when your world looks kinda weird and you wish that you weren't there" had such resonance.

 

[UNCgolf]

Yes, but I'm guessing preschoolers probably don't entirely understand the concept of the presidency.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting that as a reason to put them into the Hall of Presidents (it isn't). It was solely in response to his remark about kids knowing the Muppets.

 

[zakattack99]

Do the Muppets appeal to kids in 2021?

They have been working on reintroducing with the Muppet Babies on Disney Jr. so maybe

 

[MisterPenguin]

The Tweet about The Muppet Show and the rumor about Muppets in HoP *could* be related in that Disney's making a concerted effort to push The Muppets as a profitable IP. One doesn't cause or get confused with the other. But both could be correlated with advancing Muppet presence in the parks and on the streamer. This could be just the pesky human tendency to assume causalities between two events that don't exist forgetting some other "thing" is the cause of both events.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Do the Muppets appeal to kids in 2021?

In states that have legalized it, it could be a college level craze (as it once was decades ago) now that they can stream it.

 

[_caleb]

The kids who KNOW about the muppets love them. There will be like 7 kids out of about 150 who actually know anything about them. But those 7 kids are hardcore fans. I have a little kid in our camps named CJ who has a collection of puppets at home and his favorite attraction is Muppet Vision.

Just because kids aren't exposed to something doesn't mean that thing doesn't appeal to them. It just means the advertising team isn't doing a great job, or parents just aren't introducing their kids to Muppets.

The Muppet show was always intended for an adult audience. Sesame Street and The Muppet Babies cartoon were obviously geared towards children, and then they obviously began to focus on a wider audience (Muppets Take Manhattan).

The more recent reboots seemed to be Disney searching for an audience for the Muppets. Nostalgia for the parents, classic Muppet humor for adults, but family-friendly content. It seems like Disney keeps trying to do something with the property to keep it relevant and expand its appeal, but I’m not sure it has a lot of cashet with young people today (not saying it can’t).

Taking an IP they want to inject new life into and attaching it to a show they want to inject new life into seems like an odd move.

 

[wdwmagic]

The next 12 months at HoP?

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

The next 12 months at HoP?

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“Sir... the Biden AA is still being imagineered, it will be at least 6 months before the next showing”

“I’ll wait”

 

[ToTBellHop]

The next 12 months at HoP?

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You win.

 

[Magicart87]

Uncle Deadly better makes an appearance!

 

[Rteetz]

A bit like Splash Mountain.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Or rather if it doesn’t need changing then don’t.

Apples and oranges Martin. I get you don’t want that to change but there is reason for it.

 

[marni1971]

Apples and oranges Martin. I get you don’t want that to change but there is reason for it.

We both know I don’t agree with the reasoning.

(which doesn’t make me racist or similar of course. I work with many ethnicities and persuasions and treat them all the same as I would anyone else)

 

[dmw]

Maybe the Muppets are just Biden their time before confirming the change at HOP?

#dadjoke - almost as corny as Muppet jokes

 

[WDW Pro]

Apples and oranges Martin. I get you don’t want that to change but there is reason for it.

Removing the only thing in the Disney theme parks that features actual, historical African American folklore seems like a bad idea.

 

[Crazydisneyfanluke]

What if The Muppets coming to Disney+ is a way to prospect interest in The Muppets? If it becomes popular on Disney+, that might be an incentive to bring something else to the parks.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Maybe the Muppets are just Biden their time before confirming the change at HOP?

#dadjoke - almost as corny as Muppet jokes

 

[ToTBellHop]

Removing the only thing in the Disney theme parks that features actual, historical African American folklore seems like a bad idea.

I still wish they‘d just remake Song of the South and remove the icky parts. Thank goodness they are doing that to Peter Pan instead of just canceling him.

 

[Fox&Hound]

Spoilers!

For a book written in 1925????