News Disney Confirms Muppets Take Over Rock 'n' Roller Coaster at Hollywood Studios

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

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Magenta Panther said:
Welp, it should have been a total eviction. Once again, Iger and his "Imagineers" fail to read the room. Flop after flop after flop from the puppets, yet apparently the dorks at Disney feared the online retaliation in the event of the puppet theater closure (which said retaliation would NOT represent the feelings of the general public, which has failed to show up at movie theaters or watch the shows starring the puppets...hence, flop after flop after flop) and so is trying to please everybody(?) With the usual results.

But what's funny about this, is that the puppet fans are screaming about this new development anyway. They want a hokey, dated attraction to remain in WDW forever. Disney can't win with those guys, so the sensible thing would be to make a clean break and render WDW puppet-free, just like all of the other Disney parks around the world. Most people, including kids, wouldn't care. But instead, with this move, Disney is generating more resentment. Not even its promise that it's going to preserve some of the stuff from the theater and place it - where? in its own mausoleum near the Haunted Mansion? Say! Maybe there'll be a Kermit the Frog headstone near Mr. Toad! Synergy! - is enough. This is a really lame choice and really bad PR move. And I fail to see how it's going to help park attendance or make WDW worth all the ridiculous price hikes. Fail, Iger. You've failed again. All hail Epic Universe!
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Is this account run by Tex Richman?
 
Wendy Pleakley

Wendy Pleakley

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I'm a Muppets fan and appreciate the importance of Jim Henson's final work, but I really feel it's far past the time for Muppet Vision to be retired.

The focus on 3D as a "new" technology is beyond dated and isn't up to modern standards.

The movie is still good overall, but why is a theme park showing a movie that is over 30 years old?

I would have preferred an update. How hard or expensive would it have been to make a new film. They could even do a Star Tours method of random scenes since the Muppet Show was always a series of standalone segments.

Make it more like Phillharmagic. I don't need a story in my theme park shows. A series of standalone scenes is more fun and repeatable in my opinion.

Put Muppet Vision on Disney+. It will obviously suffer from a lack of 3D and non-film components like Statler and Waldorf, but the essence of it will be preserved.
 
Andrew C

Andrew C

You know what's funny?
Wendy Pleakley said:
why is a theme park showing a movie that is over 30 years old?
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Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to maintain Muppetvision 3D and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
 
CosmicDuck

CosmicDuck

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A few thoughts:

  • Beyond devastated at the removal of Muppet-Vision. I appreciate the lip service to preserving it, but anything short of fully relocating the entire thing start to finish is pointless and defeats the purpose of what it is. I would love to believe that's on the table, but I live in the real world.

  • I understand the space constraints at DHS with the roads and the desire to save launch bay for a much larger expansion, but then why not greenlight that FIRST. This is entirely backwards, and is a direct result of the company's inability to act on building out capacity when they had none in the pipeline post SWGE, so they are scrambling to rush out Monsters as a stop gap. And only god knows what is in store for us by the time we ever get to a point where they can fill the launch bay spot. It's such tremendously poor planning.

  • It's very clear someone important, or someones, understands how important the Muppets are to people because its frankly insane they committed to re-theming RNR to it. It's such an outside bizarre idea that makes almost zero sense that I appreciate someone internally is really trying. It's not a replacement for the MV3D news and I'm excited to see whatever this ends up being, but it's unfair not to at least recognize how hard someone must be fighting for the muppets because this makes no sense other than that.

  • Are they going to have to tear down that coke stand they JUST BUILT in front of muppet courtyard, that already took them like over a year?

  • Whatever goes in MV3D better not just be laugh floor. It has to be something that at least lives up to what an incredible multi-media experience MV3D is, and not a cheap stage show.
 
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Lilofan

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Andrew C said:
Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to maintain Muppetvision 3D and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
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No one ever thought Appalachian State would beat Michigan at the Big House.
 
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Eric Graham

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Wait wait, is this ride going to be as fast as the rock n roller coaster because in my opinion since I have many nieces and nephews that it should be geared more towards children bc of the subject of the ride?
 

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