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

[Coaster Lover]

I just don’t know what property would be big enough to be a counter attack to epic, sans something like marvel or some other tentpole IP. and I don’t think we’re getting wakanda right now.

Muppets? Connect it around to Rockin' Rollercoaster? Big new Muppets dark ride + a clone of Flight Lab at DCA... just Muppets Lab themed with Beaker and Honeydew?

Kermit's 70th Birthday is at the start of May... could tie it to that somehow?

 

[Streetway Again]

Muppets? Connect it around to Rockin' Rollercoaster? Big new Muppets dark ride + a clone of Flight Lab at DCA... just Muppets Lab themed with Beaker and Honeydew?

Kermit's 70th Birthday is at the start of May... could tie it to that somehow?

I love the muppets, but i sincerely doubt they are being used as the big counter announcement to EPIC UNIVERSE

 

[Agent H]

For what it’s worth my boss at work knows someone high up in the company and told me something big is coming. Really big.

 

[rd805]

For what it’s worth my boss at work knows someone high up in the company and told something big is coming. Really big.

2029, 2030, 2031 -- It's all awesome news & beautiful photos, but until they actually do something in a timely manner, i'm always going to be cynical.

 

[Coaster Lover]

Well, whatever they are adding needs to also be justification for NOT putting Monsters back there (and instead removing Muppets for Monsters), so yeah... needs to be big to counter EU AND to justify to fans that it was worth losing Muppets...

 

[Streetway Again]

if this is true, and we are getting AC announcements this year in addition to what’s happening already …..

What the hell do they have planned for the second half of the ten years?

I dunno man. This is kinda sus. Even if Len is trustworthy.

 

[mattpeto]

Feel like this a bunch of hysteria here.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I have several questions. Mainly, why not save this for a d23, if it IS a showstopper?

And that's at the end of August..

 

[Coaster Lover]

Mainly, why not save this for a d23, if it IS a showstopper?

Wasn't the Avatar announcement for DAK not at D23?

 

[Stripes]

I'll go out on a limb here and say the week of May 22, 2025 - when Epic U opens officially.

I've only heard vague concepts as of now.

@wdwmagic Seemed to imply that an IP had already been selected. Have you heard the same?

 

[mickEblu]

They re building the Rivers Of America at DHS! You heard it here first.

 

[Andrew25]

What the hell do they have planned for the second half of the ten years?

I dunno man. This is kinda sus. Even if Len is trustworthy.

While I am surprised to hear anything AC related this year, there's still a lot of things left to announce for the back half of this spending.

To name a few:

• Tomorrowland redo at both WDW & DL
• DCL Replacements for Magic/Wonder
• Figment
• Mission Space/WoL replacements
• Coco boat ride for WDW after DCA gets a year or two of exclusivity (maybe this is AC project, who knows)
• Additional DAK project (Lion King ride?) -> park still needs more capacity after Tropical Americas
• Moana Ride

 

[Coaster Lover]

@wdwmagic or @The Mom , time to move this discussion to it's own thread? While it's exciting, it's taken over the Rock 'n' Roller discussion... unless the two are somehow related...

 

[larryz]

"Miscellaneous Bodily Functions Land" would definitely stop the show!

Possible attractions include:
"Urine the Queue"
"Here's Looking at YOU, Kid-ney"
"Boweling For Dollars"
"The Earth In Continents"
"What's Alive-a?"
"Moments In Digestion"

Restaurants and Quick Service locations might be called:
The Spit and Drool Pub
The Flaming Sphincter Mexican Restaurant
Disney's Smoke Pit barbeque

 

[larryz]

They re building the Rivers Of America at DHS! You heard it here first.

I'll only applaud this if they add it to Kali River Rapids.

 

[LSLS]

if this is true, and we are getting AC announcements this year in addition to what’s happening already …..

What the hell do they have planned for the second half of the ten years?

I dunno man. This is kinda sus. Even if Len is trustworthy.

I mean, don't forget we are already almost 2 years removed from that announcement. If you get say DAK sometime in 2027, maybe Monsters at the end of 2026, Cars closer to 2028 ,and Villains in 2029, and something like this for 2030, there's 7 + years. Also, don't forget just announcing doesn't mean it's beginning now. The point isn't that they are ready to build now, it's that they are trying to take the press away for at least a short time.

 

[WorldExplorer]

They re building the Rivers Of America at DHS! You heard it here first.

I would find this easier to believe than the common suggestion that they're ripping out the Muppets mini land solely to build a new one across the park.

 

[The Leader of the Club]

I definitely think it would be weird to drop ANOTHER new project this soon after D23. I’d be all for it, as someone who loves speculating about the parks, but I can’t imagine them committing to something like that THIS far in advance.
I think it’ll be an expo in 2026 or 2028.

 

[MisterPenguin]

For what it’s worth my boss at work knows someone high up in the company and told me something big is coming. Really big.

So, a hat!!

 

[mickEblu]

I would find this easier to believe than the common suggestion that they're ripping out the Muppets mini land solely to build a new one across the park.

I agree. Can’t think of anything BIG for DHS other than a Marvel Land (which is unlikely) or maybe another Star Wars land? Indy is going to AK. Don’t see Avatar going there. Villains is going to MK. I’m assuming we’d know if Disney got the east of the Mississippi Marvel theme park rights from Universal. Yeah so I don’t see what could be BIG other than another Star Wars Land. Zootopia? It’s basically a version of Toontown with a meh looking trackless ride. Lion King? Can Disney do Wakanda at WDW?

EDIT: Then again if they were going to do another Star Wars Land wouldn’t they have put it where Monstropolis is going?