Muppets Mini-Land / Muppets Courtyard Additions & Refurbishments

[NiarrNDisney]

We need a Muppets ride just so we can get the Electric Mayhem animatronics! Oh and an Animal meet and greet!

Or a small show inside a restaurant much like Sonny Eclipse!

 

[JSchnitz]

It really is. The upstairs banquet room is much more fun and in line with what I was expecting. Did you go upstairs?

I have a bigger issue with the awful menu they still have.

No when we were there last in February it was chained off.

 

[Kman101]

No when we were there last in February it was chained off.

Ah, that's too bad. It's fun up there. You'll like it far more than the bland almost utilitarian downstairs. I think the first floor is almost about as bad as Cosmic Ray's.

 

[Kman101]

Or a small show inside a restaurant much like Sonny Eclipse!

Yes! I was hoping we'd see the Electric Mayhem Band

 

[JSchnitz]

We'll be back in 2 weeks so I'll definitely check it out! Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Kman101]

We'll be back in 2 weeks so I'll definitely check it out! Thanks for the heads up!

I hope it doesn't disappoint LOL. I'm not trying to oversell the upstairs, but it's a big difference and more in line with what I was expecting to see downstairs.

 

[JSchnitz]

Anything is better than what they did downstairs!

 

[WDWbuff2001]

I'll be there this coming Wednesday that's when my disney trip starts

 

[cheezbat]

I visited PizzaRizzo a few days back. The ballroom is probably the most fun thing in the whole place...but still missing that true Muppet vibe. The food is the same garbage they served at Pizza Planet. I expected more out of this.

 

[TheGhostWithTheMost]

PizzaRizoo is Botched, Cheap, Budgeted Within An Inch of It's Life, and Pointless! The Walt Disney World Building Four Keys!

 

[roj2323]

PizzaRizoo is Botched, Cheap, Budgeted Within An Inch of It's Life, and Pointless! The Walt Disney World Building Four Keys!

I really have to agree that while it is clean and nice looking, it really does nothing to tie itself to the muppets theme in any notable way.

With a few sign changes it would easily be confused for a Giordano's pizza

Pizza Rizzo:

The funny thing is it wouldn't take much to fix it either. Add some muppets (preferably animatronic), make it appear dirtier at least on the walls and ceiling. Add some wonky plumbing in the ceiling wrapped in bandaids, Have someone walking around in a chef costume to take pictures with, Have rizzo talk on an intercom once in a while. It doesn't have to be elaborate or costly (animatronics excluded) but really they have to add something to make this a destination.

This is fan created but the idea would be largely the same with a short (Mickey height) actor.

 

[danlb_2000]

I really have to agree that while it is clean and nice looking, it really does nothing to tie itself to the muppets theme in any notable way.

With a few sign changes it would easily be confused for a Giordano's pizza

Pizza Rizzo:

The funny thing is it wouldn't take much to fix it either. Add some muppets (preferably animatronic), make it appear dirtier at least on the walls and ceiling. Add some wonky plumbing in the ceiling wrapped in bandaids, Have someone walking around in a chef costume to take pictures with, Have rizzo talk on an intercom once in a while. It doesn't have to be elaborate or costly (animatronics excluded) but really they have to add something to make this a destination.

This is fan created but the idea would be largely the same with a short (Mickey height) actor.

I have to wonder if this was intentional, so that it would be easy to remove the Muppets theme later.

 

[FoozieBear]

I have to wonder if this was intentional, so that it would be easy to remove the Muppets theme later.

This is what I'm very concerned about. Let's hope we don't need to cross that bridge.

 

[PizzaPlanet]

I was at Muppet Vision yesterday, and can confirm that Constantine is finally gone from the preshow. It also appeared that they switched to HD monitors, so the preshow has never looked better. The theater was jam packed with people, all laughing and enjoying the show. I'm so glad that this atttraction is surviving the DHS makeover!

 

[Princess Leia]

I was at Muppet Vision yesterday, and can confirm that Constantine is finally gone from the preshow. It also appeared that they switched to HD monitors, so the preshow has never looked better. The theater was jam packed with people, all laughing and enjoying the show. I'm so glad that this atttraction is surviving the DHS makeover!

 

[Fox&Hound]

I have to wonder if this was intentional, so that it would be easy to remove the Muppets theme later.

That is 100% my fear. But, would it be that costly to add some art work in the meantime?

 

[DHSCM]

I really have to agree that while it is clean and nice looking, it really does nothing to tie itself to the muppets theme in any notable way.

With a few sign changes it would easily be confused for a Giordano's pizza

Pizza Rizzo:

The funny thing is it wouldn't take much to fix it either. Add some muppets (preferably animatronic), make it appear dirtier at least on the walls and ceiling. Add some wonky plumbing in the ceiling wrapped in bandaids, Have someone walking around in a chef costume to take pictures with, Have rizzo talk on an intercom once in a while. It doesn't have to be elaborate or costly (animatronics excluded) but really they have to add something to make this a destination.

This is fan created but the idea would be largely the same with a short (Mickey height) actor.

dont you dare compare this run down cheap disney food to the amazingness that is giordano's

 

[Goofyernmost]

No tie in... isn't Rizzo kind of a clue? How about sitting in the Muppet Courtyard? Does it need to have Kermit busing tables?

 

[roj2323]

dont you dare compare this run down cheap disney food to the amazingness that is giordano's

It was a visual comparison only I assure you. I grew up in the Chicago area and Giordano's is a slice of home.

 

[DHSCM]

It was a visual comparison only I assure you. I grew up in the Chicago area and Giordano's is a slice of home.

thats why I took such defense because I also grew up in chicago haha classic