Odd song choice making it somehow tone deaf yet on point at the same time.
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Odd song choice making it somehow tone deaf yet on point at the same time.
JohnD
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Wait. Using a Monsters Inc. song? That hurts.
erasure fan1
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I can say this, I'm there now. We aren't going to any parks, just walking around the resorts, swimming and doing other stuff outside of Disney. I have a lanyard of muppet pins I've been collecting for years. So far, every cast member who has noticed it, have been bashing Disney hardcore for closing MV3D. It's very funny really. I expected it from the guests, but it's funny how open the cast members have been.
JohnD
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The retheme of RnRC may feel like a consolation prize but that means the Muppets are still around. Whenever HOP reopens, they could bring back the Muppet preshows.
But you're right that X posters are doom and gloomers.
easyrowrdw
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They’re not dead. But there’s little reason to believe that whatever Muppets thing Disney comes up with (roller coaster or something else) will be better than MuppetVision 3D. So I understand the doom and gloom
brb1006
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I think they're mourning the loss of the final Muppet project Jim Henson worked on prior to his death. Meaning it's "The End of The Muppets from the Jim Henson Era".
I'm assuming you truly don't understand how huge The Muppets was during Jim's lifetime. They were so popular that The Muppets gained not only a popular animated spinoff series in 1984, but various successful (and a few duds) theatrical movies. They were so prevalent in pop culture that they were giving Disney a run for their money. Which gave Henson the idea on selling The Muppets to Disney since he believed Disney would treat them either with the same love and respect as Disney Characters at the time.
Also this is coming from the same guy who constantly fears "Disney will go bankrupt" someday over occasional box office disappointments and negative feedback from the public.
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Think of how the Carosuel of Progress getting demolished would feel to many Disney fans.
That is what this was to a lot of Jim Henson/Muppet fans.
Which is funny, I would be ok now with the 94 partying because ultimately it is not the one Walt worked on and it being there still as it is without updated is ironically the opposite of honoring it.
That is what this was to a lot of Jim Henson/Muppet fans.
Which is funny, I would be ok now with the 94 partying because ultimately it is not the one Walt worked on and it being there still as it is without updated is ironically the opposite of honoring it.
WorldExplorer
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I'm fully convinced it's only a matter of time before we get the announcement that one's leaving.
It's not generating lightning lanes, not an IP, and they clearly don't care about honoring great people's legacy. John is doomed.
And as a full animatonronic show that no one is going to really sit through, I agree.
Sadly, it would be the perfect attraction to truly update inside and out, reinvent while keeping the legacy for the concept. But, it does not do any of the engagements you say.
TheMaxRebo
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I am a big fan of CoP, a must do for us every trip and whole family can quote it, etc
But know it is not long for it's theme park life - heck, surprised it has lasted as long as it has
I would love to see it moved to somewhere that is more of a museum and appreciated for its historical context. Would love that for a lot of the originals (Tiki Room, etc) and would also love that for Muppet*Vision due to its historical context
Centauri Space Station
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Ask the DL guests of the 70s
Josh thinks about it daily, right after his daily affordability thought. I’m sure things will move forward soon. Very soon. They wouldn’t say something just to placate fans… right?
The Leader of the Club
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No, they only retheme roller coasters for that.They wouldn’t say something just to placate fans… right?
SageOfTime
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I think that since CoP can maintain that it's the only attraction in Walt Disney World that was personally worked on by Walt Disney, it's safe, for the time being at least. The company isn't that flippant about their history.
Yeah...andit was only 17 years old then. It is clearly harder for some reason for it to leave now, and has less to do with keeping up then ever.
But annoyingly flippant enough to not care for it to update it from over 30 years ago.
SageOfTime
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True. I think in my ideal scenario, they'd just restore the original ending and leave it as a museum piece. I have a lot of fondness for the future of the 1990s, but it's just an awkward jump now from the 40s to the 2000s.
New Years eve somehow felt poetically fitting
Raised on the "original" WDW version though. My family knew Now is the time long before we know Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. That is what most of Floridians who went knew.
SageOfTime
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The first time I visited MK with my mom (circa 2015), and we went on CoP, the first thing she said afterwards was "They changed the song!". I quite like that song and version of the attraction! But I digress, this is the MV3D thread.