Muppetvision- Retire or relocate?

ctrlaltdel

ctrlaltdel

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BuddyThomas said:
Okay. I can tell you with 100% assurance that it is not being retired. The people on here suggesting a revamp are on the right track. Wish I could say more but since I'm posting under my real name, I cannot. But I do have accurate first hand knowledge about this and retirement is not happening.
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Thanks for the info! I know you can't say much more, but is a move happening, or is it staying in the same spot?
 
Baloo62

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For the record, I love Muppetvision 3D. I'd hate to see it go. But please update the film. For me the Waldo character has become almost unwatchable over the past 25 years. During my last five visits to MV, Waldo's screen time garnered nothing but total silence from the audience (aside from ripping off Piggy's Statue of Liberty gown). The Muppets are perfectly capable of carrying a short film without his involvement. Leave the Muppet theater, give them Pizza Planet, but put Waldo out of his misery.
 
mouse_luv

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Baloo62 said:
For the record, I love Muppetvision 3D. I'd hate to see it go. But please update the film. For me the Waldo character has become almost unwatchable over the past 25 years. During my last five visits to MV, Waldo's screen time garnered nothing but total silence from the audience (aside from ripping off Piggy's Statue of Liberty gown). The Muppets are perfectly capable of carrying a short film without his involvement. Leave the Muppet theater, give them Pizza Planet, but put Waldo out of his misery.
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I never liked Waldo, he gets on my nerves but I tolerate him because I love the Muppets and some of the one liners in the attraction are classic to me! But I agree, isn't the film actually 4D now? And if so wouldn't having 'Waldo the Spirit of 3D' or whatever his title is kind of irrelevant at this point? LOL
 
Phil12

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Baloo62 said:
For the record, I love Muppetvision 3D. I'd hate to see it go. But please update the film. For me the Waldo character has become almost unwatchable over the past 25 years. During my last five visits to MV, Waldo's screen time garnered nothing but total silence from the audience (aside from ripping off Piggy's Statue of Liberty gown). The Muppets are perfectly capable of carrying a short film without his involvement. Leave the Muppet theater, give them Pizza Planet, but put Waldo out of his misery.
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Waldo is more than just a character:
 
WondersOfLife

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Phil12 said:
Waldo is more than just a character:
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Thanks for that share! That was awesome!!

I'm hoping they don't replace the rabbit with Walter.. Why do I see that happening? I personally believe that they should just upgrade the film quality and the animatronics. This film is historical as it is Jim Henson's last muppet film he personally worked on. Which is like almost as important as the first muppet movie itself, historically.
 
Bairstow

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Phil12 said:
Waldo is more than just a character:
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You know, for all the ballyhoo that Jim Henson's Creature Shop put into real-time computer character animation, I don't recall their ever actually finding any buyers or applications for the technology. Even though the principal and capability was over a decade old at the time, can anyone recall seeing it implemented before Disney launched the Living Character Initiative stuff like TurtleTalk and Laugh Floor?

 
scottb411

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Back again - An idea for a Muppet Dark ride in the space over where Pizza Planet and Mama Melrose currently is:

Picture a kid-friendly boat ride (think Little Mermaid ride at MK) originally themed to the opening of the original Muppet Movie in 1979:



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"The Rainbow Connection" was written for The Muppet Movie and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in 1979. It is sung by Kermit as the movie's opening number and reprized by the whole cast of Muppets at the end of the movie. The single of this song reached #25 on Billboard's "Hot 100 Singles" chart in 1979.
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So the ride is bookmarked by the rainbow connection - first with Kermit alone (think the frog section of Splash Mountain) and then the whole cast of Muppets at the end of the ride (think Zip a Dee Do Dah on Splash Mountain). In between, songs like Together Again and Mahna Mahna are sung between some story line:

Together Again


Mahna Mahna


I don't think any of these songs are in main MuppetVision show (change the preshow if they are there) and would be a good compliment to that new attraction.

Back to the mini-parade for the Streets of America, the Muppets could have an interactive parade on the streets during the day similar to "Move It, Shake It" at the Magic Kingdom and a Muppets Light Show on the buildings at night similar to what they are doing on Main Street at Disneyland and this video from a Downtown Orlando building below that more closely resembles the buildings on the Streets of America:

 
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Disneytwinmom

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BuddyThomas said:
Okay. I can tell you with 100% assurance that it is not being retired. The people on here suggesting a revamp are on the right track. Wish I could say more but since I'm posting under my real name, I cannot. But I do have accurate first hand knowledge about this and retirement is not happening.
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Any hint if they will also revamp the area?
 
ChesterKiwi

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When you have a 90's-era park at the end you know it's dated. If no update is in store, I can't see them relocating it if SWL is going where it is.

But hey, I'm a tourist, what do I know? :D
 

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