Not a chance, unfortunately. If anyone loved Muppetvision out here, it seems like they kept it to themselves.
At least on the WDW side of things, ITTBAB was infamous for making kids cry, or at least scaring the stuffing out of them. Perhaps things were different at DCA, but I doubt there's a tremendous difference between children at both resorts. I suppose more people may have encountered ITTBAB at WDW simply because DAK had many fewer attractions than DCA.
Obviously the way WDW has handled DHS and many of its other attractions is less than ideal, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Muppetvision was a bad attraction or that people just embraced it because of a lack of other options. It clearly had fans, and would have had a dedicated following even if DHS had added an adequate number of attractions over the years.
Don't the spiders tickle your @nus?
The show was the same, but it was better presented at DHS, particularly before you entered the theater.
And the end. I was confused when the street it showed was not the one that was outside of the theater.
For me, it’s reached the point where, having been a Disney park fan for decades, I now wouldn’t care if they all closed permanently tomorrow. The ridiculous Corporation-speak explanation of how Cars fits into their new definition of “Frontierland” was the last straw for me. Gross.
Well said. And you are right, the park has been running the Indiana Jones stunt show and Beauty and the Beast shows long enough to see Indy through the 4th and 5th entries and Beauty and the Beast to be remade (all decades later).
I wasn't in DHS anywhere near when the ride was new (so don't know what the park used to look like) but I read the ending was done at a set built to resemble Disneyland's Mainstreet USA as it was planned to go in the Mr Lincoln theater.
And Muppetvision was done much earlier than both of those things, back before the Disney Parks went down into the toilet. It was done with the full original muppets team and was one of Jim Henson's last projects before his premature death. It was NOT the quick, cheap rush job for stupid people that you are framing it as.Read that paragraph again, but this time substitute "MuppetVision" for "Sounds Dangerous". Or even for "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Play It!"
You get the same result. But only at WDW with East Coast audiences.
In Anaheim, things are very different. Or at least, they were.
There would be blood in the streets if they closed DHS's Tower of Terror.Who the heck said that?! I loved MuppetVision (in the early 1990's).
I watched the original Muppet Show religiously during the Disco Era. The Swedish Chef has been a recurring punchline in my family of Swedes for decades. A clone of MuppetVision was one of the few good things to come out of DCA 1.0 in 2001; somewhere behind Soarin' Over California, and only slightly above Golden Dreams.
But it's not 1990 anymore. It's not even 2001. It's 2024, and the show hasn't changed or been updated. Much like cutting the Offenbach number out of the Tiki Room was the right thing to do, they should have drastically edited down that 3D gimmick with the Waldos at least 20 years ago; it drags on far too long.
But crying and moaning that MuppetVision is closing at DHS? That's not very flattering to that park. And the fans that are upset DHS will finally be without a MuppetVision show seem to be people who are simply starved for entertainment in a theme park with a very weak lineup of entertainment.
