New Imagineering Model Reveals Track Layout for New Monsters Inc. Rollercoaster at Disney's Hollywood Studios

Professortango146 minutes ago

Movie theatre attractions don't age the same way that physical attractions do. Or even live performances do. I'm a sucker for 3-D films. I was floored when I saw Honey I Shrunk the Audience and was so excited when they brought it to the West Coast. Same with Muppet Vision and same with Tough to Be a Bug. TTBAB was always the peak 4-D Film with the integration of so many physical gags and effects, but even with that, I found myself enduring the movie aspect to experience the physical aspects again. Muppet Vision was great when it premiered 33 years ago. That's an impressive feat for a movie theatre attraction. But whenever I go now, it just makes me sad. The Muppets deserve an attraction that feels full of life, not stuck in time and out-of-date. That's what made the Muppets work, their freshness. They felt like they were real characters interacting with the stars of today. The improvisational banter was key. With the movie, it just lost that spark for me and many friends. Its a problem I have with DHS as a whole. Many of the attractions there I enjoyed a lot the first few times I did them, but they feel dusty now. I look at shows like Beauty and the Beast, Indiana Jones, The Little Mermaid and I remember seeing them when I was in Jr High, and here I am turning 40. And it sadly makes me not want to visit the park because the park feels so "been there, done that." There's only so many times I can watch the same play. There's a far fewer amount of times I can watch the same movie. And, if I can be honest, Waldo is annoying. I know its intentional, but he's still annoying.

mickEblu56 minutes ago

Me too. Only because it’s nice to see him lose it after his awful takes on TBA and the ROA going away at MK.

celluloid1 hour ago

This. People say it is dated but there is very little in the show that dates it. It occasionally had egregious upkeep neglect like most of the resort right now, bht the quality of its content has been so fine and recently.revered enough to be referenced at WDzw.dinkng establishments...at another WDW theme park.

YouMakeTheWorldGoRound1 hour ago

I simple cannot agree with any of your points. Disney didn’t need to replace it, they made a choice and are rightly being roasted over it. And this idea that the show is unforgivably dated? I don’t understand that. On my most recent trip in July I spent a great deal of time in Muppets Courtyard based on its (at the time) rumoured closure. I saw the show a half dozen times and I was delighted to see kids and adults genuinely connect with it. I saw many smiling faces in the exit area and even some kids reciting jokes. I wasn’t even born yet when this debuted in 1991, and as much as I will sorely miss this wonderful experience. I feel an even deeper shame that many of the kids of today won’t be able to experience a show that brought joy to so many because they were born too late. It’s a great shame that Muppet Vision has not been allowed to join the ranks with attractions like Peter Pan’s Flight or Jungle Cruise and be a permanent treasure to be handed down the family from generation to generation.

Professortango12 hours ago

It has been on borrowed time for quite awhile. I adored the show and would love to see the Muppets used in the park, but this show felt dated. Disney needs to replace it with something decent, but its not like this is the greatest thing Henson ever created, its merely the last.

BirdbyBird2 hours ago

Interesting stuff in here. I imagine there's an enormous amount of wotk to get a new ride/theme ready to go.

Casper Gutman2 hours ago

This is all true. I was taking issue with the idea that they are worried about the quality of the possible replacement. They aren't. They're only worried about bad optics.

The Leader of the Club2 hours ago

This is the way PR thinks. This is why they didn’t announce where Monsters was going months ago, waiting until the Friday before Thanksgiving. This is why they haven’t posted the announcement on their social media. This is why they made the statements about “preserving MuppetVision.” They don’t want more backlash than necessary. This way they can hide behind headlines that “Muppets are closing for the Door Coaster BUT they’re getting a new roller coaster,” instead of actually owning up to what they’re doing. It’s a PR play to avoid as much bad press as possible.

erasure fan12 hours ago

Wow, they said it in press release, it has to be true. I'm not sure how you can question anyone being skeptical about this. Boy, those droids were awesome when I was in galaxys edge. Oh wait. Disney has an exceptional record of under delivering on their projects. I'm not saying it won't come out, but there's plenty of history to say it's a definite possibility.

Casper Gutman3 hours ago

This is the way a fan thinks, not the way Disney thinks.

YouMakeTheWorldGoRound3 hours ago

There are few bummers greater then losing Jim Henson’s Muppet Vision 3D

MagicHappens19713 hours ago

I wonder if the show will be like a Mike Wasowski late night comedy style show 🤷‍♂️

The Leader of the Club3 hours ago

These forums typically skew negative anyway, but this is definitely a product of recent events. People feel betrayed at Disney for a number of reasons (price increases, new EPCOT, and Tiana chief among them) and the news of more closures doesn’t help that. I think when we get to the actual construction phase we’ll see more positivity about these projects, but for now people are mourning the closures and worried that the replacements won’t measure up.

The Leader of the Club3 hours ago

Because of what it’s replacing. They’re not confident that they have something as good as MuppetVision and they don’t want it to be under scrutiny yet.