The Theme Park Thread • Page 254

if you don’t, i call dibs

 

I love Muppetvision too and am sad to see it go too, but I don't know how many "Disney doesn't care about the Muppets and they're disrespecting The Muppets! hence why they're re-theming one of DHS's major flagship crowd eating E-Ticket attractions to The Muppets" takes I can stand today.

 

This dude called it

 

i think my frustration is less about the fact that MuppetVision specifically is going away (as much as i love The Muppets, it's never been a huge enough property for them to invest in at the same level as some of their other IP), and more so that it follows the same trend of shutting down another attraction that's been there since the early days of the park and replacing it with another based on a more relevant IP. i know they do it all the time, but it never feels great. and given the fact that DHS has transitioned from being a park primarily about the movies (as a concept) to a park about "our most popular movies", it's both unsurprising and disappointing to see another attraction go that felt more in line with that original concept.

 

I wonder if Hall of Presidents getting a Muppets retheme rumor is going to materialize now

 

It would be sick if they made new rides that weren’t based on existing IP

 

The same thing is basically happening to DCA. The whole point of the park was to be based off of California culture, but now it’s just a hodgepodge of IPs. I’m not surprised that DHS is ultimately going the same route

 

It would be sick if they made another ride with this guy

 

It just occurred to me: With the Aerosmith stuff gone, Tower Of Terror is now going to be the lone WDW attraction that is based on non-Disney IP.

 

No I want him to die

 

Josh has no Imagination

 

muppets and figment could stand to have more attractions in the parks

 

Beating a dead horse, but it bothers me that almost everything Disney adds these days is a replacement, not an addition. They have endless land to build on.

 

I hope they move the mat with the key thing to RNRC though.

 

They're adding a new area to Magic Kingdom? And while they do have a ton of land from what I've heard most of it isn't usable for building on, too swampy

 

I wonder if parks fans are going to freak out this hard when Disney eventually replaces Star Tours.

 

They didn’t buy all that land for it to be unusable. And yes, Magic Kingdom has benefitted from expansions, but the rest of the parks typically remove something to replace something. They could easily open a 5th gate, but they’re playing it too safe.

 

I have heard some people say if WDW ever builds a 5th gate park it would probably in that open area just north of the cluster of Disney Springs area third party resorts.

 

Already seeing a lot of this talk

 

It’s funny to see it referred to as a Wicked Land given the original source material is potentially the most timeless film of all time. No shade, it’s just interesting.

 

We saw MuppetVision on our last trip. It was fine. By no means did I think to myself, when this goes away we need to preserve it. My kids enjoyed it just fine.

I like the RnR coaster idea if you can pick your own songs like on Rip Ride Rockit or they have a good variety. I kind of laugh at the idea of them packing up any Muppet related decor and animatronics and putting them in boxes to drag across the park. Like are we reusing the penguins, Statler and Waldorf, etc.?

It honestly seems like they are throwing so many different ideas out to see what sticks. It will be interesting to see what gets built beyond Tropical Americas.

 

MuppetVision's reverence is mostly due to it being Jim Henson's last project