Disney World Fans’ Worst Puppet-Based Fears Confirmed as Muppet*Vision 3D Is Set to Officially Close

When Disney began teasing a raft of incoming updates and upgrades for its taxable parks astatine D23 implicit the summer, amid the spectacle, fans began wondering just where each these caller additions were going to go, adjacent with Disney’s semipermanent plans to grow some parks implicit the adjacent decennary and beyond. One persistent interest astatine Disney World was that clip was constricted for the beloved Muppets attraction Muppet*Vision 3D–and now, those fears person been confirmed.

This morning Disney announced (via The Wrap) that Muppet*Vision 3D would adjacent to marque mode for a caller Monsters Inc. attraction successful Disney Hollywood Studios antecedently announced astatine D23, a coaster inspired by the climax of the film, that volition present beryllium astatine the bosom of an entire section of Hollywood Studios themed astir the Monsters movieverse, including a theatre amusement that volition regenerate Muppet*Vision 3D. “As we determination guardant with these changes, we are having originative conversations and exploring ways to sphere the movie and different parts of the acquisition for fans to bask successful the future,” the Disney Parks Blog connection astir the closure reads successful part.

One of the uncommon pieces of Muppets experiences astatine either of the main US Disney Parks, Muppet*Vision 3D opened successful 1991 arsenic a hybrid premix of 3D movie, animatronic puppetry, and unrecorded performance–and portion it was meant to beryllium the archetypal of several Muppets collaborations astatine the parks, it yet would go 1 of the final Muppets projects Jim Henson straight worked on earlier his tragic passing the twelvemonth anterior to opening. The Disneyland mentation of Muppet*Vision 3D closed successful 2014, leaving the East Coast mentation arsenic a holdout up until now, a stalwart adjacent arsenic Disney astatine large–theme parks part oregon otherwise–has mostly struggled with what it should bash with the Muppets.

The closure of Muppet*Vision 3D, however, is not the implicit decease of the Muppets astatine Walt Disney World, however. Part of the announcement of Muppet*Vision’s closure was confirmation that the Electric Mayhem and a fewer much of their muppet friends would beryllium portion of a caller overlay taxable for Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster, presently themed astir the set Aerosmith, marking the archetypal existent thrust astatine the Disney parks to diagnostic the Muppets successful immoderate capacity. Sure, it’s not an original, Muppets-specific acquisition similar Muppet*Vision 3D was, but astatine slightest Kermit and friends aren’t wholly exiting the parks altogether.

Work connected the Monsters Inc. onshore is acceptable to statesman sometime successful 2025, truthful you’ve inactive got a small clip to caput connected implicit to Walt Disney World successful Orlando and bid farewell to some Muppet*Vision 3D and Aerosmith. We’ll bring you much connected Disney’s plans for the parks arsenic and erstwhile we larn them.

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