MuppetVision 3D Removed from Extended Evening Hours Amid Monsters, Inc. Land Rumors at Disney's Hollywood Studios

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Posted: Monday August 26, 2024 1:50pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Today, Disney has updated the attraction lineup list for Extended Evening Hours and removed MuppetVision 3D as an attraction available at Disney's Hollywood Studios during the resort hotel guest perk.

Beginning Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Extended Evening Hours will return to Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World from 9 pm to 11 pm as the Magic Kingdom enters a busy hard-ticket event season with Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween party and Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party.

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Disney released the list of available attractions for the upcoming Extended Evening Horus at Disney's Hollywood Studios only last week, which originally included MuppetVision 3D.

The removal of MuppetVision 3D is notable, with the attraction currently thought to be located in one of two areas being considered for the recently announced Monsters, Inc. Land. In this scenario, the new land would occupy everything in the former Muppets Courtyard, including the MuppetVision 3D show, Mama Melrose's, Studio 1 Shop, Days of Christmas, and PizzeRizzo. The other area thought to be a contender for Monsters, Inc. Land is the Animation Courtyard and Star Wars Launch Bay.

Monsters Inc Land in Muppets Courtyard Concept Art

Disney's Hollywood Studios: Will Monsters, Inc. Land Replace Muppets Courtyard or Animation Courtyard?

The removal of MuppetVision from the Extended Evening Hours lineup may not be related to Monsters, Inc. Land, but it is an interesting development in the ongoing story.

It should also be noted that MuppetVision 3D remains on the official operating hours calendar for daily operations as far as it has been published, which is currently late October, 2024. And the calendar continues to show MuppetVision 3D operating during Extended Evening Hours, despite it being removed from the Extended Evening Hours page today.

Disney has yet to announce any closure of MuppetVision 3D, or a location for the new Monsters, Inc. Land.

Monsters Inc. Land Concept Art

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Sneaky8 minutes ago

Probably just another Star Wars thing. And while people say “keep muppetvision! It’s Jim’s last project!” I raise you this: I want it to happen, and think that could save it at most parks , even at some of the “no sacred cows” Disney world , but this is DISNEYS HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS, where all park nostalgia comes to die. We gotta look towards the future. Yes, it’ll suck to lose the original crew for the modern one, but smaller attractions, especially screen based ones, don’t really get the “gets to last forever” treatment anymore. I personally think the muppets have the stuff to live on at wdw in a new form, as they can do ANYTHING. magic kingdom is a good landing spot for our felty friends imo. Unfortunate as it is, Muppetvision just has too many external circumstances against it.

Sneaky18 minutes ago

I mean it seems tailor made for something marvel, especially with the potential to use MV3D as a show building for web slingers like they did with bugs, but they can’t in Florida. And with such little space between both places, and they can’t just demolish two restaurants like melrose and Rizzo, and potentially backlot express, would be bad for the park. What other ip could they put there.

akileese23 minutes ago

Your 2nd point about a GE expansion is why I believe Monsteropolis doesn't go there. I actually don't think they can Star Tours at all. I think they find a way to retool the area during a GE expansion to make the ride vehicle fit somehow. Maybe it's not Star Tours anymore, but something else. MV3D is not long for this world. If it survives anymore than 5 years I'd be absolutely shocked, but I don't think this one is it.

Sneaky2 hours ago

Nah, I’m thinking 5th dimensionally….

rle4lunch2 hours ago

Ya'll just aren't thinking 4th dimensionally...

Sneaky2 hours ago

Good thing for the on-site hotels. He changed the game. He also greatly modernized downtown Disney and made it better for guests of the time, with the pleasure island/general district overhaul. Quite a bit of it may not be there anymore, but he got the ball rolling for the springs to become what it is today. He also added blizzard beach and typhoon lagoon. He was one of the many important people who helped to transform wdw into the powerhouse and massive scale resort that we know and love today. I do know he DEFINITELY wasn’t perfect. Disneyland CA did kinda get screwed in its similar attempt at a “transformation” at the end of his tenure, and I’m sorry for that. They have mostly been trying to revert his mistakes there for the past 20-something years imo. Hopefully, with Disneyland forward, the second shot at it turns out better. And I miss the tommorrowland 94. Best Tomorrowland ever.

celluloid2 hours ago

For the cost to move a theatrical show and get something less out of it, a budget can refresh to produce a much better version of the current show in its current theme park location. And you get a much better show out of where your dollars and other resources go. If an attraction is moving anything more than a film, it has goals of being better/updated to be worth keeping.

AidenRodriguez7313 hours ago

I'm living in an idealized reality. Over the last while, I feel like Tomorrowland has become very easy to fix and add to. Probably genuinely one of the easiest lands save for Fantasyland.

ToTBellHop3 hours ago

Could they move it? Yeah. But they won’t. The last thing we need is two (technically three) empty theaters at the entrance of Tomorrowland. That’s one abandoned building short of the World of Wall-E.

AidenRodriguez7313 hours ago

Actually now that I think about it, could they move over Laugh Floor and replace with Muppet Vision? I believe its a somewhat similar space, more so than some of the other theaters ive heard.

celluloid11 hours ago

He headed the only version of Tomorrowland that has ever been cohesive and successful at MK in that time. Plus, as mentioned, there was no shortage of things going on throughout the resort as it expanded. The guy overhauled the Onsite Hotels that existed into attractions themselves and produced the Grand Floridian. Resort wide, too many things to mention.

UNCgolf11 hours ago

Magic Kingdom didn't really need new attractions at the time, especially since Disney built two new theme parks, two water parks, and most of the hotels on property. And, as you mentioned, Splash Mountain was built under Eisner, plus there was the Tomorrowland overhaul. They also did a ton of work at EPCOT... it just mostly wasn't for the best and was worse than what it replaced, unfortunately.

LazerLuke99312 hours ago

I actually had a similar idea where you enter The Monsters Inc factory lobby, pass Celia at her desk & choose your attraction, head left for The “Factory Tour” coaster or right for The Laugh Floor Comedy Club where you can help power the monster world with your laughter!

Schmidt13 hours ago

I did say rides. SpectroMagic / Wishes were really good; however shows and rides are not the same thing. They are also not E ticket rides or even have similar budgets. You are stretching sir. Again.