Elsewhere in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster is not starring Aerosmith, however has been re-themed to function The Muppets. “That is nonetheless the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster,” Imagineer Todd Richins informed me. “It is by no means going to vary. That is a model that Walt Disney Imagineering has created and one thing that we needed to keep up, and who higher in The Muppets to symbolize that than The Electrical Mayhem?” As a substitute of Aerosmith dashing throughout Los Angeles to make it to their live performance, company will now see Dr. Tooth, Janice, Floyd, Zoot, Lips, and Animal in an analogous scenario.
However variability was key to this new expertise. “We needed to be sure that company might preserve coming again, time and time once more, and see various things, hear various things, discover completely different particulars,” Richins stated. Friends will hear 5 completely different songs on the attraction, there’s over 45 minutes of latest Muppets media within the queue — “Longer than the Disney+ present,” Richins quipped — there are 5 completely different pre-shows involving completely different Muppets calling in, and there are three completely different launch sequences involving Animal to kick the journey into excessive gear.
The queue additionally options screen-used props from “The Muppet Film,” “Muppets Most Wished,” and extra, pulled from a Muppet warehouse. “After which there’s additionally stuff from Muppet*Imaginative and prescient 3D that we introduced over too,” Richins revealed. And talking of the now-departed Muppet*Imaginative and prescient 3D, Richins’ favourite Easter egg is “if you’re driving the attraction, on the left-hand aspect, there’s slightly signal that claims ‘Compulsory Easter egg’ and it is Waldo, the 3D character from Muppet*Imaginative and prescient, so it is slightly callback to their earlier attraction.”
Questlove, Kelly Clarkson, and Jennifer Hudson recorded new materials for this, and guests would possibly see acquainted faces like John Stamos, Awkwafina, “Bizarre Al” Yankovic, Darren Criss, or Yvette Nicole Brown seem alongside the best way as properly.
