Disney’s about to make some significant changes to Hollywood Studios!
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
A new Villains stage show that’s replacing Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy, a new version of The Little Mermaid stage show in Animation Courtyard, and of course, the brand-new Monsters, Inc.-inspired land that’s taking over Muppets Courtyard are all on the calendar. But what about the updates to Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster? We foresee a bit of a problem there!
In case you missed it, Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster in its current form will be closing and then reopening with a new ride theme — the Muppets! That’s right, they’re moving from Grand Avenue across the park to Sunset Boulevard, and they’ll be rocking out on the new version of the ride with some of “music’s biggest stars.”
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We can’t wait to see what this ride retheme will be like when it opens, but before that happens, we’ll have to endure Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster being closed AGAIN. The ride has already been through a few lengthy refurbishments in recent years, and based on those closures, we think there’s going to be a problem with it closing again.
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is a pretty popular ride, with wait times often settled around an hour at any point in the day. Because of this, the ride is absorbing a fair number of people from out in the park — meaning that if those people are in line for the coaster, they’re not in line for other attractions, crowding the walkways, filling the gift shops, or taking up space in the restaurants.
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
So whenever a ride is closed, all the people who would’ve been in line for that ride end up in other spots around the park. It typically increases wait times for the other attractions around the park and can make the park walkways feel a little bit more crowded in general.
Sunset Boulevard
The problem with the crowds may be extra strong as well, considering Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy is currently closed to make way for a new Disney Villains stage show — so if Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster closes before the new show opens this summer, there will be pretty much no reason to go back to that section of the park.
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And adding on to the subject of Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster’s popularity, having the ride closed for an extended amount of time means that purchasing Lightning Lane Premier Pass or Multi Pass for Hollywood Studios loses some of its value. You’ll get access to one fewer attraction and the other Lightning Lanes will be a smidge harder to book when using Multi Pass just because there are less options overall.
Rock ‘n’ Rollercoaster Lightning Lane
So ultimately, there are some issues with closing this coaster for an extended period of time, especially without something new to open in its place. We’ll be interested to learn more about its closure in the future, so stay tuned to DFB for all the details as they’re released.
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Totally just need my boy to get one last ride on his favourite ride ever because of the rock n rollercoaster theming, so I’m praying it’s still open in July for his birthday trip… totally devastated it’s going!
Perhaps it is budget and permit issues, but I don’t understand why they remove lands, rides attractions and retheme them, when they have more than enough room/land to built all new lands, rides and attractions. Wasn’t that the purpose of buying all that land in the Orlando area in the first place?
I’m trying to withhold judgement, and I’m glad that the Muppets aren’t disappearing from HS. As much as we love Aerosmith, we knew that theming was going to end, and probably soon. But I’m having trouble imagining this as a good fit. But Disney’s decisions in recent years about changes and development have been so baffling to me from a strategic perspective, never mind what we did or didn’t like. It’s sort of been throwing up our hands and waiting and seeing for a while now. We have family traditions of Disney visits that go back to Disneyland’s opening, but the future of those traditions have never been less certain.
It’s a stupid idea to pot the muppets n the rock and roll roller coaster they need to stay where they r at and miss piggy needs to stay n her place n the water fountain she is so cute there disney ruining a lot of things the way they r going no one will even remember it’s called Walt Disney world
They do not need more roller coasters what r they trying to do become six flags we have been going there when it was just the magic kingdom and then we saw Epcot being built and stood on a ramp and saw space ship
Earth being built we started
On big family trip and loved it and my sister and me made our husbands fall n love with Disney my sweet sweet sister name is lynn we grew up as Mousekateer
End the Over Crowding. Build Another Park
The answer is right in front of us all. Keep the Muppets theater where it is, updated, improve the entrance nd store, keep Pizza Rizzom improve the pizza. Make it a gotta go to -lace instead. Have to go to place, retheme Mama Melrose into the French Chef’ Pastery, and then move Monsters Inc. into the old Star Wars Hotel. Re-theme the hotes to Monstropolis with shops and stores and eateries, add on the proposed “Door” attraction, with a walk thru Monster’s U and the cafeteria and viola, you have it.