As Walt Disney World followers plan journeys to say goodbye to sights & eating places which can be closing in Hollywood Studios, many are questioning about closure date for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith. Others are questioning when the brand new model that includes the Electrical Mayhem Band, Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the remainder of the Muppets will debut.
The very first thing we all know to this point is that Monsters, Inc. Door Coaster and Monstropolis mini-land is getting began a lot ahead of anticipated, with closure dates at the beginning of this summer season for Mama Melrose, PizzeRizzo, and MuppetVision 3D. The day after the final of these eating places and that present shut, partitions will go up round Muppets Courtyard, leaving open solely Ice Chilly Hydraulics, Baseline Faucet Home, and the Grand Avenue thoroughfare into Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
Nevertheless, in saying closure dates for MuppetVision 3D and the whole lot in Muppets Courtyard, Walt Disney World declined to disclose a closure date for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith. Accordingly, it’s turn out to be a typical query, main us to take a position about prospects. To be clear, that’s all that is: hypothesis. Making an attempt to piece the puzzle collectively and decide a believable closure date and reimagining timeline. It’s not rumor, insider data, and positively nothing official. In case you’d favor that, take into account subscribing to our free Walt Disney World e-newsletter, the place we’ll share instantaneous updates as quickly as they’re introduced. For now, listed below are our greatest guesses as to when Aerosmith will retire from RnRC.
When saying the phased closure of Muppets Courtyard, right here’s what Walt Disney World needed to say concerning the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster reimagining:
Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and extra of their associates might be shifting proper alongside to Sundown Boulevard! The Muppets might be taking on Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster, teaming up with a few of music’s greatest stars for a rockin’ music competition!
We all know so lots of you share our love for The Muppets and know their power might be an ideal match for this coaster. Plus, as the primary Disney experience ever to characteristic The Muppets, there’s positive to be laughter, screams and new tunes for this attraction for followers to take pleasure in all through the journey and loads of Muppets-themed merchandise on Sundown Boulevard!
Within the meantime, there’s nonetheless sufficient time to catch a super-stretch limo to the Discussion board to take pleasure in Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith and catch an excellent three-hour finale with Muppet*Imaginative and prescient 3D once more earlier than their closing curtain calls.
Whereas that gives zero readability concerning the timeline for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster’s reimagining, Walt Disney World shared this with journey brokers: “And don’t neglect! Kermit, Miss Piggy and associates are quickly headed simply throughout the park to their new residence on Sundown Boulevard. Extra to return about that timeline.” (Emphasis added.)
There’s our reply! Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets is coming quickly to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Quickly is sweet, proper? Quickly is…quickly. However how quickly is quickly to Walt Disney World?
Making an attempt to reply that appears like a idiot’s errand and relies upon upon the attitude. On condition that this is identical place that’s nonetheless utilizing a digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey that was introduced to be in place for the experience’s preliminary opening days, I are inclined to not put a lot inventory in one thing like “quickly.” We could possibly be speaking months, we could possibly be speaking years.
That is the place I feel there’s a hazard in parsing these bulletins an excessive amount of. Whereas Disney is usually very cautious with its phrases, that’s not at all times the case. “Quickly” may’ve been thoughtlessly thrown in there–or used to emphasise that that is nonetheless taking place, and it’s one of many earlier tasks within the 5-year plan pipeline.
One factor I do suppose we will safely rule out is Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith closing earlier than June 2025. If that had been the plan, Walt Disney World would’ve introduced the date alongside the Muppets Courtyard closures. The intent is to offer followers sufficient time to plan farewell journeys, so it stands to motive that Walt Disney World would disclose that date if it had been very quickly.
I might take {that a} step additional and speculate that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith in all probability isn’t closing anytime in Summer time 2025. Identical logic applies–if the date had been already identified and within the subsequent ~6 months, Walt Disney World would’ve revealed it to entice followers to ebook farewell journeys for RnRC.
Since they didn’t, we will in all probability surmise that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith is secure via the center of the summer season vacationer season. I might put the top date on that at round August 11, 2025. That’s when colleges in Central Florida begin going again into session and can mark the beginning of the early fall low season.
For additional hypothesis concerning the closure date of Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith, we should always look to different challenge timelines at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and past.
One factor we’ve already established from the early MuppetVision closure is that new Villains Unfairly Ever After and Little Mermaid Musical Journey stage reveals will debut someday round Memorial Day or early June, barring delays. These will present the counterprogramming capability beforehand supplied by MuppetVision (after which some). If that’s the case, these reveals don’t have any bearing on RnRC’s timeline.
Additional down the highway, there’s the New Mission that includes Mandalorian & Child Yoda for Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run. (Did you neglect about that?) With that film opening on Could 22, 2026, it stands to motive that challenge will happen within the days, weeks, or months main as much as that. At this level, it’s unclear whether or not that’ll necessitate a closure or be achieved in a single day like the brand new scenes in Star Excursions. As a extra elaborate attraction, my hope is that Smugglers Run will go down for not less than a number of weeks for minor modifications to make the queue and pre-show mesh with the mission. Who is aware of, although.
Usually, we’d say that tasks in different parks have minimal bearing on refurbishments in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Nevertheless, Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith is a thrill experience and there are solely so lots of these, in order that’s in all probability the exception.
At present, each Check Observe and Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad are down. DINOSAUR is closing in 2026, in all probability in January. As famous above, Smugglers Run can be (in all probability? probably?) taking place sooner or later in 2026. Fortunately, Check Observe 3.0 debuts in Late Summer time 2025, so it’ll be again earlier than extra thrill rides go down.
We’re inclined to imagine that Check Observe’s return does have a possible bearing on Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster’s closure, as that presents a window of alternative earlier than DINOSAUR goes down (and there’s prone to be overlap between that and BTMRR nonetheless being closed).
The issue is that “Late Summer time” is a nebulous time period, and that was introduced final 12 months when the Check Observe reimagining was simply kicking into excessive gear–Walt Disney World in all probability has low confidence within the timeline. In an ideal world, “Late Summer time” to Disney would imply July. The second half of the month has been the busiest stretch of summer season lately.
Walt Disney World is probably not ready to dictate the best opening date. It very effectively is likely to be a race in opposition to the clock. September 22, 2025 is the official finish of summer season, so “late” may imply round then. Will Check Observe open earlier than then, or get pushed to EPCOT’s anniversary on October 1, 2025? Or will it get derailed and find yourself opening nearer to Christmas?
This vary of prospects may additionally clarify why there’s no closure date for RnRC but. As a result of Walt Disney World isn’t sure about when Check Observe will be capable to reopen, and doesn’t wish to be down one more thrill experience. The cumulative impact of which could trigger folks to postpone or cancel journeys.
There’s additionally the query of simply how lengthy the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster reimagining will take. Check Observe goes to finish up being closed for over a 12 months. Ditto Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad. DINOSAUR’s conversion into Indiana Jones Journey will (hopefully) take not less than 18 months. If RnRC’s reimagining is comparable, Walt Disney World would possibly as an alternative work backwards from the best reopening timeframe to dictate the closure date.
We strongly suspect the RnRC reimagining gained’t take wherever close to that lengthy. The curler coaster observe and format are virtually definitely going to stay unchanged inside the present gravity constructing, and modifications to any of that’s what would balloon the timeline of this challenge. Sadly, it’s in all probability not getting a brand new facade or any structural modifications to the outside.
Given the idea artwork, we all know the experience autos aren’t altering (apart from cosmetically). It’s additionally probably that the load space, launch, and unload will probably keep the identical. If we needed to guess, Imagineering will create story contrivances that provide appreciable overlap with Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith. Possibly it’ll be the Muppets racing to get from their studio on the Jim Henson Firm Lot in Hollywood to Downtown Los Angeles for a present. That might permit for lots of what’s presently a part of RnRC to stay unchanged.
Being a curler coaster at nighttime with minimal props, there’s in all probability an honest quantity of prepwork that could possibly be achieved after hours whereas Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith remains to be operational with out company noticing. It’s additionally completely doable that the present props don’t actually change if the attraction retains the Los Angeles live performance conceit.
The trickier and time-consuming modifications will occur within the queue and pre-show. Even then, it’s our understanding that Disney has contingency plans in place that will permit the corporate to take away all references to Aerosmith in a single day. That Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster may proceed working, with out closure, within the occasion of an Aerosmith scandal that required Disney to distance itself from the band instantly. That is nothing new–these plans had been in all probability formulated throughout the attraction’s improvement.
Whereas there in all probability gained’t be any salaciousness or scandals with the Muppets, this identical contingency plan may permit for a reimagining with minimal downtime. In case you’ve achieved RnRC early within the morning, late at night time, or throughout After Hours occasions, you would possibly know that it’s typically doable to bypass the pre-show. It’s because, in contrast to many different sights, the non-skippable security spiel shouldn’t be throughout the pre-show. With the doorways open on that pre-show room permitting for company to go via, this theoretically opens the door for the Muppets Mayhem takeover to return to life with out RnRC ever closing.
Truthfully, I hope this isn’t the case. Going from Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith in the future (however minus a pre-show) to the identical experience Starring the Muppets the following can be a worst-case state of affairs from my perspective by way of the ambitiousness of the reimagining.
It might imply we virtually definitely aren’t getting any of the Audio Animatronics from MuppetVision 3D or another “meaty” additions to Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster. That could be a welcome reduction to these of you who’re holding out hope for a real preservation of MuppetVision 3D, and maybe the creation of a Muppets Courtyard again right here when Villains Unfairly Ever After ends its run.
Possibly I’m too jaded, however I simply don’t see that taking place. My view is that RnRC is the one Muppets attraction we’re prone to see at Walt Disney World within the subsequent decade-plus. I concern it is a “no dough” challenge for Imagineering, solely being achieved to placate followers and since Disney needs to ditch Aerosmith.
The extra time and money that’s spent on Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets, the higher. If it is a 6-month challenge that installs Audio Animatronics and makes pretty formidable modifications to the queue, pre-show, and post-show, that’s unbelievable.
Not solely does it imply that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets might be a greater attraction, however it will increase the probability that the fun experience will stick round for not less than a decade, maybe extra. If this one way or the other ended up being an 18-month closure (it gained’t), I might applaud that. The longer the closure and the more cash spent, the longer Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets sticks round.
To every their very own, however I’ll take the hen in hand over playing on wishful fascinated about the choice of a Muppets Courtyard on this space. (That is exactly why I used to be on board with the Nation Bear Musical Jamboree reimagining. It gave the attraction a brand new lease on life and prolonged its run, which was in any other case very a lot doubtful. In the case of current day Disney and legacy sights or characters, I’ll take imperfect certainty over unlikely daydreams.)
My fear is that much less money and time spent on the RnRC reimagining will increase the probability that each this and Villains Unfairly Ever After are placeholders for one thing completely completely different. That Disney believes Common goes to relinquish the Marvel rights within the subsequent few years, and this can turn out to be a Wakanda miniland. Or one thing else. Who is aware of.
In the end, my finest guess is that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith will shut after the top of the summer season season–in all probability as soon as Check Observe 3.0 has reopened. Though my concern is that the challenge will be capable to be achieved completely in a single day (by which case the timing could possibly be at any time when), I doubt that’s the truth.
Extra probably is that the RnRC reimagining necessitates a closure starting from a number of weeks to a couple months. The saving grace right here, identical to with the Nation Bears, is that there are hardcore Muppets followers in Walt Disney Imagineering. That’s in all probability exactly how this in any other case perplexing challenge received greenlit within the first place–WDI fought for it. And that signifies that they’ll additionally battle for a wholesome funds, fairly lengthy reimagining, reusing components from MuppetVision that will in any other case be discarded, and having as a lot distinctive Muppets humor as doable. This being a ardour challenge is an excellent factor, even when it’s achieved on a decent funds (that’s how we received PizzeRizzo).
Assuming all of that’s true, the timing of the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster reimagining could possibly be mid-August to September 2025, or maybe early 2026. Walt Disney World operations will probably do the whole lot doable to keep away from a closure between mid-October and January 12, 2026. Timing in early 2026 in all probability relies upon extra on the reopening of Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad, closure of DINOSAUR, potential refurbishment of Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, and no matter else is on the desk that has but to be introduced.
It’s probably that the brand new Mando & Child Yoda mission (plus no matter else is hopefully coming to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge) would be the marketable draw at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for Summer time 2026. Between that and the Muppets’ lack of mainstream reputation, I don’t see this challenge being dictated by its advertising affect–until it turns into a part of a smaller ‘package deal’ consisting of Check Observe 3.0 (if it misses summer season) and Zootopia: Higher Zoogether throughout this 12 months’s vacation season.
In the long run, a lot of unknowns. Our greatest guess as to a closure date for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith is August 11, 2025. Our greatest guess as to a gap date for the Muppets Mayhem model of Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster is round October 10, 2025 or November 7, 2025. Something past that’s too tenuous to foretell. Right here’s hoping we’re method off, and RnRc goes down this fall and doesn’t reopen till 2027. Now that can be one of the best case state of affairs!
For additional commentary concerning the Muppets Mayhem takeover of RnRC, see: Are the Muppets a Good Match for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster?
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