Muppets

Welcome to the Test Screening of Muppet*Vision 3D!
For your safety please remain behind the red line as the doors to your right open toward you and will hit you!

Okay lets be real, only part of that is my spiel at Muppet*Vision 3D. I think we all know which part I improvised but imagine if that was the spiel, it is the Muppets after all. So let's talk about everything Muppets related. For the past 21 years in the hearts of Streets in America in Hollywood Studios there is a little movie where Kermit the Frog has been giving tours and Sweetums has been searching for a bunny. 

 Muppet*Vision 3D is a 17 minute long show with a 15 minute pre-show prior to that. The queue is designed as if you are walking into Muppetlabs and one you enter the pre-show, you are brought into the world of Muppets with "props" and boxes containing comical and humourous labels. Above the guests heads there are sets of three television monitors, in which several short snippets of comical adventures take place with select Muppet characters.

The proceedings of these snippets are supervised by Scooter, who attempts to organize the backstage crew while dealing with interuption after interruption by the cast. Fozzie introducuces a new singing troup called "The Three Ds" who attempt 'By the Light of the Silvery Moon'; Bean Bunny attempts to bring Miss Piggy her props for her big musical number; Sam Eagle offers his safety spiel where stopping in the middle of your row unpatriotic and finally Rizzo tries to pass as Mickey Mouse to the tourists - I mean what do they know? Rizzo fails Sam and then Gonzo tries to claim the Donald Duck is backstage, however Sam doesn't buy it. He continues with his safety spiel before he is trampled by the show cast and that's when I, the Muppet Lab Technician steps in and lets you into Muppet Theater.

Muppet Vision begins moments after you take your seat and you are greeted by Statler and Waldorf heckling from a balcony, before being greeted by Kermit the Frog, who begins his tour of Muppet Labs where we are being shown the test screening of Muppet*Vision 3D. However there are no cheap tricks until Fozzie comes in to the picture. Muppet*Vision 3D re-introduces Waldo C. Graphic the worlds first computer generated Muppet - he is created by Dr. Honeydew and Beaker during the demonstration, however proves to be uncontrollable and wreaks havoc throughout the remainder of the film, and reducing Sam Eagles patriotic number at the end.

Aside from the Muppets on screen, there are in-theater Muppets who are mostly in part audio-animatronic, that interact with the show. Statler and Wardolf are the main ones who heckle throughout the film from their viewing balcony in the theater. The Swedish Chef is at the back on the theater where he "operates" the film, Nicky Napoleon and his penguin orchestra provide the music for the film and rise up and down from the pit. Bean Bunny leaves the film after being blamed for ruining Miss Piggy's scene and Sweetums, comes out to the audience to search for him after doing so on screen.

At the end of the show Swedish Chef tries to destroy the now out of control Waldo, who has now completely destroyed the film and is on a blank screen by firing a gun at him. After missing several times and shooting a hole in the screen and the theater the Swedish Chef resorts to using a cannon. This cannon blows up the entire movie screen exposing outside and what's on the "other side" of the screen - guests at a Disney Park, as well as revealing bricks and sheet rock inside the theater. It is at this point of the film, Kermit enters from the back of a fire engine through the hole, apologizing and to conclude the film.

Some interesting facts about Muppet*Vision 3D include:

• Once inside, the queue becomes similar and is meant to depict the lobby of Muppet labs. The gags and references continue at the unattended security desk, where a photograph of Link Hogthrob in his "Bear on Patrol" uniform hangs. 
• A sign indicates that a key in under the mat by the security door. If lifted, sure enough you will find a key.
• Examples of gags to be found in the pre-show area include a net full of Jell-O (Annette Funicello), flat, plywood fruit in a box marked 2D Fruities. 
• Other props include a painting of Jim Henson as a Muppet, as well as Miss Piggys costumes, crates from Gonzo's Stunt Props to Bunsen's inventions.
• If you walk down through the extended queue, you will notice on top of the brick wall there are flowers and such, the last one however is an Ice-Cream Sundae 
• There are 2 Hidden Mickeys: One in the fountain and one on a sign in the extended queue. 
• Nickey Napolean and his orchestra have sheet music and it is "The Rainbow Connection"