Jim Henson's MuppetVision 3D

Jim Henson's MuppetVision 3D is an attraction found at Disney-MGM Studios, part of Walt Disney World located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and at Disney's California Adventure park in Anaheim, California.

Premise

The show is built around a 3-D film featuring Jim Henson's Muppets. Audio-animatronic Muppet characters also appear in the theater while the film is running and appear to interact with their on-screen colleagues. Because audience interaction is encouraged at several points, the show is sometimes referred to as Jim Henson's MuppetVision 4D (although interaction, or lack thereof, does not affect the content of the attraction).

Queue

Before being seated in the theater where the film is shown, the queue winds through "Muppet Labs", home of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker. The audience passes several office doors featuring outlandish job descriptions, then enters a large room filled with Muppet "props" and boxes with silly labels. Muppets greet the visitors from television screens suspended from the ceiling, interacting with one another at times. The audience is repeatedly reminded to take a pair of "safety" (3D) glasses from several containers around the room before entering the theater, which is modeled after the theater depicted on The Muppet Show.

The Show

MuppetVision 3D introduced Waldo C. Graphic, the world's first computer-generated Muppet, who also appears in The Jim Henson Hour. Waldo is "created" by Dr. Honeydew and Beaker during a demonstration of three-dimensional imagery, but proves uncontrollable and wreaks havoc throughout the remainder of the film, especially when the ending patriotic number by Sam the American Eagle is reduced to shambles.

Aside from the Muppets on-screen, there are also a number of in-theater Muppets, mostly animatronic, that interact with the show. Statler & Waldorf heckle from a balcony near the screen, an orchestra of penguins rises into sight to perform, and the Swedish Chef "operates" the film projector from the booth above and behind the audience. Bean Bunny leaves the film at one point after being blamed for ruining several scenes, and is chased around the theater by Sweetums, who is the only character played by a cast member.

External links

• Muppet*vision 3D at the Internet Movie Database