As Walt Disney Global lovers plan journeys to mention good-bye to points of interest & eating places which can be last 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, Leave out 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 quicker than anticipated, with closure dates at first of this summer season for Mama Melrose, PizzeRizzo, and MuppetVision 3-D. The day after the final of the ones eating places and that exhibit shut, partitions will pass up round Muppets Courtyard, leaving open simplest Ice Chilly Hydraulics, Baseline Faucet Space, and the Grand Street thoroughfare into Megastar Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
Then again, in pronouncing closure dates for MuppetVision 3-D and the whole lot in Muppets Courtyard, Walt Disney Global declined to expose a closure date for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith. Accordingly, it’s turn into a not unusual query, main us to invest about chances. To be clear, that’s all that is: hypothesis. Looking to piece the puzzle in combination and decide a believable closure date and reimagining timeline. It’s now not rumor, insider data, and indisputably not anything legitimate. If you happen to’d want that, imagine subscribing to our unfastened Walt Disney Global e-newsletter, the place we’ll proportion fast updates once they’re introduced. For now, listed here are our very best guesses as to when Aerosmith will retire from RnRC.
When pronouncing the phased closure of Muppets Courtyard, right here’s what Walt Disney Global needed to say concerning the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster reimagining:
Kermit the Frog, Leave out Piggy and extra in their buddies can be transferring proper alongside to Sundown Side road! The Muppets can be taking on Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster, teaming up with a few of song’s largest stars for a rockin’ song pageant!
We all know such a lot of of you proportion our love for The Muppets and know their power can be a great are compatible 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 appeal for lovers to experience right through the journey and various Muppets-themed products on Sundown Side road!
Within the period in-between, there’s nonetheless sufficient time to catch a super-stretch limo to the Discussion board to experience Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith and catch a wonderful three-hour finale with Muppet*Imaginative and prescient 3-D once more earlier than their ultimate curtain calls.
Whilst that gives 0 readability concerning the timeline for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster’s reimagining, Walt Disney Global shared this with trip brokers: “And don’t disregard! Kermit, Leave out Piggy and buddies are quickly headed simply around the park to their new house on Sundown Side road. Extra to come back about that timeline.” (Emphasis added.)
There’s our solution! Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets is coming quickly to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Quickly is just right, proper? Quickly is…quickly. However how quickly is quickly to Walt Disney Global?
Attempting to respond to that looks like a idiot’s errand and depends on the point of view. For the reason that this is identical position this is nonetheless the usage of a digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey that used to be introduced to be in position for the experience’s preliminary opening days, I have a tendency not to put a lot inventory in one thing like “quickly.” We might be speaking months, we might be speaking years.
That is the place I feel there’s a threat in parsing those bulletins an excessive amount of. Whilst Disney is every so often very cautious with its phrases, that’s now not at all times the case. “Quickly” may just’ve been thoughtlessly thrown in there–or used to emphasise that that is nonetheless taking place, and it’s one of the crucial previous initiatives within the 5-year plan pipeline.
Something I do suppose we will be able to safely rule out is Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith last earlier than June 2025. If that had been the plan, Walt Disney Global would’ve introduced the date along the Muppets Courtyard closures. The intent is to present lovers good enough time to plot farewell journeys, so it stands to reason why that Walt Disney Global would expose that date if it had been very quickly.
I’d take {that a} step additional and speculate that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith more than likely isn’t last anytime in Summer time 2025. Similar common sense applies–if the date had been already recognized and within the subsequent ~6 months, Walt Disney Global would’ve published it to lure lovers to e book farewell journeys for RnRC.
Since they didn’t, we will be able to more than likely surmise that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith is protected during the center of the summer season vacationer season. I’d put the tip date on that at round August 11, 2025. That’s when faculties in Central Florida get started going again into consultation 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 will have to glance to different venture timelines at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and past.
Something we’ve already established from the early MuppetVision closure is that new Villains Unfairly Ever After and Little Mermaid Musical Journey degree presentations will debut someday round Memorial Day or early June, barring delays. The ones will give you the counterprogramming capability prior to now presented through MuppetVision (after which some). If that is so, the ones presentations don’t have any pertaining to RnRC’s timeline.
Additional down the street, there’s the New Challenge that includes Mandalorian & Child Yoda for Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run. (Did you disregard about that?) With that film opening on Might 22, 2026, it stands to reason why that venture 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 performed in a single day like the brand new scenes in Megastar Excursions. As a extra elaborate appeal, my hope is that Smugglers Run will pass down for no less than a couple of weeks for minor adjustments to make the queue and pre-show mesh with the venture. Who is aware of, regardless that.
Most often, we’d say that initiatives in different parks have minimum pertaining to refurbishments in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Then again, Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith is a thrill experience and there are simplest such a lot of of the ones, in order that’s more than likely the exception.
Lately, each Take a look at Observe and Large Thunder Mountain Railroad are down. DINOSAUR is last in 2026, more than likely in January. As famous above, Smugglers Run may be (more than likely? most likely?) taking place one day in 2026. Fortunately, Take a look at Observe 3.0 debuts in Past due Summer time 2025, so it’ll be again earlier than extra thrill rides pass down.
We’re vulnerable to consider that Take a look at Observe’s go back does have a possible pertaining to Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster’s closure, as that gifts a window of alternative earlier than DINOSAUR is going down (and there’s prone to be overlap between that and BTMRR nonetheless being closed).
The issue is that “Past due Summer time” is a nebulous time period, and that used to be introduced final yr when the Take a look at Observe reimagining used to be simply kicking into top equipment–Walt Disney Global more than likely has low self belief within the timeline. In a great global, “Past due Summer time” to Disney would imply July. The second one part of the month has been the busiest stretch of summer season lately.
Walt Disney Global might not be able to dictate the perfect opening date. It rather well could be a race in opposition to the clock. September 22, 2025 is the legitimate finish of summer season, so “past due” may just imply round then. Will Take a look at Observe open earlier than then, or get driven to EPCOT’s anniversary on October 1, 2025? Or will it get derailed and finally end up opening nearer to Christmas?
This vary of chances may additionally provide an explanation for why there’s no closure date for RnRC but. As a result of Walt Disney Global isn’t positive about when Take a look at Observe will have the ability to reopen, and doesn’t wish to be down but any other thrill experience. The cumulative impact of which would possibly reason other folks to delay or cancel journeys.
There’s additionally the query of simply how lengthy the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster reimagining will take. Take a look at Observe goes to finally end up being closed for over a yr. Ditto Large Thunder Mountain Railroad. DINOSAUR’s conversion into Indiana Jones Journey will (expectantly) take a minimum of 18 months. If RnRC’s reimagining is analogous, Walt Disney Global would possibly as a substitute paintings backwards from the perfect reopening time frame to dictate the closure date.
We strongly suspect the RnRC reimagining received’t take anyplace close to that lengthy. The curler coaster monitor and structure are nearly indisputably going to stay unchanged within the present gravity construction, and adjustments to any of that’s what would balloon the timeline of this venture. Sadly, it’s more than likely now not getting a brand new facade or any structural adjustments to the outside.
Given the concept that artwork, we all know the experience automobiles don’t seem to be converting (except for cosmetically). It’s additionally most probably that the burden house, release, and sell off will most probably keep the similar. If we needed to wager, Imagineering will create tale contrivances that provide really extensive overlap with Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith. Perhaps it’ll be the Muppets racing to get from their studio at the Jim Henson Corporate Lot in Hollywood to Downtown Los Angeles for a exhibit. That might permit for numerous what’s lately a part of RnRC to stay unchanged.
Being a curler coaster at midnight with minimum props, there’s more than likely a good quantity of prepwork which may be performed after hours whilst Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith remains to be operational with out visitors noticing. It’s additionally solely conceivable that the present props don’t actually trade if the appeal keeps the Los Angeles live performance conceit.
The trickier and time-consuming adjustments will occur within the queue and pre-show. Even then, it’s our figuring out that Disney has contingency plans in position that will permit the corporate to take away all references to Aerosmith in a single day. That Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster may just proceed running, with out closure, within the tournament of an Aerosmith scandal that required Disney to distance itself from the band in an instant. That is not anything new–those plans had been more than likely formulated throughout the appeal’s building.
Whilst there more than likely received’t be any salaciousness or scandals with the Muppets, this identical contingency plan may just permit for a reimagining with minimum downtime. If you happen to’ve performed RnRC early within the morning, past due at evening, or throughout After Hours occasions, you could know that it’s every so often conceivable to avoid the pre-show. It is because, in contrast to many different points of interest, the non-skippable protection spiel isn’t throughout the pre-show. With the doorways open on that pre-show room making an allowance for visitors to go via, this theoretically opens the door for the Muppets Mayhem takeover to come back to lifestyles with out RnRC ever last.
Truthfully, I am hoping this isn’t the case. Going from Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith sooner or later (however minus a pre-show) to the similar experience Starring the Muppets the following could be a worst-case state of affairs from my point of view relating to the ambitiousness of the reimagining.
It could imply we nearly indisputably aren’t getting any of the Audio Animatronics from MuppetVision 3-D or another “meaty” additions to Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster. That can be a welcome aid to these of you who’re protecting out hope for a real preservation of MuppetVision 3-D, and in all probability the introduction of a Muppets Courtyard again right here when Villains Unfairly Ever After ends its run.
Perhaps I’m too jaded, however I simply don’t see that going down. My view is that RnRC is the one Muppets appeal we’re prone to see at Walt Disney Global within the subsequent decade-plus. I worry it is a “no dough” venture for Imagineering, simplest being performed to placate lovers and since Disney desires to ditch Aerosmith.
The extra time and money that’s spent on Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets, the simpler. If it is a 6-month venture that installs Audio Animatronics and makes moderately bold adjustments to the queue, pre-show, and post-show, that’s implausible.
Now not simplest does it imply that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets can be a greater appeal, however it will increase the chance that the fun experience will stick round for no less than a decade, in all probability extra. If this by hook or by crook ended up being an 18-month closure (it received’t), I’d applaud that. The longer the closure and the extra money spent, the longer Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets sticks round.
To each and every their very own, however I’ll take the chook in surrender playing on wishful eager about the opposite of a Muppets Courtyard on this house. (That is exactly why I used to be on board with the Nation Endure Musical Jamboree reimagining. It gave the appeal a brand new hire on lifestyles and prolonged its run, which used to be in a different way very a lot doubtful. In the case of provide day Disney and legacy points of interest or characters, I’ll take imperfect simple task over not likely daydreams.)
My concern is that much less money and time spent at the RnRC reimagining will increase the chance that each this and Villains Unfairly Ever After are placeholders for one thing completely other. That Disney believes Common goes to relinquish the Wonder rights in the following few years, and this will likely turn into a Wakanda miniland. Or one thing else. Who is aware of.
In the end, my very best wager is that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith will shut after the tip of the summer time–more than likely as soon as Take a look at Observe 3.0 has reopened. Despite the fact that my worry is that the venture will have the ability to be achieved solely in a single day (during which case the timing might be each time), I doubt that’s the truth.
Much more likely is that the RnRC reimagining necessitates a closure starting from a couple of weeks to a couple of months. The saving grace right here, identical to with the Nation Bears, is that there are hardcore Muppets lovers in Walt Disney Imagineering. That’s more than likely exactly how this in a different way perplexing venture were given greenlit within the first position–WDI fought for it. And that signifies that they’ll additionally battle for a wholesome finances, somewhat lengthy reimagining, reusing parts from MuppetVision that will in a different way be discarded, and having as a lot distinctive Muppets humor as conceivable. This being a zeal venture is an excellent factor, despite the fact that it’s achieved on a good finances (that’s how we were given PizzeRizzo).
Assuming all of this is true, the timing of the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster reimagining might be mid-August to September 2025, or in all probability early 2026. Walt Disney Global operations will most probably do the whole lot conceivable to keep away from a closure between mid-October and January 12, 2026. Timing in early 2026 more than likely is dependent extra at the reopening of Large Thunder Mountain Railroad, closure of DINOSAUR, possible refurbishment of Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, and no matter else is at the desk that has but to be introduced.
It’s most probably that the brand new Mando & Child Yoda venture (plus no matter else is expectantly coming to Megastar Wars: Galaxy’s Edge) would be the marketable draw at Disney’s Hollywood Studios for Summer time 2026. Between that and the Muppets’ loss of mainstream reputation, I don’t see this venture being dictated through its advertising have an effect on–until it turns into a part of a smaller ‘package deal’ consisting of Take a look at Observe 3.0 (if it misses summer season) and Zootopia: Higher Zoogether throughout this yr’s vacation season.
In spite of everything, a whole lot of unknowns. Our very best wager as to a closure date for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith is August 11, 2025. Our very best wager as to a gap date for the Muppets Mayhem model of Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster is round October 10, 2025 or November 7, 2025. The rest past this is too tenuous to are expecting. Right here’s hoping we’re means off, and RnRc is going down q4 and doesn’t reopen till 2027. Now that will be the very best case state of affairs!
For additional observation concerning the Muppets Mayhem takeover of RnRC, see: Are the Muppets a Just right Have compatibility for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster?
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