Disney upgrades Rock 'n' Roller Coaster with The Muppets (opens in new tab)

By Robert Niles: Does anyone at Disney actually understand The Muppets?Disney first agreed to acquire The Muppets in 1989, but creator Jim Henson’s death the next year scuttled the deal. Before Henson passed, he led the creation of Muppet*Vision 3D, a 4D movie that opened at the then Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park in 1991 under a licensing deal between Disney and The Jim Henson Company. In 2004, Disney finally acquired the intellectual property of The Muppets from The Jim Henson Company. To wh...