As Walt Disney World followers plan journeys to say goodbye to points of interest & eating places which are 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 thus far is that Monsters, Inc. Door Coaster and Monstropolis mini-land is getting began a lot ahead of anticipated, with closure dates in the beginning of this summer time 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 asserting closure dates for MuppetVision 3D and every part 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 invest about prospects. To be clear, that’s all that is: hypothesis. Attempting to piece the puzzle collectively and decide a believable closure date and reimagining timeline. It’s not rumor, insider information, and definitely nothing official. Should you’d want that, take into account subscribing to our free Walt Disney World publication, the place we’ll share prompt updates as quickly as they’re introduced. For now, listed here are our greatest guesses as to when Aerosmith will retire from RnRC.
When asserting the phased closure of Muppets Courtyard, right here’s what Walt Disney World needed to say in regards to the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster reimagining:
Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and extra of their buddies will likely be shifting proper alongside to Sundown Boulevard! The Muppets will likely be taking up Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster, teaming up with a few of music’s greatest stars for a rockin’ music competition!
We all know so a lot of you share our love for The Muppets and know their vitality will likely be an ideal match for this coaster. Plus, as the primary Disney journey ever to function 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 a wonderful three-hour finale with Muppet*Imaginative and prescient 3D once more earlier than their remaining curtain calls.
Whereas that gives zero readability in regards to the timeline for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster’s reimagining, Walt Disney World shared this with journey brokers: “And don’t overlook! Kermit, Miss Piggy and buddies are quickly headed simply throughout the park to their new residence on Sundown Boulevard. Extra to come back 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?
Attempting to reply that seems like a idiot’s errand and relies upon upon the angle. Provided 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 journey’s preliminary opening days, I are likely 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 typically very cautious with its phrases, that’s not at all times the case. “Quickly” might’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 assume we are able to safely rule out is Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith closing earlier than June 2025. If that have been the plan, Walt Disney World would’ve introduced the date alongside the Muppets Courtyard closures. The intent is to present followers sufficient time to plan farewell journeys, so it stands to cause that Walt Disney World would disclose that date if it have 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. Similar logic applies–if the date have been already identified and within the subsequent ~6 months, Walt Disney World would’ve revealed it to entice followers to guide farewell journeys for RnRC.
Since they didn’t, we are able to in all probability surmise that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith is protected via the center of the summer time vacationer season. I might put the tip 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 in regards to the closure date of Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith, we must always look to different venture 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 provided by MuppetVision (after which some). In that case, these reveals don’t have any bearing on RnRC’s timeline.
Additional down the street, there’s the New Mission that includes Mandalorian & Child Yoda for Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run. (Did you overlook about that?) With that film opening on Might 22, 2026, it stands to cause 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 completed 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 no 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 journey and there are solely so a lot of these, in order that’s in all probability the exception.
At present, each Check Monitor and Large Thunder Mountain Railroad are down. DINOSAUR is closing in 2026, in all probability in January. As famous above, Smugglers Run can also be (in all probability? probably?) happening sooner or later in 2026. Fortunately, Check Monitor 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 Monitor’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 Monitor 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 time lately.
Walt Disney World is probably not able to dictate the perfect opening date. It very nicely is likely to be a race in opposition to the clock. September 22, 2025 is the official finish of summer time, so “late” might imply round then. Will Check Monitor 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 Monitor will be capable to reopen, and doesn’t wish to be down one more thrill journey. The cumulative impact of which could trigger individuals to postpone or cancel journeys.
There’s additionally the query of simply how lengthy the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster reimagining will take. Check Monitor goes to finish up being closed for over a 12 months. Ditto Large Thunder Mountain Railroad. DINOSAUR’s conversion into Indiana Jones Journey will (hopefully) take no less than 18 months. If RnRC’s reimagining is comparable, Walt Disney World may as a substitute work backwards from the perfect reopening timeframe to dictate the closure date.
We strongly suspect the RnRC reimagining gained’t take wherever close to that lengthy. The curler coaster monitor and structure are nearly actually going to stay unchanged inside the present gravity constructing, and modifications to any of that’s what would balloon the timeline of this venture. 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 journey autos should not altering (apart from cosmetically). It’s additionally seemingly that the load space, launch, and unload will seemingly keep the identical. If we needed to guess, Imagineering will create story contrivances that provide appreciable overlap with Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith. Perhaps 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 will permit for lots of what’s presently a part of RnRC to stay unchanged.
Being a curler coaster at the hours of darkness with minimal props, there’s in all probability an honest quantity of prepwork that could possibly be completed after hours whereas Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith continues to be operational with out company noticing. It’s additionally totally potential 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 may permit the corporate to take away all references to Aerosmith in a single day. That Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster might 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 have been in all probability formulated through the attraction’s improvement.
Whereas there in all probability gained’t be any salaciousness or scandals with the Muppets, this similar contingency plan might permit for a reimagining with minimal downtime. Should you’ve completed RnRC early within the morning, late at evening, or throughout After Hours occasions, you may know that it’s typically potential to bypass the pre-show. It is because, not like many different points of interest, the non-skippable security spiel just isn’t through the pre-show. With the doorways open on that pre-show room permitting for company to move via, this theoretically opens the door for the Muppets Mayhem takeover to come back to life with out RnRC ever closing.
Actually, I hope this isn’t the case. Going from Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith sooner or later (however minus a pre-show) to the identical journey Starring the Muppets the subsequent could be a worst-case situation from my perspective when it comes to the ambitiousness of the reimagining.
It could imply we nearly actually aren’t getting any of the Audio Animatronics from MuppetVision 3D or another “meaty” additions to Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster. Which may 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.
Perhaps I’m too jaded, however I simply don’t see that occuring. 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 this can be a “no dough” venture for Imagineering, solely being completed to placate followers and since Disney desires to ditch Aerosmith.
The extra time and cash that’s spent on Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets, the higher. If this can be a 6-month venture 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 will likely be a greater attraction, but it surely will increase the probability that the joys journey will stick round for no less than a decade, maybe extra. If this by some means ended up being an 18-month closure (it gained’t), I might applaud that. The longer the closure and the extra money spent, the longer Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring the Muppets sticks round.
To every their very own, however I’ll take the chicken 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 points of interest 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 may turn out to be a Wakanda miniland. Or one thing else. Who is aware of.
In the end, my greatest guess is that Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith will shut after the tip of the summer time season–in all probability as soon as Check Monitor 3.0 has reopened. Though my concern is that the venture will be capable to be completed totally in a single day (through which case the timing could possibly be at any time when), I doubt that’s the truth.
Extra seemingly 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 venture received greenlit within the first place–WDI fought for it. And that signifies that they’ll additionally combat for a wholesome funds, moderately lengthy reimagining, reusing parts from MuppetVision that may in any other case be discarded, and having as a lot distinctive Muppets humor as potential. This being a ardour venture is an excellent factor, even when it’s completed 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 seemingly do every part potential 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 Large 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 seemingly 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 recognition, I don’t see this venture being dictated by its advertising and marketing affect–until it turns into a part of a smaller ‘package deal’ consisting of Check Monitor 3.0 (if it misses summer time) and Zootopia: Higher Zoogether throughout this 12 months’s vacation season.
Ultimately, numerous 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 means off, and RnRc goes down this fall and doesn’t reopen till 2027. Now that could be the most effective case situation!
For additional commentary in regards to the Muppets Mayhem takeover of RnRC, see: Are the Muppets a Good Match for Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster?
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When do you assume Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith will shut? What about a gap date for the Muppets Mayhem model? Suppose this will likely be a brief reimagining or a prolonged one? Large funds or “no dough” venture? Are you upset in regards to the Muppets changing Aerosmith, Monsters changing MuppetVision, or each? If MuppetVision have been going away regardless, would you continue to be mad in regards to the RnRC reimagining? Do you agree or disagree with our assessments? Any questions we may also help you reply? Listening to your suggestions–even while you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas beneath within the feedback!
