5 Things We Learned About Disney World’s Cool Kids’ Summer 2026 – SlashFilm

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Elsewhere in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster is not starring Aerosmith, however has been re-themed to characteristic The Muppets. “That is nonetheless the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster,” Imagineer Todd Richins instructed me. “It is by no means going to vary. That is a model that Walt Disney Imagineering has created and one thing that we needed to take care of, and who higher in The Muppets to characterize that than The Electrical Mayhem?” As an alternative of Aerosmith speeding throughout Los Angeles to make it to their live performance, friends will now see Dr. Tooth, Janice, Floyd, Zoot, Lips, and Animal in the same scenario.

However variability was key to this new expertise. “We needed to make it possible for friends may maintain coming again, time and time once more, and see various things, hear various things, discover totally different particulars,” Richins stated. Friends will hear 5 totally different songs on the attraction, there’s over 45 minutes of recent Muppets media within the queue — “Longer than the Disney+ present,” Richins quipped — there are 5 totally different pre-reveals involving totally different Muppets calling in, and there are three totally different launch sequences involving Animal to kick the trip into excessive gear. 

The queue additionally options display-used props from “The Muppet Film,” “Muppets Most Wished,” and extra, pulled from a Muppet warehouse. “After which there’s additionally stuff from Muppet*Imaginative and prescient 3D that we introduced over too,” Richins revealed. And talking of the now-departed Muppet*Imaginative and prescient 3D, Richins’ favourite Easter egg is “once you’re driving the attraction, on the left-hand aspect, there’s a bit signal that claims ‘Compulsory Easter egg’ and it is Waldo, the 3D character from Muppet*Imaginative and prescient, so it is a bit callback to their earlier attraction.”

Questlove, Kelly Clarkson, and Jennifer Hudson recorded new materials for this, and guests would possibly see acquainted faces like John Stamos, Awkwafina, “Bizarre Al” Yankovic, Darren Criss, or Yvette Nicole Brown seem alongside the way in which as effectively.