Disney Sets Summer 2026 Opening for Muppets Retheme of Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster

Overview

• Disney has confirmed the reimagined coaster will debut by summer 2026, with an early-2026 closure expected though no specific dates are announced.
• The implied roughly eight-month conversion is far shorter than recent rethemes such as EPCOT’s Test Track at about 13 months and Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at over a year.
• Reporting indicates the track layout remains unchanged while new sets, lighting, projection effects, and a revised pre-show with planned animatronics are added.
• Many fans worry the compressed schedule will deliver an overlay-level update, even as others point to 2017’s fast Tower of Terror-to-Guardians conversion as a rare precedent.
• The work comes as Muppet*Vision’s area is closed for Monstropolis and other Hollywood Studios projects, intensifying capacity concerns and raising expectations for the Muppets’ return.