Muppet*Vision 3D
— — the last show Jim Henson finished.
Not only on a wall.
“A 3D theatre attraction in the Grand Avenue section of Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. Kermit hosts, Sam Eagle frets, and Bean Bunny gets the last laugh. The film was Jim Henson's final personal project — directed and largely completed before his death in May 1990 and released in 1991. The pre-show queue is a love letter to the Muppet workshop: a fake security camera, a piano-tuning closet, a sign that says the key is under the mat. The colour the artist found here is the felt-warmth of a stage seen from the front row. — from the studio
Muppet*Vision 3D, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Muppet*Vision 3D opened on May 16, 1991 at what was then Disney-MGM Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and is now Disney's Hollywood Studios. The 25-minute attraction combines a 3D film with in-theatre animatronics, live effects, and an audio-animatronic Waldo C. Graphic, the first computer-generated character integrated into a theme-park show. The theatre sits in the Grand Avenue section of the park, fronted by a courtyard with a fountain of Miss Piggy as the Statue of Liberty. A second installation operated at Disney California Adventure from 2001 until 2014.
The show is Jim Henson's last completed personal project. He directed the film and oversaw the design of the theatre before his death on May 16, 1990, exactly one year before the attraction opened. His son Brian Henson and the Jim Henson Company team finished the work. The score was composed by Miles Goodman and the film features Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Sam Eagle, Bean Bunny, and Waldo. In 2024 Disney announced the Florida show would close in June 2025 to make way for a Monsters Inc land expansion.
The attraction is reached through Grand Avenue at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and admission is included with park entry. Showings run roughly every 25 minutes throughout the operating day, and the theatre seats about 584 guests across rows that face a central proscenium. The pre-show in the queue is part of the experience — a callback-dense walkthrough of a fake Muppet office, with running gags written by the original Muppet writing team. A note on planning: the Florida attraction is scheduled to close in mid-2025, so future visit dates should be verified with Disney directly.