Speaking of things that may be going away: As you may have heard, the Muppetvision 3D attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World is soon to close. The Disney folks have something more in the way of current product to erect on that piece of land and that was the only place one could see that show. The version they had of it for a time out here at Disney California Adventure closed in 2014.
I only saw it once — in 1994 in Orlando when the park that housed it there was called the Disney–MGM Studios Theme Park. That was the one time I "did" Walt Disney World. I was in Florida with a lady friend named Carolyn, not to be confused with the lady friend I later had named Carolyn — the one whose father created Pogo. The previous Carolyn and I did one theme park a day for three days there in Florida, deliberately skipping anything that was duplicated out here at Disneyland because…well, you can figure out why. We spent the evenings at a small theme park/mall there called Pleasure Island, an aggregation of restaurants and night clubs that too has closed.
We liked Muppetvision 3D a lot. After we saw it, we went to a nearby restaurant called Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano, which I remember thinking was basically Olive Garden with mouse ears. There, we thought about going back and taking in Muppetvision a second time. But we didn't because I thought, fallible prophet that I am, "Oh, we can see it again some other time." In thirty years, that hasn't happened and now it surely won't; not unless the Disney organization which owns vast parcels of real estate, finds some other place for it. I'm sorry my back yard isn't bigger.
I hope they will and not just because it was reportedly the last thing Jim Henson worked on. It was also a lot of fun and we shouldn't be losing things that are a lot of fun. In any case, it will at least continue to exist (barely) in the dozens of fan-made videos that captured the show, if not for posterity then at least for YouTube. Here's one and if you don't like it, you have many others to pick from. None of them are immersive and even if you squint a lot, they're not in 3D. Still, some of that magnificent Muppet Magic comes through…