The Great Muppet Movie Ride... that never was

Posted by Marcelo Vignali at Wednesday, August 16, 2023 No comments

In 1990 I was working at Walt Disney Imagineering as a show designer, and I had the unique opportunity to work on the Muppet Movie Ride with Jim Henson. When Jim passed away suddenly, the entire project Muppet Studios (AKA Muppet Movie Land) was shut down.

My office mate at the time, legendary Imagineer Eric Robison, really liked this drawing… so I gave it to him. All these many years later he kindly mailed it back to me.

I took the prismacolor drawing and placed it on my drawing desk. A 33 year round trip.

It’s prismacolor on velum, mounted on illustration board.