Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Opening Day: Two-Hour Wait and Queue Extends Behind Tower of Terror

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Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets Opening Day Crowds

Posted: Tuesday May 26, 2026 8:27am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets officially opened to all guests today at Disney's Hollywood Studios as part of the Memorial Day weekend launch. Large crowds have descended on Sunset Boulevard for the public debut, with wait times already at two hours as of 8:00 am.

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets Opening Day Crowds

The queue has extended well beyond the attraction's normal boundaries into a backstage area behind Tower of Terror.

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets Opening Day Crowds

Demand on opening day has pushed the standby queue into territory guests would not normally see. After passing through the courtyard, guests are directed behind Tower of Terror into a backstage area, through a large temporary outdoor queue space, before heading back into the courtyard where the line wraps around in front of the Stratocaster guitar.

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets Opening Day Crowds

The outdoor temporary queue runs through an area guests typically never access, with Tower of Terror looming over the crowd.

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets Opening Day Crowds

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster is one of several major openings at Disney World today, alongside Soarin' Across America at EPCOT, Bluey's Wild World at Animal Kingdom, Disney Jr. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live!, and The Walt Disney Studios courtyard at Hollywood Studios.

Lightning Lane Multi Pass Available

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets is available today via both standby queue and Lightning Lane Multi Pass. Guests looking to avoid the extended backstage queue may want to check Lightning Lane availability through the My Disney Experience app, though return times are likely filling quickly given overall demand.

Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets Preview

What Guests Are Lining Up For

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets features:

The first-ever Audio-Animatronics figure of Scooter in the G-Force Records preshow
Five randomized Electric Mayhem soundtracks including collaborations with Def Leppard, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Questlove
New colorful ride vehicles with Muppets-inspired graphics
Statler and Waldorf Audio-Animatronics figures at the unload station
Celebrity cameos throughout from Travis Barker, John Stamos, Neil Patrick Harris, Wayne Brady, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and others
The same 0 to 57 mph launch and inversions as the original attraction

The ride went through an extensive transformation from Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, which closed on March 1, 2026, to today's public opening - a turnaround of less than three months.

Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets Preview

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gorillaball2 hours ago

Yeti is on permanent disability, still stuck in workers comp courts since some think he can rehab and some don’t.

EagleScout6104 hours ago

I think "You'd never catch me on that thing!" "You don't like fast rides?" "No, I don’t like The Muppets!" is my new favorite riff

EagleScout6105 hours ago

He should talk to the yeti for negotiation advice. With his help he can have every day for 20 years off

gorillaball5 hours ago

Maybe he negotiated in the move across the park that he gets the first Fri of every month off.

Br0ckford5 hours ago

Didn't see it myself but in a Passholder FB someone posted he was back on the job

gorillaball5 hours ago

Any updates on Scooter over the weekend?

celluloid11 hours ago

Fluidity of CoP alone. John in earlier Scenes reduced. Appliances had elements no longer animated. Buzz Lightyear pre recent enhancement project. Haunted Mansion and Pirates have figures that should move more than they do, in some cases, some are down for months at a time. Country Bears before retheme. Dinosaur had broken effects for a long time and many reduced for years before closing. The last decade was particularly nasty. Luxo Junior Great Movie Ride for years had very little movement from figures in attraction compared to what they were designed to do such as Xenomorphs. Living with The Land has had awful show replacements by comparison as it declined by degrees in its dark ride section in the rainforest and dessert scenes. Jungle Cruise previous to refurbishments have had things in terrible shape with many figures dormant and limited for years. Rise of Resistance. Kylo is frequently in B mode Animated Cannon effect turned off. Journey Into Imagination. Figment, such as the figure in the first physical form for hearing used to be much more fluent and had a larger range. Thunder Mountain had many figures not animated as they are supposed to be kinetically going in the town of Tumbleweed pre recent redo, and some did not return. The list goes on and definitely goes further if you go for effects declining by degrees and never improving for the sake of daily show in general. Its been a rough couple of decades in the resort for this.

Mr. Sullivan13 hours ago

Can you name them? Not trying to make this a gotcha, I really cannot think of what you're talking about despite trying.

celluloid16 hours ago

Indeed. It is very ironic as the Muppet Vision Preshow was ingeniously designed and thought out in detail to give everyone a different, yet equitable show.

Chester&Hester Enthusiast21 hours ago

This entire pre-show is so poorly staged, my goodness.

celluloid1 day ago

Limiting to Animatronics there are a few reduced or no longer an element. More than there should be. So it is not like the point HMF made was invalid. Effects, the list goes larger.