The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World by Susan Veness

Author:Susan Veness
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2020-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

Vogue has sent a special delivery to Miss Piggy, although the address on the big pink box at the front, left-hand side of the preshow area is that of an accounting and tax firm in Paris, France. Miss Piggy played the role of a Vogue editor in the 2011 movie The Muppets, and from the contents designation on the package (Miss Piggy’s Visage Mirage), it appears to contain one of her favorite things: an extra-large mirror.

Along the front, left-hand wall of the preshow area you’ll see a poster of a Muppet that looks oddly familiar. It is a fitting memorial to the Muppets’ creator, Jim Henson, Muppetized, and with a movie camera lens around his neck.

Watch for wooden boxes marked with items appropriate to the Muppet receiving them, including one sent by Gary and Mary to Walter, Whistler-in-Residence. They are characters in the movie The Muppets, and Walter was named to honor Walt Disney.

See that round metal object hanging from the ceiling near the doors leading into the theater? It’s a spaceship-style pig, referencing The Muppet Show’s recurring sketch, “Pigs in Space.”

There are several jokes on the clapperboard hanging on the right-hand wall after you enter the Muppet*Vision preshow area. The Scene is Happiness Hotel, referring to the hotel in the movie The Great Muppet Caper; the Take is My Wife, Please! which was comedian Henny Youngman’s signature line, variations of which have been used in many Muppet productions; the camera is a Kodiak Brownie, a takeoff on the Kodak Brownie camera popular in the early 1900s, but this time with a bear-inspired twist; and the Star is Ursula Major, a feminization of Ursa Major, a constellation also known as the Great Bear. It is worth noting the director of this particular film is none other than Fozzie Bear.

Imagine That!

Jim Henson didn’t just inspire Eric Baker, he also modeled creative solutions to the working world’s challenges. Eric says, “You have to laugh and have fun. One of the things Jim Henson would do when he opened a shop was, he’d put up a sign that read, ‘Bang Head Here.’ I’ve [put up that sign] a few times, and people love it. Sometimes you have to bang your head, but then you just smile and go on.”

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