Back in the early nineties, as well as MuppetVision 3D, Disney was planning to add a whole Muppet miniland to Disney's Hollywood Studios - the Muppet Studios. The largest and most impressive of the attractions they were going to build was to be The Great Muppet Movie Ride, a parody of the park's signature ride, The Great Movie Ride. Just like The Great Movie Ride, guests on the Muppet version would tour the history of movies - only this time, it would star an entirely Muppet cast. Jim Henson described it as; "a backstage ride explaining how movies were shot... and all the information is wrong."

So, guests would enter (surrounded by directors chairs, lights and cameras) an old, shadowy castle, with strange scientific machines, test tubes and generators buzzing and flashing all around. Parodying the 1931 version of Frankenstein, we would come across Kermit and Miss Piggy coming out of a secret passageway to see mad scientist Dr Bunsen Honeydew in the title role, ready to pull the switch on, who else, a twelve foot high Beaker. Gonzo, in jodhpurs and a beret, would shout directions through a megaphone, whilst a team of rats would man the equipment. Two rats in particular would, through a hamster wheel, power a generator providing power to the machinery via a cable - and via Fozzie Bear, who, holding the two ends of the cable in each hand, would light up each time the machinery sparked.

Another scene would parody the Disney version of Peter Pan. With Kermit as the boy who never grew up, and Skeeter, Fozzie and Janice (the Electric Mayhem singer) as the Darling children flying over a cardboard cut-out London, each in a very visible harness dangling by rope from a rig above. But in this scene, something's gone wrong. The ever graceful Miss Piggy, squeezed into a green leotard, would be playing Tinkerbell, only her harness is swinging all over the place, causing a Miss Piggy shaped hole in the backdrop, as the team of rodents, and Animal, desperately try to get her under control.

At another point in the ride, guests would enter the the set of a motion picture version of Pigs in Space - with a recreation of the bridge of the USS Swinetrek, currently locked in battle with a bunch of scurvy space pirates. And this would be a crew of space pirate rats, lead by Captain Rizzo, with peglegs, eyepatches, and laser guns swinging in from a spacefaring Spanish galleon. The Swinetrek crew, Miss Piggy, Link Hogthrob and Dr Julius Strangepork, in their plastic space helmets and silver space suits would be left to fight them off.

On top of this, Statler and Waldorf would be seen from time to time in a movie lot golf cart, commenting in their usual way, before riding off again into the darkness - except perhaps when their golf cart got shot by a laser blast, splitting it in two.