When Pizza Planet’s nearly year-long closure at Disney’s Hollywood Studios was announced, we speculated that the Muppets might be taking over the long-standing fast food pizza joint. Well, it’s officially happening now…
Opening in late-2016, guests can experience “Pizza Rizzo” in the Muppets Courtyard at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The restaurant will continue to operate as a counter service pizza restaurant, but guests will find an entirely new theme and better-quality food when it reopens this holiday season. The new name was confirmed by internal documents and permits filed in relation to the ongoing project.
While the exact theme of the restaurant is unknown, it does make sense as Rizzo and his rat family are from New York (and work in food service) in the classic movie “The Muppets Take Manhattan”.
Stay tuned for more details on this breaking story as they become available.
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Another good move by Disney.
Really giving the people what they want i see…….
That photo is EVERYTHING! My favorite Muppets movie by far! Here’s hoping the restaurant will be half as awesome as it is my mind!
Oh good. So Disney figured it out? They can’t balance a TV show or brilliant film franchise (perhaps because it’s not computer animated), but they CAN profit from the Muppets by putting the actual showcasers LITERALLY on a shelf & sell food with their image. Sorry, my green’s a little grey…
Wow! Ok Mikey, have a good day
Wow Mikey.
Glass is really half empty with you, huh?
Guess Disney can’t do anything right for some.
Why did you put the exact same message on other Internet boards?
Hey Mikey, stop being a Dingo
Go complain somewhere else like a little brat
Is this your go to reply Steve?
For when people just come on here to be negative, its much better then dropping the f bomb.
So Yes, yes it is.
You Dingo
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Hopefully it will serve a better quality pizza than Pizza Planet—-something close to Via Napoli. Cardboard and tomato sauce does not a pizza make!
Best idea ever! Hope the Swedish chef cooks!
My family really liked the pizza at Pizza Planet :(
For those that liked the pizza at Pizza Planet it’s being served across from the entrance to Fantasmic at Catalina Eddie’s
It’s too bad they couldn’t keep the Muppets’ tv show going as a summer replacement or during mid-season when nothing else is on. ABC could have done what they did with Gallivant.
I would prefer they build a Pizza Planet resembling the one in “Toy Story.” That would draw far more people than the Muppets at this point.
I would strongly disagree as Toy Story already has their own section being built. Besides, they were planning something like this right before Jim’s passing.