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{{Infobox attraction
| name = Rock 'n' Roller Coaster
| park = [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]]
| land = Sunset Boulevard
| type = Indoor launched roller coaster
| opened = July 29, 1999
| designer = Vekoma / Walt Disney Imagineering
| height = 48 in (122 cm)
| status = Operating
}}

'''Rock 'n' Roller Coaster''' is an enclosed launched roller coaster on [[Sunset Boulevard]] at [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]] in [[Walt Disney World]], Florida. Opened on July 29, 1999, as '''Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith''', it was the first roller coaster at Walt Disney World to turn its riders upside down and the first there to use a high-speed launch in place of a lift hill. The Aerosmith version closed on March 2, 2026, and the coaster reopened on May 26, 2026, as '''Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets''', retaining the same track, launch and trains under new theming.

== History ==
Disney developed the coaster with the Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, using a layout closely related to coasters Vekoma had built in Europe, enclosed in a show building and themed around a recording studio. Aerosmith appeared in the pre-show film and supplied the ride's soundtrack, recording altered versions of their own songs with place-based lyrics for the on-ride audio. A twin attraction opened with Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris in 2002; that version closed in 2019 and was rebuilt as an Avengers attraction.

In November 2024, alongside the announcement that [[Muppet*Vision 3D]] would close, Disney confirmed the coaster would be rethemed to the Muppets — the characters' first ride. The Aerosmith pre-show was removed in December 2025, the original version ran for the last time on March 1, 2026, and after a conversion of under three months the Muppets version opened on May 26, 2026, with the fictional G-Force Records as its setting and, for the first time in a Disney ride, an Audio-Animatronic figure in its pre-show, of Scooter.

== Experience ==
In the Aerosmith version, guests toured G-Force Records and watched the band finish a recording session before being invited to a concert across Los Angeles, travelling in a 24-passenger "super stretch limo" train. In the Muppets version the studio belongs to the same fictional label, now home to Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, who are recording when guests arrive and are due on stage elsewhere in Hollywood; Scooter attempts to keep the session, and the guests' departure, on schedule.

Either way, the ride itself is unchanged. The train rolls to the mouth of a tunnel and is launched by a linear synchronous motor system from 0 to 57 mph (92 km/h) in about 2.8 seconds. The 3,268-foot (996 m) course runs entirely in the dark past oversized, illuminated Los Angeles freeway signs and scenery, through three inversions: a rollover loop combining elements of a loop and a corkscrew shortly after the launch, and a separate corkscrew near the end. Each seat has its own speakers, and the soundtrack — Aerosmith recordings in the original version, Electric Mayhem performances in the current one — is synchronised to the train. The ride lasts about 1 minute 22 seconds and has a height requirement of 48 inches (122 cm), the joint-highest at Walt Disney World.

== Design ==
The launch system uses a catapult arrangement of linear motors rather than a cable or flywheel. Because the building is enclosed, the coaster's 80-foot (24 m) height is invisible from outside; the park-facing facade is the studio building and its oversized guitar, whose neck extends into the entrance plaza.

== See also ==
* [[The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror]]
* [[Sunset Boulevard]]
* [[Muppet*Vision 3D]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Attractions]]
[[Category:Disney's Hollywood Studios]]
[[Category:Roller coasters]]
[[Category:1999 establishments in Florida]]

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