Also, the fact that he's been repeating this for several years now gives me the impression that Mr. Lutz probably hates the Muppets or at least the Muppet-Vision 3D attraction and personally wants to see the attraction go away.
either that, or he gets the impression they want to replace it with something more profitable or straight from a current film. Impression, like assumption, isn't fact. But even still, it's wait and watch time. I never got to see it, cuz Disney world is so expensive. I thought about wanting to go to Sesame Place (it's the only Muppet themed amusment park around) or Universal (until they tore down all the Bullwinkle stuff).
But as I've said multiple times.... If it were even an unfounded rumor about Star Tours getting the boot, we'd have millions of SW fans writing nasty letters to Disney, burning Mickey's in effegy and such. We should write a pollite and persuasive letter asking if this is true or not. Someone's just got to find a contact.