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It’s time to cut the music. It’s time to dim the lights. On Saturday, June 7, Muppet*Vision 3D ends its 34-year standing engagement at Walt Disney World. The significance of this theme-park attraction featuring a 3-D movie along with live special effects and animatronics can’t be overstated : It’s Jim Henson’s last major work that he directed and performed in, a testament to an era of classic Imagineering craftsmanship, entertainment with a rare-to-come-by-’round-those-parts sense of humor, and the only place on earth you could go and actually sit in a theater with Statler and Waldorf heckling from the box seats. But under the leadership of Bob Iger and Parks czar Josh D’Amaro, the entire Muppets area of Disney’s Hollywood Studios must make way for progress in the form of a land themed t