Oh, so sorry to hear you'll miss it!. The Henson studio visit was truly one of the highlights of our trip--such a beautiful & historic true Hollywood Studio! We got to interact with a puppeteer at work filming a scene bringing the puppet's personality & voice to life, watched as a tech dubbed & synchronized the voices on a video, got to talk to a motion-capture performer. It was great to be onsite at a working studio where things were happening. The introductory film to the studio made by Jim Henson's son was worth the visit--one of the funniest things we've ever seen!
As a studio tour, we actually enjoyed Henson more than the Disney studio where it was basically a lot of walking around the outside of buildings where things "used to happen". Disney studio tour was a bit of a letdown--tour was lots of history facts, some artifacts, nice pictures in Legends Courtyard but no chance to see creative people at work, anything being being worked on at any stage of a film, or ask questions of anyone who was ever involved in creating films. Our studio guides acted like giving the tours was beneath them & implied it was the least favorite part of their jobs. If "walking in Walt's footsteps" is important to you, you'll get that at the studio but we felt it much more the early morning on Main Street.
