DHS Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

[LSLS]

Quick look (and I know, I'm probably off here some), but going from the Animation Courtyard (taking out Disney Junior but leaving Mermaid) going back to RnRC gives you about a half acre more space than Muppets. The added benefit would be you then have an area to connect to that RnRC, which could make a nice little loop. That would leave the area from this Monsters area to Toy Story Land open for another round of development, and would leave Muppets complete (and available much further down the line to be more of a Star Wars expansion.

NOW, here's the question I don't know the answer to. If you take that backstage area out, and connect to the RnRC area, how would that affect the ability to get to the Sunset food places from backstage. Would there be a way to make that work? Do you maybe just connect to Sunset instead of RnRC?

 

[mattpeto]

i still don’t understand why putting a ride in Indy isn’t under consideration. Even if it’s not practical, I feel one major ride could go there.

It's a massive people eater.

 

[Bocabear]

so was Lights Motors Action.....but then.....

 

[Ichabod Crane]

i still don’t understand why putting a ride in Indy isn’t under consideration. Even if it’s not practical, I feel one major ride could go there.

Probably because that’s prime real estate for when they decide to put something else in the Echo lake area

 

[LSLS]

Monsters land needs to go between all that relatively dead space between the Indy stunt show and the park entrance- behind Prime Time Café. Balance out park crowds and the three coasters.

What dead space are you talking about? Indy to the fence at the park entrance is legit like 150 feet

 

[mattpeto]

so was Lights Motors Action.....but then.....

They didn't close that for one attraction. They closed it for a massive land.

 

[Streetway]

It's a massive people eater.

It’s a hangover from the mgm days, and while I like it, it takes up a huge amount of space. Echo lake also needs some life in it, and Indy is going to DAK. I think it should be replaced with an omnimover. Replace one people eater with another, and it would be helpful to get a ride like that for families.

 

[doctornick]

If you think replacing muppets (that isn't even popular enough for fastpass) with an e-ticket coaster isn't going to help the park then I don't know how to help you.

Also, if you like what they're building, great. You don't get to decide where they build it.

The problem with DHS isn't "there aren't enough popular things". The problem is "there are only popular things and not enough of other stuff". DHS more than any other park really needs a ton of C tickets, not headliners.

On top of that, it has the worse configuration of any of the parks and needs to increase space and guest flow.

 

[Streetway]

The problem with DHS isn't "there aren't enough popular things". The problem is "there are only popular things and not enough of them". DHS more than any other park really needs a ton of C tickets, not headliners.

On top of that, it has the worse configuration of any of the parks and needs to increase space and guest flow.

Every park needs a “tiki room” or “Winnie the Pooh” level attraction

 

[Tha Realest]

so was Lights Motors Action.....but then.....

But Indy actually eats people

 

[STITCHGEFAN]

Can anyone actually provide an informed/logical explanation why sorting out Animation Courtyard wouldn't be a priority, regardless of whether that project is MI or something else? I'm sure there's a master plan, but not utilising the most underutilised area, especially at HS, is baffling on the face of it.

 

[Tha Realest]

Seems like this would be a good time for them to build an office building as part of the old Galactic Cruiser Hotel site and move all of those offices and support operations to that location so that there is proper expansion space for the future...

I agree. Disney operations should have to move to the carcass of SWGS as a daily reminder.

 

[Bocabear]

That was my point...Reorganize the park in a meaningful way...remove all the dead production facilities and offices... Completely raze all that area including the Walt Disney museum and mermaid, Launch Bay all the way to RNRR... That would be a huge space to put a dedicated Pixar Studios section...including the Cars attraction they are shoehorning into MK... it would make perfect sense and give DHS a bunch of new added attractions...

 

[LSLS]

Can anyone actually provide an informed/logical explanation why sorting out Animation Courtyard wouldn't be a priority, regardless of whether that project is MI or something else? I'm sure there's a master plan, but not utilising the most underutilised area, especially at HS, is baffling on the face of it.

It's potentially a much larger area, and they don't have the budget this phase to put in anything that large is the only thing I could come up with. So you get the much smaller miniland in first, then your next phase is the larger plot as the big announcement at the next D23 (or the one after). I completely disagree with them doing that, but that's my best guess.

 

[Purduevian]

Does anyone know if there was a straight down picture taken of the model? I've been wanting to trace the coaster layout, but everyone took a picture at an angle so the back just turns into spaghetti.

 

[ToTBellHop]

It's potentially a much larger area, and they don't have the budget this phase to put in anything that large is the only thing I could come up with. So you get the much smaller miniland in first, then your next phase is the larger plot as the big announcement at the next D23 (or the one after). I completely disagree with them doing that, but that's my best guess.

It feels like they pushed off Lion King for DAK to fund this which is why there isn’t enough money for a huge expansion. But, a new ride and repurposed merch and dining is doable on a relatively small budget. Whether or not that’s a “land” is debatable. They’ll certainly market it as one.

 

[doctornick]

But why would they do that? The land will have dining and merchandise. The most reasonable thing to do is convert existing dining and merch into new dining and merch. They aren’t going to use the entire space for two attractions but no dining or merch.

I do think there is TOO MUCH merch back there so there’s room to remove or convert some of that. But the park needs a TSR and QSR here. Let’s hope the theming is strong.

Sure. perhaps I'm not being explicit enough, but yes I would make sure you have Monsters themed merch and eating in addition to any attractions. I just take that as a given.

My point was that if you remove Mama Melrose as well as the main store, you have access backstage space that can be added to the on stage park space. On that currently backstage + Mama Melrose space I would certainly put not only the Door Coaster but also new food and merch themed to Monsters).

I'm terrible with graphics, but....

 

[djkidkaz]

Has there been any rumblings of a second monsters attraction being bult with the new land? Has there been any precedent for Disney opening a new land with only one ride?

Maybe a retheme of muppets to monsters inc?

 

[griffin ferrari]

has anyone thought about them doing something like this lay out? Demo studio 1 and Mama Melrose's and then build monsters there

Quick photoshop job.. that's the RRC grav building in place of the show building for the door coster.

 

[griffin ferrari]

Sure. perhaps I'm not being explicit enough, but yes I would make sure you have Monsters themed merch and eating in addition to any attractions. I just take that as a given.

My point was that if you remove Mama Melrose as well as the main store, you have access backstage space that can be added to the on stage park space. On that currently backstage + Mama Melrose space I would certainly put not only the Door Coaster but also new food and merch themed to Monsters).

I'm terrible with graphics, but....

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