DHS Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

[ToTBellHop]

That's not exactly saving MV, so not sure why they would do that.

We also talked that the 2nd image was more generic and likely wasn't tied into Animation Courtyard. It was just showing what it would look like in any setting.

I think the idea is to push off backlash a bit and limit the amount of time the park functions with reduced capacity. It’s not necessary for MV to close for the full 3 years. It also buys them time to come up with some other plan for the Muppets or hope we move on with our lives.

Incidentally, as this was being finalized, a certain result for the HoP was all-but-certain so a move from DHS to MK for the characters became the plan. Recent changes in our political system may necessitate one more iteration of HoP with 47 AAs. If they indeed need a 47th AA by 2025, Iger will insist on that happening.

 

[ToTBellHop]

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Yes. Like they did at TSMM for awhile.

 

[mhochman]

I have no info and there are people here who understand corporate decision making -and Disney specially- better than I do. But doesn't it seem the longer this goes on with no info the more likely they are changing their minds about killing MV? The point was made much earlier in this thread about the logic of keeping the two kill announcements close to each other. If this drags longer, it will feel heavier. It's making me more hopeful that they may not kill it. That said, I live my life with "expect the worst" so that I'm rarely disappointed. I'm fun to be around, trust me.

 

[fgmnt]

That would be to keep it open longer while construction commences behind it. It could keep MV open through the end of 2025 but I don’t believe any longer.

I don't think it would be physically impossible to build Monstropolis behind the courtyard. Knock down the store and Mama Melrose, and build the addition behind it all. I think they won't do that because of crowd flow issues and creation of an even longer stump end like Sunset. That being said, the Door Coaster would be a magnet for guests much like ToT is.

 

[marni1971]

@marni1971 do you happen to have a map of the current DHS expansion pads, including some of the ideas they have tossed around over the years like expanding across the street?

Not as one image but top of my head:

Sunset Market Ranch
Next to Theatre of the Stars
West of Tower
Behind Indy
Parking lot
West of World Drive (with one or two bridges next to BVD) depending on what went over there)

And of course there’s also now the Animation building and infrastructure, and what used to be the entrance plaza are south of the park towards the abandoned hotel.

 

[Captain Barbossa]

The end of August is 16 days away. If you can’t scrape up a crumb of patience to wait for an announcement between now and then, then that’s on you and no one else. Some of y’all need to quit reading into the wait so much lol. There’s no vagueness from anyone and there’s not as much uncertainty as you think.

 

[fgmnt]

If they indeed need a 47th AA by 2025, Iger will insist on that happening.

Not to go off topic into idpol, but you have to admit that deciding to mothball the attraction when faced with the possibility of having to add an AA for the first woman to go in there would look abysmal to the public.

 

[ednamodedarling]

Not as one image but top of my head

Sunset Market Ranch
Next to Theatre of the Stars
West of Tower
Behind Indy
Parking lot
West of World Drive (with one or two bridges next to BVD) depending on what went over there)

And of course there’s also now the Animation building and infrastructure

Is there a way to expand Galaxy's Edge toward the starcruiser?

 

[marni1971]

Is there a way to expand Galaxy's Edge toward the starcruiser?

No reason why not. You never know.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Not to go off topic into idpol, but you have to admit that deciding to mothball the attraction when faced with the possibility of having to add an AA for the first woman to go in there would look abysmal to the public.

Yes, but there’s no question that is the case. They should have just announced this Saturday. It becomes more problematic to close HoP by the day.

 

[Streetway]

Yes, but there’s no question that is the case. They should have just announced this Saturday. It becomes more problematic to close HoP by the day.

They really did shoot themselves in the foot.

 

[Streetway]

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So, they’d move the exit of the attraction to where the studio one store is now?

 

[CaptinEO]

Wish this same level of love was shown for Captain EO when it was unceremoniously removed.

 

[ToTBellHop]

So, they’d move the exit of the attraction to where the studio one store is now?

You make a small corridor around the building to get back to the courtyard while allowing construction behind.

 

[Phicinfan]

I simply don't get this move to Muppets area. It just logistically makes no sense to me.

You have Toy Story land in one corner, you have the Cars show in another corner, now you are going to take an entirely different corner and put Monsters Inc.

So this is Pixar Hollywood Studios with Star Wars thrown in?

Having Monsters in Animation courtyard gives the option to tie all the Pixar properties together in one area, it just flows so much better to me.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I simply don't get this move to Muppets area. It just logistically makes no sense to me.

You have Toy Story land in one corner, you have the Cars show in another corner, now you are going to take an entirely different corner and put Monsters Inc.

So this is Pixar Hollywood Studios with Star Wars thrown in?

Having Monsters in Animation courtyard gives the option to tie all the Pixar properties together in one area, it just flows so much better to me.

I don’t think they need to have all of the content from one studio together.

 

[Streetway]

You make a small corridor around the building to get back to the courtyard while allowing construction behind.

if they shoved monsters inc slightly back, id be fine with that.

 

[Big_Shakalaka]

Doing some armchair imagineering. Is this a possibility? Move the entrance directly to the street, build Monsters Inc land next to it, Muppets either has an exit right back out to the street using a path where Grand Ave is now, or exits into Monstropolis.

 

[ToTBellHop]

if they shoved monsters inc slightly back, id be fine with that.

Think of this like Cosmic Rewind. They can build the gravity box behind MV first before closing MV to turn it into the queue and start of the coaster.

 

[mikejs78]

Not as one image but top of my head:

Sunset Market Ranch
Next to Theatre of the Stars
West of Tower
Behind Indy
Parking lot
West of World Drive (with one or two bridges next to BVD) depending on what went over there)

And of course there’s also now the Animation building and infrastructure, and what used to be the entrance plaza are south of the park towards the abandoned hotel.

Out of curiosity, do you have an idea of how much of the land west of World Drive is useable?