DHS Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

[JKick95]

I want to support @lazyboy97o responses on this one. I think @Mr. Sullivan was well meaning, but you jumbled a few things together.

Most of the exclusivity was related to HKDL’s fear of SDL. As Lazyboy said it was largely useless, they basically held back their Toy Story Playland until 5 years to the date in Shanghai. Originality, ironically, ensures them more exclusivity. There’s no such deal with their recent investment pipeline.

OLC’s issue was that Disney kept pitching them projects they really didn’t want and felt largely taken advantage of. Disney was trying to get OLC to prop up a portion of R&D on projects they had engaged in domestically. Namely Cars, Pandora and Galaxies Edge. Things that did not tickle the populaces fancy - they wanted more princesses. The D23 in Tokyo was part and parcel with a failed attempt to pitch the resort on a copy of Pandora.

There’s absolutely nothing preventing B&TB being copied. Now that said - current management, for whatever reason, seems to have an earnest desire to not copy things. I don’t know what has changed. Obviously WDI likes the position as it generates more work for them. I assume this is a Josh endorsed strategy, I think he pays attention a lot more than past parks execs have. We’ll see how long that lasts.

Totally agree—this is my biggest gripe with Universal. They love cloning lands and rides across their parks, which really takes away the excitement of visiting new locations. I’m always more excited about original concepts that make each park feel unique. I really hope this current strategy of avoiding clones continues—it’s so much more rewarding as a fan to experience something new at each destination.

 

[unclejeff]

It seems like the BATB ride could just spend a little less time in the boring room....actually all the dancing rooms except for the Be Our Guest room... It's a good looking ride.... and would be a Magic Kingdom Classic....Just leave the current restaurant facade, but make a better larger castle for the top, and gut the structure adding on from behind. They could even use Enchanted Tales With Belle as the queue and use the current restaurant entrance as the attraction exit.
it would fit something like this if it were inclined the identical way... So we know that won't work...lol
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I know we are far off topic here, but I think it could work if it replaces the current Enchanted Tales. The access lot to the left could be converted. I can't see them taking away a fine-dining experience that generates a lot of revenue with just a ride, but the TDL ride would certainly be a bigger draw than Enchanted Tales with Belle.

There is even more room if/when they decide to move Small World to a more thematically suitable location (e.g. Epcot or even Tomorrowland). They could easily fit a clone (or similar) Rapunzel boat ride from TDS in that vacated space to the left as well, just as an example (approximate total square-footages of both rides from Tokyo represented below). But that's a topic for another thread..

 

[peter11435]

I know we are far off topic here, but I think it could work if it replaces the current Enchanted Tales. The access lot to the left could be converted. I can't see them taking away a fine-dining experience that generates a lot of revenue with just a ride, but the TDL ride would certainly be a bigger draw than Enchanted Tales with Belle.

There is even more room if/when they decide to move Small World to a more thematically suitable location (e.g. Epcot or even Tomorrowland). They could easily fit a clone (or similar) Rapunzel boat ride from TDS in that vacated space to the left as well, just as an example (approximate total square-footages of both rides from Tokyo represented below). But that's a topic for another thread..
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The area to the left of Enchanted tales with Belle is not useable.

 

[Bocabear]

It is the entrance to the Utilidors... must remain clear....

 

[EagleScout610]

Anyway, getting back on track, I was told the first salvage teams had been spotted at Grand Ave the other day. Anything changed yet?

 

[mattpeto]

FIRST LOOK: Massive Monsters Inc. Door Vault Roller Coaster Ride Building Size & Location Revealed

We have a first look at the size and location of the massive Monsters Inc. door vault roller coaster building

blogmickey.com

"Here’s another look, with the Monsters Inc. door vault building isolated, but still in the correct position and correct scale, as seen in the overlay above. If I’m reading the data correctly, the building will be some 103,000sqft, making it the largest attraction building at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and one of the largest at all of Walt Disney World. It will be some 11% larger than the nearby Rise of the Resistance attraction, which clocks in at roughly 92,000sqft."

 

[ctrlaltdel]

FIRST LOOK: Massive Monsters Inc. Door Vault Roller Coaster Ride Building Size & Location Revealed

We have a first look at the size and location of the massive Monsters Inc. door vault roller coaster building

blogmickey.com

"Here’s another look, with the Monsters Inc. door vault building isolated, but still in the correct position and correct scale, as seen in the overlay above. If I’m reading the data correctly, the building will be some 103,000sqft, making it the largest attraction building at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and one of the largest at all of Walt Disney World. It will be some 11% larger than the nearby Rise of the Resistance attraction, which clocks in at roughly 92,000sqft."

Makes sense. Coasters need lots of room, but still wild the scale of what will be an average sized coaster vs. a massive dark ride.

 

[aladdin2007]

Makes sense. Coasters need lots of room, but still wild the scale of what will be an average sized coaster vs. a massive dark ride.

True, I dont think people realize the Monsterstrocity of size this will be.

 

[Andrew C]

True, I dont think people realize the Monsterstrocity of size this will be.

I see you!

 

[mattpeto]

Someone needs to put this building into Animation Courtyard to see how it would fit.

But it's making more sense why they landed here. Still stinks we lost MV3D.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Very excited to see the scale of this ... really hope they theme the building and don't just go for "go away blue"

 

[JackCH]

FIRST LOOK: Massive Monsters Inc. Door Vault Roller Coaster Ride Building Size & Location Revealed

We have a first look at the size and location of the massive Monsters Inc. door vault roller coaster building

blogmickey.com

"Here’s another look, with the Monsters Inc. door vault building isolated, but still in the correct position and correct scale, as seen in the overlay above. If I’m reading the data correctly, the building will be some 103,000sqft, making it the largest attraction building at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and one of the largest at all of Walt Disney World. It will be some 11% larger than the nearby Rise of the Resistance attraction, which clocks in at roughly 92,000sqft."

That is really far back. Am I missing something? Is the queue not being shown? If not it doesn’t seem to align with the concept art which looked a lot closer (even the updated one)

 

[mattpeto]

That is really far back. Am I missing something? Is the queue not being shown? If not it doesn’t seem to align with the concept art which looked a lot closer (even the updated one)

Looks like there will be more of an "entrance plaza" where there is a ton of space before entering the building.

Concept art definitely shows less space than that, agreed.

 

[JD80]

FIRST LOOK: Massive Monsters Inc. Door Vault Roller Coaster Ride Building Size & Location Revealed

We have a first look at the size and location of the massive Monsters Inc. door vault roller coaster building

blogmickey.com

"Here’s another look, with the Monsters Inc. door vault building isolated, but still in the correct position and correct scale, as seen in the overlay above. If I’m reading the data correctly, the building will be some 103,000sqft, making it the largest attraction building at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and one of the largest at all of Walt Disney World. It will be some 11% larger than the nearby Rise of the Resistance attraction, which clocks in at roughly 92,000sqft."

I wonder where they got that building overlay. I don't see that in the comprehensive plan that was released.

 

[wdwmagic]

New Map Reveals Massive Size of Monsters, Inc. Door Coaster Building at Disney's Hollywood Studios​

New Map Reveals Massive Size of Monsters, Inc. Door Coaster Building at Disney's Hollywood Studios

New Map Reveals Massive Size of Monsters, Inc. Door Coaster Building at Disney's Hollywood Studios

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[wdwmagic]

I’m wondering what’s going on with the little pink spot right next to Mama Melrose. Seems to be aligned with the Maine entrance of the building/factory. The road seems to be avoided. Could there be some kind of underground connection to the show building?

I think that is this, which has been a bit of a mystery with the repainting.

 

[JackCH]

Looks like there will be more of an "entrance plaza" where there is a ton of space before entering the building.

Concept art definitely shows less space than that, agreed.

That still seems like a ton of space. It just doesn’t look right unless there is something missing or hasn’t been shown yet.

 

[JD80]

@wdwmagic is there a link for the GIS map?

 

[JackCH]

I think that is this, which has been a bit of a mystery with the repainting.

Yeah I realized that after I posted which is why I deleted lol.

 

[JD80]

If I had to guess, it would be easier to go up and over the road rather than under it.