News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

[Sneaky]

DJ and LM are unrealized or unused capacity.

Well, little mermaid is coming back soon, and villains is getting a show where lighting is, so there will not be a shortage of shows at DHS.

 

[Rhinocerous]

AC is a wasteland. It’s good that it is going. And I’m sure that space will be used soon. I do wonder what happens to the old mgm studio arch potentially. Knocked down?

Thematically, there has to be an entrance into the Monster world. The logical move would be to convert the arch into some kind of massive industrial doorway. I envision it as a set of open sci-fi blast doors, but they may well have a different aesthetic in mind.

 

[Sneaky]

Thematically, there has to be an entrance into the Monster world. The logical move would be to convert the arch into some kind of massive industrial doorway. I envision it as a set of open sci-fi blast doors, but they may well have a different aesthetic in mind.

Maybe? I was also thinking the whole “factory” would act as a “weenie” to draw people in. Still crazy how much of mgm is gone and will soon be gone too. This park really is Abe Lincoln’s hatchet in a sense

 

[Moth]

Ditto on hearing about Launch Bay and Jr.
I don't wanna say it's locked in but that seems to be where it's leaning. I've been awaiting further word.

 

[EagleScout610]

Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

It'll be built at Walt Disney World. That's all we know

 

[ToTBellHop]

It'll be built at Walt Disney World. That's all we know

Monsters is actually coming to Epic Universe.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Monsters is actually coming to Epic Universe.

Only if ET comes to DHS!

 

[doctornick]

It is so frustrating that for anything new at WDW something guest facing has to be torn down.

There is a CM dining area in the Disney Jr/Brown Derby building that would likely be re-purposed to on stage and for guests if Monsters goes in that area. It would need to be replaced by a similar venue backstage to support the CMs but that would IMHO be a reasonable use of that building/space even if it might also involve re-purposing the Disney Jr space.

 

[doctornick]

It’s only a wasteland because Disney let it become a wasteland though.

That area should be tied into one man’s dream and be a large animation experience similar to the one in California with the drawing academy etc.

But yes, as it is now, we are losing nothing.

That's kind of what it was back when what is now Launch Bay was the Animation building. It definitely had the animation drawing session and they had a video about animation. I think maybe some of the other stuff was there too.

I would be happy to have that stuff back in DHS, but the location for Launch Bay is a roadblock and the entire building (including the offices) needs to come down. That should be the priority. If they can get some sort of animation experience back in the park as well, I'm all for it.

 

[celluloid]

I never said three years. The last three D23 events - 2022, 2023, and now 2024.

I hate to bring them in to this, but Universal demos attractions and doesn't announce a replacement until later. I'd say that method helps build the hype.

It for sure does. It also let's you know there are definite plans instead of promising something coming with potential of not happening.

 

[UNCgolf]

That's kind of what it was back when what is now Launch Bay was the Animation building. It definitely had the animation drawing session and they had a video about animation. I think maybe some of the other stuff was there too.

I would be happy to have that stuff back in DHS, but the location for Launch Bay is a roadblock and the entire building (including the offices) needs to come down. That should be the priority. If they can get some sort of animation experience back in the park as well, I'm all for it.

Originally you could actually see animators at work on Disney films. I remember they were working on Mulan when I was there sometime in the mid-1990s.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Originally you could actually see animators at work on Disney films. I remember they were working on Mulan when I was there sometime in the mid-1990s.

The Good Ol' days..

 

[SCOTLORR]

I believe they’ve settled on AC with Disney, Jr. being demolished. But, I’d like further confirmation.

Ditto on hearing about Launch Bay and Jr.
I don't wanna say it's locked in but that seems to be where it's leaning. I've been awaiting further word.

This would be such a great break. We need a project that the fan base can be unanimously (as unanimous as possible at least) behind. Placing monsters in Muppets is an additional controversy for absolutely no reason, in a time where everything Disney does is controversial (and for good reason). Just put it in AC so we can all take a deep breath.

 

[Rhinocerous]

Originally you could actually see animators at work on Disney films. I remember they were working on Mulan when I was there sometime in the mid-1990s.

My first trip in 2011 it was still operating this way, though I heard it was just people hand-drawing animation cels to be sold as merch by that point. This was after the film where Mushu took you through the animation process.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

My first trip in 2011 it was still operating this way, though I heard it was just people hand-drawing animation cels to be sold as merch by that point. This was after the film where Mushu took you through the animation process.

2003 was the end of the production era (after brother bear) - but yes part of the animation experience remained.

 

[erasure fan1]

Placing monsters in Muppets is an additional controversy for absolutely no reason, in a time where everything Disney does is controversial

That's why this whole thing has been a head scratcher. This isn't a decision of something HAS to go. They have the space so why even let it get to the point it has? Even if Muppets stays, they've still given themselves months of crappy press for no good reason. If they just came out and said at d23, coming to animation courtyard, monsters inc door coaster! EVERYONE is onboard and you have some great news to combat the rivers of America/TSI noise.

 

[Rhinocerous]

Maybe? I was also thinking the whole “factory” would act as a “weenie” to draw people in. Still crazy how much of mgm is gone and will soon be gone too. This park really is Abe Lincoln’s hatchet in a sense

Please let me explain my thinking here. The central conceit of both the films and the ride is the doors which connect their world to ours. This isn't Toy Story Land, where you can get away with an open pathway. Not having some kind of doorway breaks immersion on a fundamental level.

The concept art shows the whole land existing in the Monsters' world. Which makes sense. Unfortunately, that means you can't use the factory entrance as the doorway, which would greatly simplify things. I don't know how much the mouse cares about full thematic fidelity these days, but I think the factory should only be visible through the wide-open front gates.


And Honest Abe killed vampires with that hatchet, so I'm good with it.

 

[Sneaky]

Please let me explain my thinking here. The central conceit of both the films and the ride is the doors which connect their world to ours. This isn't Toy Story Land, where you can get away with an open pathway. Not having some kind of doorway breaks immersion on a fundamental level.

The concept art shows the whole land existing in the Monsters' world. Which makes sense. Unfortunately, that means you can't use the factory entrance as the doorway, which would greatly simplify things. I don't know how much the mouse cares about full thematic fidelity these days, but I think the factory should only be visible through the wide-open front gates.

Yeah, I understand your thinking, I kinda get it. I dunno what they’d do with the slivers off to the side that’s open. Are you thinking sort of a situation where you used to be behind the facades of streets of America in the muppets area? I get that. Maybe they could build a fake Hollywood exterior at the entrance of monstropolis? Griffith observatory? Another soundstage? I dunno, but it would be cool.

Also I forgot that Abe Lincoln vampire hunter movie existed lol. What a crazy concept.

 

[Ar1w]

It makes Universal a lot of money, and more than ever on the property that already did.
Makes perfect sense to keep it.

By the time Universal sees fit to give it up, it won't be worth theme park lands.

Universal's Marvel take wound up more timeless and encompassing than anything Disney has done yet.

Nothing of their own IP right now would do as well as MSHI.

It features all time greats in IP and theme park design.

Disney could open a 5th gate with Marvel, if Uni ever dropped it. You build Wakanda; Avengers Campus from CA; NYC with Stark Tower, Spider-man, Sanctum Sanctorum, X-Men Mansion; Asgard; Planet Ego with GOTG.

They could call it Disney’s Marvel Adventures

 

[etc98]

Please let me explain my thinking here. The central conceit of both the films and the ride is the doors which connect their world to ours. This isn't Toy Story Land, where you can get away with an open pathway. Not having some kind of doorway breaks immersion on a fundamental level.

The concept art shows the whole land existing in the Monsters' world. Which makes sense. Unfortunately, that means you can't use the factory entrance as the doorway, which would greatly simplify things. I don't know how much the mouse cares about full thematic fidelity these days, but I think the factory should only be visible through the wide-open front gates.


And Honest Abe killed vampires with that hatchet, so I'm good with it.

I don’t see how it’s any different than going into any other land. We don’t need to take a spaceship ride to get to Batuu or Pandora, we don’t need to go through a fake border crossing to move between World Showcase countries. There’s always a certain level of “you were here and now you’re here” kind of thing when you move between lands. More abrupt in some places and more subtle in others, of course. A giant door could certainly accomplish that transition in this case, but I wouldn’t say it’s necessary.