DHS Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

I mean how else do you think the park should be organized?

Call me old school, but having the lands all be genres that you then assign IP to is tried and true. Plus if you made a new castle park you could do different lands to make newer IP work better.

Pixar has plenty of movies that can be split up into the original lands:

Fantasyland: Brave, Onward, Luca, Elemental
Tomorrowland: Toy Story (Buzz Lightyear), Incredibles, Monster’s Inc (a bit of a stretch but that’s where it’s gone in the past), WALL-E, Cars (the high tech racing side)
Frontierland: Toy Story (Woody), Coco, Cars (Radiator Springs/Planes)
Adventureland: Up, Good Dinosaur

Pixar doesn’t need to be contained to a “Pixarland”, and it doesn’t really work well if it is. Some of their big movies don’t fit into the classic Disneyland lands, but if you did a new park you could make it work I’m sure

 

[Agent H]

Call me old school, but having the lands all be genres that you then assign IP to is tried and true. Plus if you made a new castle park you could do different lands to make newer IP work better.

Pixar has plenty of movies that can be split up into the original lands:

Fantasyland: Brave, Onward, Luca, Elemental
Tomorrowland: Toy Story (Buzz Lightyear), Incredibles, Monster’s Inc (a bit of a stretch but that’s where it’s gone in the past), WALL-E, Cars (the high tech racing side)
Frontierland: Toy Story (Woody), Coco, Cars (Radiator Springs/Planes)
Adventureland: Up, Good Dinosaur

Pixar doesn’t need to be contained to a “Pixarland”, and it doesn’t really work well if it is. Some of their big movies don’t fit into the classic Disneyland lands, but if you did a new park you could make it work I’m sure

I don’t think it needs to be contained entirely. There can be Pixar in other parks. I just think given what Disney wants out of Hollywood studios separating lands by the different studios makes a lot of sense.

 

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

I don’t think it needs to be contained entirely. There can be Pixar in other parks. I just think given what Disney wants out of Hollywood studios separating lands by the different studios makes a lot of sense.

Ah whoops, I missed that context. I think having multiple Pixar IPs having their own lands in DHS is fine, it’s no different then something like DAW in Paris having Frozen and Lion King lands.

 

[Surferboy567]

Do boost zones mean the coaster will have small launches like Slinky Dog Dash?

 

[James Alucobond]

I don’t think it needs to be contained entirely. There can be Pixar in other parks. I just think given what Disney wants out of Hollywood studios separating lands by the different studios makes a lot of sense.

There's nothing really all that related between Pixar properties such that they need to be grouped together. It would be the same as insisting that all Lucasfilm properties be collected in one place or all Touchstone Pictures properties be massed together. It wouldn't be bad, but it's also not necessary based on the current theme. Also, treating Hollywood Studios like that would probably lead to really pronounced demographic clustering within specific sections.

 

[Moth]

Perhaps for Villains?!?!

A Velocicoaster-level coaster as "Night On Bald Mountain" plays would make me load up on Pixie dust and turn in my currently active "Univershill" membership. Don't play with my heart.

 

[Agent H]

There's nothing really all that related between Pixar properties such that they need to be grouped together. It would be the same as insisting that all Lucasfilm properties be collected in one place or all Touchstone Pictures properties be massed together. It makes sense for Marvel since it's all interconnected, but that's about it. Treating Hollywood Studios like that would probably also lead to really pronounced demographic clustering within specific sections.

There's nothing really all that related between Pixar properties such that they need to be grouped together. It would be the same as insisting that all Lucasfilm properties be collected in one place or all Touchstone Pictures properties be massed together. It makes sense for Marvel since it's all interconnected, but that's about it. Treating Hollywood Studios like that would probably also lead to really pronounced demographic clustering within specific sections.

They don’t need to be. But it would make sense given the parks current layout. Can you honestly say you would rather monsters go where it is then it go in animation courtyard?

 

[James Alucobond]

They don’t need to be. But it would make sense given the parks current layout. Can you honestly say you would rather monsters go where it is then it go in animation courtyard?

I would rather Animation Courtyard get redeveloped first, but I don't care if what goes there is Pixar or not.

 

[Agent H]

I would rather Animation Courtyard get redeveloped first, but I don't care if what goes there is Pixar or not.

Of course I don’t NEED it to be Pixar. But it would make sense is All I’m saying.

 

[James Alucobond]

It would still just be two lands next to each other that have nothing thematically to do with one another, which is just as good as two lands not next to each other that have nothing thematically to do with one another. Clustering Pixar things is meaningless. Putting them all together is purely OCD appeasement. It doesn't actually make "sense" in any meaningful way.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Clustering Pixar things is meaningless. Putting them all together is purely OCD appeasement.

Isn’t everything about good design “ocd appeasement”?

 

[Agent H]

Isn’t everything about good design “ocd appeasement”?

THANK YOU!

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Do boost zones mean the coaster will have small launches like Slinky Dog Dash?

We don't know but I think that is possible/likely especially if they want to have any moments in the ride building that slow a bit to show scenes as could then slow down/pause for that and then "boost" up again - sort of like Hagrids

 

[Vinnie Mac]

Love the emphasis on their being kinetic movement throughout the ride experience even in the queue

 

[James Alucobond]

Isn’t everything about good design “ocd appeasement”?

Not in the way suggested, no. Just because the same studio made two things doesn't mean that they "make sense" next to each other. What does Monstropolis have to do with Andy's backyard? Nothing. Putting them next to each other only means something if you have external knowledge of who made Monsters Inc. and who made Toy Story. Should Cars Road Rally and Space Ranger Spin go directly next to each other in Magic Kingdom for the same reason despite their wildly different theming?

 

[lazyboy97o]

Isn’t everything about good design “ocd appeasement”?

Do you think good design is irrational?

 

[Casper Gutman]

Not in the way suggested, no. Just because the same studio made two things doesn't mean that they "make sense" next to each other. What does Monstropolis have to do with Andy's backyard? Nothing. Putting them next to each other only means something if you have external knowledge of who made Monsters Inc. and who made Toy Story. Should Cars Road Rally and Space Ranger Spin go directly next to each other in Magic Kingdom for the same reason despite their wildly different theming

To be fair, 'external knowledge of who made" a particular film is the organizing principle of every single Disney theme park. Pooh and Snow White, Cars and Guardians of the Galaxy, Toy Story and Star Wars - the only link is that 'external knowledge.'

 

[osian]

Not in the way suggested, no. Just because the same studio made two things doesn't mean that they "make sense" next to each other. What does Monstropolis have to do with Andy's backyard? Nothing. Putting them next to each other only means something if you have external knowledge of who made Monsters Inc. and who made Toy Story. Should Cars Road Rally and Space Ranger Spin go directly next to each other in Magic Kingdom for the same reason despite their wildly different theming?

Well...I think it would make sense for Hollywood Studios. The park that is about movie studios, it make thematic sense to have areas devoted to each studio. But no, it doesn't make sense in the other parks, where other theming groups are more appropriate.

But I think that ship has sailed anyway. Hollywood Studios is such a mess and doesn't have any coherent theme or organisation, which is pretty essential for a theme park.

 

[James Alucobond]

To be fair, 'external knowledge of who made" a particular film is the organizing principle of every single Disney theme park. Pooh and Snow White, Cars and Guardians of the Galaxy, Toy Story and Star Wars - the only link is that 'external knowledge.'

I wouldn't really say that. You may have expectations or notions about who will show up in the park because you know what IP the park owner holds, but that is not the actual organizing principle within the park itself. They are linked to the park by the themed lands they inhabit.

Well...I think it would make sense for Hollywood Studios. The park that is about movie studios, it make thematic sense to have areas devoted to each studio. But no, it doesn't make sense in the other parks, where other theming groups are more appropriate.

They have stated that they're moving away from "functioning studio" to "stepping into worlds from film". While that shift is obviously incomplete, it still means there is now no organizational reason for the world of Monstropolis to exist directly adjacent to Andy's backyard.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Do you think good design is irrational?

No. I don’t think ocd is irrational.