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News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios
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For me, my main hope with the monsters land is this:
- the ride is not under 30seconds
- the get the restaurant (which is pretty much confirmed)
- unique merch at the gift shop
- connects to sunset in some way
- has different areas, just like how Galaxy's Edge has the city and the outskirts, I hope monsters has the factory area, the city area, and if we're lucky some type of MU area/ackowledgement
- feels finished but also has room for expansion wether it be a second smaller dark ride like at DCA or a new land to be built behind and connect to RnRC
- And finally, please, please, please bring in Randy Newman to do the music for the land/ride!
btw now that it seems settled this is gonna be AC and not muppets can we please get excited for this, as someone who grew up with this film and thinks Hollywood needs more lands I think it is an amazing thing we are about to get and am cautiously optimistic
- the ride is not under 30seconds
- the get the restaurant (which is pretty much confirmed)
- unique merch at the gift shop
- connects to sunset in some way
- has different areas, just like how Galaxy's Edge has the city and the outskirts, I hope monsters has the factory area, the city area, and if we're lucky some type of MU area/ackowledgement
- feels finished but also has room for expansion wether it be a second smaller dark ride like at DCA or a new land to be built behind and connect to RnRC
- And finally, please, please, please bring in Randy Newman to do the music for the land/ride!
btw now that it seems settled this is gonna be AC and not muppets can we please get excited for this, as someone who grew up with this film and thinks Hollywood needs more lands I think it is an amazing thing we are about to get and am cautiously optimistic
SplashJacket
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Weird they’re calling it Mike and Sulley’s Flavors of Asia.
If I had to guess, it’s because the Asian audience is more connected to characters in movies, rather the details within the movies? In other words, they like fluffy cute characters (hence the rise of Duffy and friends across Asia).
Brer Panther
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I just hope Harryhausen's has an animatronic of the sushi chef octopus. And that whenever somebody walks in, everybody else shouts "GET A PAPER BAG!"
That's a great point. How insulting would it be if Simpsons got an attraction at Disney World before, say, WALL-E?
James Alucobond
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I assure you the IP can’t feel insulted. And I find the prospect of the Simpsons as distasteful as anybody, but you need only look at Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, or any of the partnerships/acquisitions during the early days of MGM to see that line skipping is not an issue for the people making decisions.
TrainsOfDisney
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Worse than Deadpool?
While we old heads won't ever think of The Simpsons as Disney, it's clear that Disney wants us to. The Simpsons has basically always been on the Carousel every-time I've opened Disney+ since it's launch 5 years ago, and they have just released their 9th Disney+ exclusive Simpsons Short most of which feature other Disney owned characters. They've had Simpsons panels and costumed characters at the last few D23s, other than Avatar and the film rights to the X-Men/FF nothing from the Fox Acquisition has been more thoroughly put under the Disney banner.
I would be not be shocked if The Simpsons appear in a Disney Park to some degree once the Universal Contract is up here in a few years.
I would be not be shocked if The Simpsons appear in a Disney Park to some degree once the Universal Contract is up here in a few years.
The Leader of the Club
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I think Simpsons is actually pretty tame when you consider that they could bring in Family Guy or Alien.
zipadee999
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Yeah Simpsons is no more risqué than any live-action sit com that targets adult or even family audiences. I think it gets more attention just because for a while people weren’t used to seeing cartoons act like real people, but now when you have Family Guy, Rick and Morty, South Park, etc, The Simpsons is extremely tame by comparison.
Most episodes even end with nice messages that I actually feel support the Disney brand.
IMO, a Duff Brewery experience (near but outside the parks) would be a plus for Disney— somewhere that Dad’s can chill while teens are hanging out at the parks. I’ve always enjoyed the Simpsons Land at USH and would be fine with it coming to DHS/DCA. I would not welcome it at the other parks.
Jrb1979
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No more irrelevant than Aerosmith or Twilight Zone. I have no issue with the Simpsons in MK. The parks don't have a theme anymore. Put the top characters in the top park. Add in a Duff brewery and it's perfect.
James Alucobond
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The biggest issue I have with it is quite simply that The Simpsons isn't a visually compelling property in the slightest. I wouldn't mind quite so much if they put something related to it inside and sequestered away, but following their current trajectory of constructing themed lands, it's just not a property I find conducive to a themed environment. IMO, the land at Universal looks awful despite more or less representing the extent of what could be done.
Schmidt
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I guess it depends on your preference. I hope they don’t. It seems like a dead IP and it’s never been my thing.
Aerosmith and TZ are already there and have been for decades . I think each park still has its very own feeling and identity to it. I don’t subscribe to the thought that each park has lost its theme but to each there own.
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UNCgolf
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Exactly.
I have other issues with the Simpsons (mainly that I don't think they will be popular enough to be a theme park draw 10 years from now -- I don't think they even function as a draw for Universal right now), but the biggest is that I don't see how they can make an interesting land out of it.
It's a major problem with the IP mandate in general, especially as they've pivoted to lands themed around a single IP -- there just aren't that many IPs that are both popular enough to merit their own land, and visually interesting enough to work. It's the reason Avengers Campus is such a dud (there are certainly visually interesting locations in the MCU, but they tend to be tied more closely to one or a small handful of specific characters instead of being fair game for anyone to appear).
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DisneyHead123
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I really enjoy The Simpsons, but I can’t say Springfield is a place I ever dreamed of being transported to. I think the whole point is that The Simpsons is a sardonic, caricatured look at life - not an idealized escape from the daily grind. That works great as a tv show, not as a travel destination.
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
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The discussion always shifts towards Simpsons in these Studios threads every few months. I don't think it belongs in a Disney park.
Here's a particular thread I made in January for discussing this point: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...o-so-after-the-universal-deal-expires.982956/
Here's a particular thread I made in January for discussing this point: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...o-so-after-the-universal-deal-expires.982956/
Figments Friend
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Animation Courtyard will be a good fit for the ‘Monsters Inc.’ area.
Opens up some opportunities, for now and the future.
Still a little tinge of sadness will be about me when they bulldoze those buildings.
Some real animation history happened there a few decades ago…
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Opens up some opportunities, for now and the future.
Still a little tinge of sadness will be about me when they bulldoze those buildings.
Some real animation history happened there a few decades ago…
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The Leader of the Club
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I hope that we get more than just the coaster and Harryhousen’s. It would be a real shame not to get something else in DHS without a height requirement. I think Ride & Go Seek from Tokyo would be the perfect addition here. Theme it to MU if you want to avoid reusing the factory setting too much.
peter11435
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I agree… but that’s not happening.