New Detailed Concept Art Reveals Closer Look at Monsters, Inc. Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

Nov 25, 2024 in "Monsters Inc. Land"

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Monsters Inc. Land Concept Art Final Version November 2024

Posted: Monday November 25, 2024 11:30am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has released new high-resolution concept art showcasing the upcoming Monsters, Inc. land coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios. The latest artwork gives fans a closer look at what's planned for the area, offering insights into familiar locations from the movie reimagined as theme park attractions.

A Closer Look at Monstropolis

The newly released high-resolution concept art gives a detailed look at the transformation happening at Disney's Hollywood Studios. The Monstropolis-themed courtyard and attention to detail throughout the land will aim to immerse guests in the universe of Monsters, Inc., giving them a new way to experience the humor, heart, and thrill of the Pixar film.

Wide view of the Monsters Inc. Land

Monstropolis Central Courtyard

The central courtyard has been reworked into Monstropolis, with notable changes to give it the feel of the monster city. The Muppets fountain has been replaced by a statue of Mike Wazowski, serving as a focal point for the redesigned area. New landscaping, colorful building facades, and busy streets are meant to bring Monstropolis to life, allowing guests to feel like they're part of the Monsters, Inc. world.

Center of Monsters Inc. Land

The Monstro Theater: Replacing MuppetVision 3D

The Monstro Theater is also shown in the concept art, taking over the space that previously housed MuppetVision 3D. The updated theater facade has been designed to fit the aesthetics of Monstropolis, aiming to evoke the bustling city atmosphere from the films. Disney says a new show will be presented at the updated theater.

The Monstro Theater in Monsters Inc. Land

Harryhausen's Restaurant: Replacing Mama Melrose's

The concept art features Harryhausen's, a restaurant from the original Monsters, Inc. film. This location will replace the former Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano, transforming the area into an immersive dining space inspired by the movie.

Harryhausen's Restaurant

Flying Door Coaster: A New Addition

In the back of the new land, the concept art shows a glimpse of the planned flying door rollercoaster set within the door warehouse. Inspired by the door vault sequence from Monsters, Inc., this new family-friendly roller coaster ride is intended to offer an exciting experience for guests of all ages. The warehouse design captures the industrial feel of the movie, adding a significant landmark to the land.

Monsters Inc. Roller Coaster

Construction on the new Monsters Inc. land is set to begin sometime in 2025, although Disney has not yet announced closure dates for the existing Muppets Courtyard area.

Disney Confirms MuppetVision 3D Closure for New Monsters, Inc. Coaster at Hollywood Studios

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MrHappy11 hours ago

“Off track,,” you’re good!

ToTBellHop11 hours ago

Villains. I honestly forgot, too. MI Doors should be 40-42”.

JackCH12 hours ago

Yeah my bad I was responding to a post about coasters in general and probably got us off track.

IanDLBZF12 hours ago

And my guess is that this is going to contain at least one or more inversions.

Disgruntled Walt12 hours ago

Wait, now I'm confused. Too many threads going on at the same time. I was talking about the Villains coaster, which I realize now this is not the thread for. Are you talking about Monsters Inc?

ToTBellHop12 hours ago

It’s planned as a 48” height requirement coaster AFAIK. Not a kiddie coaster.

Disgruntled Walt12 hours ago

If they're reusing the Dragon Tower plans from Beastly Kingdom, the exposed track shouldn't be an issue. IIRC this was planned as an intense coaster. I don't know if they're planning to use those plans, but I personally hope so!

Moth13 hours ago

I kinda expect the opposite honestly depending what coaster intensity they're pinning for. Biased because I'd want Chernabog to be apart of the dark ride more than the coaster but I can picture him apart of the latter....

BrianLo13 hours ago

No, me neither. I expect the coaster to lean into real scary villainy and the dark ride to skew campy family friendly villains. More Hook, Jafar, Hades and Ursula for the latter.

TheMaxRebo13 hours ago

Ok, added those in - guess if I was including the Monsters Show I should have included those I think the Villains Dark ride is the one with the most variability - more so in "tone" than thrills. Just know a lot of kids that won't do Haunted Mansion due to that .... Probably would be more realistic for it to be more approachable than the Monsters Coaster, even if that is pretty tame, with it being in a box and potentially darkish and kids that maybe have never done a suspended coaster might be less approachable than the Villains dark ride unless they go really dark with it (which I don't expect)

Agent H13 hours ago

About space mountain that’s a good point I’d never considered

JackCH13 hours ago

I'd be totally fine with a truly intense coaster, it's just the exposed track issue. I'm probably one of the few that would be okay with a redo of Space Mountain to be such an intense coaster. One of its main "hooks" was it was sort of a "right of passage" of a first coaster experience, but now with 7DMT, Big Thunder, potentially Villains, not to mention Slinky and Monsters and Guardians and others at other parks, Space doesn't really have that anymore. So have it be a "new" right of passage as being the first truly intense coaster with inversions, etc. I also kind of like having the coasters at MK be a sliding scale of intensity: From "Kiddie" to "Intense": Barnstormer 7DMT Big Thunder Villains Tron Space Not going to happen, but I like it.

JackCH13 hours ago

And whatever might be in Animation Courtyard really needs to be a more family oriented dark ride of some kind. Or a boat ride.

BrianLo13 hours ago

You are forgetting the Villains show and Ariel. Plus the muppets coaster for that matter. I’d be pretty surprised if the Monsters Coaster is more approachable than the Villains dark ride. The hook of the former is to actually make people scream. I’d be pretty surprised if the Villains dark ride was not even softer than Haunted Mansion. From the macroscopic lens the additions are fine to me. Just from the DHS lens a coaster in a box wasn’t what DHS was pining for. The follow up projects definitely need to be things like Inside Out, Imagination, or whatever they do with Coco and Moana.