For the first time ever, Disney has announced a brand-new Monsters, Inc-themed land coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios!
Hollywood Studios
At D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, Disney dropped some MAJOR park news on us. They announced several new lands for Disney World, new nighttime entertainment, new rides, new shows, and so much more! There was a lot to take in at the Horizons: Disney Experiences Showcase on August 10th. But the new Monsters, Inc. Land that was announced certainly intrigued us, especially the first-ever suspended roller coaster in a Disney park!
The new Monsters, Inc. Land will take humans to Monstropolis for the first time ever! Here the monsters are looking for your help. They need our laughs to power the city and keep things working.
Monsters Inc. Land Concept Art ©Disney
We’ll get to roam around the city and even visit the plant that is in charge of collecting your screams…ah, laughs. Monsters, Inc. welcomes you to the floor!
A new land themed to Pixar Animation Studios’ “Monsters, Inc.” is coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Taking place after the events of the film, Monstropolis needs humans’ laughter to power the city.
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Inside the Monsters, Inc. plant, you’ll find the first-ever suspended roller coaster in a Disney park. A suspended roller-coaster is one where you sit in your seat but your legs dangle off the ground. The seat is attached to the track above your head instead of under your seat.
You can even ride on a door like Mike and Sully in the iconic scene from the film with Disney’s first-ever suspended coaster.
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When sharing this exciting news, Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D’Amaro said, “The first time I saw Monsters, Inc., all I wanted to do was ride on one of those doors like Mike and Sulley. You’ll go into the factory and experience the first suspended coaster ever in a Disney park. Remember in the movie how those claws grab the doors and hoist them up into the air to take them away? We’re doing that, too. And you’re going along for the ride.”
It sounds like it’s going to be tons of fun! We even got to see a 3-D model of the new ride at the D23 event. The model looks really cool! You can how you’ll be inside the factory and whipping and twisting through the area holding all the doors to the human world.
Monsters, Inc. roller coaster
One concern people do have is that they think it looks like it might be kind of short for a roller coaster. However, you can see in the model that the track loops a BUNCH of times in and out, back and forth through the door-holding area. It looks really neat!
New roller coaster
Since we don’t know how long this ride will last yet, here are some examples of other ride times in Disney World.
- Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster — 1 minute 22 seconds
- Slinky Dog Dash — 2 minutes
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train — 2 minutes 50 seconds
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind — 3 minutes
Even some of the most exciting rides in Disney World are three minutes or under, so this new roller coaster will likely live up to the hype!
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
We’ve waited 23 years for this ride announcement, and we’re super excited to finally get to ride on a door through Monsters, Inc! At this time, Disney has yet to announce where in Hollywood Studios this new land will go, so we’ll be watching for more details.
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Bullddozing Muppets 3D?
So now the question is will it take 23yrs for Disney to complete?
This is cool and all, but when are they going to tell us WHERE they will put it???
Any time frame on possible time it will be completed
Looks great. I have heard two rumors on where Monsters Inc will be placed in DHS. One rumor said Monsters will go where the former animation studio was located, over by The Little Mermaid. That would be a perfect location, since DHS is no longer a working animation studio (too bad that idea was not sustainable). The other rumor called for Monsters to replace Muppets 3-D. Demolishing Muppets, even to make for a new Monsters, Inc ride, would absolutely break my family’s hearts. I hope this 2nd rumor is not true.
Going forward, ride times aren’t going to be compared to prior Disney ride times but the ride times at Epic Universe. Also, they don’t need to tear down Muppets to put this in. We need more attractions, not status quo. Universal is adding attractions, not replacing existing ones
Please dont let it be as short as Tron! That ride really isn’t worth my time….too too short!
I would prefer more shows and calmer rides.