Walt Disney Imagineering Files Four New Permits for Monstropolis Land Scenic Work

DisneyRoy8 days ago

It's a pretty standard inverted coaster. They tend to go up pretty fast. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole track layout is done before the end of the year. Although we are talking Disney here...

BrianLo8 days ago

Forgive the worse phone drawing. I’m not sure if you are missing that this is also going to be a queue structure, but isn’t currently slabbed since it doesn’t support any of the coaster. We could see the rough outline from the stabilization pour that is now covered.

lazyboy97o8 days ago

This doesn’t align with the track model which shows the blue area as the last run of track before unload. Unload is also immediately in line with load.

danlb_20008 days ago

I would assume the queue will be entirely in the structure that is attached to the front of the show building.

Coaster Lover8 days ago

This may be splitting hairs, but I don't think where the currently installed supports are will be maintenance. Maintenance spur will still need track/supports for the storage spurs. The cross beams in the area where the current supports are (purple below) are WAY too high off the ground and there's not the appropriate footers for additional spur lines between. I think this area (again, designated purple below) will either be for interior queue or for an employee lounge area. I think the maintenance area will be directly in front of load (load is the green area below, maintenance is red). The track will split into four lines for the load area and having maintenance bays just beyond load (where the line is already split into four and can feed directly into four individual maintenance bays) would be the most economical option (saves space, no additional switch tracks needed). I've proposed how I think it might look below (orange is the (rough) queue path, green is load, yellow is unload, blue is the exit gift shop/ride photos, purple is the main queue area. My only question (if following this hypothesis) is how they get you to load. Track at load and unload will be at (roughly) ground level with constantly moving trains, so you're not going to have people crossing under the track and going over the track required steps/ramps/elevators. Makes the most sense to split the line and come in right from the front so you never have to go over/under any ground level track. But based on my diagram, that would split the maintenance into two areas (which I guess is not impossible).

danlb_20008 days ago

I think we will see actual track well before the end of the year.

EagleScout6108 days ago

If you arrange a meeting between Josh and Ben Franklin, I think you can get first rider

MisterPenguin8 days ago

Wow, they're really going fast!! Will they be done when I go mid-May??!?

mattpeto8 days ago

I noticed the vertical support beams but I meant the actual track itself.

lazyboy97o8 days ago

They’re already assembling the track.

BlindChow8 days ago

"Monsters Inc. Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios"

roj23239 days ago

The red circled area is one of the major power distribution points for the entire park. They are just editing the junction boxes to add more for the new power needs (the attraction). The power system for the park is kind of a loop and spoke system meaning that there's high voltage underground cables that basically circle the park and then it gets tapped to feed power to whatever needs it.

James Alucobond10 days ago

You've literally just circled the roof of the existing theater building in the artwork. The art is also immensely inaccurate because it was hacked together after they pushed the coaster back. There's literally no way it can look like this art anyway, and even if it magically did, it absolutely shows no buildings on the right beyond the theater, as @lazyboy97o said. Let's hope that's not actually the case. That said, I'm pretty sure this digging is to relocate the electrical substation (or whatever it is) that's directly to the left of the original circle you drew on Bioreconstruct's photo on the previous page. It's been in the way for a while.

lazyboy97o10 days ago

The white truck in the photo. The facade in the art is directly in front of the current theater exit. It is not where they are digging.