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(10/10/2026) Disney's Hollywood Studios Previews a Look at the Food of Monsteropolis
(10/9/2026) Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance May Be Getting Some Work
(10/7/2026) Rock 'n Roller Coaster Obligatory Holiday Overlay
(9/6/2026) Monsters Inc Coaster Construction
(8/17/2026) Monsteropolis Construction Update
(7/19/2026) Monsters Inc. Construction Update
Ride Rehabs - These dates are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as refurbishments are subject to change.
Nothing is known to be planned at this point in time...
 General Park News - (10/9/2026) Is Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance getting ready for a major overhaul? Word on social media is that the park has files construction permits with the city to get in there and do some reworking to the attraction that will hopefully resolve some on-going technical issues that have plagued some of the big effects sequences over the years since it opened.
It is possible that they could try to keep much of the work time to when the park is closed to keep downtime to a minimum, but otherwise, I’m not sure when they might close it, as there is never really a good time to close such a major attraction other than maybe January and February 2027. Anyone know more?
(10/7/2026) Disney has confirmed that the new Rock ‘n Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets will feature a special “Obligatory Holiday Overlay” this winter, running from Nov. 4 through Jan. 6, where the ride will offer a new special winter season set-list of music to play that will also feature a few new guests.
The four new songs coming for the holiday season include:
Holiday Road - featuring Kermit and Fozzie
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - featuring Jennifer Hudson
Silver Bells - featuring Cyndi Lauper
Little Saint Nick - performed by The Electric Mayhem.
 2027 - Monsteropolis - (10/10/2026) Disney has posted a few more in-depth details about the food and beverage options coming to the Monsteropolis land when it opens at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2027. The land will feature two main food and beverage locations… a recreation of Harryhausen’s Restaurant as seen in the first animated film along with Archie’s Scare Pig Pizza.
Harryhausen’s will be a table service restaurant that will offer sushi along with ramen based dishes, and a spattering of Japanese inspired flavors all given a little Monsters style twist. Archie’s will be the quick-serve Pizza eatery that is obviously serving as a replacement for the lost PizzeRizzo. Archie’s will be themed as a college hang-out as inspired by the characters from Monsters University ad feature “Blort”, a drink from the film that will be a frozen-purple beverage topped with “Scream Apple Foam”.
(9/6/2026) Lots of great construction progress is taking place over at the Monsters Inc. door coaster ride site. Check it out in the video clip below from Bioreconstruct.
(8/17/2026) Want to hear something really crazy? Would you believe that the new Monsteropolis land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is now actually set to open to the public in 2027? The land will be celebrating “H.U.M.A.N. Day” by allowing humans to legally visit the world of Monsteropolis for the first time. Oh… by the way H.U.M.A.N. stands for Humans Understand Monsters Are Nice.
Look for gift shops, the opening of the Harryhausen's restaurant and the former Muppet theater space will become the Glob Theater, with a live show called Welcome to Monsteropolis. Note one important thing, the Monsters Door Coaster will not be ready when the rest of the land opens in 2027, so I’d expect to see that open sometime in 2028 instead most likely.
(7/19/2026) A new video from Bioreconstruct shows off the conversion of the former Muppets area into the new Monsters Inc cityscape, as well as the construction on the new Monsters Inc Door themed roller coaster project.
(6/11/2026) It was first spotted in the concept artwork for the new Monsters Inc themed city area, but now Disney Imagineering has also confirmed that there will be an official Harryhausen’s restaurant for guests to dine-in, just as seen in the movie.
(6/6/2026) Disney Imagineering has dropped new details about the upcoming Monsters Inc. themed land replacing the former Muppets area at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Construction has been ongoing for months now, with most of the fan focus being on the location of the future Monsters themed Door Coaster.
This time Disney choose to put some focus on what they had planned as the build-out of the Monteropolis city area, where guests will enter as part of a new “H.U.M.A.N. Day” holiday experience, which stands for “Humans Understanding Monsters Are Nice”. As you may recall from the films, the arrival of any human into the monster world was cause for much panic and chaos, so this is a new era where the two worlds are starting out an attempt at the creation of a new growing relationship built on understanding and not fear.
Also, Disney Imagineers cited inspiration for Monsteropolis from a previous Disney project in Shanghai, claiming that they wanted to build Monsteropolis to have the same level of detail and lived in feeling that they were able to successfully create with the Zootopia land at Shanghai Disneyland. They’ve been working with Pixar closely, including the director of the original film, in order to create this living world of Monsteropolis.
2028?? - Monster’s Inc Door Coaster -
(5/10/2026) In the video clip before from Bioreconstruct you can see black steel framework is now rising on the giant Monster’s Inc ride pad for the new roller coaster attraction.
(4/4/2026) What appears to be a load of black supports for the upcoming Monsters Inc. roller coaster project appear to have been unloaded in a staging area near the park.
(3/22/2026) Check out the latest aerial construction footage of the new Monsters Inc coaster site at the Disney Hollywood Studios.
(3/1/2026) A great aerial clip was posted by Bioreconstruct this week (and photos) showing off the huge concrete pad that has been poured for the new Monsters Inc. Door Coaster attraction. You can see by the size of people standing on site how big this foundation really is, so I think we’re looking at a structure that may be very similar in size to the massive one used for the Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction at Epcot, though we don’t know if it will be as tall.
(7/5/2025) A large construction wall has been set up in the parking lot of Disney’s Hollywood Studios to allow for the clearing and construction of the huge attraction building that will house the new Monster’s Inc Door Coaster attraction, along with whatever needed staging area they require. While we don’t know exactly how tall this new structure might, space wise, it is worth noting that the massive attraction building used for the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind coaster would fit in here easily, with room to spare.
(3/9/2025) Disney has released an interesting technical animation video clip showcasing what the loading station of the new Monsters Inc. inverted roller coaster will be like. In the very brief animation you can see that the trains appear to arrive on the Screen Floor on two side-by-side tracks, but the seats themselves are turned 90º to the side to allow for riders to load in a continuously row on either side of the station. Once loaded, what at first appears to be a single long row of seats will rise vertically up to the roof, not unlike one of the famous Doors from the Scream Floor, and as the train rolls out of site, seats will rotate into the forward facing position in pairs to take on the look of a more standard inverted coaster train.
If you look carefully in the background of the image, you can also see that there is another pair of stations on the other side of the building, which will also rise up separately onto their own tracks along the roof of that side of the building as well, sending the trains into the Door Vault.
(8/14/2024) An interesting looking model of the proposed Monsters Inc. Door Coaster was on display at D23, which you can see in the video below. Disney mentioned that they wanted guests to experience what it was like when those robot-arms would grab and lift the doors from the Scare Floor to the ceiling track and then zoom off to the storage area, and it looks like the station has been designed to do just that based on the look of the model.
The load area appears to divide into two load/unload bays, each of which will have a left and right track position, so I’m guessing whatever elevator style lift they are planning will send one track up when the other goes down. Once at the top, the tracks will all merge into one and then appears to head on over towards the larger door storage building where the majority of the ride will be enclosed, entering from the outside into the top of the storage bay through a hole in the upper right corner, not unlike how Tron Lightcycle/Run does.
Other than the vertical lift out of the station, the layout does not appear to feature any kind of traditional lift hill system, though there are some longer straight track sections that could potentially hold boosters to help the train maintain speed if necessary, as well as serve as a block/brake location in the event of an E-Stop.
(8/11/2024) A new ride concept that has been kicking around since 2001 was just confirmed at D23 last night. Anyone remember the rumored Monsters Inc. Door Coaster concept for Disney’s Hollywood Studios?
This time it isn’t just a new ride, but a whole Monsters Inc. themed mini-land where you can stroll the streets of Monsteropolis and go on a tour of the power plant and get to ride on a suspended coaster through the door vault as seen in the classic film finale.
According to the article, work will begin on the project sometime next year (2025), so I guess the next question is to wonder where exactly in the park this will go? Given the proximity to the Pixar Place and Toy Story Land, I do wonder if it’s time to wipe out the old Animation Courtyard building complex? Of course this could also mark the end of the line of the Muppets Courtyard area too if they wanted to build it on the other side of the park.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see. As for the ride itself, based on the concept artwork this appears to be a Vekoma style family inverted coaster, which fits in with the rumors for the past 20+ years.
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