Harryhausen's
Dining Type
Table Service
Cuisine
Sushi
Price Range
$$$
Status
Coming Soon
Dining Type
Table Service
Cuisine
Sushi
Price Range
$$$
Status
Coming Soon
A Notice of Commencement filed October 13 names Landscape Structures, a Minnesota maker of commercial playground equipment, as contractor for general construction in Monstropolis at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Disney has not announced a play area, but the same firm is building the Tropical Americas playground.
Disney's first look at specific Monstropolis dishes has Harryhausen's exploring tonkotsu ramen with eyeball-sliced fishcake and green eggs, and Archie's Scare Pig Pizza serving Blort, maybe as a purple frozen drink with Scream Apple Foam. No prices yet, and no opening date beyond 2027.
Disney refreshed its preview center inside Walt Disney Presents at Hollywood Studios with never-before-seen concept art of the Glob Theater lobby, new maquettes of three "monsterfied" critters for Monstropolis, and the reimagined Carousel of Progress costumes and dioramas in the spot where the Piston Peak display used to be.
New aerials over Disney's Hollywood Studios show corrugated metal decking across big parts of a show building Blog Mickey expects to end up among the largest at Walt Disney World, plus concrete shafts the outlet reads as elevator access for crews and riders.
Walt Disney Imagineering put out a new We Call It Imagineering episode on Friday, a 24-minute architecture tour that stops in on four Walt Disney World projects. The headline is a name nobody had heard before: Dark Avenue, the main street running through Monstropolis to the Monsters, Inc. factory that will house the suspended door coaster. The same episode explains what balloons like the one we wrote about on August 12 are for. Imagineers say the first Piston Peak sightline test showed some elevations were a little too high, and structures were shortened before a second test came back right on the money.
Disney said at D23 that the rest of Monstropolis will open at Hollywood Studios in 2027 while work continues on the door coaster. That leaves the 2027 debut as a theater show, two dining spaces and a shop, with the land's only announced ride arriving at a date Disney has not given.