After Opening Muppets and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live Disney World Guests Are Still Missing the Main Event
Disney’s Hollywood Studios has already added several major experiences this year. Guests can ride Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Starring the Muppets, watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live!, experience new adventures with Din Djarin and Grogu on Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, and enjoy the reimagined Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure.
Those additions have given visitors plenty of reasons to visit the park right now.
But if Disney’s plans stay on track, the biggest stories at Hollywood Studios haven’t happened yet.
In fact, much of the excitement surrounding the park today revolves around attractions that guests still can’t experience.
Leading that list is Monstropolis.
Disney has finally started sharing more details about the long-awaited Monsters, Inc. expansion, and every new announcement seems to generate even more questions. The land will place guests inside Monstropolis after the events of the original film and center around a city-wide celebration known as H.U.M.A.N. Day.
Disney has already confirmed a recreation of Harryhausen’s restaurant, a new theater venue called the Glob Theater, and a city environment designed to make guests feel like they’ve stepped directly into the monster world.
Yet the attraction everyone wants to know about remains mostly under wraps.
The suspended door coaster is expected to become one of the most technologically ambitious attractions Disney has ever built. Disney has revealed that riders will be lifted vertically into the attraction before racing through the famous door vault system, but that’s about all we know.
The ride’s story remains a mystery. Disney hasn’t announced a name. Characters haven’t been confirmed. Even the role guests will play inside the adventure remains unknown.
Many fans believe those answers could finally arrive at D23.
Not far from Monstropolis, another major project is quietly taking shape.
The Magic of Disney Animation is returning to Hollywood Studios, bringing with it an entire collection of new experiences. Olaf Draws will allow guests to participate in animation classes led by a new Olaf Audio-Animatronic. Off the Page will transform character encounters into immersive animation-themed experiences. Drawn to Wonderland will provide families with a colorful indoor playground inspired by Mary Blair’s classic artwork. The Once Upon a Studio Theater will celebrate Disney animation with additional effects and storytelling elements.
Individually, each experience sounds promising.
Together, they represent one of the largest investments Disney has made in family-friendly offerings at Hollywood Studios in years.
Even Galaxy’s Edge may not be finished evolving. The recent Smugglers Run updates proved Disney is still willing to add new stories to the land, and many fans believe additional announcements could eventually follow.
That’s what makes Hollywood Studios so fascinating right now.
The park has already delivered some impressive openings. Yet almost every conversation about its future eventually circles back to Monstropolis, The Magic of Disney Animation, and the projects that are still waiting for opening dates.
For the first time in a long time, Hollywood Studios feels like a park whose most exciting chapter hasn’t arrived yet.
