Avatar Experience Replaces Monsters Inc. - Monsters Inc. Closing Early 2026 - Future Expansion Plans

[irlandaise]

https://www.reddit.com/r/WaltDisneyWorld/comments/1l8v7rj/updated_monsters_inc_concept_art

Saw this earlier today with Monsters/DHS.

As a Shakespeare fan, I love the "Glob Theater" name. And yes, I'm aware of the former gift shop called The Merchant of Venus at the Magic Kingdom.

BTW, at first I thought that was a social media posting from WDW itself and was surprised that they misspelled "Monsters." But then I realized that "WaltDisneyWorld" is just the name of a Reddit forum and it was some random user who misspelled it.

The whole "door warehouse" concept in "Monsters Inc." is very cute so I'm glad they're at least keeping it at WDW.

 

[brightlined]

They just turned 8yo . They’re among the newest attractions at WDW.

It kills me that they (apparently) haven't yet re-aligned the projectors at FOP - that ride was so much better in 2017. (At least they replaced the pre-show monitors - the burn-in from leaving them on overnight was tough to stare at.) I feel like that ride needs a good refurb, but it probably won't happen while so much of the park is closed.

 

[LAS2AMS]

It kills me that they (apparently) haven't yet re-aligned the projectors at FOP - that ride was so much better in 2017. (At least they replaced the pre-show monitors - the burn-in from leaving them on overnight was tough to stare at.) I feel like that ride needs a good refurb, but it probably won't happen while so much of the park is closed.

I’ve only ridden it a few times and haven’t noticed a difference! . It reminds me of Rocket Rods - you wait forever and get hyped up for this thrilling ride.. that turns out to be Soarin’ trapped into a straight jacket. The only non-kid’s ride we do less is Mission Space (belongs in space camp, not an amusement park).

 

[BrianL]

It kills me that they (apparently) haven't yet re-aligned the projectors at FOP - that ride was so much better in 2017. (At least they replaced the pre-show monitors - the burn-in from leaving them on overnight was tough to stare at.) I feel like that ride needs a good refurb, but it probably won't happen while so much of the park is closed.

I'm not so sure that it's the projectors so much as the glasses. Sometimes it seems more messed up than others, and I think it may just be that the glasses haven't held up. I am not 100% sure on that though.

 

[brightlined]

I’ve only ridden it a few times and haven’t noticed a difference! . It reminds me of Rocket Rods - you wait forever and get hyped up for this thrilling ride.. that turns out to be Soarin’ trapped into a straight jacket. The only non-kid’s ride we do less is Mission Space (belongs in space camp, not an amusement park).

I'm not so sure that it's the projectors so much as the glasses. Sometimes it seems more messed up than others, and I think it may just be that the glasses haven't held up. I am not 100% sure on that though.

Weirdly - the alignment I'm describing isn't the separate eyes - it's the RGB separation on the projector.

I don't have a wide array of experiences in recent years - I was at WDW basically quarterly from 2017-19, and now I'm mostly just there a couple of days in December. But, in the last couple of years, it seems like the projector lenses have drifted, to the point that it makes the 3D almost impossible. (It may vary by theater, too.)

An approximate example: when I was there in December, I looked down to the lower left during the cave scene, and there was a spot that should have been displaying as white. You could see the blue and green layers of that spot roughly next to each other (a little bit off is fine), but the red layer was a full 12 inches southwest of the other two. There's no way for the human eye to repair that and make sense of the image - it just looks fuzzy.

The cave scene is the giveaway. I think it's because it's the one non-moving scene and the imagery is relatively close-field. In those early years, that was always my favorite scene (for a lot of reasons), but it was hard to watch in December. And I'm enough of a FOP nerd that I usually try to ask for a seat in the middle of the theater (8 or 9 is optimal) and on a middle level (read: don't let them send you downstairs), which mostly guarantees an optimum 3D experience. (The edge seats are awful.)

But you're right - the glasses aren't great. I think they're designed to cover a wider field of vision - the normal 3D movies only need the glasses to cover the center field, but there's so much periphery in FOP.