The Monsters, Inc. coaster at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is getting its track on several levels at once, and it is going in while the show building is still being framed around it. New aerial photos from bioreconstruct look down into the unfinished structure, where crews are installing track and supports from inside with six boom lifts and a crane.
Aerial overview of work so far for intricate multilevel track and supports in the Monsters Inc roller coaster. The ride is being built same time as the building frame. 2 roof support columns in progress. 6 boom lifts and a crane are inside! 2nd photo, more supports and track.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 6, 2026
Track Stacked On Track
This is a suspended coaster, so the track hangs from a web of supports rather than sitting on the ground, and the ride path stacks over itself. In one view, a block brake platform waits for its section of track while another level of track already runs underneath it. Roof support columns are going up beside the ride supports.
Aerial photo of inside the show building of the Monsters Inc roller coaster. Track for this multiple level design is being installed from within the structure. A boom crane is at center. At left, a block brake platform, pending track. Underneath, another level of track!
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 6, 2026
Earlier on Friday, a service platform showed up at one of those block brakes, giving crews somewhere to stand while they work on track and vehicles. Steel is also in for a floor above the unload area, where the ride will swoop through on its way into unload. Steel sheeting for that concrete floor is already down, and more track supports sit staged in two spots waiting to go up.
The Load Area Takes Shape
Over the loading platforms, arching structural steel now frames the ceiling. Track for doors has been installed up in that ceiling to reach the service area, and similar track is staged nearby for the ride path itself. Doors are the heart of this ride, which sends guests through the door vault from the film.
Aerial photo of arching structural steel for ceilings at the loading platforms of the Monsters Inc roller coaster. Also: 1,2,3 track in ceiling for doors accessing the service area. 4,5 similar track staged for a ride path. Doors to launch swiftly after the flat vertical lift.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 6, 2026
At the end of October, the rest of the coaster’s track was still staged and waiting on the ground around the site. Now it is going up.
Walls Go Up And A Road Moves
On the outside, the factory’s exterior walls are starting to rise, with a steel frame in place for a service door. The park’s perimeter service road has also been diverted to make room for Monstropolis to stretch out to the factory building.
Aerial photo of exterior walls in development at the Monsters Inc roller coaster show building. At left, the park’s perimeter service road has been diverted for extending Monstropolis to the factory. Likely the road eventually diverts completely around the building.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 6, 2026
What Is Coming To Monstropolis
Monstropolis is replacing the Muppets area of Hollywood Studios, and the suspended door coaster is its headline ride, with a vertical lift as part of the experience. Disney has also shown off more of the land, including dining, a theater, shops and city streets. Disney said at D23 in August that parts of Monstropolis will open in 2027 while work continues on the coaster, and down at street level, masons are still laying brick at the city’s gateway.
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