Aerial Photos Show Twisting Track Taking Shape Inside Monsters Inc. Coaster

 

Light-colored roller coaster track now twists through the Monsters Inc. Door Vault coaster show building at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. New aerial photos from friend of the site Bioreconstruct show crews installing curving track onto black support columns inside the steel frame. More coaster parts sit in a laydown yard that appears to be the drop-off point for the “Project La Brea” shipments. Here’s the latest.

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The Door Vault coaster is the biggest coaster build at Walt Disney World right now, and the newest progress is inside the jungle of steel that defines the building. Bioreconstruct’s latest flyover shows more track among the rust-colored framing, a month after blue panels started enclosing the building. Our October aerial look showed track and black support columns inside and new walls outside.

From above, the show building is still only partly enclosed. Blue wall panels wrap part of the structure, while exposed steel framing sits on top. Cranes, lifts, stacked steel beams, and staged materials surround the site. Through the open framing, we can see the coaster track and its black supports.

Closer views of the same structure show curved brown steel ribs next to lighter gray-blue truss sections. This is the cavernous load station where a vertical lift will take riders into the air before sending them into the door vault.

Looking down into the upper part of the frame, we can see plastic sheeting over some wall openings and scaffolding along the interior walls. White coaster track and black supports sit at the bottom of that view. An interior wall is being built to hide one section of the ride from the massive door vault scene.

The closest shots show white curving track bolted to black columns and diagonal braces, seen between the rusty framing beams. Some of the black columns have bolted ring flanges. The twists in the track are easy to pick out from above.

Disney’s concept art shows riders in suspended vehicles hanging below the track as they race past walls of doors inside the vault. The bare track in these photos will eventually sit inside a scene like that, though a lot of theming work still has to happen first.

Crews attached the first track to the support structure in June, and there is still plenty of track left to install. Disney says most of Monstropolis opens in 2027, with the coaster following later. The coaster has no announced opening date, and we still expect a 2028 timeframe.

The yard ties into the shipping records we recently reported on. In our Project La Brea report, we found nine Vekoma shipments labeled “Project La Brea” headed to Walt Disney Imagineering. They arrived between October 16th and November 9th and weigh roughly 630,000 pounds in all. The records list a Lake Buena Vista address for Imagineering, which points to this backstage laydown yard behind EPCOT where we’ve seen coaster track staged.

Disney hasn’t tied the codename to a ride, so it remains an educated guess and not an announcement.