Monsters Inc.

The Script

All monsters, report to the scare floor immediately! You’re invited to step into this high-alert Scream Scene and meet Sulley, consistent “Scarer Of The Month”, as he poses for photos next to Boo’s door under the angular roof of the Monsters, Inc. scare floor.

The entire area next to Disney Studio 1 has been cordoned off with yellow markings and warning signs by the Child Detection Agency, whilst notices and advertisements right out of Monstropolis such as “Adopt a monster” and “Support your local CDA” litter the walls around the area.

In an attempt to recruit some new screams and solve the ongoing energy crisis in Monstropolis, some special “Scare Monitors” have been installed next to the photo location. This series of tubes and scream canisters is hooked up to a scream detection unit, which detects the level of children’s screams and sends them off right away to Monstropolis, to power an extra light bulb or two!

Character & Movie Notes

Monsters, Inc. was Pixar’s fourth film and was directed by Pete Doctor, with the voice talent of John Goodman as Sulley.
The film was nominated for Academy Awards in Best Original Score, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. It won Best Original Song for Randy Newman’s “If I Didn’t Have You” but narrowly missed out on the feature animation Oscar to critics’ favourite “Spirited Away”.
Sulley's fur in the movie has over 2,320,413 hairs.
Throughout the character development stages, the animators considered giving Sulley glasses or tentacles instead of legs. They also considered making Mike arm-less with only legs.
It took between 11 and 12 hours to render a single frame for Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands.

Production Footnotes

The area of this photo located was previously used as an overflow seating area for the Restaurant En Coulisse in Disney Studio 1, with blank yellow walls and two trees.
Rumours of a Monsters, Inc. photo location first surfaced in early February 2006, and were reinforced when a large poster for the film was placed above the area as part of the general “Walt Disney Studios Enhancements” programme.
Construction walls went up around the area on February 25th 2006, the entire new themed area was complete by April 8th 2006.
The “Scream Monitors” didn't measure the strength of guests’ screams when the photo location opened, but was added later by the end of May 2006.
A rumoured statue of Mike was added later in July 2006.
A sign leading to the photo point was added on Disney Bros. Plaza 3 months later.

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