Have anybody here riden the actual ride based on this movie? They have it at California Advenure, and i admit i have riden it at least once. It was cute for a kiddy ride.
Well, it is a slow, kiddy ride, yet it is really, really fun! You get to go through the whole movie in a ride form! What else is cooler than that? I really like it.
No, but I’m dying to. I haven’t been to Disneyland since I was a kid, and since my financial situation’s a wee bit tight right now, I can’t even begin to get my hopes up of planning a trip with a few friends or something.
I heard it’s kind of like the E.T. ride, but better. Right? 
I liked it 
So did my mother, who never goes on anything but the Mark Twain Steamboat - despite all the small children in line, she was actually afraid to ride it at first, and the ride seemed very exciting to her!
It looks a bit little low-budget, but I think they did manage to capture the feeling of being in the world of the movie pretty well.
The ride vehicles are taxis, with the idea that you’re taking a scenic tour of Monstropolis, when all of sudden, a human child is reported loose in the city!!! Then, the taxis conveniently drive anywhere that Mike and Sulley happen to be - including inside the factory. Ah, well - even some of the most famous rides don’t completely make sense 
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As with many of the recent rides, most of the figures are kind of limited in movement, with only one who appears to be a full-fledged Audio Animatronic figure.
(Roz, who makes some sort of distinctive comment to someone in your car as you go by. To my mother, she said - “you - in the second row: is that man sitting next to you your husband?” We got a big laugh out of that because we had left her husband, my Disneyland-hating stepfather, at home ).
My only real gripe is that it has nothing to do with the theme of the “land” that it’s in, Hollywood Pictures Backlot, other than that it’s based on a movie, in which case any movie-based ride could fit in that land, and you’d have a big mish-mash with no real uniting theme at all (this gets debated a lot on the Disneyland forums I frequent ) Not only that, but they make no attempt to transition from a movie studio backlot themed area to the Monstropolis Transit Hub, where the queue (line) takes place. There’s just a big flat facade painted with doors like from the film’s opening sequence. I like rides to take place in something that appears to be a real building, like how The Haunted Mansion takes place in a haunted-looking mansion and not in a flat facade painted with ghosts. (Even though the ride itself is not actually in the mansion, but in a show building outside the berm)
Actually, I have one more gripe . The title. Monster’s Inc.: Mike and Sulley to the Rescue sounds like a great title for a Little Golden Book storybook version of the movie, but it doesn’t sound like a ride at all to me. I think they’d be better off even just calling it Monster’s Inc.
I read a rumor online that there was originally going to be a suspended roller coaster based on the door warehouse sequence, but that got scrapped for budgetary reasons. The Monster’s Inc. ride was built using the ride system, vehicles, and even some of the figure mechanics of one of Disney’s biggest flops, a ride called “Superstar Limo”. Considering that, the Monster’s Inc. ride is really amazing! I definitely liked it better than the low-budget Winnie-the-Pooh ride that evicted the Country Bears.
Making that scene into a roller coaster ride is something my brother and I still talk about every time we watch the movie. I’d still like to get on the one DL has, but I personally think that chase sequence would have been perfect to adapt into a thrill ride. I’m hoping it does happen someday.
Thanks for sharing those details, animagusurreal.
animagusurreal-Haha! That was funny. I’d like to ride that, it sounds like fun. Too bad Disney World doesnt have a version like that.