Monstropolis
Inhabitants
James P. Sullivan ,
Mike Wazowski ,
Randall Boggs ,
Celia Mae ,
Thaddeus Bile ,
George Sanderson , Claws Ward,
Henry J. Waternoose ,
Needleman and Smitty ,
Roz ,
CDA , other Monsters
Final state
Still standing
Source
“Hey! Good morning, Monstropolis. It's now five after the hour of 6:00 A.M. in the big monster city. Temperature's a balmy 65 degrees - which is good news for you reptiles - and it looks like it's going to be a perfect day to maybe, hey, just lie in bed, sleep in, or simply... Work out that flab that's hanging over the bed! Get up, Sulley! ”
―Mike Wazowski , pretending to be a radio host
Monstropolis is the main location in the Disney /Pixar Monsters, Inc. franchise. It is the city that Mike , Sulley , and many other Monsters live in.
Background
Official Description
When the Pixar team set out to create a city of monsters, the possibilities were limitless. But they soon decided Monstropolis made more sense with a few facts: (1) Monsters have been around for as long as there have been frightened humans. The city should reflect this long history. (2) Monsters come in all shapes. Doors, telephones, and lockers must be usable by two-foot-tall monsters with tentacles as well as eleven-foot monsters with claws. (3) Most monsters are very heavy. The city would be built with strong, durable materials like brick, stone, and steel.
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Trivia
Monstropolis is a portmanteau of the the terms "Monster" and "Metropolis", thus meaning "Monster City"
According to a DVD bonus feature "History of the Monster World", Monstropolis was founded after all of the monsters (originally a race of creatures called Mons), who once co-existed with humans, were all chased off the mainland, and eventually moved to an island in an unknown part of the world (which Monstropolis is implied to be located) where they have lived ever since; the Mons evolved into monsters by eating the strange fruit on the island (possibly the fruit sold at Tony's Grossery) with the only way for them to enter human-inhabited areas was via closet doors .
In the original U.S. version, all crosswalk signals in Monstropolis read "Don't Stalk" and "Stalk" instead of "Don't Walk" and "Walk", respectively, but in the international releases, the crosswalk signals instead showed a four-clawed hand spread out for "Don't Stalk", and a two-headed monster walking for "Stalk".
Originally, Monstropolis was going to look more like a spooky Tim Burton -like world much akin to Halloween Town from The Nightmare Before Christmas . After the realization that the monsters in this film scare because it's their main source of energy in their world rather than as natural behavior, the entire city was instead designed to resemble architecture of buildings in the early 1960s , representing the energy boom in the United States during that decade; the significance is even important to the plot as there is an energy crisis plaguing Monstropolis caused by the children's growing immunity to being frightened by monsters.
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