One of the most exciting and surprising announcements made at the D23 Ultimate Fan Event in August was the confirmation that Monstropolis (at least most of it, but we’ll get to that) is going to open next year, including the highly anticipated Harryhausen’s Restaurant.
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Based on the restaurant seen in the original 2001 Pixar film, Harryhausen’s — named after legendary Hollywood special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, whose creature designs inspired Monsters, Inc.’s design team — is a sushi restaurant in Monstropolis. Its head chef is a six-armed octopus. Why six instead of eight? Because the character is a reference to the 1955 film It Came from Beneath the Sea, which features a similar six-armed creature created by — guess who? — Ray Harryhausen.
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