What’s in a name?
Disney have done a strange volta face with the naming of their new attraction at the Magic Kingdom, where the former Laugh Floor Comedy Club has suddenly and strangely become the Monsters Inc Laugh Floor.
It’s strange for two reasons - 1, because it has meant changing all the signage around the attraction, which was all geared up for the LFCC with some fairly major posters and large-scale signs outside, and 2, because the initials are certainly NOT something you’d want to see associated with anything to do with Disney (anyone who has seen the film American Pie will be able to explain, but it is definitely adult-rated).
With the usually meticulous way Disney’s Imagineers approach their work, it is strange indeed to see both this kind of 11th-hour tinkering with the name (seeing as it has been in soft opening for several months and is due for it’s official launch on April 2) and the lack of attention to details of this kind.
Knowing how virtually every Disney forum and discussion board automatically starts to reduce all the attractions and other events to initial form (check out the profusion of references to BTMR and MNSSHP!), it is truly awful to imagine the new Monsters Inc show being acronym-ed in this way.
It would certainly be interesting to know why Disney decided on this late, late name change (I can understand someone balking at the use of Laugh Floor in the name - after all, what on earth is a ‘Laugh Floor’? - but why ditch the more obvious ‘Comedy Club’ element). It makes sense, in hindsight, to include the Monsters Inc tag to the attraction, as Laugh Floor Comedy Club on its own has little real meaning, but why wouldn’t you change it, 11th hour or not, to Monsters Inc Comedy Club?
Don’t bet on another name change before it officially opens to the public. Or is someone at Disney taking the MICC?