Although I’m a little apprehensive about the whole “sideshow tourist attraction with a descendant host” angle, I trust that they’ve done enough research and had adequate discussions about how to make everything work.
My take is that the story with the Monsters land and ride should be taken with the Ockham’s Razor approach: keep the story and setting as simple as possible. Don’t try to turn this ride into something it’s not. I want to see vampires chasing us. I want to see werewolves hunting us down. I want to feel like we’re apart of some mad experiment from a member of the Frankensteins. I want this to be DARK. I want to see poor children TRAUMATIZED. This is their only shot into making a big budget E-ticket ride (and LAND to top it all off!!!) that is frightening and I don’t want them to screw this up over something as stupid as a lame backstory.
Again, I trust the creative team has done their research and will treat these characters with respect as the HHN teams in both coasts have done. We have literally nothing to go on except internet rumors. I feel split about the rumors about the main ride’s story and feel like it will either work, or it will slam face-down hard in the pavement with failure. But as long as they respect the legacy of the Monsters, put some really cool effects in the ride, and most of all make it dark, gothic, and scary, I’m happy. Heck, it doesn’t even have to be terrifying every ride, which is hard for a lot of us as HHN fans. Just make it really dark.
I would’ve preferred that they would’ve gone for a steampunk-ish Gothic theme and had the main story of the Monsters E ticket be that we’re subject for Dr Frankenstein’s experiment, something “goes wrong” and all goes from there.