Ground Floor Lobby (Kong Studios)

The Kong Studios Lobby, on the ground floor, was the first place you would see on the Gorillaz website during Phase1 and Phase 2 and the Phase One: Celebrity Take Down and Phase Two: Slowboat To Hades DVD'S.

Phase 1 (2000 - 2003)
The Kong Studios lobby was where fans would enter upon entering the Gorillaz site. A little news panel would be shown above the Kong logo, which would tell the date and time, and news regarding the website or the release of a new Gorillaz single or album. Various doors and elevators would lead all throughout Kong here. The lobby included a jukebox called Groove Bones, which allowed fans to listen to snippets of the bands discography. You were also able to read the bands magazine interviews here. The big TV screen allowed you to play a Gorillaz quiz. In March 2001, the first ever Gorillaz minigame was added to the lobby, titled Noodle Fight to tie in with the release of "Clint Eastwood".

The game involved you playing as Noodle, and fighting the zombie apes and Del.In December 2001, "911" was released, the lobby was where you were able to download the song, along with playing a short promotional video for the single.

In Summer 2002, the lobby monkeys were removed and replaced with the Spacemonkeyz to tie in with "Laika Come Home". If you clicked on the Spacemonkeyz you were able to hear snippets of various remixes from the album.

The lobby remained in this state during Gorillaz first hiatus, up until December 2004 when the website was renovated for Phase 2.

Celebrity Take Down
The Lobby was featured on the Phase One: Celebrity Take Down DVD, where you find the Groove Bones Juke Box, if you clicked the Juke Box it would start playing all the Gorillaz Debut album singles in order. The Juke Box featured the video for the Tomorrow Comes Today Video, Clint Eastwood Video, 19-2000 Video, Rock The House Video.

Phase 2: (2004 - 2008)
On the renovated lobby, the Spacemonkeyz were gone and replaced with a demon known as the lobby demon. The Kong logo was also renovated. The quizzes, magazines, 911, and Noodle Fight were all removed from the lobby upon renovation, a new Gorillaz mahjong solitaire styled minigame replaced Noodle Fight. The big TV screen in the lobby now played Gorillaz adverts and promos instead of Gorillaz quizzes, the quizzes were moved over to the Kong Security Room. around Halloween, a pumpkin carving minigame would be added to the lobby. Once again various doors and elevators would lead you to corridors and rooms. You could now access the G Store through the lobby as well. Depending on the season, the lobby would update to match holidays such as Halloween and Christmas. in mid to late 2006, following the events of "El Manana" and Noodles disappearance, the lobby was updated to be destroyed and abandoned, the lobby would remain in this state up until mid 2008, when Murdoc burned down Kong Studios, the lobby was burnt to the ground and destroyed.

Slowboat To Hades
The Lobby was featured on the Phase Two: Slowboat To Hades DVD, where the lobby could be seen at its worst. By this time Kong had been cleared of every band member and the only resident left in The Lobby was the "Horny Demon" who could be seen with a pumpkin doing nothing. Due to new room being added to Kong Studios the Floor Directory was added to the lobby. In The lobby, in fashion of Celebrity Take Down, you could find all the singles in order from Demon Days. The Juke Box featured the videos for Feel Good Inc Video, DARE Video, Dirty Harry Video and The sad El Mañana Video. The floor directory featured the singles and rooms you could visit.