This Week in Theme Park News: NBA Experience Closes, Disney World's Christmas Event, and More

I was halfway through writing this week’s wrap-up of theme park news when a surprising Disney World story broke, so let’s tip off with that one. It was announced today that the NBA Experience, the interactive basketball exhibit at Disney Springs, is permanently closed. It opened just two years ago, on Aug. 12, 2019, in the old location of Disney Quest, and closed in March 2020 due to the pandemic.

It’s not all bad news out of Disney World this week. Space 220, one of the most hotly anticipated new theme park restaurants in recent memory,. The themed restaurant, which will make it feel like you’re dining in space, will be located right next to the Mission: Space attraction in the soon-to-be-renamed Future World part of the park.

Before we make it to Christmas, though, we have a few other major holidays to get through—including Halloween. Universal announced the full Halloween Horror Nights lineup for Universal Orlando’s 30th anniversary celebration, which launches on Sept. 3 and runs on select nights through Oct. 31. Universal normally dribbles these announcements out over the summer, but with Covid making sure that everybody’s plans are permanently up in the air, they took a slower approach this year.

As always, Halloween Horror Nights will also have five Scare Zones and a live show. Crypt TV is a Scare Zone set in the park’s San Francisco district that promises “a dark universe of monsters.” 30 Years 30 Fears is another flashback to the event’s past, while Seek and Destroy is some kind of cyberpunk thing with evil aliens set in the park’s version of New York.

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