The ride space has been completely gutted. If you would open the doors to enter what use to be body wars., you would fall about twenty feet to the bottom. That space is used to store a lot of the festival equipment used throughout the year and can be changed out whenever needed.
I can speak on that some. The theatre wing was gutted to its bare bones, nothing left. The Body Wars queue areas were stripped but are structurally intact. The 3rd floor grade was extended over the simulator pits, one would assume that's for more office space but I have been told there's a desire for a walkthrough attraction in that area in the future. Nevertheless, that means there is no longer clearance to ever run a simulator attraction in there again, so if anyone ever had any doubts that that ship has sailed, it has. I have not been able to get confirmation on whether the lounge space has survived, but I can say that that grade at the minimum still exists within the structure.
Oddly it was a bank but has sent vacant for about 20 years because nobody can figure out what to use the building for.
If there’s two stories, that should still be enough height to put in a smaller scale dark ride (think like a Fantasyland level ride) and couple that with a show in the Buzzy theater space plus maybe some M&Gs on the main pavilion floor (with hopefully some smaller “stuff”) and you have a nice pavilion and good compliment to the rest of World Discovery.
That could work if the effort and finances were put into it.
