

The 2,000 person covered venue with bleacher seating originally housed the Pandemonium Cartoon Circus, a song-and-dance comedy show starring the island's comic strip characters. Toon Lagoon Amphitheaterĭespite its name, there's nothing particularly whimsical about the Toon Lagoon Amphitheater located in a relative No Man's Land wedged between the nautical Toon Lagoon and Marvel Super Hero Island.

Perhaps proving our point just a little, today we've collected a list of FIVE completely empty venues at Universal Orlando, permanently closed (most before the pandemic) and just waiting for something new! What would you like to see in these spaces? 1.

Last year, we took some flack for suggesting that a third park might stretch Universal Orlando too thin that the resort's two existing theme parks – Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure – have built up a wish-list of projects that they really, really need. Although not everyone agreed, we offered that it might make better sense to incorporate Epic Universe's themed lands into the existing parks rather than shift focus (and budgets) to a third. We have yet to see how a year-long pause may have shifted Universal's spending, priorities, and intellectual properties for their new park, but we do know one thing. It was Mawhen Universal Orlando made an unexpected and delightful announcement: though construction had been "paused indefinitely" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the creation of a third theme park – Universal's Epic Universe – was set to resume.
