Disney has been on something of a roll lately when it comes to giving old, forgotten corners of its parks a second life. September 14th marked the opening of the Magic of Disney Animation inside the former Star Wars Launch Bay, and that’s just one piece of a much larger wave of transformation happening across the resort right now. Piston Peak, Villains Land, Tropical Americas, the Carousel of Progress refurbishment, and even a long overdue fix for the Yeti at Expedition Everest are all part of this current era of Disney finally addressing spaces that had been neglected for years. It’s the kind of momentum that makes a person wonder what else might be next in line.That question led us to look around Walt Disney World for the spaces that haven’t gotten this treatment yet. There are a few genuinely large areas sitting unused right in the middle of some of the resort’s busiest parks, and their stories are a lot more interesting than you might expect.The Tomorrowland Building That Keeps Changing Its MindCredit: Erica Lauren, Inside the MagicStart in the Magic Kingdom, right at the front of Tomorrowland. The show building that once housed Stitch’s Great Escape has actually cycled through three completely different attractions over the decades. It opened as Mission to Mars in December 1971, just months after the park itself debuted, and ran until 1993. From there it became the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, an attraction with a devoted following that was also, frankly, terrifying for a lot of families walking in expecting something lighter. That version lasted from 1995 to 2003.The space was reworked again in 2004, this time into Stitch’s Great Escape, largely to tone down the intensity that had defined the previous attraction. It stuck around until 2018, and since then the building has mostly sat quiet, aside from the occasional limited meet and greet. For a space that’s changed identities three times in under fifty years, it’s been unusually still for the last several.A Pavilion EPCOT Promised and Then Quietly Walked Away FromCredit: Rian Castillo, FlickrOver in EPCOT, the story gets even more layered. Wonders of Life opened in 1989 in the middle of what was then Future World, sitting between the original Universe of Energy and World of Motion pavilions. It focused on healthcare, the human body, fitness, and nutrition, and for a while it worked. Body Wars was an impressively advanced simulator ride for its time, and Cranium Command built a genuine cult following.As EPCOT introduced Test Track, Mission: SPACE, and Soarin’ through the late nineties and early two thousands, Wonders of Life started to feel dated by comparison, and it closed in 2007. For roughly ten years afterward, it lived a quiet second life as a temporary Festival Center during EPCOT’s seasonal events.Then in 2019, Disney announced something bigger. The space would become Play! Pavilion, described at the time as an “interactive futuristic city where guests would be able to interact with a variety of Disney characters.” It sounded like exactly the kind of ambitious project EPCOT needed. The pandemic paused construction, which happened to a lot of projects during that stretch. But unlike most of EPCOT’s reimagining efforts, work on Play! Pavilion never picked back up. Disney confirmed in 2023 that the space was being “reevaluated,” and by 2026 the Play Pavilion flag had quietly disappeared from the park’s central plaza map, a pretty clear sign the project isn’t happening. The former Wonders of Life building remains empty today.The Massive Theater in Animal Kingdom Nobody Talks About AnymoreCredit: Trey Ratcliff, FlickrAnimal Kingdom’s Asia section is home to a five thousand seat amphitheater that’s had one of the roughest runs of any structure at Disney World. Built in the mid 2010s for the Rivers of Light nighttime show, the theater actually sat ready well before its intended premiere. The show itself was delayed, so The Jungle Book: Alive with Magic filled the slot through most of 2016 instead.Rivers of Light finally opened in 2017 but never quite found its footing, eventually getting retooled into Rivers of Light: We Are One in 2019. That version ran until the pandemic closures in 2020 and simply never came back. KiteTails moved into the space in October 2021, bringing in large character themed balloons pulled along by jet skis. It built a surprisingly loyal fan base, but the overall reaction skewed negative, especially after viral videos showed the balloons crashing into empty sections of the bleachers. Disney maintained that was actually how the kites were meant to land, though the footage didn’t do the show any favors. KiteTails was scaled down into a walk by experience in May 2022 before being cancelled entirely a few months later. The amphitheater has been empty ever since.Planning Ahead When Guest Favorites Are Missing From the MapNone of these spaces are actively hurting a Disney vacation the way a closed headline attraction might, but they’re worth knowing about if you’re building an itinerary around nostalgia or specific past experiences. If you remember riding Stitch’s Great Escape as a kid or catching Rivers of Light on a previous trip, don’t expect either to be waiting for you this time around. It’s also a good reminder that Disney World is constantly shifting, so checking current park maps before your trip can save you from planning around something that quietly stopped existing years ago.These three spaces sit in some of the most heavily trafficked areas of the resort, and yet they’ve been left alone through years of renovations happening just a short walk away in every direction.Have a favorite memory tied to any of these old attractions? Tell us about it in the comments, we’d love to hear what you rode back when these spaces were still up and running.The post Multiple Disney Attractions Left Abandoned in Orlando, 0 Future Plans of Usage appeared first on Inside the Magic.