The NBA Experience will not reopen at Disney Springs. Disney will continue to partner with the NBA in other endeavors, but the venue will remain shuttered.
The NBA Experience replaced DisneyQuest in August 2019. It closed in March 2020 for the pandemic, and all Cast Members were laid off last October.
Now, the venue is officially permanently closed. A replacement has not been announced at this time.
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What an enormous amount of wasted money.
The NBA – another “get woke, go broke” organization. Well, accept it doesn’t seem very “woke” about China.
What does China have to do with it?! 🙄🤷🏻♀️
Imagine being this uninformed and being smug and proud of it
They should have just improved DisneyQuest and re-opened that eventually. The character drawing classes were fun, and I hung out and did around 4 of them one night as the only person in the classes. Then again, I guess they didn’t do a lot of business towards the end.
Bring back DisneyQuest! 👏👏
Wow…. What a shame for Disney Quest. I bet Disney is losing their mind over this vacant building now. Thank god for CityWorks, the only good thing that came out of Disney Quest closing down. Smh
Bring back an updated, more current version of Disney Quest!! You KNOW that would be a hit
No Surprise………..
I’m a huge NBA fan, but I had absolutely zero interest in going to the NBA experience.
Covid-19 had nothing to do with this abysmal failure. That place was so poorly planned and lamely executed, it’s just stunning that Disney & the NBA thought this idea could possibly succeed.
They now have a huge brand new building to find a use for. It’ll be very interesting to see if they can make it work for something new without major modifications.
Actually, the building housed Disney Quest before the NBA Experience so it’s not a new building at all. They need to turn it into something that is fun for everyone instead of something that caters to a specific fan base.
Not true. It’s a brand new building.
Here’s Tom’s story of the demolition being near completeion from October 31, 2017:
https://wdwnt.com/2017/10/photos-disneyquest-demolition-nears-completion-disney-springs/
Yes it is a new building. They bulldozed the original Disney Quest and built a brand new thing for an indoor basketball court.
Actually they DID demolish the old Disney Quest building and constructed a new one, so with all due respect, you’re wrong :)
ACKSHUALLY, Disney DID tear down the entire DisneyQuest building and rebuilt a brand new building for NBA experience. The old building was known for being damp and musty.
It’s sad because had they kept DQ, it would have probably reopened by now. I know it was indoors with lots of touching, but similar things have reopened already at WDW.
Disney missed the mark on this one, was doomed from the start.
Lol shocking. It didn’t work at Universal so what made them think it would work at Disney. The NBA is a bunch of whiny ass punks who think they are important.
NBA is not the game I played growing up. I never played with anyone who could dunk. Half the points scored now are dunks. The WNBA is closer to my playground game.
What a gigantic waste of money. I predicted it wouldn’t last more than five years but no one could’ve predicted this sort of run. Pandemic aside, it is unprecedented. I don’t know why anyone thought a gigantic building themed to the NBA would be a hit. The NBA is at its lowest popularity ever right now.
Should have revamped Disney Quest.
I wonder why it’s not going to reopen at Disney Spring’s? 🤷🏻♀️
Does: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me !” ring a bell ???
Its not going to re-open because of the reason Disney does anything….Not a moneymaker and too much space is taken up for that…I love Disney and go 2 to 3x a year but if it doesn’t make money or build out the brand, its not going to last long.
They should have never closed Disney Quest.
Why? That place was so outdated! 🙄
They could have updated Disney Quest.
No! Not really! 🙄
This is a shock to literally nobody.
Big surprise. I love Disney and while I’m sure this was partly pandemic related, the NBA Experience seemed like such a disconnect from the rest of Disney.
Oh no! Say it isn’t so. Jk lol
I mean it wasn’t a great replacement to DisneyQuest in the first place.
IMO, just rent it out to Dave & Busters or UrbanAir and let them do their thing. It might be for the best.
That’s actually not a bad idea. Either that or a GameTime would be a fun place to hang out with the kids especially during the hottest part of the day, and would fit into that type of space. Their other locations always seem to do quite well.
They should make a series of Disney themed escape rooms.
Oh n o!!!!
Said literally no one ever.
I know, it’s so awesome!
Maybe DisneyQuest will make a comeback!
I’m so surprised… not.
Thank god I hated that they closed Disney Quest!
it’s almost like it was a bad idea to close disneyquest to replace it with stuff that appeals to 10 percent of the population… good call disney
Bring back Disney Quest
Awesome! It was a completely ridiculous plan that they bulldozed Disney Quest for. My kids loved Disney Quest. I take this as vengeance from Disney Quest.
Wow, one of the few awesome things that came out of covid!
Bring back Disney Quest!!! At least that lasted more than 4 years and probably made Disney a ton more money than the NBA Experience ever could.
Should’ve left disney quest alone