8th Anniversary Celebration Pavilion

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On April 4th, 2021, MCParks celebrated it's 8 year anniversary. To celebrate it's 8th year running, MCParks opened an 8th Anniversary Celebration Pavilion located in Disney Village, chock full of upcoming things to the MCParks, all for guests to preview before they came to the park! The pavilion was open all through the month of April! Here is what that pavilion looked like!

### **Fun things to do**

When the 8th anniversary pavilion opened, you could stand in front of the camera provided and take your own screenshot for the discord, or your own personal collection of MCPark photos! There was also a cute sitting area for people to sit at the tables and enjoy a drink while walking around the pavilion. It even featured a pink elephant that reminds us of Bing Bong from Inside Out, but the relation is probably unintended. The 8th anniversary celebration was when the #ToTheMoon became really popular. Members of the MCParks server were trying to get Cheetah Hunt to the #1 spot of most rides during the month of April, to convince the MCParks staff to spend more time refurbishing it, and upgrading it to a custom ride vehicle. On the April 7th 2021 meeting, the guests of MCParks achieved their goal, and Cheetah Hunt was named the #1 most ridden ride for that week. However, the following Wednesday, it was not named on the list of top ten rides. And last but certainly not least, we had our 8th anniversary merch shop, which had a couple more fun previews hidden inside as well!

### **Previews/Upcoming projects presented**

Of course with every expo that MCParks presents, there are always teasers and previews of things coming up in MCParks, here are the ones they gave us during the 8th Anniversary celebration.

#### **Indiana Jones Adventure**

We were given a preview of the ride vehicle with a bunch of skulls scattered all around in a faux jungle environment.

#### **Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid**

Here we have Ariel and Flounder, hanging out in front of the shell ride vehicle, complete with some things to make it look like it's under water.

#### **Tricera Top Spin and The Enchanted Tiki Room**

They combined both the Tricera Top Spin preview and The Enchanted Tiki Room preview in one set up here. Here you can see the vehicle preview for Tricera Top Spin. When the Tricera Top Spin ride was completed and open for the guests, MCParks also released a few carnival games in Dinoland as well as some cute dinosaur plush for merch as well! We also have a few of our supporting bird characters hanging from the top of the preview booth, with some tropical trees, getting us hypes for The Enchanted Tiki Room to open in Disneyland Adventureland!

#### **Disneyland's Tomorrowland**

Along with Adventureland opening in Disneyland, MCParks also gave us a preview of Tomorrowland opening as well! Here we can see the Speedway cars, the Space Mountain logo on a white building, and the new monorail and train in the background. We were also teased in the April 21st 2021 meeting, of a special 8th Anniversary skin for the monorail, as well as the potential for the monorail to give us park points when ridden.

#### **Disneyland Railroad**

With the opening of Disneyland Tomorrowland, the last station for the Disneyland Railroad will be open, and so they have given us a preview of the Disneyland Railroad engine in the pavilion as well!

#### **Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind**

In the Special Thanks to, where they thanked some of our staff members, who we assume helped work on the 8th Anniversary Pavilion and the previews that we see here, we can see each cast members name is floating above one of the balloon baskets for the Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind ride. Thank you, **MuppetVision**, **Skuishi\_Boi**, **Kae\_**, **Marven**, **Sorcerer Parker**, **darkcloudg**, **Mert\_Dermon** and **FuncIe!**

#### **Donator Balloons**

We aren't really sure if this is a preview showing that donator balloons will be coming back or not, but currently you are able to access /balloon if you have at least a DVC donator rank in Universal Studios Orlando, with the BSE balloon being one of the balloons available. We do hope this means that the balloon system will be coming back soon however!

#### **Omnibus**

Here is the preview of the Omnibus that was located in the pavilion. The Omnibus in Tokyo Disneyland goes around the main street area of TDL.

#### **Tokyo Disneyland**

Next to the Omnibus, we also got a preview of Tokyo Disneyland itself! We have the blue arch, a couple of mini Omnibus' scattered about, and even some Duffy bears, to hint at the new Duffy shop, Aunt Pegs that opened up as well!

#### **Adventureland Bazaar**

Inside the shop, we got a preview of these amazing Hawaiian/Tropical shirts, an Enchanted Tiki Room pair of ears, and the legendary Indiana Jones hate that would be up for purchase once Disneyland's Adventureland was finally open!

#### **Tokyo Disneyland Merch**

A cute armor stand also directed us to visit Tokyo Disneyland to check out the nice Duffy merch, and a few other Tokyo Disneyland items that had popped up since the 8th anniversary started!

#### **The closed walkway**

As the 8th anniversary pavilion is still open, and you are still able to buy merch and see the previews currently, at the time this article is being written, there is still a closed off hallway that we have not seen. Inside we can assume there are some named armor stands, as we see name tags above them, but we are unable to currently read them, and there is no other entrance. Once this hallway gets opened, we will update it with the new information here!

### **The Electric Eight Anniversary Shop**

Inside the 8th anniversary pavilion there was an entire merch shop that featured some of the new things coming to Tokyo Disneyland, as well as 8th anniversary merch, that you wouldn't be able to get anywhere else! Here's a look at what you were able to purchase!

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