Inflatable Dome

Work begins today on preparing part of North Hagley Park to host a temporary events village.

The work will include laying a temporary foundation, which will allow a large inflatable dome to be erected. A sand and gravel base will be covered with wood, which will then be used as the CCC Dome floor.

Three large containers, which will become the entrances to the dome, have already been craned on to the site. After the foundation and floor is completed, the exterior of the dome will be lifted on and inflated. In the next few weeks, temporary paths will also be laid and the area fenced off.

It’s 1993, you’ve spent the last few years polishing your koopa-stomping skills, and you’re looking to challenge yourself? The solution, obviously, is to head to Pleasure Island at Walt Disney World for Super Mario Nights at the Super Nintendo Power Dome .

That’s right kids (excluding unaccompanied minors), in the monstrous inflatable dome you’ll be able to play – for free! – thirty of the latest Nintendo games from 7 PM until midnight every day. And every night from 8-9 PM you can test your mettle in the Game Boy Challenge, competing with your fellow gamers for a free Nintendo Game Boy The Hollywood Pictures production held its world premiere at the Pleasure Island theaters on May 25th, 1993, as Disney tried to fan the flames of the “Hollywood East” movement it had attempted to kindle with the opening of the Disney-MGM Studios in 1989....