Mission to Mars



The Mission to Mars area will be a pizza restaurant, called Pizza Port. It would have been Pizza Planet, the obvious choice from A Toy Story, but Disney didn't copyright the name, so they can't open one because someone else did. Pizza Port is the name of the restaurant in Tokyo Disneyland. Mission to Mars was originally slated to become Alien Encounter, which was originally designed for Disneyland but installed at Walt Disney World. However, the Mission to Mars rooms here are much smaller than the Florida park's, so the show would have a line all the way around the park combined with a very slow loading speed. Bruce (producer for the project, the head Imagineer over the Tomorrowland renovations) made a comment about Alien Encounter in Florida, which he'd worked on, and about what he and the other Imagineer's had wanted to do. He said he'd REALLY wanted to fry the cute little creature at the beginning of the show, but they'd been forced to tame it down.

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