Former Restaurant // latest change 1998
Pleasure Island · Disney Springs · Walt Disney World
Former Restaurant · the memorial record
This restaurant is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
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The former Fireworks Factory space reopened as the Wildhorse Saloon country-music dance club, which itself later became the Motion dance club in 2001 before the building was demolished in late 2010 during the Pleasure Island / Disney Springs redevelopment.
The Fireworks Factory permanently closed after roughly eight years of operation at Pleasure Island.
The Fireworks Factory opened at Pleasure Island as a pyrotechnics-themed barbecue and seafood restaurant operated by Levy Restaurants of Chicago.
The restaurant seated roughly 377 guests across two dining rooms and was themed around fictional founder Merriweather Pleasure's fireworks factory, decorated with authentic pyrotechnic props and a gunpowder-stained floor.
Per the documented record, The Fireworks Factory at Disney Springs opened in 1989.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for The Fireworks Factory is dated 1997: The Fireworks Factory permanently closed after roughly eight years of operation at Pleasure Island.
The latest documented change (documented 1998): The former Fireworks Factory space reopened as the Wildhorse Saloon country-music dance club, which itself later became the Motion dance club in 2001 before the building was demolished in late 2010 during the Pleasure Island / Disney Springs redevelopment.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1989 — the fan-kept restaurant changelog nobody else keeps.
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