Former Shop // latest change 2012.12.19
West Side · Disney Springs · Walt Disney World
Former Shop · the memorial record
This shop is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
◆ Latest milestone
The former Virgin Megastore building (briefly occupied in part by a Ridemakerz store) reopened as the two-story, roughly 50,000-square-foot Splitsville Luxury Lanes, which filled the former megastore footprint with 30 bowling lanes across two floors.
The Virgin Megastore at Downtown Disney closed permanently as Virgin shuttered its remaining U.S. locations.
Virgin Megastore opened as an anchor of the newly debuted Downtown Disney West Side, a roughly 49,000-square-foot music, movie and entertainment retailer sited near DisneyQuest and the AMC Theatres complex.
Per the documented record, Virgin Megastore at Disney Springs opened on Sep 15, 1997.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Virgin Megastore is dated May 12, 2009: The Virgin Megastore at Downtown Disney closed permanently as Virgin shuttered its remaining U.S. locations.
The latest documented change (documented Dec 19, 2012): The former Virgin Megastore building (briefly occupied in part by a Ridemakerz store) reopened as the two-story, roughly 50,000-square-foot Splitsville Luxury Lanes, which filled the former megastore footprint with 30 bowling lanes across two floors.
3 documented changes, dating back to 1997 — the fan-kept shop changelog nobody else keeps.
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