The loss of Mythos leaves big shoes to fill as it was voted the world’s best theme park restaurant by visitors to the website theme parkinsider.com seven times over the years as the poster out front has always proudly stated. The Feast of the Four Nations will seek to fill those shoes through a mix of an amazing international menu, immersive theming, and live entertainment!
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Much of the rockwork outside stays the same with some aesthetic updates and removing the carvings of mythological figures, but added to the front will be a façade of Zuko's family beach house on Ember Island. A grand building that assures guests that they are still in for a top notch theme park dining experience, but not so grand that it overwhelms the more naturalistic environment of The Smashing Home of Jellyfield section of the land.
In the show, this seaside retreat was in the Fire Lord's family for generations. After the fall of Fire Lord Ozai and the end of the 100 Year War (as seen at the end of the original Avatar the Last Airbender series), the beach house was inherited by the new Fire Lord, Zuko. One year later, he intends to use his position as Fire Lord to further his and the Gaang's (Aang Gang, the nickname for Team Avatar) mission to reunify the nations and bring peace. Restoring the world to what it was before the Fire Nation attacked and undoing the damage done by his ancestors. So, Zuko has opened up his family home to host a celebration of a new holiday dedicated to the ideas of unity, The Feast of the Four Nations! And you are invited to join in the festivities.
The lobby is based on the bits of the inside of the house seen in the show. Regal, but aged. Well lived in and well loved. Naturally, with scorch marks everywhere. Fire Nation antiques and treasures adorn the foyer. Family photos have largely all be replaced by painting Zuko has had commissioned of the Gaang. Although a large portrait of Uncle Iroh rests on the mantle. Nearby, plans can be seen for a statue commemorating Avatar Aang along with possible locations to build it with Yue Bay (The future home of Republic City) circled as a frontrunner. While the chaotic cartoon crossover theme of the land is subtler in this more refined restaurant themed to the more lore heavy Avatar franchise, little details like this tie in elements from Legend of Korra too giving it a bit of a crossover even if it is just within the same franchise.
The dining room itself is completely redesigned to resemble the Ember Island Playhouse with all the tables centered around a small stage. A similar layout to the Biergarten restaurant at Epcot including the longer tables that seat multiple families together. Furthering the themes of unification and bringing everyone together.
The food served here features dishes inspired by the four nations. Seafood, stews, and soups from the Water Tribe (with inspiration from real life Inuit dishes). Ramen, rice bowls, and dumplings from the Earth Kingdom (with inspiration from real life Chinese dishes). Noodle bowls, skewers, and spicy dishes from the Fire Nation (with inspiration from real life Japanese dishes). And vegan dishes, steamed veggie bowls, and sweet pastries from the Air Nomads (with inspiration from real life Tibettan dishes).
Last, but not least, the live entertainment! Fire Lord Zuko has invited the Ember Island players to put on a show for guests while they dine (even though they always butcher their performances of Love Amongst the Dragons). They perform four different shows each roughly 7 minutes long with 5 minutes in between each show. This allows the average guest to see all of their performances while they dine and servers plenty of time to assist guests in between sets.
If you are not familiar with the Ember Island Players, they come from one of the most iconic episodes of the original series. It was one of the last episodes and served as a comedic recap of the series so far with the Gaang going to see a play based on their adventures. With the gag being that there are comical inaccuracies (such as Toph being a big, buff man instead of a young girl), jabs at tropes of the series (Zuko's character being obsessed with honor and Sokka constantly talking about food), and meta jokes about the series itself (lampshading the unclear nature of Jet's fate in the series due to network censorship and making fun of episodes fans dislike).
The Ember Island Players sketches for the restaurant will have a similar tongue in cheek tone as they reenact iconic moments from the series full of in jokes for fans (but not so many in jokes that the average guest can't enjoy it too).
An example of one of the sketches is written up below.
BATO OF THE WATER TRIBE
A shore. SOKKA, AANG, and KATARA enter.
SOKKA:
Somebody left these footprints! Who could they belong to?
AANG:
Look, Sokka! It's the meat delivery man!
SOKKA:
Where?
AANG:
(laughs) Fooled you!
SOKKA:
(sad) Ohhh.
BATO enters.
BATO:
Sokka?
AANG:
(gasps) I thought I was joking!
SOKKA:
Bato!
SOKKA and KATARA rush to BATO and embrace him.
KATARA:
(sobbing) What are the chances we'd find you out here?
BATO:
About one in fifteen.
AANG:
Hello? I'm still here too.
SOKKA:
Aang, meet Bato, my dad's best friend forever. (to BATO) Is he here?
BATO:
No, but I have something even better: (whips out bowls of) sea prunes!
SOKKA & KATARA:
Sea prunes!
The three of them exit, slurping sea prunes.
AANG:
Gee whilikers. At this rate, they'll leave me to go off with Tabo and their dad. Then who am I gonna play pranks on? Don't worry, Aang. Their dad's at sea, how would they even find him?
A MAP SALESMAN enters.
MAP SALESMAN:
Maps to Katara and Sokka's dad! Get 'em while they're hot! Here, kid, have one on the house! (hands AANG one, proceeds back off) Maps to Katara & Sokka's dad! (exits)
AANG:
Oh no! I can't let them find this! I know! I'll bury it!
AANG, with the assistance of the EFFECTS CREW, makes a pit in the sand and buries the map in it.
AANG:
There! Now no one will ever find it!
SOKKA, KATARA and BATO re-enter.
SOKKA:
Look! Someone made an X in the sand! It must mean treasure! Maybe even meat! (digs up the map) Wait, this isn't meat! This is a map to dad! Aang, how could you hide this from us?!
KATARA:
(sobbing) Such betrayal!
AANG:
Oh shucks, I didn't want to be abandoned!
BATO:
Abandoned?
AANG:
Quiet, Babo, this partially doesn't concern you!
ZUKO enters.
ZUKO:
But you concern me, Avatar!
AANG:
Oh no!
ZUKO:
I can smell the honor already!
KATARA:
Smell this, hot boy!
KATARA throws a perfume bottle at ZUKO.
ZUKO:
(coughing) Your perfume! It's too strong! My breathing is compromised by odorous means! (exits)
AANG, KATARA, SOKKA, & BATO:
Hooray!
AANG:
Katara saved the day!
BATO:
That's my friend's girl!
KATARA:
Oh, I'm so happy to be out of that dangerous predicament! We forgive you, Aang!
AANG:
Hooray!
SOKKA:
Say, Katara, do you have any perfume that smells like meat?
They all laugh. For longer than necessary.
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