Though it’s not what you were making, this does make for an interesting point. Now Panda and the Cafe are truly land-locked—sandwiched between JW, SNW, and Transformers, which kind of limits what Universal could do with that little area were they to decide to get rid of Panda and the cafe.
I’m not sure how big of a space that is comparatively, so maybe someone could drop an answer, but in theory, is it big enough to fit something the size of, say, SLOP there? Considering I never eat at that Panda and very, very rarely step foot in the cafe, I wouldn’t hate if it was turned into a small little expansion there for SNW (with the entrance obviously inside the land) or something else based on whatever happens to the Mummy.
(My pipe dream would be if Mummy became the indoor Velocicoaster a lot of us have discussed elsewhere that the Panda area could be a secondary building connected to the main show building by enclosed tunnel archways over the walking path for the coaster to travel between, with that whole area converted into a JW theme for unity, but that’s neither here nor there, and I’d be a-okay with something else happening there.)