Stephanie McMahon Reveals Plans For New Set Designs

The Thunderdome Era has come to an end, with next week’s Raw being pre-taped, and Friday’s SmackDown being the first live show in front of fans since last year (excluding WrestleMania 37).

Speaking to Variety, Stephanie McMahon revealed that it’s not just the fans and wrestlers who are excited to get back to a live touring schedule. She said:

“I think I can speak for everybody that touches the WWE Universe — whether it is our fans, our Superstars, our employees, or our partners — we absolutely cannot wait to get back together and come back home where we belong,” said McMahon. “And even though we never went off the air and we continue to produce our content, even though we brought in nearly a million virtual fans over this time period through the ThunderDome with over 70 plus live shows, there’s still just such a huge component missing without fans physically in attendance.”

McMahon promised the post-Thunderdome era of live shows will look different to how we might remember them.

“In the ThunderDome, we were able to experiment with different types of technology. And we needed to over-deliver for our partners and our fans watching at home. But now we have the ability to apply all of those learnings to the live event experience with our fans. So from a production and storytelling standpoint, it will look and feel different.”

Finally, McMahon revealed that new set designs are going to be introduced.

“We’re going to have a new set design, a new presentation of our talents, different locations, and arena setups. We’re going to be utilizing augmented reality in a way that we never have before. We experimented with it a lot during Thunderdome, but it is now going to be incorporated into our talent entrances. There’s also going to be animated graphics. It’s going to be so exciting and so different than anything we’ve done before.”

Credit to Variety for the quotes.

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