Several motion picture venues have operated in -or around- the LALAPORT mall over the years. The first, the Lalaport Park-In Theatre, was a single-screen drive-in facility. It opened for business, on a pad southwest of the mall, in July 1987. It was expanded into the twin-screen Movix Lalaport 1 & 2 in March 1993.

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The Lalaport 2 expansion was built onto LALAPORT FUNABASHI CENTER in 1987-1988. The project, which increased the mall's leasable area to approximately 1,356,300 square feet, is shown in medium gray. It included a Food Court and in-mall twin-plex cinema. Upon its completion, the official name of the retail facility was changed to LALAPORT TOKYO-BAY.

The Lalaport Skidome, or SSAWS ["zawus"], was built on a pad adjacent to the drive-in theater. SSAWS, which was 328 feet high and 1,640 feet long, opened for business in July 1993. It was completed at the same time that the Japanese economy was in free fall. As a result, the Skidome was not successful. It was shuttered in September 2002, demolished in 2003, and replaced by an IKEA store in 2006.
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Meanwhile, the Lalaport 3 expansion (in light gray) had been dedicated in April of the year 2000. The closing of Sogo, in December 2000, provided space for a multi-level section of new stores, which were collectively known as Lalaport West (this area also shown in light gray). When all construction dust settled, the mall encompassed approximately 1,690,300 leasable square feet and housed 370 stores and services.