One Jumanji: The Next Level Scene Was Actually Developed For The Last Movie

The scene isn’t specifically necessary in either movie. It’s just a fun action sequence that puts a video game like obstacle in the way of the characters. It could have easily been placed in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, perhaps in place of the rhino stampede, but apparently it was decided that it didn’t quite work as well as some of the other ideas they had, and so it was left out.