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Epic Universe Closes at 6 p.m. on Saturday October 10, the Only October Date Not Closing at 8, While Islands of Adventure Runs to 9 Universal Orlando

Epic Universe Closes at 6 p.m. on Saturday October 10, the Only October Date Not Closing at 8, While Islands of Adventure Runs to 9

Universal has published Epic Universe hours through the end of October, and one Saturday does not look like the others. October 10 opens early at 9 a.m. with Early Park Admission at 8, then shuts at 6 p.m. Every other October date at the park closes at 8. Islands of Adventure stays open until 9 that same night, and October 10 is not one of the announced Universal Nights dates.

September 11, 2026 News
Disney Posted Hours for The Magic of Disney Animation, and From September 28 It Opens an Hour After the Park and Closes at 6 Disney World

Disney Posted Hours for The Magic of Disney Animation, and From September 28 It Opens an Hour After the Park and Closes at 6

Disney put operating hours on its website for the Hollywood Studios attraction that opens Monday, and they are not the same all month. It runs to park close for the first two weeks, then drops to 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from September 28. Separately, Olaf Draws! will use a virtual queue you cannot join in the app. You have to walk up to the venue and put your name down in person.

September 11, 2026 News
SeaWorld Reset Its Annual Pass Benefits for Anyone Buying From September 8, and Platinum Can No Longer Pull Two Free Guest Tickets at Once SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Reset Its Annual Pass Benefits for Anyone Buying From September 8, and Platinum Can No Longer Pull Two Free Guest Tickets at Once

The benefits page now says its terms apply to new purchases as of 9/8/2026. The 2027 guest ticket chart, uploaded September 8, gives Platinum one ticket in each of eight windows where 2026 gave two tickets in each of four. Annual totals are unchanged at 3, 5 and 8. A double discount on food and beverage that the page carried in May is gone, and the concert count dropped from over 30 to over 25.

September 11, 2026 News
Legoland Florida Brings Back the Christmas Bricktacular Name, Adds a Drone Show and a Rap Battle, and Drops Four Activities From the Page Legoland Florida

Legoland Florida Brings Back the Christmas Bricktacular Name, Adds a Drone Show and a Rap Battle, and Drops Four Activities From the Page

The holidays page was rewritten Thursday. The event is no longer Holidays at LEGOLAND, a name it has carried in every archived version of that page since 2020, but Christmas Bricktacular is not new either: the park used it through 2018. Three things are new for 2026: a festive drone show with LEGO Santa, a Rap Battle show Legoland calls its first ever, and an interactive light trail. Four activities that were listed in August are gone from the page, and the page's own title tag still has not caught up.

September 11, 2026 News
Disney Took the 2027 Opening Year Off Tropical Americas This Morning, While Monstropolis Now Has One on the Same List Disney World

Disney Took the 2027 Opening Year Off Tropical Americas This Morning, While Monstropolis Now Has One on the Same List

Disney rewrote the Tropical Americas entry on the Coming to the Parks list at DisneyWorld.com on Thursday. Tropical Americas lost the Pueblo Esperanza subtitle and the words "in 2027". Monstropolis, which carried no year in June, now says parts of it open in 2027. Disney has said nothing about a delay, and the Disney Parks Blog still says 2027 twice.

September 11, 2026 News
Legoland Florida Put LEGO Festival Back on Its Calendar as a 2027 Event, and Two of the Three Entries in That Block Have No Dates Legoland Florida

Legoland Florida Put LEGO Festival Back on Its Calendar as a 2027 Event, and Two of the Three Entries in That Block Have No Dates

The Festival page was rewritten Tuesday, from a live event reading Now to August 16 into a past tense wrap up headed Coming in 2027, with an email signup where the event pitch used to be. The event had dropped off the seasonal calendar entirely in August. Its neighbor in the 2027 block, LEGO NINJAGO Weekends, has been sitting at Early 2027 since at least March.

September 11, 2026 News
Teppan Edo Was the Most Expensive Candlelight Package Last Year at $110. For 2026 It Is $89, One of Only Two Cuts on a List Where 12 Went Up Disney World

Teppan Edo Was the Most Expensive Candlelight Package Last Year at $110. For 2026 It Is $89, One of Only Two Cuts on a List Where 12 Went Up

The 2026 EPCOT Candlelight Processional dining package prices are out, and both Japan pavilion restaurants on the list got cheaper while almost everything else rose. Teppan Edo falls $21 and Shiki-Sai falls $14. Tutto Italia jumps $8, Le Cellier takes over the top spot at $109, and Akershus Royal Banquet Hall is back on the list after sitting out 2025. Booking opens October 14.

September 11, 2026 News
Legoland Florida Has Now Spelled Out Its Premium Pass Room Upgrade, and the Rules Say You Cannot Request It, Reserve It or Confirm It in Advance Legoland Florida

Legoland Florida Has Now Spelled Out Its Premium Pass Room Upgrade, and the Rules Say You Cannot Request It, Reserve It or Confirm It in Advance

Legoland Florida added a six-question FAQ to its Passholder Hotel Savings page on Wednesday, covering the Premium Annual Pass room upgrade. The answers: not guaranteed, first come first served, decided at the front desk, and impossible to lock in before you arrive. The same page still names a pass tier Legoland stopped selling on August 31.

September 11, 2026 News
Legoland Florida Logged Brick or Treat's Opening Night as a Guest Experience Promise Day, and Labor Day Too, but Not Yet the Sunday in Between Legoland Florida

Legoland Florida Logged Brick or Treat's Opening Night as a Guest Experience Promise Day, and Labor Day Too, but Not Yet the Sunday in Between

Three September dates have appeared on Legoland Florida’s Guest Experience Promise list: Friday the 4th, Saturday the 5th and Monday the 7th. The 5th was Brick or Treat’s opening night and the 7th was Labor Day. Sunday the 6th, also a Brick or Treat night, is not on it yet. Anyone who was in the park on a listed day on a regular ticket can bring that ticket back to Guest Services for another visit within a year.

September 8, 2026 News
Universal Sets Rock the Universe 2027 for January 22 and 23 and Names All 18 Artists, Led by Elevation Worship and Josiah Queen Universal Orlando

Universal Sets Rock the Universe 2027 for January 22 and 23 and Names All 18 Artists, Led by Elevation Worship and Josiah Queen

Universal announced the dates and the full lineup on the same day. Rock the Universe returns to Universal Studios Florida on Friday, January 22 and Saturday, January 23, 2027, with nine artists a night and eighteen across the weekend. Elevation Worship leads the Friday lineup, Josiah Queen leads Saturday, and tickets go on sale Tuesday, September 15.

September 8, 2026 News
SeaWorld's New $39.99 Pass Member Any Night Ticket Has Fine Print That Says Two Event Nights in One Line and Six in Another SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld's New $39.99 Pass Member Any Night Ticket Has Fine Print That Says Two Event Nights in One Line and Six in Another

The offer runs September 8 to 13 at kiosks and through the Pass Member portal. The blog copy says any eligible night before September 26. The fine print then says the ticket is valid during the offer period only, a window holding two event nights, and closes by saying you must visit by September 26, which is six. SeaWorld's retail Any Night Ticket costs $64.99 and carries no date at all.

September 8, 2026 News
Spider Lady's Castle at Legoland Florida Asks Kids to Put Their Hands Inside the Door, and Three Things Are Waiting Legoland Florida

Spider Lady's Castle at Legoland Florida Asks Kids to Put Their Hands Inside the Door, and Three Things Are Waiting

Spider Lady's Castle is the house on Legoland Florida's new Brick or Treat Street built around reaching into openings in the castle door, and the park says the house is built around three tactile effects: an air blast, a tickler and a furry surprise. The castle's page also puts a walk time on the whole street: 7 to 10 minutes for all six houses.

September 8, 2026 News
Howl-O-Scream Opens Friday, and the FAQ on SeaWorld's Own Page Still Answers With Last Year's Dates SeaWorld Orlando

Howl-O-Scream Opens Friday, and the FAQ on SeaWorld's Own Page Still Answers With Last Year's Dates

Ask SeaWorld's Howl-O-Scream page when the event runs and the FAQ says September 5 to November 1, 2025. The body copy further up the same page says September 11 through October 31, and the park's own calendar graphics mark 26 nights starting Friday. The same FAQ also contradicts the ticket copy on the gate time, describes the event entrance differently, and disagrees with the event's own attractions page about which rides run.

September 8, 2026 News