Disney World Scat Cat's Club Café and Lounge both close for refurbishment on October 6. The café is due back in December 2026 and the lounge in January 2027, and in the meantime the beignets and coffee move to Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory.
Universal Orlando The invention drawings scattered around Doc Brown's 1892 blacksmith workshop in Back to the Future: OUTATIME were drawn for Back to the Future Part III. They never made the final cut, and Universal says it got permission from Universal Pictures to use them.
Disney World Frontier Developments will develop and publish a new game built on Disney intellectual property. There is no title, no named franchise, no platform and no release date, and Frontier says it is funding the entire project.
SeaWorld Orlando The public tickets page advertises a floor of $45.99, and the Any Night Ticket sells online for $69.99. Pass Members who walk into the Pass Member Lounge can buy the same Any Night Ticket for $31. The window was extended to September 6, which is five days before Howl-O-Scream opens, so nobody can buy one on a night they could use it.
Universal Orlando Three days, three parks, one park per day on the base ticket, from $99 a day for everyone and $85 a day for Florida residents, or $255 before tax. The Florida resident version is online only and has to be used by December 23. A separate Florida resident offer takes up to 35 percent off rooms at four hotels Sunday through Thursday.
Disney World The gift shop next to the Haunted Mansion entrance is not closed for Piston Peak construction. It is gone, and the Mike Fink Keel Boats landing beside it came down back in May. Construction walls sealed the last open stretch of boardwalk this week, and Disney has started papering them with vintage style Frontierland ads referencing Doctor Terminus, Slue-Foot Sue and the Hundred Acre Wood.
Disney World Disney published its fall snack and drink lineup on Thursday, 46 listed items across four theme parks, both water parks, Disney Springs and more than a dozen resort locations. Exactly three locations carry a Coming in 2027 tag, and two of them are at Typhoon Lagoon, which closes September 9 with no reopening date announced. Blizzard Beach's two items arrive this fall with no delay attached.
Legoland Florida Three days after Legoland Florida rebuilt its annual passes, the Monthly Pay page has caught up. It now offers Preferred at $15 a month and Premium at $19 a month, and the terms say the plan is limited to those two. The $179 Standard pass, the cheapest and the one the park leads with, has no monthly option. The cheapest monthly route into the resort now costs $55.50 more across a first year than the Silver plan it replaced.
SeaWorld Orlando Sip & Scream is a new $29.99 add-on: priority access to one haunted house of your choice, plus a 20 oz cocktail in a light-up souvenir cup. The choice includes I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch, the licensed headliner that Front Line Fear at $69.99 and Front Line Fear EXTREME at $89.99 both explicitly leave out. SeaWorld's own comparison table does not list the new product at all.
Disney World An amber message board on the roadway outside Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa reads NEW ENTRANCE 9-10-26, and that is the entire announcement. Disney has published nothing about what changes for drivers next Thursday, and did not answer Blog Mickey's request for more information. A permit approved last November calls for extending the resort's main entrance roughly 200 feet to meet a new roundabout.
Legoland Florida The banner at the top of the annual pass page now reads October 7th. Scroll down to the terms and conditions on that same page and the offer is still valid only for purchases made August 31 through September 30. The Peppa Pig annual pass page, which sells the same deal, has not been touched since the promotion launched on August 31. Legoland edited two pages at around 4:50 and 5:02 this afternoon and updated the headline on both while leaving the fine print behind.
SeaWorld Orlando The hero banner says November 6, 2026 to January 4, 2026. The FAQ two screens below says November 7 to January 5. The events index says November 6 to January 4, 2027. The VIP tour page says January 3, 2026. Four answers across three pages, and a New Year's Eve blurb inviting you to ring in a year that will already be over.
Universal Orlando Epic Universe's first separately ticketed after hours event was booked for two nights when tickets went on sale in August. It is now a five night run. Universal added October 24, November 6 and November 20, and the November pair are the first Fridays for an event that had only ever been scheduled on Saturdays. October 17 is already gone.
Disney World The pad across World Drive was carved out of the woods and debuted with Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular in 2016, then went largely unused. Late Tuesday night it went back to work, launching big shells spaced out across the night rather than run as a show. Disney did not respond to Blog Mickey's request for more information, which leaves three leading theories: an October 20 corporate buyout, bigger fireworks returning to Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM!, or early groundwork for the signature fireworks show the park still lacks.
Legoland Florida The costume section of the official Brick or Treat page has been rewritten since mid August. Prop and realistic looking weapons are now banned outright, the gore language got much harder, and the bullet about loose costume pieces on rides is gone.
SeaWorld Orlando Two sessions are listed, September 5 at Expedition Odyssey Gifts and November 7 at the Shoppes at Waterfront, both 2 to 4 p.m. To trade from SeaWorld's boards you have to buy a pin that day and show the receipt.
Universal Orlando Universal announced the hot dog and Italian ice shop in May and never gave it a date. Now its co-founder says the opening is definitely this month, probably on a weekend, and new photos show the signage and banners already up.
Disney World Slinky Dog Dash did not open on August 31 or September 1 and had still not reopened as of Wednesday morning. Photos taken Wednesday show one of its trains stopped short at the second launch and an access panel standing open nearby, and Cast Members told WDW News Today the ride was expected to remain closed Thursday as well.
Legoland Florida Legoland Florida's Brick or Treat page now lists a Halloween overlay on The Dragon and a new Department of Monster Vehicles. On last year's page the only ride treatment was the carousel. The event runs select dates from September 5 through October 31.
SeaWorld Orlando Discovery Cove is running a 30% discount that covers visits through 2027, further out than the same discount reached in June. The Signature Dolphin Swim starts at $198.80 instead of $284.00 and the Day Resort package at $149.10 instead of $213.00, on new bookings made by Sunday, September 13.
Universal Orlando Universal Orlando has confirmed that Animal Actors on Location!, an opening day attraction at Universal Studios Florida, closes permanently on Monday, November 2. The executive quoted in the announcement started his Universal career as an attendant at that very show.
Disney World Art of Animation's room refurbishment now has a window: mid-June 2027 through October 2028, per the official notice reported by Blog Mickey. Crews will move one themed area at a time, with all new furniture and fixtures in the family suites and The Little Mermaid rooms.
Universal Orlando The deeply discounted store that only Universal Orlando Annual Passholders and Team Members can shop is leaving its cramped Brown Derby home on September 3 for the old Custom Gear shop in San Francisco, which happens to sit at the exit of a ride that closed on August 17. It is the first confirmed new use for any part of the Fast & Furious: Supercharged building, and the message announcing it signed off with a JAWS joke.
Disney World Walt Disney World handed merchandise shipping to a third party, Ricoh, on September 1, and the price no longer tracks what your souvenirs are worth. You pick one of four colored bags instead, from $19.97 to $49.97, and the old $99.99 ceiling on anything above $500 is gone. Insurance beyond the first $100 is now a separate charge, and the new sheet does not promise a delivery window at all.
SeaWorld Orlando SeaWorld announced SEAQuest: Legends of the Deep in September 2025, and its own December blog post called it a 2026 attraction. As of September 1, the ride's own page carries no opening date and no opening year, while still pitching a 2026 Annual Pass as the way to ride it first. SeaWorld has not announced a date, and Attractions Magazine, which as of August 11 still called it a hoped-for late 2026 opening, has put the timeline question to the park.
Legoland Florida Four days before Brick or Treat opens, Legoland Florida has started detailing Brick or Treat Street one house at a time. The first single-house post covers Wacky Witch's Cottage, where a botched spell has let frogs loose, a doorbell sets off crashing noises inside, and turning in a guess at the frog count earns a themed giveaway. All six houses were already named in Legoland's August 28 street overview.
Disney World The lounge at Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort is open again with a full bar where a service window used to be, and the cocktail list has been rebuilt. Only the Mint Julep and the Blood Orange Margarita carried over. The Turf Club restaurant next door is expected to stay walled off until late September.
SeaWorld Orlando Aquatica is serving pass members a free continental breakfast on the six weekend mornings from September 12 to 27, with entry from 9:30 a.m. The fine print allows one per member while supplies last, the same cap Aquatica used back in March. The venue, Kookaburra Kitchen, is a burgers and barbecue counter with no breakfast on its published menu.
Universal Orlando Halloween Horror Nights 35 has no Purge house, no Purge scare zone and no Purge street experience. WDW News Today still found Lady Liberty from The Purge roaming FORTNITEMARES, and reads her as a crossover tease. Universal has announced nothing, and Universal Studios Hollywood has a returning Purge stunt show this year.
Disney World The August 30 party went ahead with tickets still on sale, the first night to do that since the sellout streak began in 2022. It landed on the opening weekend of both Halloween Horror Nights and SeaWorld's Halloween Spooktacular, after days of heavy rain. Ten of the season's 38 nights are still available, topping out at $224.
