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Disney Set the Booking Dates for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party Dining, and Four Magic Kingdom Restaurants Are Taking Party Night Reservations Disney World

Disney Set the Booking Dates for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party Dining, and Four Magic Kingdom Restaurants Are Taking Party Night Reservations

Disney Resort hotel guests can book Very Merry party dining from September 3, up to 60 days ahead of arrival and covering stays of up to 10 nights. Everyone else waits until September 9. Four Magic Kingdom restaurants are taking party night reservations, including the Adventureland tavern that opened in 2025, and Minnie's Wonderful Christmastime Fireworks Dessert Party returns in two tiers that differ on price and on where you actually watch the show.

August 27, 2026 News
Dark Universe's Unannounced Third Ride Just Went From Permits to Dirt at Epic Universe, and the Berm Along Kirkman Road Is Coming Down Universal Orlando

Dark Universe's Unannounced Third Ride Just Went From Permits to Dirt at Epic Universe, and the Berm Along Kirkman Road Is Coming Down

New Bioreconstruct aerials published by Orlando ParkStop show the expansion plot behind Monsters Unchained being dug out and flattened, with trailers, containers and a water truck arriving in roughly the past two weeks. The berm that screened the land from Kirkman Road is being removed, and workers photographed on the ground appear to wear the logo of Whiting-Turner, the general contractor named on the permits. Universal still has not announced what is going there.

August 27, 2026 News
Legoland Florida Posted the Brick or Treat Show Times, and Brick or Treat Street Is Inside the Imagination Zone, Which Is Closed Through September 4 Legoland Florida

Legoland Florida Posted the Brick or Treat Show Times, and Brick or Treat Street Is Inside the Imagination Zone, Which Is Closed Through September 4

The park's Brick or Treat schedule page was updated Wednesday with show names, locations and times. Three of the five shows carry the same location line, Inside IZone, and the park has listed the Imagination Zone as closed from August 17 through September 4. Brick or Treat starts September 5. Hotel guests also get the new street to themselves for an hour on opening day.

August 27, 2026 News
Universal is selling a $20 light up necklace that signals you do not want to be scared at Halloween Horror Nights 35, just not in the houses Universal Orlando

Universal is selling a $20 light up necklace that signals you do not want to be scared at Halloween Horror Nights 35, just not in the houses

The 2026 Deathly Afraid necklace is on shelves at Universal Studios Florida two days before Halloween Horror Nights 35 opens. It glows red as a signal that you would rather not be scared out in the open, in scare zones and other common areas. It does not guarantee a scare free night, and it is not to be switched on inside a haunted house.

August 27, 2026 News
Hellraiser Was Codenamed Tractor and Alien Abduction Was Shuttle: A Lights-On Tour Reveals How Universal Built Three HHN 35 Houses Universal Orlando

Hellraiser Was Codenamed Tractor and Alien Abduction Was Shuttle: A Lights-On Tour Reveals How Universal Built Three HHN 35 Houses

Universal codenames its Halloween Horror Nights houses during development, and this year the theme was transportation. A paid lights-on tour matched three of the leaked codenames to their houses, credited the Hellraiser maze to designer Dylan Kollath, and revealed which small animal the scenic team is using as its hidden Easter egg for 2026.

August 25, 2026 News
Imagineering Is Rebuilding EPCOT's Germany Train Garden, and a Tiny Dreamfinder Showed Up Less Than a Week After D23 Announced His Return Disney World

Imagineering Is Rebuilding EPCOT's Germany Train Garden, and a Tiny Dreamfinder Showed Up Less Than a Week After D23 Announced His Return

Walt Disney Imagineering shared photos Friday from an in progress rebuild of the Germany Train Garden at EPCOT. There is a clock tower modeled on the Biergarten entrance, a miniature Snow White cottage with a mine shaft, a tiny construction site behind Please Pardon Our Pixie Dust walls, and a blue suited Dreamfinder standing in front of a Tudor building.

August 24, 2026 News
From 2027, US Disney employees cannot put a spouse on the medical plan if that spouse's own job offers medical coverage Disney World

From 2027, US Disney employees cannot put a spouse on the medical plan if that spouse's own job offers medical coverage

Two pieces of benefits news landed last week. A Wednesday memo told US employees Disney is planning an Employee Stock Purchase Plan for later in 2027 and that nearly everyone has to actively re-enroll for next year. Puck reported the harder part: US employees will not be able to enroll a spouse or domestic partner who can get medical insurance through their own employer.

August 24, 2026 News
Disney Filed for a Ride Warning System That Tells You Only About the Scary Bits You Personally Flagged Disney World

Disney Filed for a Ride Warning System That Tells You Only About the Scary Bits You Personally Flagged

A Disney Enterprises patent application published Thursday describes letting a guest tick off what they want to avoid, dark scary scenes, confined spaces, sharp drops, spiders, and then getting a warning on a phone or watch ahead of that exact moment. On rides that support it, the filing goes further and asks the attraction to turn the effect down, swap in other content, or turn it up.

August 21, 2026 News
SeaWorld Quietly Gave Howl-O-Scream Orlando a Second Icon, and She Is There to Collect a Debt From Havoc SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Quietly Gave Howl-O-Scream Orlando a Second Icon, and She Is There to Collect a Debt From Havoc

A blog post that went up on seaworld.com on Wednesday introduces Pestilence, a new Howl-O-Scream Orlando icon written as Havoc's former partner, the one he left behind. There is no press release, and as of Thursday evening we could not find a theme park outlet that had picked it up. Her infection starts in the Nekrosis scare zone, spreads through the event on the backs of guests, and ends at the Throttle show.

August 21, 2026 News
Guests Say Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift Turned Them Away at 6 Foot 4 in Tech Rehearsals, and a Separate Orlando Version Follows in 2027 Universal Orlando

Guests Say Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift Turned Them Away at 6 Foot 4 in Tech Rehearsals, and a Separate Orlando Version Follows in 2027

Guests are being pulled off Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal Studios Hollywood for being too tall, after waits of three hours and more. The ride posts a 51 inch minimum and no maximum, its test seat reportedly sits near the load platform rather than the entrance, and a separately designed Orlando coaster of the same name is due at Universal Studios Florida in 2027.

August 20, 2026 News