Universal Orlando The Halloween Horror Nights 35 Tribute Store is open, and among the props on its shelves is a handwritten card reading Skulls excavated from former Atlantian exhibit. Universal finished flattening Poseidon's Fury earlier this month. A banner inside pictures the Enchanted Oak Tavern, gone since 2008.
Disney World Walt Disney Imagineering revealed the entrance to The Magic of Disney Animation on Tuesday, and the character leaning over the top of the banner is the Lost Boy Robin Williams played in 1989. Imagineering calls him the character who adds the magic to the space. The attraction opens September 14.
Legoland Florida The park keeps a public list of every day it activated its Guest Experience Promise, and it now runs through August 23. Twelve dates this month, sixteen in July. If you were there on one of them, and you were not on an annual or Summer Play Pass, your existing ticket buys another visit within the year.
Universal Orlando Dead Coconut Club becomes Midweston's 35th Annual Harvest Festival downstairs and the inside of a flying saucer upstairs. Orlando Informer has published the food and drink prices, the list now includes light bites, and you still do not need a Halloween Horror Nights ticket to walk in.
Disney World A handwritten sheet of pink notepad paper on the tables puts the whole Oaxacan wood carving stand at half price. The reason, per WDWMagic and a guest who spoke to the vendor, is that the stand is leaving EPCOT's Mexico pavilion when August ends. Disney has not announced it and has not said what takes the space.
Universal Orlando Frank's Fizz and Bleeding Eye are tied to a single venue on Universal's entire Halloween Horror Nights 35 menu, and that venue only lets in hotel guests, passholders and Universal Rewards Cardmembers. A 20 ounce souvenir cup of either runs $19.
Disney World The official logo for Walt Disney World's 55th year arrived on a pullover, a t-shirt and a set of ears rather than in an anniversary announcement. The bowls of the two 5s sit either side of the classic globe as ears to make Mickey, and there is still no release date, no pricing and no celebration on the calendar.
Universal Orlando Universal has dated Dufftoberfest: August 24 through November 1 at Universal Studios Florida. The beer is the same one Springfield has poured since 2015, but 2026 broke its decade-long run as the only seasonal Duff, and the Treehouse of Horror food Universal teased in July went to Hollywood instead.
Legoland Florida Legoland Florida's closures page lists three closures that all begin September 8, including a coaster and a park favorite, landing in the first week of Brick or Treat. The Great LEGO Race is listed 9/8 to 10/2 and Kid Power Towers 9/8 to 10/4.
SeaWorld Orlando On SeaWorld Orlando's own ticket page right now, the Unlimited Scream Pass for SeaWorld alone is $112.99 and the Two Park Unlimited Scream Pass covering SeaWorld and Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is $102.99. Two parks, ten dollars less, and the full unlimited season at both.
Universal Orlando 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.
Disney World WDW News Today calls it the first marquee of any kind for Tropical Americas, and it is not at the main entrance. It sits on a scaffolded column along the side path over from Asia, cut to look like an old broken stone tablet. Photos went up Monday.
Universal Orlando Aerial photos from bioreconstruct show an oversized Peterbilt-style semi truck cab set on a grated steel platform next to one of the first stretches of Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift track at Universal Studios Florida. Trains will reverse into the ride's first launch and pass it on the way.
Disney World 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.
SeaWorld Orlando The Howl-O-Scream attractions page shows four named haunted houses and a fifth card labelled RETURNING! with no name and a COMING SOON image. The fine print of SeaWorld's new Front Line Unlimited Scream Pass lists all five of them, and the fifth is Rave Yard.
Disney World 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.
Universal Orlando Universal announced FORTNITEMARES back in July. The build showed up this week, and WDW News Today found the Battle Bus itself parked in Central Park, mechanical arms folded down its flanks and tombstones on the roof. Halloween Horror Nights 35 opens Friday.
Disney World 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.
SeaWorld Orlando 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.
Universal Orlando 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.
Disney World Disney has set Friday, August 21 as the reopening date for Big Top Souvenirs, the circus tent shop in Storybook Circus that has been closed since February. The teaser image shows a Mickey Churro Caramel Apple, a Dumbo Caramel Apple, a Dumbo Sandwich Cookie, marshmallow pops, cupcakes and Circus Chips.
Disney World Disney's Old Key West Resort is retiring the long brunch at Olivia's Cafe. The last one is October 5. From October 6 the restaurant runs breakfast from 7:30am to 11:00am, lunch from 11:30am to 2:00pm, and dinner unchanged at 5:00pm to 9:00pm. Disney has not posted the new menus yet, but several dishes it is teasing for lunch are already on the brunch menu.
Universal Orlando New aerial photos show Universal has taken the trees off the expansion pad behind Dark Universe at Epic Universe, staged construction barriers along the service road, and left the old Monsters Cafe creature statues lying in the grass. On July 24, Orlando ParkStop looked at aerials of this same plot and said work had not started yet. The trees are down now.
Disney World Waterview Park, the open-air live music venue in The Landing, reopened Tuesday with a permanent shade canopy stretched over its seating area. The venue closed in early May for a project reported at the time to take about a month, and the reopening date on record was May 23. It came back 87 days past that target, with live entertainment scheduled to resume at 6pm on reopening night.
Legoland Florida The park has now published the drone show schedule for the 18-night 2026 Brick or Treat season: October 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 at 8pm. That leaves 13 event nights without it, including all five September dates. Legoland's page said the show would run every night of the shorter 2025 season.
Universal Orlando The show building that held Poseidon's Fury has been demolished at Universal Islands of Adventure, leaving a few piles of rubble and a freshly graded sand pad where the entrance and courtyard stood. The Treasures of Poseidon gift shop and the first aid station in The Lost Continent are expected to follow. Universal still has not said what is replacing The Lost Continent.
Disney World Three more nights are off the calendar: August 23, October 8 and October 15, taking the 2026 total to sixteen nights gone out of 38. Two of those three were still on sale on Tuesday morning. August is down to the 25th, 28th and 30th, remaining nights run $144 to $224, and WDWmagic says the season is now moving faster than 2025, which sold out completely on September 24.
Universal Orlando Universal Orlando dated its Dark Arts season on Wednesday: the Hogwarts Castle projection show runs select dates September 5 through November 1 at Islands of Adventure, and Death Eaters roam Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Florida on select dates August 27 through November 1. The castle show has opened in mid-September every year we can document, including its September 14 debut in 2019. The Diagon Alley window matches Halloween Horror Nights 35 exactly, and Universal did not say whether an event ticket is required.
Legoland Florida Legoland Florida's temporary closures page lists seven things shut right now, and three of them carry no end date at all: Pirate River Quest, The LEGOLAND Story and the Minifigure Trading Wall. Archived copies show the boat ride has been on the list since at least September last year, when Legoland's own page dated the closure to August 4, 2025. Four more closures carry dates, three of them starting Monday, including The Great LEGO Race and the full closure of Imagination Zone. One of those four, Deli Takeover, is still listed as a lunch option on the park's new prepaid Dining Packages.
SeaWorld Orlando Discovery Cove has put a Celebrity Weekend page on its site for Friday, December 4, promising 100 reality stars from Survivor, Big Brother, The Amazing Race and The Challenge, with a meet and mingle at Serenity Bay from 2 to 3 p.m. The same page ran a December 5, 2025 edition a year ago, and we found no outside coverage of this year's date. A separate Discovery Cove offer page for the same visit date is still carrying leftover copy from two years ago, and a separate $50 gift card offer closes on Sunday.
