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Hotel Transylvania Is Joining SeaWorld Orlando's Halloween Spooktacular, and Breakfast With Drac and Mavis Is $35.99 for Adults SeaWorld Orlando

Hotel Transylvania Is Joining SeaWorld Orlando's Halloween Spooktacular, and Breakfast With Drac and Mavis Is $35.99 for Adults

SeaWorld Orlando is putting Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania into its daytime Halloween event for the first time. Drac and Mavis have taken over SeaFire Inn as the Monster Dread & Breakfast, a separately ticketed buffet seating at 9 a.m. on event days, and for a limited time every child reservation comes with a souvenir cup.

August 16, 2026 News
Disney Showed a Full-Size Piston Peak Ride Vehicle Model at D23, and the Vehicle Will Have Six Seats, No Doors, and 32-Inch Wheels Disney World

Disney Showed a Full-Size Piston Peak Ride Vehicle Model at D23, and the Vehicle Will Have Six Seats, No Doors, and 32-Inch Wheels

Walt Disney Imagineering gave D23 the first full-scale look at Magic Kingdom's Cars land ride vehicle: a foam model of the off-road rally race vehicle, with published dimensions and a note that this is the last step before production. Imagineering's D23 presentation also revealed the Goat-Carts, Ranger J. Autobahn Woodlore, and an overhead look at the layout for Miss Fritter's attraction.

August 16, 2026 News
Capa and Ravello Just Turned Up in My Disney Experience, and Disney Is Now Booking Tables at a Hotel It Does Not Own Disney World

Capa and Ravello Just Turned Up in My Disney Experience, and Disney Is Now Booking Tables at a Hotel It Does Not Own

The steakhouse and Italian restaurant at Four Seasons Resort Orlando, plus the Goofy character breakfast at Ravello, are bookable in Disney's own reservation system as of Thursday. WDWMagic reports that until now you could only book them through Four Seasons or OpenTable. The dining plans still do not apply, and you are still arranging your own ride.

August 14, 2026 News
Tickets for Epic Universe's First After Hours Party Are On Sale, and Universal Has Now Said What the Free Food Actually Is Universal Orlando

Tickets for Epic Universe's First After Hours Party Are On Sale, and Universal Has Now Said What the Free Food Actually Is

Universal Nights went on sale Thursday for two October Saturdays, with three hours of park time after close, starting at $179.99 plus tax. The event page fills in what July's announcement left blank: berry-flavored Celestial Popcorn, crispy Kimchi Bao and refills from any Coca-Cola Freestyle location, plus a passholder discount that stops at six tickets per pass.

August 13, 2026 News
Disney Is Sending a Crate to D23 That Has Been Sealed for a Century, and Imagineering Says It Does Not Know What Is Inside Disney World

Disney Is Sending a Crate to D23 That Has Been Sealed for a Century, and Imagineering Says It Does Not Know What Is Inside

Walt Disney Imagineering is bringing the Society of Explorers and Adventurers to D23 on Friday, along with a crate Disney says has stayed shut for at least a hundred years. Disney published the group's global headquarters map at the same time, and the Florida pin is marked with an airship dock, a nautilus dock, a rocket launch bay and a time train station.

August 13, 2026 News
Disney Wants to Fake a Ride's Climbs and Drops With Angled Scenery Alone, No Lift Hill and No Screens Needed Disney World

Disney Wants to Fake a Ride's Climbs and Drops With Angled Scenery Alone, No Lift Hill and No Screens Needed

A Walt Disney Imagineering patent application published Thursday describes making guests feel a ride vehicle rise or fall while the track stays perfectly level. The whole trick is set design: scenery built on a slant so it aims at a second, false vanishing point. Blog Mickey thinks it could fit the Encanto attraction under construction at Disney's Animal Kingdom, though it calls that link speculative.

August 13, 2026 News
Jake's American Bar Becomes the Universal Monsters Laguna Lounge for Halloween Horror Nights 35, and Eight More Hotels Get Overlays Universal Orlando

Jake's American Bar Becomes the Universal Monsters Laguna Lounge for Halloween Horror Nights 35, and Eight More Hotels Get Overlays

Universal detailed its Halloween Horror Nights 35 hotel takeovers Wednesday. Frankenstein and the Invisible Man turn up in the decor of a mid century modern tiki hideaway at Royal Pacific, Stella Nova and Terra Luna join the lineup as new, and The Keyholder Bar opens to the left of the Music Plaza Stage inside Universal Studios Florida.

August 13, 2026 News
Sunday Is the Last Day to Ride Fast & Furious: Supercharged, and Inside Universal Says It Will Run During Passholder Nights Universal Orlando

Sunday Is the Last Day to Ride Fast & Furious: Supercharged, and Inside Universal Says It Will Run During Passholder Nights

Fast & Furious: Supercharged closes for good on Monday, August 17, which makes Sunday, August 16 the final day to ride it. Inside Universal reports Universal has confirmed the attraction will be open during Passholder Nights on August 15 and 16, so the very last riders are lined up to be annual passholders at a free, reservation only party that is already at capacity.

August 12, 2026 News
The Monsters, Inc. Coaster's M Shaped Load Station Went Up in Steel, and You Can See It From the Hollywood Studios Parking Lot Disney World

The Monsters, Inc. Coaster's M Shaped Load Station Went Up in Steel, and You Can See It From the Hollywood Studios Parking Lot

Blog Mickey published photos of curved steel ribs inside the Monstropolis show building on Tuesday, with multiple pairs of them appearing to be installed, forming the M shaped load and unload station for the Door Vault coaster. The silhouette matches the concept model Imagineering showed at D23 in 2024, and those arches exist to carry what Disney says will be the first vertical lift system at a Disney park.

August 12, 2026 News
SeaWorld Will Hand Pass Members a Free Howl-O-Scream Quick Queue for Visiting in August, but Not for the I Know What You Did Last Summer House SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Will Hand Pass Members a Free Howl-O-Scream Quick Queue for Visiting in August, but Not for the I Know What You Did Last Summer House

Passport to Screams turns August pass member visits into Howl-O-Scream rewards: a free snack in week one, ten dollars in Howl-O-Scream Bucks in week two, and a one time Quick Queue in week three. The asterisk hanging off that third reward is the interesting part, because the event's licensed house, I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch, is carved out of it.

August 12, 2026 News
A Red Balloon Was Floating Over Magic Kingdom's Piston Peak Site, and It Turned Up in the Background of an Official Disney Photo Disney World

A Red Balloon Was Floating Over Magic Kingdom's Piston Peak Site, and It Turned Up in the Background of an Official Disney Photo

Disney has not said how tall the Piston Peak mountains will be, and how much of them will loom over the rest of Magic Kingdom is the sightline question Imagineering publicly addressed back in 2025. A staff photo published on the Disney Parks Blog, shot on location with an Imagineer in a construction vest, may have answered it by accident. In the frame, a small red balloon hangs in the sky behind the walls, floating well above Cinderella Castle's tallest spire from the camera's angle.

August 12, 2026 News
Some Disney Springs Stores No Longer Take Disney Gift Cards, Including Zara and Vera Bradley, and Neither Report Includes a Full List Disney World

Some Disney Springs Stores No Longer Take Disney Gift Cards, Including Zara and Vera Bradley, and Neither Report Includes a Full List

A popular Walt Disney World money-saving move is to buy Disney Gift Cards at a discount and spend them on property like cash. At Disney Springs, that just stopped working at some stores. Guest Relations told WDW News Today that third-party contracts have changed, Zara and Vera Bradley are out, Sephora is still in, and neither report includes a full list.

August 12, 2026 News
Universal Finally Named Its Passholder Nights Dishes, and Both Are Locked Behind a Two Night Event That Filled Up in July Universal Orlando

Universal Finally Named Its Passholder Nights Dishes, and Both Are Locked Behind a Two Night Event That Filled Up in July

Universal's blog named the two Passholder Nights exclusives its own website had listed only as coming soon: an Apple Pie Crepe at Central Park Crepes and Pizza Fries at DreamWorks Imagination Cafe. Both are available only on August 15 and 16, at a free after hours party whose reservations filled back in July. The other ten Passholder Appreciation Days items have been public since July 28, and not one of them is at Epic Universe.

August 10, 2026 News
Universal Revealed Another Free Passholder Item, a Blue UOAP Wristlet Keychain, and This One Does Not Need a Fully Booked Event Universal Orlando

Universal Revealed Another Free Passholder Item, a Blue UOAP Wristlet Keychain, and This One Does Not Need a Fully Booked Event

When Universal laid out Passholder Appreciation Days in late July, one perk was left blank: a complimentary specialty item, to be announced soon. It has now been shown, and it is a bright blue fabric wristlet keychain printed with the UOAP logo. Pickup starts August 15 at two in-park shops, while supplies last, and it is not tied to the fully booked Passholder Nights.

August 10, 2026 News
Pain and Panic Vanished From the Boo-To-You Parade This Year, and Cinderella's Stepsisters Are Dancing in Their Place Disney World

Pain and Panic Vanished From the Boo-To-You Parade This Year, and Cinderella's Stepsisters Are Dancing in Their Place

Hades' henchmen used to dance at the rear of the Skeleton Band float, at first inside dark metal cages with glowsticks, and in later years with just the glowsticks. For the 2026 run of Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, Anastasia and Drizella have the spot instead, with no cages and no glowsticks. WDW News Today argues the swap may quietly retire the last of the parade's grown-up streak.

August 10, 2026 News
Boulder Ridge Villas at Wilderness Lodge Lost Water Pressure Saturday, and Disney Is Moving Some Guests to Old Key West and Saratoga Springs Disney World

Boulder Ridge Villas at Wilderness Lodge Lost Water Pressure Saturday, and Disney Is Moving Some Guests to Old Key West and Saratoga Springs

A water outage that guests say began around 3 p.m. Saturday has left Boulder Ridge, one of the Disney Vacation Club villa buildings at Disney's Wilderness Lodge, with barely any water pressure and toilets that will not flush. Disney is moving some guests to Disney's Old Key West Resort and to Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, and offering refunds and bill adjustments to affected guests whether they move or stay. It is the second infrastructure failure at the resort in under two months, and this one hit the villa building that June's air conditioning outage appeared to spare.

August 10, 2026 News