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Sunday Morning You Can Run Through SeaWorld Orlando Before It Opens, Past the Manatees and Dolphin Cove, for the MADD Monster Mash & Dash SeaWorld Orlando

Sunday Morning You Can Run Through SeaWorld Orlando Before It Opens, Past the Manatees and Dolphin Cove, for the MADD Monster Mash & Dash

The 2026 MADD Monster Mash & Dash takes over SeaWorld Orlando on Sunday, September 27. It is an untimed three mile course through the park before the gates open to the public, with a costume contest, a Memory Mile honoring victims of impaired driving, and a surprise animal ambassador. Registration closes at 7 a.m. race morning, and MADD says security check in closes at 6:30.

September 23, 2026 News
Disney Filed a Permit for 1610 Magic Kingdom Drive, an Address With No Entry in the District Database, Right Beside the Haunted Mansion Disney World

Disney Filed a Permit for 1610 Magic Kingdom Drive, an Address With No Entry in the District Database, Right Beside the Haunted Mansion

Walt Disney Imagineering recorded a Notice of Commencement for 1610 Magic Kingdom Dr., a street address with no entry in the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District database. The nearest one it does have is the Haunted Mansion at 1600. A brand new address usually means a brand new building, and this filing names a different contractor than the last one did.

September 23, 2026 News
A Vamp '55 Helmet Labeled 'for Kenneth' Now Sits Inside an HHN 35 House, Universal's Tribute to a Late Team Member Universal Orlando

A Vamp '55 Helmet Labeled 'for Kenneth' Now Sits Inside an HHN 35 House, Universal's Tribute to a Late Team Member

Universal Orlando has added a tribute to team member Kenneth Leeming, who died in early September, inside H.R. Bloodengutz Presents at Halloween Horror Nights 35. A Vamp '55 football helmet labeled "for Kenneth" sits on top of a TV in the house, which stands where the Insidious house was in 2015, the year he joined Universal as a scareactor.

September 23, 2026 News
Little Red, the Baby Elephant Pulled From Kilimanjaro Safaris in 2012, Is Back on View, but Only on Animal Kingdom's $39 Elephant Tour Disney World

Little Red, the Baby Elephant Pulled From Kilimanjaro Safaris in 2012, Is Back on View, but Only on Animal Kingdom's $39 Elephant Tour

New photos show Little Red, the baby elephant figure from Kilimanjaro Safaris' old anti-poaching storyline, standing in the greenery backstage at Animal Kingdom with its own Walt Disney World placard. For now, the way to see it is the Caring for Giants tour, a 60-minute elephant experience that costs $39 per person, plus tax, on top of park admission.

September 23, 2026 News
SeaWorld Just Gave Pass Members a Second Free Guest Ticket for September, and This Time Fun Card Holders Get One Too SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Just Gave Pass Members a Second Free Guest Ticket for September, and This Time Fun Card Holders Get One Too

SeaWorld Orlando's September Pass Member page now has two JUST ADDED offers: one free bonus guest ticket for Annual Pass Members and one for Fun Card holders, both good any one day from September 21 to 29. Pass Members can also pick up a free one-time Howl-O-Scream Quick Queue voucher at the Pass Member Lounge through September 27, and the $39.99 Howl-O-Scream ticket is on sale through September 26.

September 22, 2026 News
Magic Kingdom's Train Station Is Missing Its Metropolis Mutoscope, and Its Railroad Medallions Just Went Generic Disney World

Magic Kingdom's Train Station Is Missing Its Metropolis Mutoscope, and Its Railroad Medallions Just Went Generic

A vintage Mutoscope showing Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis is gone from the Main Street, U.S.A. train station, WDW News Today reports. The station's medallion machine has also swapped its Walt Disney World Railroad set, with locomotive numbers on the front and steam engines on the back, for Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy designs with Cinderella Castle on the back.

September 22, 2026 News
A Pile Driver Now Rises Over Epic Universe's Frankenstein Gate as a New Ride Pit Is Dug Behind Monsters Unchained Universal Orlando

A Pile Driver Now Rises Over Epic Universe's Frankenstein Gate as a New Ride Pit Is Dug Behind Monsters Unchained

The crane-mounted pile driver on Epic Universe's Dark Universe expansion plot can now be seen from inside the park, rising over the Frankenstein gate, Orlando ParkStop reports. The ride pit and pile rig already appeared in September 13 aerials. Universal still has not announced the ride, and ParkStop says fan rumors have shifted from a boat ride themed to Creature from the Black Lagoon toward a Bride of Frankenstein indoor coaster.

September 22, 2026 News
Atlantic Dance Hall Has One Public Weekend Left, Then Disney's BoardWalk Nightclub Becomes a Private Events Venue Disney World

Atlantic Dance Hall Has One Public Weekend Left, Then Disney's BoardWalk Nightclub Becomes a Private Events Venue

Disney's page for Atlantic Dance Hall now says the 21-and-over BoardWalk nightclub ends its regular weekend operations on October 1 and will only host private events after that. WDW News Today and WDWMagic put the final public nights at Friday through Sunday, September 25 to 27, from 8pm to 1am. Next door, the new Hurly-Burly lounge opens October 1.

September 22, 2026 News
Steel Rises Behind Pirates of the Caribbean for a Magic Kingdom Building Labeled MK Park 3 Support Building in District Records Disney World

Steel Rises Behind Pirates of the Caribbean for a Magic Kingdom Building Labeled MK Park 3 Support Building in District Records

New aerial photos show steel framing several stories tall and a tall precast concrete column going up backstage at Magic Kingdom, beside the canal where the Electrical Water Pageant barges are moored. Disney has not announced what it is. Blog Mickey reports the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District's records label it the MK Park 3 Support Building, and Park 3 covers the same general area where work on Piston Peak National Park and Villains Land is under way.

September 21, 2026 News
Flatlands Bar & Grill Opens This Week at Flamingo Crossings With an $18 Clothesline Bacon and a Chef From Cítricos and Topolino's Terrace Disney World

Flatlands Bar & Grill Opens This Week at Flamingo Crossings With an $18 Clothesline Bacon and a Chef From Cítricos and Topolino's Terrace

A new American bar and grill is opening at Flamingo Crossings Town Center on Walt Disney World's western edge, created by former Patina Restaurant Group CEO Nick Valenti with an executive chef who cooked at Cítricos and Topolino's Terrace. The restaurant's own homepage dates the grand opening 9-21-2026, while WDW News Today, which attended a media preview, says the public opening is Tuesday, September 22.

September 21, 2026 News
Discovery Cove's Paradise Nights Is Bookable for 2027, Starting Five Weeks Earlier, Costing $5 More, and With Twice as Many Sloth Slots a Night SeaWorld Orlando

Discovery Cove's Paradise Nights Is Bookable for 2027, Starting Five Weeks Earlier, Costing $5 More, and With Twice as Many Sloth Slots a Night

The 2027 season of Discovery Cove's evening dinner show runs April 30 through August 7, against June 5 to August 8 this year. Adults start at $122 and children at $58, both up $5. The sloth encounter went from $59 to $69, but nightly capacity doubled from 10 guests to 20. The Serenity Bay happy hour is also gone from the published itinerary.

September 21, 2026 News
Peppa Pig Theme Park Is Still Selling a Gold Annual Pass 20 Days After Legoland Retired the Tier, and the Card Under the Heading Says Premium Legoland Florida

Peppa Pig Theme Park Is Still Selling a Gold Annual Pass 20 Days After Legoland Retired the Tier, and the Card Under the Heading Says Premium

Legoland Florida retired its Silver, Gold and Elite annual passes for Standard, Preferred and Premium on August 31. Peppa Pig Theme Park Florida's monthly pay page never got the memo: it still sells a tier called Gold at $19 a month. The pass card printed right underneath that heading reads PREMIUM ANNUAL PASS, and the comparison table further down the same page calls the identical $19 product Premium.

September 21, 2026 News
Disney Turned the Jungle Cruise Shirt Vents Vertical to Stop Steering Wheel Snags, and Hid Three State Flowers in a Main Street Costume Print Disney World

Disney Turned the Jungle Cruise Shirt Vents Vertical to Stop Steering Wheel Snags, and Hid Three State Flowers in a Main Street Costume Print

Disney walked press through Walt Disney World Costuming, and the details are more practical than magical. The Jungle Cruise skipper shirt's back vents were turned vertical after the old horizontal ones could catch on the steering wheel. The Magic Kingdom entrance shirt uses a color the team calls Cinderella Blue. And the Beauty and the Beast ball gowns lost their hoops.

September 21, 2026 News
Fat One's Opened at Universal CityWalk With a $15.99 Signature Hot Dog and Boozy Italian Ice With the Shot in a Pipette Universal Orlando

Fat One's Opened at Universal CityWalk With a $15.99 Signature Hot Dog and Boozy Italian Ice With the Shot in a Pipette

Joey Fatone's hot dog and Italian ice counter opened Saturday in the old Hot Dog Hall of Fame space, and here is what everything costs. The namesake Fat One is $15.99, a scoop of Italian ice is $6.79, and $13.79 buys a larger serving in a plastic cup with a shot of vodka, bourbon or rum delivered in a pipette. There are also three beers brewed just for the place.

September 21, 2026 News
SeaWorld Is Selling a $25 Cup With Free Refills Through December 31, but Only During Sunday's Four Hour Pass Member Picnic SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Is Selling a $25 Cup With Free Refills Through December 31, but Only During Sunday's Four Hour Pass Member Picnic

A new block on SeaWorld Orlando's Pass Member Picnic page offers a Drink All Year Cup for $25 with free refills through December 31, 2026, available exclusively during the picnic on Sunday, September 20 from noon to 4pm at Ports of Call. Getting to it means buying a picnic ticket first, and the $10 online price is gone after Saturday.

September 21, 2026 News
Legoland Says Brick or Treat Street Runs Continuously From 11am. Attractions Magazine Found a 2pm Opening and a Virtual Queue the Park Never Mentions Legoland Florida

Legoland Says Brick or Treat Street Runs Continuously From 11am. Attractions Magazine Found a 2pm Opening and a Virtual Queue the Park Never Mentions

A Legoland Florida blog post updated Friday tells families the new Halloween walkthrough runs continuously from 11am to 8pm. Attractions Magazine went on a hosted media visit and found no standby line at all: a 2pm opening, entry by scanning a QR code into the Legoland app, a 40 minute virtual wait and another 45 minutes in a physical line after being called.

September 21, 2026 News
A Dodge Charger Ride Vehicle Is Being Pulled Along Part of Hollywood Drift's Track by Rope at Universal Studios Florida Universal Orlando

A Dodge Charger Ride Vehicle Is Being Pulled Along Part of Hollywood Drift's Track by Rope at Universal Studios Florida

Aerial and ground photos published Saturday show a black ride vehicle built to look like Dominic Toretto's 1970 Dodge Charger sitting in Hollywood Drift's first launch, with a rope on its nose and arched metal frames attached to its sides. A second winch sits at the top of the return hill above Universal Music Plaza, and appears set up to pull a car through that section against the normal ride direction.

September 21, 2026 News
Florida Is Investigating the 342,000-Gallon Sewage Spill Beside Aquatica, and Orange County Has Apologized to Affected Residents SeaWorld Orlando

Florida Is Investigating the 342,000-Gallon Sewage Spill Beside Aquatica, and Orange County Has Apologized to Affected Residents

The state's Department of Environmental Protection says it is investigating the sewage spill at a wastewater facility next to Aquatica's parking lot. About a dozen manholes overflowed in the nearby Williamsburg neighborhood during repairs, and Orange County apologized to residents impacted. SeaWorld says Aquatica was not impacted.

September 21, 2026 News