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The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar Universal Orlando named five dishes and six cocktails for Hispanic & Latino Heritage Month across three parks and CityWalk, including a return for Voodoo Doughnut's Margarita Doughnut.
Universal Nights at Epic Universe Universal Celestial Goodnight played without fireworks at Epic Universe on Monday, September 14, and one aerial photographer says the fireworks had already been missing for weeks. Universal's X account says the fireworks portion is temporarily unavailable while it works to resolve a technical issue, and that a return date is not available yet. The fountains, lights and music still run.
Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment At the 2026 Golden Ticket Awards on September 12, Amusement Today gave Best Water Park to Splashin' Safari, a year after Volcano Bay ended Schlitterbahn's 26-year run. Epic Universe's Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment repeated as Best Dark Ride.
Universal Nights at Epic Universe Universal has published Epic Universe hours through the end of October, and one Saturday does not look like the others. October 10 opens early at 9 a.m. with Early Park Admission at 8, then shuts at 6 p.m. Every other October date at the park closes at 8. Islands of Adventure stays open until 9 that same night, and October 10 is not one of the announced Universal Nights dates.
Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment 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.
Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment 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.
