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Disney Fired Large Shells Overnight From Hollywood Studios' Long Dormant World Drive Launch Site, and Has Not Said Why Disney World

Disney Fired Large Shells Overnight From Hollywood Studios' Long Dormant World Drive Launch Site, and Has Not Said Why

The pad across World Drive was carved out of the woods and debuted with Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular in 2016, then went largely unused. Late Tuesday night it went back to work, launching big shells spaced out across the night rather than run as a show. Disney did not respond to Blog Mickey's request for more information, which leaves three leading theories: an October 20 corporate buyout, bigger fireworks returning to Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM!, or early groundwork for the signature fireworks show the park still lacks.

September 3, 2026 News
Universal's Passholder Discount Store Moves Into the Fast & Furious: Supercharged Exit Shop on Thursday Universal Orlando

Universal's Passholder Discount Store Moves Into the Fast & Furious: Supercharged Exit Shop on Thursday

The deeply discounted store that only Universal Orlando Annual Passholders and Team Members can shop is leaving its cramped Brown Derby home on September 3 for the old Custom Gear shop in San Francisco, which happens to sit at the exit of a ride that closed on August 17. It is the first confirmed new use for any part of the Fast & Furious: Supercharged building, and the message announcing it signed off with a JAWS joke.

September 2, 2026 News
Disney World Now Prices Ship-Home by Bag Size, Not by What You Bought, and a $2,000 Haul Can Fall From $99.99 to $19.97 Disney World

Disney World Now Prices Ship-Home by Bag Size, Not by What You Bought, and a $2,000 Haul Can Fall From $99.99 to $19.97

Walt Disney World handed merchandise shipping to a third party, Ricoh, on September 1, and the price no longer tracks what your souvenirs are worth. You pick one of four colored bags instead, from $19.97 to $49.97, and the old $99.99 ceiling on anything above $500 is gone. Insurance beyond the first $100 is now a separate charge, and the new sheet does not promise a delivery window at all.

September 2, 2026 News
SEAQuest Was Announced as SeaWorld Orlando's 2026 Headliner, and With Four Months Left Its Ride Page Says Only Coming Soon SeaWorld Orlando

SEAQuest Was Announced as SeaWorld Orlando's 2026 Headliner, and With Four Months Left Its Ride Page Says Only Coming Soon

SeaWorld announced SEAQuest: Legends of the Deep in September 2025, and its own December blog post called it a 2026 attraction. As of September 1, the ride's own page carries no opening date and no opening year, while still pitching a 2026 Annual Pass as the way to ride it first. SeaWorld has not announced a date, and Attractions Magazine, which as of August 11 still called it a hoped-for late 2026 opening, has put the timeline question to the park.

September 2, 2026 News
Legoland Florida's Wacky Witch's Cottage Has a Doorbell Kids Can Ring, and Turning In a Frog Count Guess Earns a Themed Giveaway Legoland Florida

Legoland Florida's Wacky Witch's Cottage Has a Doorbell Kids Can Ring, and Turning In a Frog Count Guess Earns a Themed Giveaway

Four days before Brick or Treat opens, Legoland Florida has started detailing Brick or Treat Street one house at a time. The first single-house post covers Wacky Witch's Cottage, where a botched spell has let frogs loose, a doorbell sets off crashing noises inside, and turning in a guess at the frog count earns a themed giveaway. All six houses were already named in Legoland's August 28 street overview.

September 2, 2026 News
Aquatica Is Serving Pass Members a Free Breakfast at Its Burgers and BBQ Counter on Six September Mornings, One per Member SeaWorld Orlando

Aquatica Is Serving Pass Members a Free Breakfast at Its Burgers and BBQ Counter on Six September Mornings, One per Member

Aquatica is serving pass members a free continental breakfast on the six weekend mornings from September 12 to 27, with entry from 9:30 a.m. The fine print allows one per member while supplies last, the same cap Aquatica used back in March. The venue, Kookaburra Kitchen, is a burgers and barbecue counter with no breakfast on its published menu.

September 1, 2026 News
A Manatee Found Swimming on Her Side in January Went Back Into Crystal River Last Week, and It Was Not Her First Rescue SeaWorld Orlando

A Manatee Found Swimming on Her Side in January Went Back Into Crystal River Last Week, and It Was Not Her First Rescue

Citron was pulled from Kings Bay in January with air trapped in her chest cavity from a damaged lung, a condition that can interfere with a manatee's buoyancy and keep her from staying submerged. After months of care at SeaWorld Orlando she was released on August 27 at The Port Hotel and Marina in Crystal River. Laughing Place cites a SeaWorld animal care specialist saying this was not her first rescue, and reports an earlier rescue in 2025.

September 1, 2026 News
Universal Has Wanted a Flowering Demogorgon Since Its First Stranger Things House, and Halloween Horror Nights 35 Finally Has the Animatronics for It Universal Orlando

Universal Has Wanted a Flowering Demogorgon Since Its First Stranger Things House, and Halloween Horror Nights 35 Finally Has the Animatronics for It

Universal creatives broke down the Stranger Things 5 house at a media preview panel, and the reveal was technical. The team wanted a fully flowering Demogorgon from the very first Stranger Things house and only now had the animatronics to build it. Universal says the MAC-Z showdown room is the largest set piece anywhere at Halloween Horror Nights 35.

September 1, 2026 News
Legoland Florida and Peppa Pig Take Turns Closing This Fall: Peppa Closes 12 Tuesdays, Legoland the 12 Wednesdays Right After, Starting September 1 Legoland Florida

Legoland Florida and Peppa Pig Take Turns Closing This Fall: Peppa Closes 12 Tuesdays, Legoland the 12 Wednesdays Right After, Starting September 1

Legoland Florida's calendar now runs through December 31, and it shows 24 closed park days between September 1 and December 16, arranged in back to back pairs. Peppa Pig Theme Park closes 12 Tuesdays. Legoland Theme Park and SEA LIFE Florida close the 12 Wednesdays immediately after. The two gates never close on the same day, and the first pair lands September 1 and 2.

September 1, 2026 News
Universal Has Already Pulled the Display Cars From the Fast & Furious: Supercharged Queue, and Halloween Horror Nights Guests Walk Past the Gaps Universal Orlando

Universal Has Already Pulled the Display Cars From the Fast & Furious: Supercharged Queue, and Halloween Horror Nights Guests Walk Past the Gaps

Fast & Furious: Supercharged closed for good on August 17. On August 28, WDW News Today reported that the display cars were already gone from its queue, leaving empty floor space and, in one spot, marks on the floor where a car sat. The queue is not sitting idle either: on Halloween Horror Nights 35 event nights it is serving as the line for the Cybergoria haunted house.

September 1, 2026 News
SeaWorld Cut Its One Park Howl-O-Scream Pass to $99.99, Reversing an Odd Inversion, and a $42.99 Night on a Page the Event Page Never Links To SeaWorld Orlando

SeaWorld Cut Its One Park Howl-O-Scream Pass to $99.99, Reversing an Odd Inversion, and a $42.99 Night on a Page the Event Page Never Links To

A week ago the SeaWorld only unlimited pass cost $10 more than the pass that also covers Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. On SeaWorld's ticket page today the one park product is $99.99 and the two park pass is $104.99, so the inversion has reversed. Separately, a partner page that the event page never links to sells a single night ticket for $42.99, but not on the event's opening weekend.

September 1, 2026 News
The Diamond Horseshoe Pop-Up Opens October 4, and Its Full Menu Has Six Small Plates and No Entrees Disney World

The Diamond Horseshoe Pop-Up Opens October 4, and Its Full Menu Has Six Small Plates and No Entrees

Disney published the full menu for The Diamond Horseshoe pop-up at Magic Kingdom and set the opening for Sunday, October 4, with reservations from September 29. The menu runs six small plates, four non alcoholic drinks, six cocktails, three wines and three draft beers, with no entrees, no desserts and no prices. Disney also said the pop-up will not be available during Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, and October 4 is one of 14 party nights in its first 28 days.

August 31, 2026 News
Legoland Florida Swapped Its Four Annual Passes for Three Today, and the Cheapest New One Leaves Out the Water Park Legoland Florida

Legoland Florida Swapped Its Four Annual Passes for Three Today, and the Cheapest New One Leaves Out the Water Park

Legoland Florida replaced Bronze, Silver, Gold and Elite with Standard, Preferred and Premium on Monday. The new entry pass is $179, against the $199 the legacy pay in full lineup started at, and it does not include the Water Park, though the legacy Silver pass still does. Water Park access in the new lineup starts at the $249 Preferred tier. Bring a Friend tickets are Premium only within that new lineup, and the launch promo runs through September 30.

August 31, 2026 News
Blood Noir Opened at Halloween Horror Nights 35 With a Sword Swallower Who Swallows Vampire Hunters' Weapons, Scored to Lady Gaga and Queen Universal Orlando

Blood Noir Opened at Halloween Horror Nights 35 With a Sword Swallower Who Swallows Vampire Hunters' Weapons, Scored to Lady Gaga and Queen

Universal announced Nightmare Fuel: Blood Noir in July and described it in a single sentence. Now that the show has opened at Halloween Horror Nights 35, WDW News Today has published a scene by scene account of what is actually in it. Sword swallower Auzzy Blood plays a chained vampire who frees himself and swallows the hunters' weapons, in a show set to Lady Gaga, Queen, Nirvana and Billy Idol.

August 31, 2026 News
Peppa Pig Theme Park Florida Has Just Three Days Left Before September 26 With Both Its Coaster and Its High Striker Open Legoland Florida

Peppa Pig Theme Park Florida Has Just Three Days Left Before September 26 With Both Its Coaster and Its High Striker Open

Daddy Pig's Roller Coaster, the park's only coaster, is listed closed through September 4. Mr. Bull's High Striker is listed closed September 8 through September 25. The two windows leave Labor Day weekend, September 5 to 7, as the only remaining stretch with both rides running before September 26. Neither closure was separately announced.

August 29, 2026 News