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Some more rumors about this popping up. With comcast perhaps looking at acquiring Carnival. (With it's recent add of Celebration Key that contains "portals"). From here: ymmv, on this.

Epic Universe Opening Drives Record Month for Tourist Tax Collections in Orange County https://centralflorida.substack.com/p/florida-school-grades-epic-universe-tax-collections?open=false#%C2%A7epic-universe-opening-drives-record-month-for-tourist-tax-collections

All the universal hotels get early entry. And yeah Epic parking is included for annual passholders, including the prime & valet on the premier (gold card) tier. The prime spots are covered (solar panels above) and closer up.

Orlando SNW does have an expansion opening wall on the north side that's there close to the Donkey Kong tunnel and restrooms. (Right now it's where they have some coke freestyle machines).

So far they have announced closures of rip-ride rockit in September (Now August 17th), and shutting down Volcano Bay for 6 months starting in Fall 2026. That's about the most detail you'll get until much closer to the opening of what they are doing. Universal didn't announce velicoaster even...

This is a pretty strong signal that at least two new portals coming eventually. (Positioning relative to the others is a clue where)

Monsters Unchained and Battle were down a bit earlier, but everything is running now today, it's much heavier than the last several days were. (Chart is from thrilldata, but matches the UO app)

Crowds are definitely here today Battle at Ministry: 240

Yep. Highest day so far and tickets are still limited.

Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto was in epic today.

SunRail extension to Orlando airport, theme parks moves ahead Should work without a paywall: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/04/29/sunrail-extension-to-orlando-airport-theme-parks-moves-ahead/?share=omedu0hssakrsitoehdt

The Battle At The Ministry inside Ministry of Magic is finally running today. Yeah it definitely feels like Universal's response to rise. (Andi it worked) Kubersky's reaction below:

VIP Tours for Epic are around $650 per person late may into June, and not much lower most of the summer, get down into the $400s in September though . Before the site went blargh, most all of June was sold out in express and most of July. Express does not include Donkey Kong Mine Cart Madness...

The lead creative for monsters unchained is Gregory Hall (aka G Prodigy), he also worked on the Hagrids, and some parts of nintendo work, as well as the Hulk Redo and especially Velocicoaster, his (and his team's) track record is getting up there among the greats. https://x.com/G_Prodigy

The entire back corner from Simpsons to the Fear Factor Stage and the backstage areas they can claim for the park because of the new backstage stuff at epic along the Fast and Furious area and Diagon. They have moved a lot of the back of office stuff to the backside of epic along Sand Lake...

Team member previews begin today.

Commercials: Super Nintendo World: How to Train Your Dragon: Dark Universe: Harry Potter Ministry of Magic: Main Commercial:

Go over to Universal and type in 902 to the secret rip ride rockit song list (push and then hold the Rockit logo on the pad wait 5 -10 seconds to bring up a number keypad.) and you get "Rainbow Connection", go ahead and prepare yourself for the ride that way. (901 is moving right along)