Today's Big News... Disney Fun Universal teased Epic Universe annual passes. The details still aren't there. During Comcast's October 22 earnings call, co-CEO Mike Cavanagh mentioned "three park passes" while talking about efforts to bring more guests to Universal Orlando Resort. That one phrase sent the internet into planning mode. The problem is that Cavanagh didn't announce a price, name an Epic Universe annual pass specifically, or describe a single admission restriction — and Universal's...
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Today's Big News... Disney Fun Universal's parks lost $160M in earnings. Disney's discounts may be why. Comcast just dropped its third-quarter 2026 earnings report, and the numbers for Universal Destinations & Experiences are not pretty. Revenue fell 4.4% to $2.6 billion, but the real headline is what happened to profitability: adjusted EBITDA dropped 17.1%, from $940 million a year ago down to $780 million. That's a roughly $160 million swing in earnings — and Comcast's own leadership...
3 days ago • 5 min read
Today's Big News... Disney Fun Disney Lorcana just hit 2.8 billion cards. Here's what comes next. Disney Lorcana TCG has officially crossed 2.8 billion cards sold since launching in 2023, and co-founder Ryan Miller used D23 to lay out what might be the game's most ambitious stretch yet — new sets, new rarities, a digital version, and a card that Figment fans have been waiting on for a very long time. Why the new Hyperia City set is a bigger deal than it sounds: The game's latest set isn't...
4 days ago • 6 min read
Today's Big News... Disney Park Hollywood Studios tested fireworks in September. Nobody knows why yet. Disney's Hollywood Studios quietly launched fireworks from its dedicated site across World Drive on the night of September 1 into September 2 — repeated bursts, roughly 90 seconds apart, over several hours. Seven weeks later, nobody has a good explanation for why. The theory that made the most sense just fell apart: The Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo held a private buyout of Hollywood Studios on...
5 days ago • 4 min read
Today's Big News... Disney Plus Glee is coming back — and it's landing on Disney+ and Hulu Five years after the final bell rang at William McKinley High, the choir room is getting a second chance. Disney announced Wednesday that an all-new season of Glee is officially in the works, heading to Disney+ and Hulu — the same platform where all 121 original episodes are currently streaming. What we know so far: Ryan Murphy, who created the original series, confirmed last month that a script has...
6 days ago • 5 min read
Today's Big News... Disney Fun Mears Connect Is Fine. But It's No Magical Express. Disney's Magical Express ended, Mears Connect took its place, and Walt Disney World fans have been quietly grieving ever since. Disney Tourist Blog just dropped a thorough late-2026 review of the shuttle service — and the verdict is essentially: same buses, same drivers, same infrastructure, roughly 20% worse. Why "20% worse" is the right way to think about it: Mears literally is Magical Express. Same company,...
7 days ago • 5 min read
Today's Big News... Disney Fun Hollywood Studios in 2026: More Costs, Less Park Hollywood Studios is still a great park. It's also, right now, a more complicated and expensive one — and families who show up without knowing that could feel it pretty quickly. The construction math nobody warned you about: Disney is building Monstropolis, a full Monsters, Inc.-themed land, and getting it ready required closing off an entire section of the park. That's not a small inconvenience — it's a...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Today's Big News... Disney Fun Tired of theme park chaos? Aulani might be your answer. Not every Disney vacation has to involve a rope drop alarm, a Lightning Lane strategy session, and a step count that breaks your fitness tracker before lunch. Aulani, Disney's resort on the western coast of Oahu, exists in a different universe entirely — one where the biggest decision of your morning is which pool to settle into first. What makes Aulani different: Unlike Walt Disney World or Disneyland,...
8 months ago • 7 min read
Today's Big News... Disney Park Is Epic Universe already rewriting Disney's Villains Land? Epic Universe has been open for less than a year, and it may already be changing what Disney builds next. According to a new report, Imagineers are rethinking the tone of Villains Land at Magic Kingdom — and the shift is significant enough that fans who were picturing a dark, moody experience might want to update their mental image. What was on the table: Early rumors had Villains Land leaning hard into...
8 months ago • 6 min read
