All of the Largest Theme Park Information of July You Could Have Missed

The holiday season on the theme parks is winding down as Halloween begins to creep into the lifeless of summer time, with its fall occasions arriving prior to later.

Right here’s a roundup of this month’s happenings at main amusement parks and immersive experiences that includes Disneyland 70, Universal Horrors, and a Wednesday x Wendy’s not-so-happy meal coming quickly to a drive-thru close to you.

Common Studios Resorts – Hollywood and Orlando

Let’s kick issues off with the most important information: Halloween Horror Nights has unveiled nearly all of its haunted home slate for 2025. Each parks for essentially the most half will share IPs, however true followers know that the artistic interpretations of the homes typically differ between the East and West Coast groups. Common Studios Orlando typically has extra room to do extra and create its personal unique homes for Common’s horror theme park universe, so we’re most excited for that.

Halloween Horror Nights — Homes at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Orlando

Amazon Prime Fallout: This post-apocalyptic world can have the Ghoul attract so many individuals.

Blumhouse 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Jim Henson’s Creature Store labored on animatronic puppets for these homes, and we can not wait to see them in motion.

Terrifier: Anticipate all-out gore… or water being splashed on you to simulate the massacre Artwork the Clown conducts within the Terrifier franchise.

Jason Universe: It’s Voorhees, not Bourne, and a romp by his many slasher incarnations.

WWE Presents The Horrors of the Wyatt Sicks: This home is impressed by more moderen horror-tinged persona wrestlers, the Wyatt Sicks. Admittedly, it’s well beyond our WWE time; in the event you’re like us, you’re extra conversant in Kane and the Undertaker so far as spooky wrestling lore goes.

HHN Hollywood Unique Homes

Monstruos 3: The Ghosts of Latin America: The West Coast’s HHN has had nice homes impressed by Latin folklore with frightful interpretations of legends and cryptids akin to La Llorona. We’re undoubtedly wanting ahead to this one.

Scarecrow Music by Slash: This festive home makes a comeback reimagined with music by Weapons n’ Roses guitarist Slash.

HHN Orlando Unique Homes

Hatchet and Chains: Demon Bounty Hunters: Promising some Previous West horror enjoyable, this home will function red-hot lava demons versus mystical weapon slingers.

Dolls: Let’s Play Lifeless: Not for these with concern of dolls, as you’ll be chased by freaky toy creations from one twisted little woman’s thoughts.

Grave of Flesh: This one sounds enjoyable as you enter your personal grave and get hunted by flesh-eating layers of purgatorial mayhem. Candy.

Gálkn: Monsters of the North: This one digs into some Northern European folklore with fantasy parts within the Fjords.

El Artista: A Spanish Haunting: A distant getaway in Spain for a tortured artist who goes mad? And we get to witness the horrors? Rely us in.

Disneyland

Walt Disney LIVES—in animatronic type at the least. The determine was unveiled for Disneyland’s seventieth anniversary as a part of a brand new attraction, Walt Disney: A Magical Life, the place we get to be taught extra concerning the man behind the mouse in his personal phrases.

Among the many festivities, the celebration’s magic key (not the same thing as the annual pass), which gamifies a new way to unlock interative entertainment around the park, acknowledged the comparisons to the Kingdom Hearts key in a enjoyable reel however nonetheless leaves us wanting extra from the favored Ubisoft sport exterior of this and assembly Keyblade-wielding Donald and Goofy at Oogie Boogie Bash.

Talking of Oogie Boogie Bash, Disney dropped teases for villains that can be crashing the annual Halloween occasion. We’re geeking out over Syndrome from The Incredibles being hinted at. Tickets for Oogie Boogie Bash are now on sale and can doubtless promote out quickly in the event that they haven’t already. 

Walt Disney World

Halloween merch is now within the parks and online though the Disney Store. The Haunted Mansion headlines the collections with particular figures we not too long ago talked to the artist about impressed by the stretching room portraits (read more about them here). And naturally there’s new Mickey and Associates festive decor and costumes for Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween parties on the Magic Kingdom.

The Magic Kingdom additionally debuted its first nighttime parade, Disney Starlight, and reopened a refurbished take a look at monitor at Epcot.

Immersive activations and pop-up experiences

So what’s been happening past the massive theme parks? So much, really!

SDCC 2025 off-site activations

io9 was capable of attend varied activations at San Diego Comedian-Con, which had been clear winners this yr in immersiveness and giveaways. The Peacemaker Peacefest had an amazing photobooth, and you bought your personal helmet masks. The Alien: Earth and Clown in a Cornfield pop-ups introduced the scares, and Grownup Swim hosted stay reads of animated exhibits like Smiling Associates alongside grownup carnival enjoyable.

Netflix Wednesday x Wendy’s Meal of Misfortune

The stunt Wendy’s Wednesday-themed meal popped up as a drive-through activation in Norwalk, CA, however the meal itself can be obtainable nationwide on August 4, simply in time for the Wednesday premiere subsequent week! Ketchup on season one of Wednesday here.

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AREA15 in Las Vegas hosts the prime immersive leisure district within the nation, which incorporates Meow Wolf: Omega Mart. And it’s about to get larger with a brand new zone opening up on August 14, which is able to function Universal Horror Unleashed, Common Resorts and Locations’ year-round horror hub with haunted homes and spooky sips, eats, and thrilling leisure. Moreover, it’s going to function Dolls Kill’s flagship retailer, the Escape Recreation, Felix & Paul Studios’ Interstellar Arc, iFLY Indoor Skydiving, and the largest-ever Museum of Ice Cream.

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