PARK NEWS
Dated notes on what actually opened, what slipped, and what the announcements mean if you are the person booking the tickets. Not a press-release reprint, and not official park news.
Comcast’s October earnings call put ride reliability and load times at the centre of Epic Universe’s first full summer. Dirt is already moving on a third Dark Universe attraction behind Monsters Unchained.
Read the postThe year’s biggest new coaster is an indoor family hybrid at Dollywood. Alton Towers opened a 90 cm Bluey ride. Knott’s brought a shuttle loop back from the dead. A lot of the “2026” announcement list is now a 2027 list.
Read the postDollywood opened its $50 million indoor Mack hybrid on 19 August. The published height is 39 inches. The point of the ride is wet-day family capacity, not a new speed ranking.
Read the postDisney spent 15 August putting names and ride descriptions on the largest expansion slate Walt Disney World has ever talked about. None of it is a 2026 park day. The useful part is what you can ignore, and what already reopened this spring.
Read the postDisney reopened the Hollywood Studios launched coaster on 26 May 2026 with The Electric Mayhem in the limos. The layout did not move. The courtyard, the queue and the soundtrack did.
Read the postBluey the Ride: Here Come the Grannies! opened in CBeebies Land on 28 March 2026. The published minimum is 0.9 m. That is a different Alton day from the 140 cm inversion machines, and it is the one a lot of UK families were missing.
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