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September 27, 2025, 6:03 PM · Silver Dollar City provided updates on its new parade and hotel during its first-ever fan fest today.The Branson, Missouri park previously announced that this year would be the final run for its Rudolph’s Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade. Today, the park unveiled its replacement for 2026’s An Old Time …

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Welcome back! As you probably know, my Build-Out of Epic Universe became so outsized and image-heavy that it attempts to add to it crashed my website. So for the first time ever, I am proud to present… Expanding Epic Universe, Part II! If you haven’t already, I recommend that before you dig into this half …

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September 26, 2025, 12:40 PM · A match-up for the ages is coming to Universal Studios Hollywood next spring.The California theme park this morning confirmed the return of its Universal Fan Fest Nights events in 2026. The after-hours, hard-ticket event debuted this year, featuring attractions themed to Back to the Future, Star Trek, and Dungeons …

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As if foretold by the stars, it has arrived… the first major theme park in the U.S. in nearly a quarter of a century is here. Universal Epic Universe is meant to be the park that finally shifts the gravity in Central Florida for good, establishing Universal’s now three-park, eleven-hotel property as more than a …

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September 24, 2025, 1:54 PM · As a theme park enthusiast, it’s rare for us to travel to a major American city that has a notable theme park that we haven’t visited. This past weekend, my wife and I took a weekend trip to Salt Lake City, Utah, where we visited a theme park that’s …

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“Welcome to the world of digital humans,” promises the New Zealand-based tech start-up “Soul Machines” without an apparent hint of unease or embarrassed reluctance. Listen. Plenty has been written about artificial intelligence (AI) – technology that has been a part of our daily lives for decades, but now uniformly presents itself via retro-starred “language learning model …

“Walt Disney – A Magical Life” and Disney Audio-Animatronics’ Life on the Edge of the “Uncanny Valley” Read More »

Concert Times, Locations, and Show Lineup; Rock The Universe: Florida’s Largest Christian Music Festival. UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT’S ROCK THE UNIVERSE 2026 KICKS OFF JANUARY 23 & 24. Rock the Universe is an annual festival that started in 1998 at the Universal Studios theme park. The festival has two main stages and a third sponsored stage, the main …

Behind The Thrills | Rock The Universe 2026 Concert Times, Autograph Sessions, Lineup & Locations: Universal Orlando Behind The Thrills Read More »