Theme Park News Roundup June 2025

Here is a little round up of Orlando theme park news as of June 2025. All of this is covered in detail via vlogs on my YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/superenthused

You’ll find all the details and real-life theme park experiences there.

Walt Disney World News:

Muppet*Vision 3D, PizzeRizzo and Mama Melrose’ Restaurante have permanently closed to make way for a new Monsters Inc Land coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios (video 🔗: https://youtu.be/9-Am1Rxhqq0)
Disney announced Rockin Roller Coaster will be closing at the end of 2025, and a new Muppets theme will take over in 2026
A New Villains show and a rethemed Little Mermaid show have opened at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (video 🔗: https://youtu.be/M_Tnzzt-k-4)
Disney has announced the closing dates for Rivers of America, Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Belle (video 🔗: https://youtu.be/_P0ujLjx8V4)
- (another recent video showing more of Tom Sawyer Island 🔗: https://youtu.be/Bq_Ju2SRqaU)
GEO-82, an adults-only lounge located in the Spaceship Earth building, has grand opened (video🔗: https://youtu.be/KYC2h-cmbRo)

Universal Orlando Resort News:

As of May 22, 2025, Universal Epic Universe is officially open – we visited many times during the previews and upon first opening, and we will be visiting regularly to share updates and how things are going there (video 🔗: https://youtu.be/faGQ2qgYyYs) (Full Epic Universe vlog playlist 🔗: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfwwPOxvTRIQUbr0FMy2g0sCF31uNeVFG)
We have our first Halloween Horror Nights 2025 (HHN 34) announcements: a Fallout house based on the television show, and Five Nights at Freddy’s was announced as coming “in a whole new way,” so we’re waiting on details on what that means (video 🔗: https://youtu.be/ZsToHjHDxas)
Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventures has been added to Express Pass for the first time since it opened in 2019 (video 🔗: https://youtu.be/ISa3Y6TDw5o)
We have a closing date for Rip Ride Rockit at Universal Studios, it will be closing forever on August 18, 2025
A new Super Nintendo World expansion has opened in CityWalk, as well as a new Butterbeer counter, where guests can order Butterbeer outside of the theme park for the first time ever in Orlando (video 🔗: https://youtu.be/yAmE217sPV8)