This year’s theme was revealed for the EPCOT Food & Wine playground, the full menus with prices were released for HHN 2025, and Disney is pumping the last puddles of water from the Rivers of America — all this and more in today’s daily recap for Monday, August 25, 2025.
Daily Recap (8/25/25)
Walt Disney World
Magic Kingdom
- Disney is working on removing the final puddles of water from Rivers of America at Magic Kingdom.
EPCOT
- Crews have installed new themed elements at the EPCOT playground and around the Forest & Field food booth for the 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival.
- The first decorations for the 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival have arrived in the park ahead of the festival start date later this week.
- Spaceship Earth in EPCOT is now closed for a previously-announced refurbishment, and the queue for the attraction has been blocked.
- With Spaceship Earth and Project Tomorrow closed for refurbishment, Disney has added extra signage pointing guests to the GEO-82 bar.
New Merchandise
- A new series of Hocus Pocus Shimmer Wishables has arrived at Magic Kingdom, with a total of five new characters to collect.
- Walt Disney World has a new Sorcerer Mickey Lug bag that can be used as a crossbody purse or belt bag.
- New Star Wars merchandise at Walt Disney World includes a Halloween countdown calendar of character figures, a Darth Vader action figure set, a vintage-style Bantha toy set, and more R-series items.
Other Walt Disney World News
- World Princess Week is now underway and special treats are available at Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris.
Tokyo Disney Resort
Tokyo DisneySEA
- Tokyo DisneySea will celebrate its 25th anniversary, set to begin next year, with a “Sparkling Jubilee.”
Universal Orlando Resort
Resort Hotels
- Several of the hotels near Universal Orlando Resort are ready to celebrate the start of the Halloween season and the arrival of Halloween Horror Nights later this week.
Universal Studios Florida
- Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando Resort will introduce the new Deathly Afraid necklace for guests who want a less intense scare experience.
- We’re just about a week away from Halloween Horror Nights 34 at Universal Studios Florida, and the menus for exclusive, themed food and drinks have been posted.
- We’re just a few days away from the start of Halloween Horror Nights 2025 at Universal Studios Florida, and crews continue to add final details to the scare zones, Tribute Store, and Dead Coconut Club.
- After just over a month of refurbishment work, the World Expo bridge in Universal Studios Florida is back open.
- Happy Halloween (Horror Nights)! It’s almost that time of the year, and like last year, Universal Orlando Resort offered the opportunity to see inside three original houses before the event even began.
- On Monday, we spotted more props in Sahara Traders, queues and signage throughout the park, and a new merchandise display in Universal Studios Store.
Entertainment and Media
- Walt Disney Imagineering has shared the first episode of the rebooted Imagineer That! hosted by Tom Morrow 2.0.
WDW News Today
Big Thunder Mountain Introducing New Scenes, Scrap on the Savanna
That’s it for today; we hope you enjoyed this Daily Recap. Thanks for stopping by, and we’ll see you tomorrow!
