Halloween Horror Nights Brings Back the Further With Insidious House, and More Theme Park News

It’s a conflict of Halloween season announcements with Universal Studios—plus, summertime conventions are heating up with San Diego Comic-Con, D23 Expo, and Midsummer Scream.

Peak abrogation play is successful afloat plaything astatine Disney Parks and Universal Studios, wherever the latest attractions are drafting successful large crowds. Whether you’re keeping chill on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure oregon taking successful the cinematic sights of Universal Pictures’ Cinesational, there’s thing to bash for everyone arsenic the clip draws nearer for spooky season.

Long earlier Halloween arrives, however, large conventions similar San Diego Comic-Con 2024, Disney’s D23 Expo, and Midsummer Scream volition beryllium gathering genre fans en masse. Find retired much successful this week’s taxable parkland quality and fan-tastical destinations update.

Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights 2024

Get acceptable to tip-toe done the tulips erstwhile more! The latest Halloween Horror Nights location taxable announced for Universal Studios Hollywood (opening September 5) and Universal Studios Florida (opening August 30) is James Wan’s Insidious franchise. For much info and tickets sojourn here.

Six Flags Fright Fest 2024

The absorption from the haunt assemblage has been a resounding “hell yes!” for this year’s Fright Fest astatine Six Flags crossed North America. This year’s lawsuit volition diagnostic large IP successful mazes including WB’s Conjuring Universe, Netflix’s Stranger Things, and more! For much info connected which mazes volition beryllium featured astatine your nearest Six Flags location, sojourn here.

Walt Disney World Country Bears Jamboree

At Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, the Country Bears Jamboree has reopened with its caller slate of songs. The iconic characters are present performing Disney classics sung by country’s champion successful the concern today, including Mac McAnally, Allison Russell, Chris Thile, and Emily Ann Roberts. Read much astir it here.

D23 Expo 2024

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Beating SDCC to the punch by a day, D23 Expo unveiled its slate for this year’s lawsuit successful Anaheim, CA. Here are immoderate of the panels we’re ace excited astir extracurricular of the Honda Center’s large events, which volition be Friday’s Disney Entertainment showcase and Saturday’s Disney Experiences showcase—where we’ll spot the aboriginal of each the workplace projects and taxable parkland plans from nether the Disney banner beryllium teased including large Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and Disney Animation news!

30 Years of Toy Story
Celebrate 30 Years of Toy Story with filmmakers and Pixar Legends arsenic they bespeak connected the making of the groundbreaking classical astir 30 years agone and stock never-before-heard anecdotes astir however the historical movie came to be.

Exploring New Parts of the Mind: Behind the Design of Inside Out 2 + a Dreamy Surprise!
Join Inside Out 2 production decorator Jason Deamer arsenic helium gives an in-depth look astatine designing the caller emotions joining Headquarters arsenic Riley enters teenagehood. And instrumentality astir for a peculiar dreamy sneak peek of an upcoming Pixar series!

Jolly Holiday: A D23 Musical Celebration of Richard M. Sherman
From Mary Poppins to Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, a heartwarming and joyous philharmonic tribute to our beloved Disney songwriting fable Richard M. Sherman—with unbelievable performances and delightful astonishment appearances by immoderate of the radical who knew and admired him best.

Marvel Animation Sneak Peek
See what’s coming adjacent to Disney+ from Marvel Animation, with peculiar guests and archetypal looks astatine hotly anticipated bid including Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Eyes of Wakanda, aboriginal seasons of What If…?, X-Men ’97, and more!

MARVEL COMICS: Celebrating 50 Years of Wolverine
Look backmost astatine 50 years of Wolverine with Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski and writer Jason Aaron arsenic they dive into the bequest of Marvel’s astir fashionable mutant (and what’s next!). PLUS: an exclusive giveaway portion supplies last, and a sneak peek astatine what’s successful store for Marvel’s 85th anniversary!

Making A Goofy Movie: The Road to Lake Destiny
The creatives down the A Goofy Movie phenomenon reunite, reminisce, and stock clips from a caller documentary astir the unthinkable root communicative of this beloved cult classic.

Bringing the Worlds of Disney Animation to Life successful Disney Parks
Team members from Walt Disney Imagineering and Walt Disney Animation Studios sermon bringing the worlds of Disney Animation to beingness successful Disney Parks astir the world, including specified projects arsenic World of Frozen (Hong Kong Disneyland), Zootopia (Shanghai Disneyland), Fantasy Springs (Tokyo DisneySea), and Tiana’s Bayou Adventure (Magic Kingdom and Disneyland).

The Muppets 70: A Glamorous Miss Piggy Retrospective
Join Walt Disney Archives manager Becky Cline and the Muppets shaper Dani Iglesias for a fabulous look backmost connected the past 70 years of the Muppets, but mostly Miss Piggy! We volition dive into the vaults to uncover nostalgic artifacts on with however we sphere this postulation today!

For the afloat lineup of amusement level pavilions that fans tin acquisition astatine D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event from August 9-11 astatine the Anaheim Convention Center, sojourn ultimatefanevent.d23.com.

San Diego Comic-Con 2024

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SDCC 2024 has begun to reveal its schedule for the normal happening successful San Diego this month, including a sheet celebrating Interview With the Vampire and AMC’s Immortal Universe. The afloat slate of events volition beryllium revealed this weekend.

Midsummer Scream 2024

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Another large Southern California instrumentality gathering, Halloween and fearfulness normal Midsummer Scream, volition beryllium held astatine the Long Beach Convention Center July 26-28.

Here’s what you tin expect:

• Over a twelve haunted attractions, including the Gears of Fear maze, a torturous immersive acquisition packed with scenes from iconic Lionsgate films.
• Presentations from SoCal’s biggest Halloween attractions offering a preview of the scares coming this spooky season. (We’re astir excited to find retired much astir Fright Fest)
• Celebrity appearances from Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the casts of “Black Phone,” “Monster High,” and more.

Download the Midsummer Scream app to cheque retired the authoritative schedule.

The Little Mermaid Immersive astatine CAMP Stores

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Starting Friday, August 2, Disney fans and families tin dive into Disney’s The Little Mermaid X CAMP successful Los Angeles, a caller philharmonic and immersive acquisition inspired by Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

Here are immoderate details of activities that volition beryllium portion of the experience:

• Sing and creation to their favourite songs from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, including “Under The Sea,” “Part of Your World,” “Kiss The Girl,” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls”
• Explore King Triton’s Palace, controlling the seas from his throne
• Discover Ariel’s Grotto and embark connected a scavenger hunt for gadgets and gizmos aplenty
• Climb done an abandoned shipwreck done cargo nett tunnels and unlock treasure chests
• Watch a magic amusement successful Ursula’s lair
• Shop exclusive Disney’s The Little Mermaid X CAMP apparel and accessories

Disney’s The Little Mermaid X CAMP is simply a constricted clip offering astatine CAMP’s West Coast Flagship determination astatine Westfield Century City. Tickets commencement astatine $34 per idiosyncratic and are disposable here.

Willy’s Candy Spectacular Premiere

Willy’s Candy Spectacular: A Musical Parody of the infamous “immersive” Willy Wonka pop-up catastrophe has acceptable its manager for its Edinburgh Fringe run. The philharmonic volition beryllium helmed by filmmaker and theatrical manager Andy Fickman, known for cult fave Heathers: The Musical and movies similar She’s the Man and The Game Plan.

“I can’t accent capable what a thrill it was erstwhile the superb Richard Kraft asked maine to direct Willy’s Candy Spectacular: A Musical Parody. Aside from conscionable loving candy, I fell successful emotion with these songs—written by immoderate of the champion successful the business,” Fickman said successful a property release. “On a idiosyncratic note, 1 of my archetypal jobs successful Hollywood was Director of Development for Gene Wilder, the archetypal Willy Wonka, truthful this accidental feels similar a precise saccharine instrumentality home.” The amusement runs August 9-26.

Tickets for the Edinburgh Fringe tally are present disposable here.

Meow Wolf Las Vegas

A caller immersive broadside quest is coming to Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart successful Las Vegas, arsenic teased above!

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