Beginning in 2025, there will be a brand-new theme park for visitors to Orlando: Universal Epic Universe.
Today, Universal Destinations & Experiences (UDX) announced the five themed worlds within the theme park, which also includes more than 50 attractions, entertainment options, dining venues and shopping experiences and is set to open in 2025.
“The idea was to bring you to these worlds that you couldn’t otherwise possibly imagine,” said Mark Woodbury, chairman and CEO of UDX, in a YouTube video announcing the park. “And to do that, we wanted to create a mechanism that allowed you to be transported into another world, and it starts at the very entrance to the park itself.”
Additionally, three new Universal hotels will be available for booking, including Universal Stella Nova Resort and Universal Terra Luna Resort (sister properties) and Universal Helios Grand Hotel, which will be located within the theme park.
Read on to see what visitors can expect from each of the theme park’s five “worlds.”
Celestial Park
Visitors to the new park — the fourth for Universal Orlando — will enter underneath the “Cronos,” the first portal that brings visitors into Celestial Park, a multi-acre complex of rolling gardens, waterways and paths that will be home to Starfall Racers. It will also serve as a “gateway” to explore the other additional worlds of Epic Universe.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic
Universal Epic Universe will offer a dash of Harry Potter Magic. The new world at Universal Epic Universe will incorporate elements of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Fantastic Beasts” films to blend 1920s Paris with the U.K.-based Ministry of Magic from Harry Potter.
The idea was to bring you to these worlds that you couldn’t otherwise possibly imagine.
Super Nintendo World
East Coast theme park-goers will also have the opportunity to visit Super Nintendo World (on the opposite coast of Universal Studio Hollywood's iteration) at Universal Epic Universe, where clients will come face to face with characters such as Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Donkey Kong. It will be the third — and largest — Super Nintendo World, with the first one opening at Universal Studios Japan in 2021.
How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk
Fans of the How to Train Your Dragon film franchise will be immersed in a world filled with Viking adventures — including the opportunity to soar with dragons.
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Dark Universe
Last — but certainly not least — entrants into Universal Epic Universe’s Dark Universe will be shrouded in “a world of myth and mystery,” encountering the experiments of Dr. Victoria Frankenstein and having the chance to roam the monster-filled landscape.
Samantha Davis-Friedman contributed to this report.
