Epic’s debut comes on the dawn of what will likely be another blazing Florida summer. The new theme park, which officially opens May 22, is not what you’d call shady at this point.

Luna, the mythical goddess of the moon, watches over the night at Universal Epic Universe on April 21, 2025. Orlando’s first new theme park in a generation is set to open to the public on May 22.

Epic Universe is open to the general public for paid previews through May 19. Universal notes that not everything may be available during this technical rehearsal phase, while operations are being ...

Epic visitors are decked out as videogame characters, playing into the theme of the park’s Super Nintendo World, or as goth vampire types for photo ops within Dark Universe, the land that ...

You can imagine the boardroom meeting back in 2019, when Universal Orlando announced the opening of a new theme park. “What are we going to call it? I mean, it’s going to be epic….” And so ...

Universal Epic Universe is the first major theme park to open in the Orlando area since the 1990s, but weather aside, it doesn’t feel anything like Florida. Epic Universe transports guests to ...

Universal Epic Universe, Universal Orlando Resort's fourth theme park, opened in May 2025, 35 years after the first park, Universal Studios Florida.

Theme park fans around the world have been waiting for Universal Epic Universe to open. The wait is almost over. Guests will be transported to five imaginative worlds with Universal’s Epic ...

Riding Your Way Through Epic Universe A roller coaster aficionado tested all the rides at the new Universal theme park in Orlando and ranks them, from must-dos to mehs in a ride-by-ride guide.

(NewsNation) — Epic Universe, with five immersive worlds, opens Thursday at Universal Orlando Resort. It’s the first major, traditional theme park to open in Florida since 1999, when Universal ...