Kingdom Hearts pins are coming in 2026, Adventure Way at Disneyland Paris is testing lighting, and we got an aerial update on the Frontierland construction projects — all this and more in today’s daily recap for Sunday, September 21, 2025.
Daily Recap (9/21/25)
Walt Disney World
Magic Kingdom
- Aerial photographer @bioreconstruct has shared a series of new photos highlighting the current construction projects at Magic Kingdom.
EPCOT
- Disney Eats shared the items that will be available staring today at the Festival Favorites booth for the 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival.
- We also reviewed all of the new items at the Festival Favorites booth!
New Merchandise
- A set of Kingdom Hearts pins are coming to Walt Disney World and Disneyland in 2026.
New Merchandise
- A Club 33-exclusive ceramic mug themed to The Skeleton Dance is currently available at 1901 in Disney California Adventure.
- Several months after the debut of the real-life 70th Monorail and Disneyland anniversary celebration, a monorail play set honoring the event is now available.
- Stay cozy this fall and upcoming winter with a new Mickey ice cream bar sweatshirt from Disneyland Resort.
Tokyo Disney Resort
Tokyo Disneyland
- Spooky season has officially started at Tokyo Disney Resort, and we were greeted by this ghoulishly lovely decor for Disney Halloween at Tokyo Disneyland.
Disneyland Paris
Disneyland Paris
- Lighting is now being added and tested on Adventure Way as part of the expansion of Walt Disney Studios Park, which is soon to be renamed Disney Adventure World.
Disney Store Merchandise
- Just in time for seasonal swinging wakes, three new acacia wood cutting boards with Haunted Mansion designs have arrived online at the Disney Store.
- A series of Disney+ Throwback Summer Collection T-shirts are now available online at the Disney Store.
Universal Orlando Resort
Epic Universe
- A new message from Universal sent to Team Members claims that Stardust Racers at Epic Universe functioned as intended, and the ride system was not the cause of the tragic accident that resulted in a guest’s death earlier this week.
- Take a full photo and video tour of Les Galeries Mirifiques, one of the gift shops in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic at Epic Universe.
- Quite possibly one of our favorite themed locations in Epic Universe is Pizza Moon, the quick-service pizza location in Celestial Park. Join us for a full photo and video tour of all the fun details in this unique restaurant.
- The Toothless puppet suffered a malfunction in a recent showing of The Untrainable Dragon at Epic Universe.
Universal Studios Hollywood
- From Fallout to Friday the 13th to Five Nights at Freddy’s, here’s all the Halloween Horror Nights 2025 merchandise at Universal Studios Hollywood.
- For wizards with a more minimalist personal style, the sleek new gray Hogwarts crest apparel collection has landed at Universal Studios Hollywood.
That’s it for today; we hope you enjoyed this Daily Recap. Thanks for stopping by, and we’ll see you tomorrow!
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