{"id":148115,"date":"2026-02-08T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148115\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:31:07","slug":"prince-gator-character-arrives-for-mardi-gras-2026-at-universal-studios-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148115\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Gator Character Arrives for Mardi Gras 2026 at Universal Studios Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Orlando has announced that a Prince Gator walk-around character will be part of the 2026 Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval event at Universal Studios Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Gator<br \/>\n<a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UOR-Prince-Gator-Character2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"1184\" data-id=\"1374402\" alt=\"Prince Gator character at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1374402 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UOR-Prince-Gator-Character2.jpg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"792\" data-eio-rheight=\"1184\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"1184\" data-id=\"1374402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UOR-Prince-Gator-Character2.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Gator character at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1374402\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UOR-Prince-Gator-Character3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"1172\" data-id=\"1374401\" alt=\"Prince Gator character at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1374401 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UOR-Prince-Gator-Character3.jpg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"716\" data-eio-rheight=\"1172\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"1172\" data-id=\"1374401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UOR-Prince-Gator-Character3.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Gator character at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1374401\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prince Gator is the son of King Gator. King Gator is a fan-favorite float that closes out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2026\/02\/mardi-gras-2026-parade-at-universal-orlando-resort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">the nightly parade.<\/a> The walk-around character has a necklace go gold and purple beads and a matching crown. <\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/649fbfe7-40f8-4b5a-af80-245a093ea033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Prince Gator character at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1374404 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/649fbfe7-40f8-4b5a-af80-245a093ea033.jpg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"814\" data-eio-rheight=\"700\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/649fbfe7-40f8-4b5a-af80-245a093ea033.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Gator character at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1374404\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Character appearances are subject to change. See the announcement from Universal Orlando on Instagram:<\/p>\n<p>The Universal Mardi Gras: International Flavors of Carnaval 2026 runs from February 7 through April 4, 2026, at Universal Studios Florida.<\/p>\n<p>For more Universal Studios news from around the world, follow Universal Parks News Today on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniNewsToday\" target=\"_blank\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Twitter<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniversalParksNewsToday\" target=\"_blank\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uninewstoday\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Instagram<\/a>. For Disney Parks news, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/category\/parks-resorts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">WDWNT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Orlando has announced that a Prince Gator walk-around character will be part of the 2026 Mardi Gras:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[71597,34597,139,141,140,71598,3434,3437,6114],"class_list":{"0":"post-148115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-king-gator","9":"tag-mardi-gras","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-prince-gator","14":"tag-universal-orlando","15":"tag-universal-studios","16":"tag-universal-studios-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}