{"id":366166,"date":"2026-08-08T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:58:43","slug":"hamikuma-meet-and-greet-finally-coming-to-universal-orlando-for-halloween-horror-nights-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366166\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamikuma Meet and Greet Finally Coming to Universal Orlando for Halloween Horror Nights 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HamiKuma, the Halloween Horror Nights mascot from Universal Studios Japan, will finally come to the Florida version of the event.<\/p>\n<p>HamiKuma Meet and Greet<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\/08\/usj-hhn2025-hamikuma-meet-and-greet-2415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/usj-hhn2025-hamikuma-meet-and-greet-2415.jpg\" alt=\"HamiKuma, the Halloween Horror Nights mascot from Universal Studios Japan, will finally come to the Florida version of the event.\" class=\"wp-image-1357689\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The zombified bear made his <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/09\/breaking-hamikuma-meeting-exclusively-at-universal-studios-hollywood-not-universal-orlando-resort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">U.S. debut<\/a> last year. Though he was originally supposed to appear at both Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort, he ultimately only had a meet and greet at Hollywood while Orlando still got his <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/10\/more-halloween-horror-nights-merchandise-universal-studios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">merchandise<\/a>. He also appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/09\/japan-hamikuma-universal-horror-unleashed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Universal Horror Unleashed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HamiKuma will debut a meet and greet experience during HHN inside Five &amp; Dime at Universal Studios Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HamiKuma will also return to Universal Studios Hollywood for a meet and greet at select times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to his backstory, HamiKuma was a side show act in a traveling circus, but his fellow performers became jealous of his popularity. They also believed the rumor that he wasn\u2019t a real bear, so they slashed open his belly to expose who or what might be inside. To cover their tracks, they burned down the big top, killing HamiKuma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the afterlife, the parasitic demon Death Bringer worked his way into HamiKuma\u2019s belly, and they returned to the surface. Though HamiKuma gained eternal life, his soul was left behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iterations of HamiKuma include HamiKuma Soul, the personification of his soul trapped in the afterlife; HamiKuma Punk, representing the bear\u2019s anger and resentment; and <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/07\/new-hamikuma-candy-japan-halloween-horror-nights-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">HamiKuma Candy<\/a>, the manifestation of HamiKuma\u2019s greed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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>\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":"HamiKuma, the Halloween Horror Nights mascot from Universal Studios Japan, will finally come to the Florida version of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2664,56403,88993,148560,148559,148561,56986,88992,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-366166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-halloween-horror-nights","tag-halloween-horror-nights-2026","tag-halloween-horror-nights-35","tag-hami-kuma","tag-hamikuma","tag-hamikuma-meet-and-greet","tag-hhn","tag-hhn-35","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366166","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=366166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}