{"id":48792,"date":"2025-11-16T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48792\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:07","slug":"universal-responds-to-epic-universe-expansion-rumors-exciting-additions-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48792\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Responds to Epic Universe Expansion Rumors, \u201cExciting Additions\u201d Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a construction permit filed earlier this month, Universal Orlando has confirmed that Epic Universe is already expanding.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Universe to Receive \u201cExciting Additions\u201d<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\/2025\/11\/uor-ueu-helios-grand-hotel-presidential-suite-7349.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1327055 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/uor-ueu-helios-grand-hotel-presidential-suite-7349.jpg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"2560\" data-eio-rheight=\"1920\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/uor-ueu-helios-grand-hotel-presidential-suite-7349.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1327055\" data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/orlando\/news\/2025\/11\/14\/florida-orlando-universal-epic-universe-additions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Orlando Business Journal<\/a> reported on the official statement from Alyson Sologaistoa, Vice President of Public Relations for Universal Orlando Resort:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Universal Orlando] is preparing for some exciting additions to Universal Epic Universe in the future. \u2026 Details about specific developments will be shared in due time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement follows news of a <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/11\/epic-universe-expansion-revealed-in-new-permit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">permit filed on November 7<\/a> for \u201csite utilities and foundation work\u201d and \u201cnew construction\u201d on a 150,000 square foot location in Epic Universe, with May 7, 2026, as the end date, meaning that construction is planned to be completed before the park\u2019s first anniversary. This new building would be roughly the size of the<a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/04\/photos-tour-the-queue-of-le-cirque-arcanus-in-the-wizarding-world-of-harry-potter-at-epic-universe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> Le Cirque Arcanus\u00a0show building<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/04\/full-pov-harry-potter-and-the-battle-at-the-ministry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Harry Potter and the Battle at the Ministry<\/a> combined.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think Universal is planning to add to Epic Universe? Let us know in the comments and on social media.<\/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\">Twitter<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniversalParksNewsToday\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uninewstoday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. For Disney Parks news, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/category\/parks-resorts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WDWNT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/author\/lauren\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" title=\"Lauren Stracner\" class=\"author url fn\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Stracner<\/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":"Following a construction permit filed earlier this month, Universal Orlando has confirmed that Epic Universe is already expanding.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6113,31369,31371,139,141,140,3434,31370,2749],"class_list":{"0":"post-48792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-epic-universe","9":"tag-epic-universe-construction","10":"tag-epic-universe-expansion","11":"tag-orlando","12":"tag-orlando-headlines","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-universal-orlando","15":"tag-universal-orlando-epic-universe","16":"tag-universal-orlando-resort"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48792","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=48792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}