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This is episode 701 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast for February 11th, 2026.

Hey everyone, it is me Lee. I am here and we are excited to. We'll maybe get an hour out of it. We've been talking already. Seth doesn't think we're going to get an hour out of it, but we'll see where we go. I am here. I am here with Tracy, Chris and Michelle. And as you just heard there, our Little Things contributor and co-author of the unofficial guides of Mr. Seth Kobersky. Hello, Seth. It's so nice to actually talk to you instead of just sit in my little booth and send off my little things into the void. Great to talk to all of you. This recording is interactive. That's cool. Right? I'm not an AI.

I promise. I mean, it could be that. Seth, I have a little bone to pick with you, actually. No. Take away. So you remember when we met up in the Universal Suite store at horror nights last year, and you're like, if you want to do terrify a straight off the bat, you might want to get in line right now. Do you remember that?

I do. I do. How did that work out for you?

Tracy and I very nearly passed out in that line that night, and I am not kidding.

I did warn you, though, that Terrifier was not covered.

That if you wanted to be inside, that Five Nights and Freddy's was the way to go for early entry.

That was with umbrellas as well.

They brought a drinks trolley out after an hour and a half and they ran out of water in

10 minutes.

Yeah, it was bad.

I saw one night, I saw someone ahead of me in line pass out and it was, I shouldn't laugh about it. It was, it was a little scary. They, they eventually got them taken care of. But yeah, that, that heat is no joke. And I, as cold it is as it is right now, I'm not looking forward to the heat of August. We were lucky that we had friend Chuck with us who was like babysitting. At one point we were both like sat on the floor like breathing through our knees. It was like 30 seconds apart, didn't it? It was very strange. And I do not do passing out. Anyway, that was last year. We are here to talk about this year. So Seth, how did you feel? Obviously, last year was a big year.

So let's do a, Seth's recap of last year, how you feel Universal Orlando.

Obviously, we had the opening of Epic yesterday.

Yesterday, it wasn't yesterday, it was last year.

Yesterday.

It feels like just yesterday.

And I don't think anything since 1999 or maybe

2010 the opening of the first

Wizarding World can even come close to what

2025 was so I

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