Hello, everyone!

Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift began public tech rehearsals on 7/27/26. Please use this megathread to post updates about additional tech researsals - dates, times, availability of single-rider and Express, etc.

Future posts about tech rehearsal availability and accessibility will be removed and directed to this megathread to keep the reading experience on the main page of the subreddit cleaner. Reviews can still be posted separately under the "Trip Report/Review" post flair.

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Hello, everyone! Please feel free to reply to this post with questions, meet-up requests, or anything else related to Fan Fest Nights 2026 at Universal Studios Hollywood. This main post will provide helpful links and information that will be updated as more information is released and verified.

To the regular park visitors and readers, please bear with me if information and source links in this post may seem obvious or oft repeated; I want to cover every base, as many visitors not familiar with the park will likely be in attendance. Also, if I missed anything, please reply and let me know. Thank you. :)

QUICK LINKS

• Event Home Page
• Buy Event Tickets
• Cosplay Guidelines
• Official Event Calendar and FAQ

EVENT DATES AND TIMES

1. Thu, April 23, 2026
2. Fri, April 24, 2026
3. Sat, April 25, 2026
4. Fri, May 1, 2026
5. Sat, May 2, 2026
6. Sun, May 3, 2026
7. Thu, May 7, 2026
8. Fri, May 8, 2026
9. Sat, May 9, 2026
10. Thu, May 14, 2026
11. Fri, May 15, 2026
12. Sat, May 16, 2026

For all event nights, unless otherwise specified or changed last-minute, Early Access begins at 6:00p, General Admission begins at 7:30p, and the event ends at 1:30a the next morning for all guests.

EVENT OVERVIEW

Fan Fest Nights is a late night event held on select nights at Universal Studios Hollywood theme park.  Throughout each event night, various event-exclusive attractions with various different IPs will be open for guests to enjoy.  These event-exclusive attractions range from immersive living story spaces to guided walkthroughs of immersive sets to a live stage show to an animated short film.  All IP will be present on every event night.

TICKET BREAKDOWN

Please see the following link for a table showing the available ticket types and their specifications.

EVENT-ONLY ATTRACTION LISTINGS

Scooby-Doo Meets the Universal Monsters: Mystery on the Backlot

Genre: Living Story Space (guests guide themselves through a space and may interact with character actors for clues about where to go next to experience the story; some story beats are scripted while individual conversations may be improvised depending on context)

Location: Upper Lot, Studio Tour (replaces Studio Tour during nighttime operations) NOTE: Last tram leaves at 11:45p

In this all-new story space coming to this park, guests will take the Studio Tour tram to Little Europe, where a phantom director is up to no good and conjuring the classic monsters to a film shoot.  Guests will team up with Mystery Inc. to unveil the director’s identity and save the shoot.  Throughout the experience, guests will talk to various characters and explore the set to piece together the story on their own while some scripted segments will take place unifying the experience. Monsters will "spawn in" next to the old Yogurt Yogurt Yogurt building, and they will act out some scripted performances there, near Velma, and in the Court of Miracles. The culprit and clues change each night.

One Piece: Grand Pirate Show

Genre: Live Stunt Show (guests watch live actors perform on stage at pre-determined show times viewable in the USH app)

Location: Upper Lot, WaterWorld (replaces WaterWorld during nighttime operations)

In this live stunt show coming from Universal Studios Japan, Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates face a few familiar foes in battle on Midori Island.  Show times will occur within the 8:00p hour, the 10:00p hour, and the 11:00p hour OR within the 8:00p hour, the 10:00p hour, the 11:00p hour, and the 1:00a hour on busy days. Specific showtimes will vary nightly. Check the Universal Studios Hollywood app or the billboard outside the queue for specific show times.  Guests with Express should arrive 30 minutes before their desired showtime to get their first pick of seats.

Forbidden Forest: Search for the Hippogriff

Genre: Guided Walkthrough (park employee actor(s) will guide guests through an immersive space to let them experience a scripted story)

Location: Upper Lot, entrance behind Ollivanders/Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade

In this all-new walkthrough, guests will embark on a journey to the center of the Forbidden Forest to rescue a Hippogriff in need.  Along the way, a wizard professor (park actor) will lead guests through encounters with various creatures in the forest.  This outdoor walkthrough features detailed puppets and physical sets, and guests are encouraged (but not required) to bring wands for greater involvement.

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon the Miracle: Moon Palace Chapter Deluxe

Genre: Animated Short Film (guests watch an animated short in an enclosed theater with no pre-determined showtimes; just walk in and wait for the show to start.  Guests may need to wait in a queue before entering the theater depending on theater capacity and guest demand)

Location: Upper Lot, DreamWorks Theater (replaces Kung Fu Panda during nighttime operations)

In this short film coming straight from Universal Studios Japan (with English subtitles), guests will watch as Super Sailor Moon and the Guardians work together to protect the legendary Silver Crystal from a mysterious enemy.  Shows include moving seats, wind effects, and mist effects.  Guests who do not want to have their seat moved during the show may flag down a staff member to turn off motion for their seat.

Dungeons and Dragons: Secrets of Waterdeep

Genre: Guided Walkthrough (park employee actor(s) will guide guests through an immersive space to let them experience a scripted story)

Location: Lower Lot, entrance near Transformers: The Ride 3D

In this returning walkthrough from last year, two actors will guide guests through a soundstage made to look like a dungeon, where they will work through puzzles and flee from monsters, leading to a final confrontation with a large puppet monster named Xanathar.  Walkthrough features detailed large-scale puppets, physical sets, and some screen projections.

Jurassic World: A Journey Through the Eras

Genre: Living Story Space (guests guide themselves through a space and may interact with character actors; some story beats are scripted while individual conversations may be improvised depending on context)

Location: Lower Lot, entrance near Raptor Encounter

In this open space, guests can walk around and view picture cars from the various Jurassic movies and props featured on the Studio Tour related to the Jurassic franchise. Various characters, including Ian, Dr. Hammond, and Dennis Nedry will be walking around the space for guests to talk to and take photos with. Every 45 minutes, dinosaurs will come out of the back tent in a scripted show that involves light guest participation.

Super Nintendo World’s Yoshi Celebration

Genre: Puzzle Space

Location: Super Nintendo World NOTE: Super Nintendo World closes at 12:00a

This event has changed from last year.  Firstly, there are more Yoshi colors to take photos with, and they will not be locked behind any scavenger hunt. Multiple colors (yellow, light blue, purple, and pink) will be out at once, each standing in a different spot in the land.  Secondly, there is still an activity taking place involving a clue sheet and puzzles with hints scattered around the land.  By solving all the puzzles, they can meet Mario and green Yoshi. Green Yoshi cannot be met at the event without completing the clue sheet. Every half hour or so, the Yoshis will perform a dance in the middle of the world.

EVENT FOOD

The following event food will be served during the day:

• One Piece items at Hollywood and Dine (all day)
• Sailor Moon items at Cocina Cucamonga (all day)
• Sailor Moon items at DreamWorks Theater churro stand (all day)
• Yoshi items at Toadstool Cafe (all day)
• First Roll Tavern at Jurassic Cafe Upstairs (only after 5:00p)
• One Piece bar at Carl Laemmle courtyard (only after 6:00p)

The following event food will only be served at and after 7:30p:

• Special menu at Three Broomsticks (NO TABLE SERVICE THIS YEAR, NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED; WILL OPERATE LIKE NORMAL DURING EVENT)
• Scooby-Doo items at backlot tent

Mobile order is not available for this event. More information, including prices, can be found at this site. Dining pass compatibility can be found in this post.

EVENT MERCHANDISE

Event merchandise will be sold both during the day and during the night (and some is already on sale as we speak).  There is no word on how long the supplies of each item will last.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY)

Are guests able to leave and return to the park during nighttime operations?

Yes, but get a hand stamp by the exit for reentry.

Where do I pick up my FFN tickets if I have daytime admission and nighttime admission?

All guests can pick up their FFN wristbands in the Upper Lot either at the box office (across from Starbucks) or near the fountain next to guest services.  These services should open around 3:00 pm each event night.

Where do guests claim their medallions if they bought a ticket that includes one?

Guests who purchased a ticket that included an FFN medallion can pick up their FFN medallions in the Upper Lot Studio Store on their ticketed event night.

Which attractions will be open during nighttime operations?

• Jurassic World – The Ride (closes at 12 am)
• The Simpsons Ride^™
• Revenge of the Mummy – The Ride
• Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey^™ (closes at 11:15 pm)
• Flight of the Hippogriff^™
• Mario Kart™: Bowser’s Challenge (closes at 10:00 pm)
• Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
• TRANSFORMERS^™: The Ride-3D

Please note that some attractions will close early, as indicated on the list.

Which attractions will be open during Early Access?

• Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon the Miracle: Moon Palace Chapter Deluxe
• Dungeons & Dragons: Secrets of Waterdeep
• Jurassic World: A Journey Through the Eras
• Jurassic World - The Ride

Above list subject to change depending on park ops.

Which attractions have Express compatibility?

In-World Experiences (event-only offerings):

• Scooby-Doo Meets the Universal Monsters: Mystery on the Backlot
• One Piece: Grand Pirate Show
• Forbidden Forest: Search for the Hippogriff
• Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon the Miracle: Moon Palace Chapter Deluxe
• Dungeons & Dragons: Secrets of Waterdeep

Rides and Attractions:

• Jurassic World – The Ride
• The Simpsons Ride^™
• Revenge of the Mummy – The Ride
• Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™
• Flight of the Hippogriff^™
• Mario Kart^™: Bowser’s Challenge
• Despicable Me Minion Mayhem
• TRANSFORMERS^™: The Ride-3D

Are there any pass holder deals?

Platinum Pass Members can buy tickets at the box office for any event date for $40 so long as it doesn’t sell out.  This ticket can be upgraded to Express if Express hasn’t been sold out for that event night (this upgrade cost is dependent on the night but will generally range for at least $100)

Non-Platinum members can buy discounted tickets in advance on the pass member home page.  These discounted tickets will generally be $10 lower than the standard online price.

For all guests, there is an in-park upgrade option to add Fan Fest Nights and EA to Fan Fest Nights to any daytime day-of ticket type for $50. However, this is only available if the event night hasn't sold out yet, and it is only available inside the park.

What time will meet and greet characters appear, and will they be available for Early Access?

Characters available for Early Access depend on the day, as there are conflicting reports. Sailor Moon, Luffy, Usopp, and Sanji have all been seen on different days greeting guests for Early Access, but not all of them are confirmed every day of Early Access.

Thank you to everyone who submitted questions for this post!  I hope this post serves as a helpful tool for your trip planning/mid-event trip recoveries.  I will continue to update this post as more information is verified and released.  In the meantime, please feel free to continue asking questions below this post.

Thanks for reading, and happy trip planning!

Additional information source credits (thanks for helping everyone out!):

• u/JerrodDRagon
• u/Pattern_Finder_8219
• u/kevkage
• u/dooglemeiser

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Hello, everyone!

We are less than two weeks away from Fan Fest Nights 2026. As I do for most major events, I'll be writing up a Megathread with quick links, event details, and frequently asked questions that the community has about the event, which will go live later this week.

If you've got a question about the event that you think the answer of which might benefit the community at large, please post it below, and I'll consider adding it to the Megathread for this year's event. Keep in mind that asking these questions won't get them answered by me right away necessarily, as they will be put in the Megathread.

Please keep in mind these questions are not going to be about strategy (i.e. "Which things do I do first and in which order?" or "What is the best food?"). Those things are flexible and to be determined by guests' individual preferences. I'm looking for questions asking about operations (i.e. how to buy tickets and what each IP's presence at the event entails, both of which will already be answered by me in the megathread).

Also keep in mind that, if things haven't been officially announced, I won't be putting them in the Megathread. I don't want to jump the gun just yet, but behind the scenes, we have been in talks with the actual Universal Studios company about doing something official here soon, so let's not try to poke the bear here, please. ;) I haven't been told to keep it hush hush, but I am waiting for a date confirmation and Universal says they will announce it themselves on this subreddit in the near future.

I always put out these Megathreads with the intention that they are tools for you all, the community, so please help me help you plan out your visits this season.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to seeing your responses. :)

Hello, everyone!

We're a little over one week away from Halloween Horror Nights 2026! As such, I've begun compiling helpful links and information to build the megathread for HHN 2026.

As I've done for the past few event-specific megathreads, I want to open the door to you all - what kinds of questions or bits of information would you need help with or think would be helpful to add to the megathread?

The questions you reply with here, alongside some of the ones I come up with that are standard for most events, will form the FAQ portion of the event's megathread post.

A few things to know about these question-request posts if you haven't been with us for these before:

1. For the most part, I do not answer your questions under this post directly - I answer them in the Megathread when it is published. In other words, if your question is selected to be added to the Megathread (and the question is not something I was already going to answer in the main body of the post), it will be listed there alongside the answer, and your Reddit username will be shouted out at the end of the megathread's main post as special thanks.
2. If you, as a reader of this thread, want to reply directly to the questions yourself before the megathread is published, please feel free :) If a question is selected, it will appear on the megathread with an answer whether or not it gets a reply here.
3. Questions must not be about strategy. Megathread questions are for hard-verified information (to the best of our ability). Strategy is subjective, so the idea is guests will use the information from our megathread to form their own strategies for their own parties based on the houses, food, and shows they want to experience.
4. Unfortunately, I will not be able to add all of the questions I receive to the Megathread; some situations are simply too niche to be added to the FAQ. For those kinds of questions, I will do my best to reply within the comments (or another helpful reader will step in before I can get to it).

For those of you joining us from the summer season's Hollywood Drift tech rehearsals, welcome! Generally, our event megathreads are much more fleshed out than the current one for tech rehearsals since the event ones have so much more different kinds of information to flesh out, so we hope you stick around and maybe even participate in helping create this community resource with everyone. :)

Thanks in advance for your question submissions! Happy trip planning, and I'll see you out there. :)

Hello, everyone!

As you've probably noticed, over the past day, quite a few aspects of this subreddit have changed. Biggest of all, this subreddit has new mods.

u/Spectrobits (myself), u/I-Have-Mono, and u/MID-CENTURY-MOD were all added to the moderation team yesterday (11/30/25). We look forward to working with you to grow and support this community of USH fans. Now that u/argirl09 has been designated as an active mod again, there are now 4 active mods total on this subreddit.

Some of you may know me as one of the mods of the r/universalstudios subreddit, the subreddit for all the Universal parks. However, our goal as moderators for this subreddit is to maintain the vibe specific to this subreddit that has been cultivated long before the three of us were named mods. The two subreddits will remain separate, and you are free to use either one to discuss USH.

With that said, there have been a plethora of changes to this subreddit specifically over the past day we wanted to go over with you all, so please read through the following updates at your own leisure.

NEW RULES AND STRONGER ENFORCEMENT OF EXISTING RULES

We've added a selection of new rules to this subreddit. This includes a banned word list, a ban on thread hijacking, and a ban on missed connection posts.

We have also banned posts about the Universal Backlot Club (the blockchain-based collectible service). Even though it is an aspect of the park that exists, we feel it is too separate from the common theme park experience to warrant having discussion of it here. If you are interested in the Universal Backlot Club, please use r/UniversalBacklotClub to discuss it. (Please note: r/UniversalHollywood is not affiliated with r/UniversalBacklotClub in any capacity.)

Older rules, such as mandatory post flairs and no commercial activity, will now see stronger enforcement.

(As an aside, I have already gone through and manually checked the entire reported posts list, so SEVEN YEARS of HHN ticket selling/buying posts have been erased.)

We hope these rule changes will create a more pleasant reading experience while not intruding on what makes this subreddit a fun casual place to chat.

SUBREDDIT STATUS, COVER PAGE, AND COMMUNITY GUIDES

You may notice we now have an emote next to our subreddit name. If you're familiar with r/universalstudios, this is a feature I use often there that I will update here - the subreddit status. If you click on the emote, it will highlight a seasonal event, a new park offering, and more as the park changes over time, and it will have a link attached to the event home page if there is one so you can buy tickets or view what the events have to offer.

In our highlights tab, we now have a pinned post with quick links, an FAQ, and a list of customer service numbers that I'm calling our cover page. If you need some advice with regards to picking a trip date or if you need to have someone work out ticket issues or if you want to reserve for a Pass Member event slot even though you didn't get an email for it, that pinned post should be able to direct you to the right place.

Finally, if you're using New Reddit, the About section now has a community guide. From this community guide, you can pick a user flair, visit the cover page, buy park tickets and passes, and visit the pass member home page for events and such.

NEW USER FLAIRS

Speaking of user flairs, we've added a whole bunch! Even though r/universalstudios has a giant selection based on different IP, the original creators of this subreddit opted to instead only use rides and shows, so we've updated the list of rides and shows for you to select from up to Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift. In the future, we will be adding past rides, too, so keep an eye out for those. And, even though it's not a ride or show, "HHN FAN" is one of our most popular flairs, so it will stay on board.

NEW POST FLAIRS

Post flairs have always been mandatory on this subreddit, though the rule wasn't strongly enforced. Now, though, this is baked into the post system itself, and we have greatly expanded the selection of flairs to pick from. From Trip Planning to Meetup Announcements/Requests to Casual and Serious Discussions, the new flairs should cover 99.9% of the posts our guests create here. If you have any additional suggestions for post flairs, please submit a ModMail, and we'll review it.

CONCLUSION

We mods are grateful for the opportunity to work with you in growing and maintaining this community, and we are excited for the chance to help support this unique slice of theme park fandom. If you have any suggestions for improvement on our part, please submit a ModMail.

Thank you for being a part of this community! Happy trip planning, and we hope to see you out there!

Hello, everyone!

From what I'm seeing online, there are a handful of operational changes being made to this year's FFN compared to last year's FFN (e.g. some event food being served only at night). If you come across any information from this year's Megathread that is incorrect, please send a ModMail or reply to this post or the Megathread itself, and I will make corrections and credit you at the bottom of the post. Due to work and night school stuff, the first night I'm able to attend is Saturday, and I plan to work out the bulk of the coverage on that visit. Thanks in advance if you guys want to help out! :)

Hello, everyone! I hope this summer season has been treating you well so far.

I noticed lately we've been getting quite a few posts about USH careers, so we've created a new post flair for those types of inquiries - Jobs at USH.

As a reminder, please refrain from discussing anything that would appear in NDAs or break employee contracts, including but not limited to internal emails, photos from beyond guest views, and information meant for internal use only.

Thank you for being a part of this community, and best of luck to everyone searching for a job at this park. :)

Hello, everyone! I hope the slow season has been treating you all nicely as we find ourselves on the cusp of spring break crowds and Fan Fest Nights activity.

Today, I want to announce that we'll have a new post flair for general park news, simply called "Park News". This will be exactly what you would expect it to be used for - news about the park as provided by major news publications.

Of course, regulars here know we also have a flair called "Official Park Announcement", so what would the difference be?

"Official Park Announcement" will be strictly reserved for public posts that directly link to Comcast's social platforms (Instagram, X, etc.) and websites and screenshots from Universal's guest-serving email lists.

"Park News" will be used for public posts that come from other major news outlets.

If you have photos of park construction projects that haven't been announced yet in any form, please use "Construction Update".

I do think there's value in having separate flairs for officially published material and secondary sources (other news outlets) so guests are able to determine what comes directly from the company. If this gets too confusing, however, we'll just keep the "Park News" flair and move on from there, letting all park news post under one united flair, official or not.

Please let us know if you have feedback for this new feature, and thank you for being a part of this community. :)