125+ PHOTOS: Tour the 2025 Universal Mardi Gras Tribute Store – Legends of the Bayou

Today marks the first day of the 2025 Universal Mardi Gras event at Universal Studios Florida, and we’re on the ground to provide a look at this year’s event. One of the highlights of the event is the highly-themed “Tribute Store”, which is a seasonal merchandise location. The Tribute Store began as an offering during the popular Halloween Horror Nights event, but it has expanded to other times of the year, including the Universal Mardi Gras season.

Guests can find the Tribute Store in the old Williams of Hollywood location in the Hollywood section of the park.

We’ll start with Universal Orlando’s official walk-through video, which takes you through the various rooms of the tribute store. For a more detailed look, keep reading for our photos of the space. Here’s a look at the “Legends of the Bayou” Mardi Gras Tribute Store!

2025 Mardi Gras Tribute Store – Legends of the Bayou

We’ll start outside the store, with a billboard inviting us inside. As you can see, the theme of the store is that of a museum and gift shop. We’ll soon find that the place is filled with oddities that invite you to take a closer look…literally!

Stepping inside, the first room is where you’d purchase tickets for the museum tour, but the “employee” behind the counter appears to be frozen with fear. He’s seen some things. A large Big Foot figure dominates the room, while a fun gag can be found in the corner when checking what’s behind the curtain.

Because the Tribute Store is a merchandise location, you’ll find merch throughout the space, but we’ll take a closer look at the Universal Mardi Gras merchandise in a separate article. For now, let’s follow the multitude of footprints along the ground through the store!

The second room of the Tribute Store builds upon the first room, with displays of odd creatures and more traditional merchandise displays. We even start to get a feel for just how campy the first half of the store will be as aliens meet Mardi Gras.

A short hallway has a skeleton and wolf creature on either side as guests walk toward the main attraction – the Wall of Mystery!

This next room serves as the main attraction as advertised at the front desk, but we’re still in the first half of the Tribute Store as a whole. The Wall of Mystery invites guests to take a peek into holes in the wall to find tiny scenes of creatures. Universal never misses an opportunity to poke fun at Disney, and the Wall of Mystery is one of a few nods to Universal’s neighbor down the road.

As we make our way to the next area, we’re about to step “outside” into the swamp where things will get a bit more moody. Our first stop is into a porch area before entering the swamp proper. Always keep an eye out, because you never know who, or what, might be staring back!

An old shack ahead invites us back “indoors” where it looks like a special batch is being prepared.

A quick hallway back “outside” takes us into the final room, which is where you can check out if you grabbed any merchandise along the way.

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