We didn't come across anything new at Uiversal that wasn't there last year, holiday wise. Basically the same impressive lineup they debuted last year & the year before. But it did seem they had a significant number of cast changes for Grinchmas. We saw three shows, all excellent as usual. We got lucky and experienced two shows with a new narrator, that is 40 or 50 ish in age, which is a key role. He was tremendous, worthy of a major Broadway performance. What a great voice. Great Grinches too. And two of the shows had an amazing Max who did more than the usual minimal Max dog scenes. He actually stole the last scene with his on queue barking and front of the side stage moves......We just had a short 3 and a half days at Universal after 7 days at Disney, but it really seems Universal is more into the holiday season with decorations and music throughout the parks and hotels than Disney was. Main Street & the Castle at MK was excellent as usual but the rest of WDW was nice, but not great, holiday wise. The Tree of Life had a few really good, but short, night Xmas projection shows......The peppermint stick slushy at Universal was pretty damn good too. And this year we stayed at CBBR and really enjoyed the retro 1960's aluminum trees and decorations. Brought back a lot of childhood memories.......Not a Holiday thing but it appears they made some changes to the Cinemagic lagoon show again, mostly pacing. The May 2019 shows we saw were different than the Dec. 2018 shows. Again in November the pacing, and some content, was different, mostly now the fireworks are in a pretty significant Fireworks Grand Finale, whereas before the fireworks were more spread out throughout the show. That made for a really nice ending fireworks display.