Kings Island adds two Phantom Theater drinks at Starbucks
kings island added two Phantom Theater-inspired secret menu drinks to its in-park Starbucks on May 12. The pair ties directly to Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare, the park’s newest attraction, and gives visitors a limited, themed order they can ask for inside the park.
Phantom Theater at Starbucks
The two drinks are a Raspberry Iced White Mocha with lavender cream cold foam and a Lavender Cream Frappuccino with strawberry purée. Both lean into a purple color scheme that matches shades used in Phantom Theater, turning a standard Starbucks stop into a park-specific tie-in rather than a separate menu launch.
Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare opened at the start of the 2026 season, and Kings Island used a Facebook video on May 12 to put the drinks in front of parkgoers. The new attraction itself nods to the original Phantom Theater that operated at Kings Island from 1992 to 2002, which gives the drinks a built-in link to a piece of the park’s own history.
What secret menu means
Secret menu items are not official recipes. They are custom creations or common substitutions built around existing menu items, so these Phantom Theater drinks function more like a themed order than a new permanent product line. For visitors, that usually means the barista has to assemble the drink from components already available in the shop.
A website called starbuckssecrettmenu.com exists to detail popular secret menu drinks and their prices, which shows how these unofficial orders circulate well beyond a single store. At Kings Island, the difference is narrower and more practical: the park’s Starbucks now has two attraction-linked combinations that fit the look of Phantom Theater instead of a generic off-menu request.
King Island tie-in
Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare also replaces Boo Blasters and folds haunted theater elements together with interactive features from that ride. That makes the Starbucks add-on more than a novelty purchase; it is part of how the park is packaging the new attraction across food, retail, and ride experience.
For anyone heading to the park, the useful takeaway is simple: the drinks exist, they are tied to Phantom Theater, and they were designed to echo the attraction’s purple tones. If you want the park’s newest themed food item, the in-park Starbucks is where this one lives.
