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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. By Kelly Drummond . BOOKS. MOVIES . THEME PARK!. RIDES!!!. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey Won Best Attraction 2010 Flight of the Hippogriff Less intense rollercoaster. Bring your grandma. Dragon Challenge
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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter By Kelly Drummond
BOOKS MOVIES
RIDES!!! • Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey • Won Best Attraction 2010 • Flight of the Hippogriff • Less intense rollercoaster. Bring your grandma. • Dragon Challenge • Used to be Dueling Dragons before transformed. • Pick between the Hungarian Horntail (blue) or the Chinese Fireball (red)
The Forbidden Journey • Line goes through the castle • Talking portraits • Moving pictures/Newspapers • Dumbledore’s Office • DADA Room • Gryffindor Common Room • Holographic Videos of Characters • So freaking cool.
This Ride is So Kick-Ass, It Gets 2 Slides • Soar above Hogwarts, Forbidden Forest, and the Quidditch pitch • Be chased by a dragon • Get spit on by Aragorn • Be chased by Dementors • Be scared out of your freaking pants • “Save the day”
SHOPS • Honeydukes • Zonko’s • Dervish and Bangs • Flich’s Emporium of Confiscated Goods
Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans at Honeydukes Chocolate Frog
OLLIVANDERS Hour – 2 Hour wait to “get in” the shop. Lies. Shelves FILLED with “wands” Special Effects are at a max Actors to impersonate Olivander and his assistant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5whe9XtdQgw 2.25
Fine Dining • The Three Broomsticks • Pumpkin Juice • Butterbeer • Frozen or regular • Cauldron Cakes • Turkey Legs • Fish and Chips • Cornish Pasties
Opening Day • June 18, 2010 • JKR, Radcliffe, Grint, Felton, Wright • 6 hour wait to get into HP Park • 35 min. wait outside Ollivanders = 5 min. inside. • 1 in 10 visitors were in Hogwarts garb. • 265 million dollar construction cost • Universal hopes to raise attendance • Universal VP, Alice Norsworthy, said • “[the theme park] established itself as the most spectacular themed environment in the world.”
What the Guests Thought • Deborah Kolleya, 48, from Birmingham, Ala., “[My family and I] wanted to actually experience the magic,” • “So much better than I could have imagined it,” Paige Passantino, 18, Charleston, NC • Blythe Passantino, 21, tearfully said,“Ireally wanted to live here; it was so much better than our real lives.”
Entertainment • Frog Choir • Beauxbatons • Durmstrang • Peppy staff with accents
Michael Gambon and Radcliffe at the Grand Opening I hate that little girl.
Works Cited • http://www.mugglenet.com/app/category/show/76 • http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/business/19potter.html