The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

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– 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,“I really wanted to live here; it was so much better than our real lives.”

Entertainment

• Frog Choir

• Beauxbatons

• Durmstrang

• Peppy staff with accents

Brendan Fraser enjoying an ice-cold Butterbeer.

Michael Douglas on Flight of the Hippogriff

How cute are they?

Michael Gambon and Radcliffe at the Grand OpeningI hate that little girl.

Works Cited

• http://www.mugglenet.com/app/category/show/76

• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/business/19potter.html