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