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