Wizarding World of Harry Potter attracts thousands for opening weekend
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Google5000 people were waiting in line for the opening day of the Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, FL, Universal Orlando spokesman Tom Schroder tells the BBC.
"What Universal Orlando has done with Harry Potter is really, really fantastic," star Daniel Radcliffe tells BBC News. He was joined at the park opening by fellow Potterverse actors Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon, Warwick Davis, Bonnie Wright, Matthew Lewis, Tom Felton and James and Oliver Phelps.
The park resides on 20 acres inside the Universal Studios theme
park/studios and includes reproductions of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry, the main street of the village of Hogsmeade and the Hogwarts Express
train.
We are honestly geeking out about the park and cannot wait until we can get to Florida to see it for ourselves. Are you going to go?
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Our trip is booked, we leave for Orlando on July 9th!
It is not a "Harry Potter Themepark". It is a Harry Potter themed land within a theme park. Three attractions, a shop, and two restaurants do not make a theme park. It is disingenuous to your readers to mislead them into thinking there is an entire Harry Potter themepark they could potentially visit.
i def would check it out.
We have our hotel book for 6 days. We leave on the 3rd. Can't wait.
This is a portion OF a theme park, like the Marvel area of Islands of Adventure. It is not a Harry Potter theme park and I am sure that the Universal spokesman did not call it one.
Yes, it is part of a theme park but the experience is so completely immersive it is as if it really is an entire theme park. It’s not that misleading. All of the Islands of Adventure are basically mini theme-parks within a larger setting. You can easily spend an entire day in the Wizarding World. Amazing Park – the rides and stores are incredible.
Having been there already, it FEELS like a theme park. And it's not one shop, all of the ones mentioned more than once in the books one can go in, invluding Hog's Head, Honeydukes, Zonko's, etc. While opening day was REDICULOUSLY disorganized, the park was truely incredible. Not a detail was spared. Not to mention the Forbidden Journey was CRAZY. Definitely worth the trip, as I travelled from Boston to get down there.
I wait til the hype goes down and the crowds too, to visit.
i agree, it is very misleading. It is NOT a theme park just an area in the park. Writer should edit that.
On another note I can't wait to visit but will definitely wait till lines go down. A friend of mine went this weekend and was unable to get in, the area was blocked off on both sides and you were required to make a line not for rides but to just go INTO the area! so yeah definitely wait!
We were there on opening weekend and it was amazing!!! The trick is to either stay at one of the on-site hotels and get into the park an hour before it opens to regular guests or wait until about 3:00 pm and there is no line to get into the area (still short lines for the stores and rides). The only thing we didn't get to do was the Ollivander's wand Shop experience but we rode the Forbidden Journey twice w/ minimal wait. The Butterbeer was the best part - so delicious!!! I think they put something addictive in it....