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  • i love HARRY POTTER! by the way, I am coming up with a webcast and thease r the ideas for the title of my show VOTE ON UR FAVORIT! 1.the A and K show 2.the hollywood spys 3.you'll love our show show!:) 4.The Analise and Karen show 5.The Analise show 6.The Karen show 7.@n@li$e'$ $h0w 8.K@ren'$ $h0w 9.A.S.K. 10.Comedy "R" us 11.i-funny 12.M.S.D. 13."C" times 3 14.KEY 15.Blah, Blah, Blah REMEMBER, CHOOSE YOUR FAVORIT! BYE!:)
  • Yes, but they advertised "opening SPRING 2010" to build up interest.....our family scheduled a vacation in SUMMER 6-6 thru 6-17 to go to it only to later find out it wasnt opening until the 18th of JUNE! This was misleading and cost us 750.00 in non refundable tickets and a weeks non refundable housing in fla!

  • I'm from Germany and I will come to this theme park!

  • the sucky part is that the cast, j.k rowling, the constructors, and the people who will control and work at the wizarding world of harry potter will get to try it out before the place opens...lucky bastards...

  • Universal Orlando is a bunch of scum-bags - I interviewed there and they did a bait-and switch...interviewed for a job that wasn't even available - HR woman accidentily let it slip - then they called later and asked me to come in a 2nd time - now they pay all their workers minimum wage for crap jobs with no benefits. I love Harry Potter but Universal SUCKS!

  • @MoveOnDotOrgg Oh Honey, Disney is worse, trust me!

  • yes harry potter is the castle real like you can go in is and see the rooms

  • How many rides are there gonna be

  • they liieeddd!!!!!!!! lol it's coming out in 2010 =P I saw the preview before Half Blood Prince and they officially said it comes out this upcoming year ha ha

  • YAAAY! HARRY POTTER!

    It seems I'm the only one excited about it and not fighting about the UK and the US.

    Let it gooooo and embrace your inner wizard.

  • amen! >:D!

  • I live in Lakeland, right next to Orlando

    Lucky me =]

  • i live in UK but im ok with it being in US...going to US is a lot easier than going to UK so it makes more sense

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  • You do realize JK CHOSE to sign the rights over to Universal? She chose them over everyone else who bidded for the park because they were the ones who had the best plans that fit her vision... It's not even a full themepark, it's just a very large space inside an already exisiting park... I dont think we have the best country in the world, im just saying we've got the best themepark market... It makes sense to put it in orlando. Dont blame us, Blame JK, she sold it to Universal...

  • besides, merlin/blackstone owns 50% of Universal, so you may be seeing a park in your neck of the woods in a few years after they test out the concept of a HP park in universal... So instead of hating, why not wait and see what happens, you will probally get a harry potter park sooner or later, it if you do it will probally be a full park, not just a large section of an exsisting one...

  • that wouldn't be a bad idea I would go see the full park if they made one

  • I want to go there soooooo much!!!!!

    If i could live there in the castle.(That would b AWSOME)

    HARRY POTTER!!!!!! ROCKS!!

  • I so cannot wait! I'm shaking with excitement!

  • lol its a great pleasure

  • lmao, I thought I was the only one who found that funny but I guess not. ;-)

  • whens it gonna open?

  • It will open at the beginning of 2010 and will possess roller coasters, scenes of the tapes of the magician and a reproduction of Hogwarts's Castle.

  • is this going to be a theme park like with roller coasters and such or is it going to be like a place to sleep over and "play" like ur a pupil at hogwarts?

  • maybe at one point we will build a harry potter theme park in britian but for now lets be gratefull for one.

  • I wish it was going to be built in the UK !!!!! Then I would be able to go to it!!!! It looks sooooooooo cool!!!!

  • I saw the construction of it when i went to Islands of Adventure not too long ago.

    I understand why some would want it to be in the UK, but lets be logical here...who in their right mind would want to build a theme park in the UK with its crappy weather...we wouldnt even enjoy it much! Orlando is much better, plus its like only an hour away from where i live, so its better for me HA! lol Srry UK people, save up some money and come to the USA! :D

  • believe me theyve done it =] they should make them world wide if anything

  • whatever arguing in youtube is like the special olimpics... even if you win u are still a retarded MOROONS!!

  • can't wait!

  • im SO excited :)

  • Bah. It's on the other side of the country. Oh well. I'll still go!

  • This park should be built in the UK. I can't believe J.K. Rowling didn't say anything about it.

  • WOWW i really wanna go too im a big harry potter fan i cnt w8 till its dne

  • Harry potter is so much better than twilight.

  • cardboardboxesftw: hey dummy, Twightlight and Harry Potter are two distinctly different things.  To say one is better than the other is foolish. That said, yes, I like Potter best but Twilight has been good so far (although I've never read the Twilight book and I'm not a 17 year old girl, lol).

  • dummyy? hmm.. when people say something is better than something else, they are usually talking about 2 different things. harry potter is so much better than twilight.

    im a 15 year old girl and i think twilight is cheesy and stupid.

    opinions. all opinions. to express your opinion is not foolish.

  • LiveStarProductions: you're a "stupid & cheesy" 15 yr old girl who can't explain the difference between Potter & Twilight. If you have an opinion, SUPPORT IT - having an opinion doesn't give you automatic immunity against critics or opposing opinions, dum dum.

  • hahaha. yes i can explain the difference between harry and twilight, but again, that doesnt matter. im pretty sure i didnt say that "i have an opinion now i have automatic immunity against critics and opposing opinions.." seriously ur dumb.

  • LiveStarProductions: grow up little girl, stay in school, you need it.

  • hahahh okay old man. will do.

  • @cardboardboxesftw hahah ya think? its 123569381734x better!

  • No. Just no.

  • YES!!!!!!!!!!!

    It's gonna be a sweet theme park!

    And can you guys stop bickering about it not being in the UK?

    Were supposed to just enjoy the fact that they're making a theme park.

    Does it really matter where the theme park is? Everyone is acting like a bunch of babies just because it's not in a specific place!

  • You know, I'm kind of sick of people saying it should be in the UK or in Britain or whatever. Its in Orlando, they bought the rights. GET. OVER. IT!

    Now, to switch to fangirl mode. YES! I showed my mom the video and i told her she has to take me for graduation. I originally wanted to go to Japan but this! SO MUCH COOLER! I'm seventeen years old, so I kind of grew up with Harry Potter. I've written fanfictions (unfortunately, even had my own Mary Sue...ah well), made fan arts, ect

  • (Continued from a previous post).

    I even bought my very own Harry Potter scarf. I'm working on a project, to build a Hogwarts Cake with my mother. I thought it would be a fun little project. You can see how obsessive I am. Anyway, I'm very excited for this park and definantly want to go. I'm even going to give up my trip to Japan because lets face it, Orlando would be much more fun. I hope this comes out soon, because I'm just buying to buy tickets.

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  • eh...it's not about stealing because they bought the right to a harry potter theme park and plus there is more theme park tourism in orlando that in britain, so... i think you can live a normal life without the theme park

  • Yeah but it does not make sense at all for the park to originate there.

    It's only fair that Harry Potter should be built in the UK first then sell the rights for the US.

    Britain has thousands of tourists every year,who would want to see Harry Potter and they would be so dissapointed to find out it's not in it's birthplace.

    JK Rowling should have thought twice.

  • You are a first class idiot. They havent stolen a thing. yes, the books originated in the UK but JK rowling needs to make money off the park, and be grateful, because there is no real market in the UK for theme parks. More people live in the US and people come to orlando from all over the world. Universal spends the most money on their projects and sees them through til they are good. No one else does. Not even merlin and blackstone, the people who own Alton towers could pull HP off. Be happy.

  • YOU are the first class idiot howyou2!

    Face it! Yeah maybe Orlando has the money for Harry Potter but to franchise it as American is stupid as it originated in the UK!

    It would not be unwise, it would make more sense actually!

    Americans are money grabbing thieves who take any franchise which isn't theirs and make it their own!

    They even wanted to make Harry Potter American!

    JK Rowling did not want that and so why should we be happy?

    What if we took Disney off you?? You're a hypocrite!

  • stfu you stupid ass brit. who the fuck would want to visit england to visits an amusement park? you guys have the worst fuckin weather and the people there think they are better than everybody else in the world. go die you buck tooth, fog breathing, drunk ass mother fucker

  • @ZidaneDaMan10 I know this wasn't aimed at me but excuse me, Britain does NOT have the worst weather - you ever been to Greenland where it is wet the majority of the time, nor are everyone there idiots and people visit England for culture, that's one of the main reasons!

    And we don't think we're better than everyone else, it's you Americans who are like that! You run around shouting "USA!USA!USA!" all the bloody time, can't you see how annoying that is??

    Just because people have

  • their own opinion of having Harry Potter over here, does that mean you can shout at them saying that they're stupid and upper stiff lip for wanting it here?

    It makes sense because it originated here!

    Universal has the money to own it but seriously you have taken most of our franchise and wanted it for your property!

    Everything is always going over to you so just let us have something as well.

    No offense but you're one of the reasons why people dislike Americans!

  • You had a flag desecration and spat on by the Muslims and it's been rumoured that American citizens have a racist interpretation of Obama!

    Everyone has done bad things around the world but you've done more bad things and you want Costa Rica to be the next state by force!

    And another reason why people hate most Americans is because of wankers like you!!

    Starting off an argument using your fat foul gob!

    Get rid of your guns and get a real life!

  • Be happy you are getting a "theme park within a theme park at all". It would have been unwise to put it in the UK simply because it's theme park tourism industry isnt strong enough to support the kind of money that is being pored into this project. people are gonna come to orlando regardless of HP and more people are going to go to orlando because of HP. Us U.S blokes dont go traveling to the UK for themeparks... But you guys do, and so does the rest of the world. That's why it's here...

  • I agree with boffinme. Britain isn't getting a lot of chance like we used to.

    Mainly all the good stuff is going to Orlando and not leaving a trace to the country it first came from.

    It does make more sense and it's more suitable for a BRITISH setting story to be in Britain. In Orlando, it would look very cheap and fake which is my concern whilst here in Britain we would have the actual location.

  • In Britian it would look more realistic, if you know what I mean now.

  • I can't wait to see the Hogwarts Castle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What if like, you could go inside it and take a tour of the WHOLE entire place from the common rooms to the dungeons ( or maybe the Chamber of Secrets!!!!!) That would be sooooo cool. What if the whole real cast was there?!!

  • That would be awesome! =D

  • Ah. Been anticipating this for so long.

    Have to wait another year. Ah~!

    Can't wait!!

  • I really hope the theme park will be up to the standard we are all hoping for! Can't wait to see it

  • omg, im just soooooooo excited!!!! i cant wait to go there! it seems amazing. :)

  • what if the stars of the films go to the grand opening

  • why not put it in UK. The author is english :/

  • does this have magic in the wands and the sorting hat will it make us fell that we are wizards like in the movie?

  • why in Orlando?

    why can't they do it in Anaheim Ca.

    Nooo!! I want to go!!

  • because orlando is the theme park capital of the world.

  • People do you think i would see this nearly finished in October this year???

  • it says it should be finished between december 09 and june 10 so you will probably see something near to the finished park yup =]

  • it's coming in 2010

  • i love harry potter!!

    xx

  • WHY IN AMERICA PLACE 1 IN HOLLAND

  • OMG!!!! I want to go there!

  • "Now where's Dumbledore?"

    "...he was just here!"

    That's great =D

  • OMG How cool!!

    Om SO going. Yay!! Only 1 more year.

  • ahhhh-I'm sooo going. coming next year :D

  • omfg i cant wait they should make halloween horror nights in IOA

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  • A lot of people have been saying they're going to be putting a ride in Hogwarts to take you round - surely you'll be able to walk around the castle too? Or d'you think they'll try and get as many people in and out as possible? What do you think??

  • Oh, I really really hope we can walk around. I hope they don't pull a Walt Disney stunt and make the castle lame like Cinderella's castle...Nothing in there but a gift shop, and you can't even walk around in it.

    I want to really walk around the dorms and the hallways!!!

  • i live in miami! :D

  • im very far away..

  • I can't wait to see this in first hand!!!

  • Ha ha Dumbledore is under the invisble cloak! He's there! He's there! look! look! ^^

    Ah! Can't wait! It's going to be so much fun and it' going to be so huge! And I agree with Havic366 there better be some butterbeer, and pumpkin juice!

    Also they should have the Weasley brother's shop too! Ah! That would be a great place to shop at and I can sit back and relax at The Three Broomsticks, the Hog's Head is way too sloppy for me! ^^

  • hope they have a "butterbeer" drink (even if it is rootbeer

  • It is scheduled to be revealed between December 15th 2009 and June 30th 2010 depending on how many constructions set backs they run into.

  • I really can't wait. OMG I am so excited!!!!!!!!!

  • i seriously hope they do not fucking bastardize harry potter and make it into some little kid's disneyland.

    that's bullshit.

    a theme park? sounds exciting, but. . .

    harry potter can't be made into a theme park :|

  • yes it can and it should. but they better realize a lot of the kids in 1999 are teenagers so i hope they have several rides and stuff for adults. i don't wanna just go "shopping' as I heard is going to happen for the older kids. i heard kiddie rides. I wanna see a Splash mountain kinda thing but the story of Harry on a new ADVENTURE. then we dip with him on his broomstick down a big slope.

  • Even though I live in california im soooo going to this!I've been an HP fan forever :)

  • I'm a CA girl too but yeah going! That's the yr I graduate college & going is going to be my present to myself

  • im totally gonna go!!! thatd be so fun

  • yea I live in Orlando and ive seen the construction site..it says it will be revealed in 2010.

  • about a 3 hour drive from where i live....can't waitttt!!!!!!!!!!1

  • i was watching the construction workers build it!=) i have the annual pass for universal so im lucky.ill be one of the first ones there^^

  • fuck i live in belgium and my mom wont let me go it's to expencive and i'm just 13

  • that's freakin' awesome *___*

    what a pity i live in germany Q.Q

    but i really want to go there, and i will go there, and when it's the last thing i ever do xD

  • I've been hearing the castle is going to be absolutely humongous, with a huge footprint, and will peak at 199 ft tall. what is going up now I believe is just the rock base the castle seems to sit on in the concept art (see the official website for those renderings)

    it will include the great hall w/ the enchanted ceiling, and explorable rooms, and possibly some ride within the castle.

    supposedly, this will become the cinderella castle of universal.

  • bites for all you who don't live in america!

    HAHA!

  • I don't find It fair that they are building it in america , the should build it in the uk , it would make it feel more real, and the book is actualy set in england any way =/

  • this is so awesome! lucky for me that i live in florida and i will definatly go. I love harry potter and i just can't wait for this park!

  • it sucks that I'll probably never gonna see it..thats what you get when you live in norway..XD

  • omg!! i cant wait! im so going there when it opens!

  • Do you know when it opens???

    Iknow it opens late 2009 and I'm going for a holiday in October 2009.

  • yes it's said to open late 2009 or early 2010=D

    im so excited!!!

  • the guy with the white hair looks really boredd

  • this deff. won't looks like it will suck

  • YESSS! i can't wait. we just came back from Islands! can't wait!!!!!

  • please have a butterbeer. I know they'll have a restaurant hopefully with magical looking food! And I hope butterbeer isn't root beer. I'll take a variation of cream soda!!!

    they should have a minotaur in the forest where you can take pictures with him, a hippograff you can get on and have a picture taken, and a candy shop (with candy like in the movie, but not released, at least not in USA) ohhhh AND A MAGIC SHOP. all the shops i know of closed down :(

  • somewhere i read a recipe for btterbeer i forgot where though...

  • I think it's on mugglenet, we had some butterbeer for the book relese at the librery, it was pretty good

  • the guy with the white hair sounds like an Arnold Shwartzinager sound board

  • I'm SOO EXCITED!! I've bene to the siteb like a million times! hehe the gallery is amazing!

    I can't wait! OMG I am soo going to the three broom sticks for lunch YAY!

  • PEOPLEZ NVM THEY R NOT CLOSING THE DUELING DRAGONS. MY 8TH GRADE CLASS IS GOIN AND MY TEACHER CALLED AND DEY SAID DAT IT WASS ONLY RUMORS, DEY R BUILDING A H.P. THING, BUT DUELING DRAGONS IS STILL OFFICIALY OPEN!

    XD YAY. u can even call and check, go on universalstudios website and dey got da #! =]

  • man WTF?? der gonna friggin close down da dueling dragons, dat not FRIGGIN FAIR, I AM SO PISSED RITE NAW.. I HATE HARRYPOTTER ITS gay.. no offense.. DX our class is goin 2 islands of adventure on may 23

  • omg are they gonna close dueling dragons while they work on this?!?! im going soon probably and i wanna go on dueling dragz

  • wtf?

  • why floriday? how random

  • because flordia is the best

  • why not?

  • much more space

  • haha you guys are shocking spellers - flordia and floriday?? its actually spelt Florida!! lol

  • ahh, if only it were in England,

    that would be so good.

  • for alisaalisa, harry is english and hogwarts is in scotland. but i think, for anyone who doubts the location of the theme park, if they put enough money into it they can make orlando look like anywhere. just look at what disney resently did with animal kingdom. it looks like the african savanna, india, nepal, and china all at the same time. when you stand on the opposite end of the park from the everest ride, the way they built it actually makes it look like a scale sized mountain.

  • if universal can manage that and not just concentrate on money like they have with the movies it will be something i will be very happy to take my kids to, in a couple of years

  • now u know im gonna be the first one there

  • When I saw it I couldn't believe it! We'll be able to go to Hogwarts!!! Merlin's beard, it's unbelivable!! It's GREAT!!! n____n Yeahhhh, we're the Potter's generation!!

  • i think u made a pretty correct point:

    "we are the potters generation"

    :D

  • OMG!!

    I was this year at the Universal Studios in Orlando( I live in austria) and it was soooooooo great there!!

    when the Harry Potter Theme park opens....I WANNA GO !!!

  • omg i can't wait for it omg ogm i cant wait im so going there!!!

  • im excite

  • Wow... I want to go there (^^,)

  • christ, he has a high voice.

  • omg how exciting! :) i just wish it was in the uk! i mean hogwarts is meant 2 b in scotland so y not build it here? i mean does orlando really need another attraction? ¬_¬

  • Cheap real estate purchased years and years ago by the entertainment park people. They needed lots of land for a very low price. Plus, Orlando is smart enough not to complain when a new attraction gets built - and Americans tend to spend a lot on these attractions but don't go to Europe. So, in the end, it's about money not authenticity.

  • I just read the article at the website and I can't hardly wait until this awesome attraction opens up in Universal Studios Island of Adventure! I'll have to make that my vacation in the summer of 2009.

  • are there going to be rides in it or just like scenery shit?

  • hey guys and gals take a look on my profile. thanxs

    and i cant wait for that park 2 open

  • OMG I love the idea.

  • oh no.. only for us residents..dammit it's unfair :'(

  • OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! this is AWESOME! I read that you actually get to go inside the castle and tour the great hall and everything!

  • holy shit i cant wait

  • holy crap

  • dude, america owns.

    don't deny it.

  • dude you said butter"bear" sorry its butterbeer

  • When dos it open?

  • 2009 or early 2010

  • hehe im going to be there when it opens thank god my family lives in orlando...haha i think everyone just might go on opening day even probably 40 or 90years olds oh my...

    [: harry potter just rules

  • since you live there, I think you would be the best candidate to answer a question of mine :) Do you think the HP theme park will be big? I have no idea how much big is Orlando..the only thing I know is that's is in America @___@

  • its big as all the other theme parks in the park really i cant remember i think 20something

  • Its gonna be huge - orlando is big, and universal theme park owns thousands of acres, so they can make it, pretty much, true to size.

  • It should be in England as Harry Potter is English.

  • BUT orlando is better :)

  • Orlando's nice, but the complete opposite of a Harry Potter location.

  • Yeah, except that if it were up to the English it would be a sand castle with some cardboard boxes and small plants. America has the resources and experience to pull this off properly. Sorry, its the truth.

  • as much as I love England, I have to agree with you. I know the Harry Potter world is all situated in the UK and essentially there are many british traditions apart from the fact it is an idea (HP) coming from a British person. BUT American has much more experience and I feel it will be a great thing..

  • The man who designed the look of the films and who is in charge of the design of the theme park is British.

    The books that inspired ALL of this are thoroughly British, and the movies are made in England, by Brits (I'm talking beyond the directors) so I think you need to give a bit more credit to the Poms, I think they could pull it off probably even better than the Americans (I'm thinking how much Hogwarts appeared to be set in california in the first two films).