I can easily see them timing the grand opening with the premiere of the final movie, maybe even to the point of having the world premiere of The Deathy Hallows in Orlando.

I'd probably go if I was in the area, but I've been to Florida exactly twice in the last 15 years, so it's not like I'm making plans to.

Sevelle wrote:

I shall be there opening day, wearing robes at the ripe old age of 21

Haha... Summer 2009?  I'll be a youthful 30.

But I'll still like Harry Potter and anime and video games and all that good stuff.

Yay for Peter Pan syndrome!

I'd be 21 too!

...If I went.  Honestly, after the fourth book, I was too weary to keep up with the other ones.  But, I do recall Snape killing Dumbledore?

And you can just imagine all the Fundi Christians protesting about how this theme park will lead young children into the trappings of witchcraft and satanism...

Sevelle wrote:

Eh- Yeah.

I read the sixth once, when it came out, and I am re-reading it for the seventh.Is it sad I might go to the mid-night release? Better yet with a group of people my own age!

No, its not sad sweetie, I too will be going to a midnight release party for the book, but by myself. I hope to see some people in costume, but I doubt it... that kind of thing isn't popular where I'm from

That's the year I graduate, so I'll be eighteen.

I was there at midnight when the sixth book came out. It was at Wal-mart, though. I stayed up all night reading it. I remember seeing a video of someone who yelled, "Snape kills Dumbledore" at a midnight party for the book.

I loved the harry potter books up to book 6. Book 6 was where it was totally ruined simply by the fact that all romance seemed to amount to 'snogging'. And sorry, but she couldn't write romance well at all in my opinion.

I'd be 18 D:

I liked Harry Potter before everyone did, when i was in 2nd of elementary i started to read it. It's a shame it's now so commercial, i never read the 5th book and i'm not going to do it. It's so.. agh... OMG FANTASY LETS MAKE MONEY.

It was not like that at all at the beginning. Or maybe it's that i grew up. Who cares, i'd go to there anyways.

Eh- I'm proud of myself! i own the first editions of the fourth, fifth, and sixth books. ANd next the seventh! BAHAHAHA!!!

Trench Kamen wrote:

I'll be 21 too.

Seville, want to meet up in robes?

I hope the park is as much of a blast as it has potential to be. God damn, to think books have spawned their own theme parks.

Hell yes!

I watched that History Channel special on Star Wars, let's just say Bush has an odd similarity to the Sith Lord.

Razara wrote:

I didn't think that I would like it at first, but then Kealdrea forced me to read them, and I ended up liking them. The concept itself made me think that I wouldn't like it, and it's vast popularity somehow turned me off from the idea.

But the Harry Potter fandom has lots of amusing fan-made things like this.

I ~love~ the Potter Puppet Pals Forget about the books and the movies, they can't even compare.

"Snape.. Snape.. Severus Snape (DUMBLEDORE!!)"

Persephone wrote:

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WILL THE CORPORATE HYENAS QUIT HANGING AROUND AND EYEING
PATHETIC OPPORTUNITES................PLEASE?!

It's not a "pathetic opportunity," it's actually quite brilliant. If Universal does half as well with this project as they did with Seuss Landings, I'll probably visit it myself.

Also, I'd like to point out the fact that theme parks create jobs and revenue for Florida itself. An entirely new theme park, with appropriate branches... We're talking upwards of about 3,500 jobs. Granted a lot of them will be low paying entry level jobs, but they're jobs that people need nonetheless. People like myself, by the way.

Theme parks aren't just giant Corporations Of Great Evil, you know. It pisses me off to no end that people rag on them all the time -especially people that haven't worked them. Yeah, I complain. About management and my other co workers and the shitty pay. I don't know anybody that hasn't complained about it at some point in any job. But theme parks make money for one reason -they make people happy. People go to them. They might be expensive, but they're there for people's entertainment, and that's a purpose they serve well. We wouldn't be building them if people didn't go. As far as the rules of business, that's a big one.

Besides, this was a given. Corporate hyenas? Hah, bullshit. What about the costumes, the scarves, the "official" badges, the memorobillia, the action figures, the toys, the brooms, t-shirts, pajamas, prop reproductions, actual movie props that auction for more money then god, all that crap? Well, then it's just "servicing the needs of the fans." But when someone comes along and says "Hey, let's make a place where they can hang out, charge them just as much money as they'd spend on a year's worth of toys and crap so they can see all stuff, ride The Knight Bus and The Hogwarts Express" it becomes the embodiment of Corporate Evil Destroying All Things Good And Holy?

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