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Harry Potter Theme Park
« on: May 31, 2007, 06:50:00 PM »
I feel this is the most appropriate section for this, but feel free to move it.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20070531/118063398001.html

Squeee! Rarely is there something on the Internet that makes me excited enough to post about it anymore. But this looks soooo cooool! I didn't have any plans to return to Orlando, but now I'm going to have to, after this opens in 2009. I totally want to visit Hogwarts and walk around Diagon Alley!!!

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Re: Harry Potter Theme Park
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2007, 10:20:44 PM »
I think if they put enough money into this, it could be really cool.

If they don't, it could be cheese-ville.

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Re: Harry Potter Theme Park
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2007, 11:01:39 PM »
Oh! How fun that could be. I really like the promo art poster. Very classy and mysterious. Rowling seems to be happy with the plans they've shown her. All good signs. But Parker's right, it might turn out cheesy. Let's hope not. What fun we muggles would have!
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Re: Harry Potter Theme Park
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2007, 03:17:46 AM »
I really hope to be able to go visit it someday. Before I am too old to enjoy it. I love that JK Rowling is happy with the plans, and I hope they continue to use the movies, and her input, to help them keep this project on track. I am very excited :)

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Re: Harry Potter Theme Park
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2007, 05:54:45 PM »
Wow.  I really didn't think Harry Potter could get even more commercial.  Blah.
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Re: Harry Potter Theme Park
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2007, 07:31:02 PM »
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Wow.  I really didn't think Harry Potter could get even more commercial.  Blah.

Yeah, they sure have lost the vision of the original non-profit idea.
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Re: Harry Potter Theme Park
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2007, 10:54:39 PM »
Oh burn!

I actually think this is a very dangerous move--I look at the way Lord of the Rings fervor died off so steeply after the last movie came out, and I kind of expect the same thing to happen with Harry Potter. The last book will come out, people will stop looking ahead for more, and interest will go down a bit. The movies will continue for a few years, and then the same thing will happen again. The trouble with a phenomenon like this is that it has a specific end, and such a huge market saturation that it will have trouble finding a new audience once that end arrives and people move on. Obviously new kids will grow up and read the books, but it's going to take a very long time before we have enough of those new kids to sustain the kind of audience that a theme park requires.

I may be wrong, but I really see Potter-mania as something finite rather than continuous, and we're definitely nearing the end of it.
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Re: Harry Potter Theme Park
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2007, 12:43:23 AM »
I just hope they put Whomping Willows in the parking lot. Lots of them. And very close to the parking stalls.
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