The visitors who got in yesterday were overjoyed with the experience, and Twitter erupted with photos of giddy guests. Here are a few sent to us @ThemePark:
Now that the land has been opened to all guests, we've opened our Diagon Alley review pages for you to rate, review and upload photos of the locations you've experienced.
Note that anyone can rate attractions (though we ask that you limit yourself to rating places you've actually visited), but you must register with the site to leave a review or upload a photo. Registering is free, though, and only takes a moment, so please, register today!
It's been an amazing journey we've shared with you over the past two and a half years, from first revealing the plans for Diagon Alley on December 31, 2011, through the many other revelations we've reported about Diagon Alley since then. We hope that many of you get the chance to enjoy Diagon Alley as much as we've enjoyed reporting on it, and then, finally getting to experience Diagon Alley in person last month.
In other news, Walt Disney World is opening its Frozen celebration at Disney's Hollywood Studios this weekend, and offered a first look at the Wandering Oaken’s Trading Post & Frozen Funland inside Soundstage One at the Studios (most recently home to Darth's Mall).
Across the country, at Disneyland, the park just reopened the Alice in Wonderland dark ride after a much-needed redesign and refurbishment, which included the removal of the ugly tarps and redundant temporary safety rails that had marred the exterior of the ride for years. Inside the ride, Disney's added several film animation snippets.
Disneyland's also opened its Guardians of the Galaxy preview in the Tomorrowland theater, evicting Captain EO. The preview also's slated to play in the old Sound Studio stage at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida.
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Since you broke the news on Diagon Alley...is there any chance your inside source can divulge information on the coming Kid Zone revamp, Wondersea Water Park or the rumored Disney-Sea quality Third Gate planned for Universal Orlando?
Kong and the fifth hotel are under construction. But until construction starts on the other developments, their plans can change. That's all I've got at this point -- at least all I feel confident enough to report as fact.
Really? I would love to hear more.
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I have more photos but these are a good sample. I haven't read any of the books but saw all the movies. Diagon Alley is like being in that fantasy land, it is so detailed that words can't do it justice. It is full-sized and I can foresee a time when they actually use it as a film stage for additional WWoHP movies or TV shows.
What comes to my mind is a TV show based around the Slytherins and starring Tom Felton, whose career I don't follow, but I imagine he has some open dates in his acting schedule. Diagon Alley is ready-made for the set of a show, and it'd be filmed at night after the park closes. Furthermore, Universal Orlando has some working or workable soundstages that could be made to be the Slytherin common room or the interior of the shops within Diagon Alley, as I picture a CW-style drama.
Universal could not only market their Harry Potter lands to fans of the movies and books, but now to fans of the TV show. As a huge bonus, going to Diagon Alley would in essence, become a set visit. And imagine a "backstage" VIP tour, which would take guests into the sound stages to see the working sets for the rest of the show.
Just throwing ideas out there. Feel free to tell me why this simply won't work, but I had to put it out there.
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I had ridden the Hogsmeade Express the day before and thought it was good but not great.
Diagon Alley is beyond any Theme Park experience I have ever seen. Even without Gringotts open it is complete experience the Dragon's Fire is incredible but still pales in comparison to Knockturn Alley.