I chuckled a bit when Thierry Coup visibly winced when Michael Bay mentioned the "D" word. There's some good stuff here, so please watch, then take a look at our private interview with Coup and Hallenbeck, if you haven't seen it already.
Harry Potter is going Hollywood: I'll be on the approach pattern to LAX, but Laurie will be there at Universal Studios Hollywood tomorrow morning when California Governor Jerry Brown joins Universal and Warner Bros. managers for a "Butterbeer toast" to announce the west coast version of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
We'll post the details here to Theme Park Insider (as well as on our Twitter feed) right after the event.
In case you want to guess where it will go, here's our post from March with an aerial view of Universal Studios Hollywood, along with a break-down on where Harry Potter might fit within it.
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It does make sense to have Hogwarts in a different place than another school/ castle, but does Jaws really have to go? Can't the lagoon be used for something else water related? Piranha? Sure it's not G rated by any means, but it's Universal Studios where things are supposed to be edgy! I dunno, maybe I'm grasping at straws, but as much as I love Harry Potter, I would prefer a variety of "lands". It would be like if they shut down the Jungle Cruise and put a Carsland related land in its place.
So today's confirmation of a HP expansion in Orlando does not necessarily mean replacing Jaws. I'll write more on that later this week.
Here's to hoping that Jaws is only shut down to become something else even more spectacular, but NO 3D please! That multi-million gallon lagoon is something unique!
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