Hello. My name is Damaris, and I am a Harry Potter fanatic. It all started when I was a sophmore in high school. It's been twelve years and it's only gotten worse. Thank goodness my Hubby is a dork too! :) He's so good that he's waited in lines for books with me at midnight and gone to more than a few midnight movie openings with me. That's love. ::contented sigh::
This year is going to be HUGE for HP fans. Not only is the first movie installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows due to be release on November 19th, 2010, but there's something even BIGGER happening this Spring. Back in 2007 Warner Brothers announced that they would be starting development of a theme park land based on HP's world. This year the Wizarding World of Harry Potter will be opening at Universal Studio's Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida. The official opening date hasn't been released yet, but it looks like it'll be the weekend of May 28th (I've gathered this from the fact that vacation packages are listed on the website and available starting 5/28/10). I will be in Florida in 6 days and was REALLY hoping, by some lucky miracle, that the park would be opening like NOW. But alas, I'm out of luck. Oh well. That just means I'll have to make another trip when it finally opens!!!
Here's a link to the park's website.
It looks amazing so far! I can't wait to stop and eat at the Three Broomsticks and have a glass of butterbeer, or send a letter from the Owl Post, or take a tour of Hogwarts - we'll actually get to see some of the classrooms featured in the films and, of course, the Gryffindor common room. :) Here's another link: http://screenrant.com/wizarding-world-of-harry-potter-construction-photos-pauly-48645/all/1/
This one actually shows some of the construction photos. Very cool stuff.
