NEWS: Harry Potter Set to Trounce the Magic Kingdom

CULTURE: Harry Potter Set to Trounce the Magic Kingdom

It seems like anyone even vaguely involved in fictional stories of magic and miracles can get a theme park these days. Those Creationism yokels got a museum full of dinosaurs mingling with naked robots, and Billy Graham built one with talking cows, but it looks like that godless troublemaker Harry Potter is set to outdo them all with a theme park of his own.



The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, as it is being called, is expected to open in 2009 as a part of the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida. In an interview with the BBC, author JK Rowling said:

Details, however, are sketchy, and there’s still no official word on whether or not they’ll be including an interactive ride in which Lord Voldemort kills your parents.

*roffle*

+1

now this is a theme park i would go to.

"godless troublemaker harry potter"

Love it! Haha...

Let's hope they have a ride where snot-nosed brats get to straddle a broomstick for a good ol' game of Quidditch...

a muggles visiting a magic kingdom, can we be expected to be treated like second class citizens?

According to Leaky...

You might want to check out a couple of Videos of the announcement too.

Moving there.

SO EXCITED.

Um, can I live there? Please?

If I can, like, visit Diagon Alley, I'll pee myself.

O hell yeah!

I am so happy
This made my freakin week

Well, that sure beats Billy Graham's venture.

I've just postponed my summer trip to Florida for a year.

THERE.

Does that mean we'll see Daniel Radcliff bumming around the park in 20 years wondering why fame is so cruel. Or maybe we won't see him at all.

hey it worked for Mark Hamill.

And for the record I am against such near sighted attempts to fool our children into thinking that this boring - mundane world we call reality - could ever substitute their imagination.

I say keep the land as it is.

Give the kids a book and a quiet spot in the woods.

And save us from the inevitable...

The day that the park's version of Hagrid shows up to work on a mean drunk.

+2

thanks universal!

next time i visit i don't have to be crushing on rogue and her dune buggy the whole time!

point me to some slytherin ladies!

...or tonks. tonks will do.

Complete with daily stage productions of Equus. Oh wait.

I'm so there! Right after I visit the alien theme park in Roswell.

I don't care what anyone says, I'm fucking excited, holy fucking moly! This is going to rule!

FUCK YES!!!

five words will best express my excitement.

Humidity, blazing hot summers, hurricane season...

...yeah, that sounds like Hogwarts.

I fucking loooooove Seuss LandingTM!