Harry Potter Theme Park

[stacygalore]

"Katie"  wrote:
>
> I haven't seen much discussion of this. I am so psyched about it! I 
> wasn't sure at first how I felt, but as the idea grew on me, I 
> realized there was nothing more I wanted in the world than to walk 
> down Diagon Alley, to walk into Honeyduke's or get a butterbeer at the 
> Hog's Head...to buy robes at Madame Malkin's or stare with starry eyes 
> at the latest brooms floating in the shop window. I want to get money 
> at Gringotts (I hope I can change my "Muggle money" for knuts and 
> galleons!), I want to just completely submerge myself in Potterverse. 
> I might never come home...
> 
> I am almost so excited it's paralyzing... : )
> 
> So, what do you guys think about it?
> 
> What is the thing you most want to do there, if you want to go there 
> at all?
> 
> What is the thing you hope they don't screw up, above all other things?

Stacy here:

I am a HUGE fan of Disney theme parks.  I am asuming, since many new theme parks are 
modeled after Disney World, that it would be somewhat like that: total emersion into the 
theme, as opposed to the Six Flags parks, which are all about the rides.  I don't think any 
theme park can do justice to the HP universe.  It would come off as cheesy.  Probably just 
a ploy to get people to buy poor quality merchandise.

Of course, I would visit this theme park in a heartbeat, but I would be very sceptical the 
entire time I was there, nit picking at the details.  

IMO, no theme park can be as good as the potterverse I visit in my head every time I read 
the books.

But anyway, here's what I would do in the hypothetical HP theme park:
I would have a drink of butter beer (which I have always imagined to taste like a slightly 
alcoholic cream soda), ride a Nimbus 2000, take a cheesy picture with Harry in front of the 
Hogwarts castle, get spooked out by dementors and death eaters, and buy Slytherin robes 
for Halloween.

Have you heard where it will be built?  Somewhere in the UK probably?