wow, cannot wait til theme park. I am actually gonna go to florida this spring to visit my grandparents, i feel so lucky

Thanks so much for this update! Hopefully soon we'll have an opening date. It's good to have confirmation that it'll be this spring, though. Can't wait to see the park, and all the attractions sound amazing.

Looks awesome, can't till I go next august!!

wow, can't wait to go and see all of this for real, wondering when the next live podcast will be where they will discuss all of this?

OMG, this is going to be such an awesome theme park attraction. I am just looking for an excuse to go to Florida.

Filch's emporium looks awesome!

The dragon challenge... doesn't look very challenging! Is that the right pic?

Thanks so much guys, for all your coverage. I can't wait!!

Filch's Emporium looks almost like the room of requirement. And I agree with lhegarty that the dragon challenge doesn't look that great but i've been on that ride and that is probably just the entrance... it goes on through a huge building before you get to the actual ride. Thanks for the updates everyone!!

This.is.so.COOL! Hogwart s looks absolutely awesome. I'm gonna cry!

QUIDDITCH PITCH!! THERE SHOULD BE ONE!

Very nicely done Andrew and Micah! Got the info up within 2 hours of the announcement starting time. Emerson, these boys deserve a raise!!

FILCH EMPORIUM????

Three words: Audio-Animatronic Snape.

AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHH!!!!!!!! IM SO EFFING EXCITED!!!!!!

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG Totally taking off from school, and ditching my trip to Costa Rica! Hogwarts, I've waited so long to recieve my letter. My 11th birthday was a letdown. My 20th will be amazing!

It DOES look amazing BUT the only new ride is going to be "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey". The other two (Flight of the Hippogriff and Dragon Challenge) are just two re-themed current coasters (Flying Unicorn and Duelling Dragons). Still, looks like a pretty thorough re-theme. Thoughts?

Why do I know that if I ever get to fly there I'll spend waaayyy too much money on HP stuff? xD

OMG!!! I'm so excited right now!!! THIS IS CRAZY!! I KNOW WHERE I"M GOING FOR SPRING BREAK!!!!! I'm so overwhelmed now...I've got class in 30 minutes, but I really want to watch and look at all this stuff!!

Know what ya mean Spanishpanic. However I do not seeing anyone else having an more amazing time there as my son will. He will be 6 next summer and still believes Hogwarts is real and awating his letter. Perhaps Universal could make the tickets look like the school letter for children. hehe that would be amazing as well!

I LOVE the video with the trio and ALL the pictures of the shops and the rides look AMAZING!!!! I'm seriously hyperventilating right now! I love how they made it look just like the movie and I love the Filch's emporium store. It's such a cool name for a gift shop considering Filch confiscated so much stuff over the years. I've got to start saving my money now, because I'm going to want to buy everything I can get my hands on!!

Ishi 32 - Yes, that one I am looking most forward to as it will be "Filch's Emporium of Confiscated Goods is full of Ministry of Magic and magical creatures merchandise, Omnioculars, and even remote control Golden Snitches"

Dizzyshar, I don't belive a 6 year old can really grasp the full blown awesomeness of Harry Potter. At least not as much as a person who'se been waiting 9 years.

I love the artwork and videos! I can't wait!!! :)

I can't wait! What i don't get is that is the Harry potter world only going to be for a week??? Or years and years or what?

I'm extremely relieved that they didn't base the owlery on the one in the 4th movie. And spring 2010 is... way sooner than we thought right? Clrenn, I think the Infinitus convention is a week long, the Harry Potter world will probably be there for at least a few years :)

I am SOOOO there. I can hardly wait for this attraction to open. It is going to be so much fun to be able to walk through the gates of Hogwarts!! Dizzyshar, that is a brilliant idea with the tickets looking like the original letters. Snapealicious, you are absolutely right. The true star of the series should have shrine as well lol. WB: I hope you are listening!

Sure he can, and he will enjoy it more cause he will think it will all be real.

Excuse me, dizzshar, not trying to pick a fight. But it will all be real.

this is so awesome but i can't go there until maybe after 3 to 5 years?? i don't know.. ugh.

I'll be definitely going there! Can't wait, I just hope they'll do it right =) Especially Hogwarts... Too bad the theme park's not in Europe though :P Thnx very much for all the materials ;)

So cool. So glad I live in Florida. But for those of you who were hoping for Harry Potter themed tickets, you aren't going to be buying tickets for the wizarding world. Because it's a theme park within a theme park, you'll buy tickets to get into Islands of Adventure, and then you can go straight to the Harry Potter area. And as for the picture of the dragon challenge, that was only the entrance. The actual ride has been there for years and was called Duelling Dragons. You can check it out on youtube to get an idea of what the ride will be like. All they're doing is re-theming it to make it more "Hary Potter-ish".

ARTWORK LOOKS GORGEOUS! MAP IS STUNNING! I AM BREATHLESS RIGHT NOW. SO EXCITED. THIS JUST CANT HAPPEN ANY SOONER. I SWEAR THIS IS LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE the only thing that could make it better if it was all real..hogwarts and all. D:

OMG! I am sooooooo excited. I swear I'm nearly 30 and I feel like a little kid right now. The husband and I are going no matter what next year!!! YEAY!

Does anyone have a feeling this is going to be lame?

AHHH! AWESOME!! I can't wait! My family is planning to go for spring break or next summer, and I hope we don't have to wait that long. I AM SO EXCITED!! It looks awesome!! I love the idea of Filch's Emporium!! I am going to save up 400 bucks and spend it ALL! (370 more to go, LOL.) WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!

Well, I guess it's now official - no Feast in the Great Hall. That was the one thing I said years ago that I would look forward to "if a theme park were ever to do a Harry Potter section". Since the Hogwarts Castle is directly across the lagoon from the main entrance, it will give the park a real "weenie" for the first time, as it will be right dead ahead as one walks through the Port of Entry.

Does this mean we can get a custom wand at Ollivaders? I really want to taste all the food it has, like butterbeer and chocolate frogs. I also want to get a remote control snitch. I can already imagine that everything will be sold out within a week after release.

WeasleyTwin: I was wondering about the wands too. I was wondering if you could like tell them what you want and you could buy it, but you probably just have to look at what they have and buy from that, if you buy wands there at all.

yay new mugglecast... that was quick!

darn! tickets are gonna sell out in like a second.

Oh My God!!!! I CANT WAIT!! =) =) =)

mugglecast!!!!!!! but what on earth is Filch's Emporium?

@i_am_hermione Well, if I was to hazard a guess, Filch's Emporium is likely a small shop that sells more 'miscellaneous' items that wouldn't quite fit in the other shops in Hogsmeade. Judging by the little items tucked away everywhere, it looks like it is making use of the fact that Filch confiscates stuff from students.

Yay New MUGGLECAST!! Filch's emporium looks like a gift shop. Clearly Filch would acquire/confiscate a lot of interesting artifacts over the years, so it makes sense. I love the idea!! It looks like there will be A LOT of places to buy stuff which is AWESOME!

OMG this looks freaking SWEET!!!! I want to go soooooo bad!! I really wnat to buy stuff from Filch's Imporium and Ollivander's!! My own wand...YAY! I gotta start saving so I can buy tons of stuff there cuz I know I'll want everything...

OK...think I am now in need of a life change at age 48--a Theme Park Character for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter sounds like a really good career change, hm? Yeah. I can just see it "Professor Valkyrie" (me!) could wander around the Park as a Hogwarts teacher of...Rune Studies? Magical Creatures? (have to think about it) and interacting with the "muggles"...cool. I wanna go now. Got it all figured out. Can sneak out....catch a train...

OH MY GOD! Is all I have to say. My life is now complete.

Wouldn't it be funny if they made the passengers on Flight of the Hipporgriff bow to it before it took off?! Then the guy at the controls comes over the PA and says: Hey you! In the green shirt, you didn't show the required respect. He won't take off until you do!!

AHH! Omgsh! I hope I get to go for spring break! XD