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Episode 22: Stepping into the Theme Parks - Around the World · Revelio: A Wizarding World Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to episode twenty two of Ravellio for
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  Speaker 1: June twenty sixth, twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Amy, I'm Nicole, and I'm Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two episodes. Where did the time go?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty two?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was thinking it's almost about a year since
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  Speaker 3: we started the podcast, like we're so close, which is.
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  Speaker 1: I know, just think this time last year we were
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  Speaker 1: like figuring out all the segments and like segment intros
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  Speaker 1: you interessicm logo, Hm, hmmm crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Look how far are we us?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: That was not planned? By the way, Amy and I
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  Speaker 3: just said the exact same thing, the exact same time.
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  Speaker 3: That's what like, what like eight years of friendship will
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  Speaker 3: get you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we're just morphing into each other at this point.
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  Speaker 2: You don't mean it's just a natural progression.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, swap us out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So in this episode, we're going to continue our deep
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  Speaker 3: dive series into the Wizarding World theme parks. This time
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be discussing the different versions of the
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  Speaker 3: park around the world.
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  Speaker 4: But first, listening to w W in the Wizarding Wireless Network.
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  Speaker 4: Now for the latest headlines.
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  Speaker 3: So big news again, the irony of you know our
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  Speaker 3: last episode, I mentioned how news always seems to break
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  Speaker 3: as soon as we're done recording, and uh lo and
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  Speaker 3: behold that happened again this time.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And as soon as I saw this, I immediately was
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  Speaker 3: in our group chat like it happened again, sours.
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  Speaker 1: Later, Right, it was the same day.
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  Speaker 3: It's just I don't I think maybe we bring on
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  Speaker 3: the news like I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But it must be.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if it happens again after this recording.
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  Speaker 2: But right, we're gonna get Neville and Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we're calling it. Maybe Warner Brothers is listening to us,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like we got it. We gotta time this.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, so more more casting news dropped right after
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  Speaker 3: we were finished recording our last episode, so we got
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  Speaker 3: quite a few of our side characters this time, so
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  Speaker 3: we big chunk. Yeah. We learned that Molly Weasley will
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  Speaker 3: be played by BAFTA winner Catherine Parkinson. Draco Malfoy will
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  Speaker 3: be played by Lox Pratt, Lucius Malfoy will be played
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  Speaker 3: by Johnny Flynn. Seamus Finagan will be played by Leo Early,
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  Speaker 3: Pravadi Patil We played by Alesia Leoni, and Lavender Brown
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  Speaker 3: will be played by Sienna Moosa, probably butchering names. But
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  Speaker 3: we also got our Dursley's so Petunia Dursley will be
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  Speaker 3: played by Belle Powley and Vernon Dursley will be played
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  Speaker 3: by BAFTA winner Daniel Rigby. And then we also got
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  Speaker 3: Cornelius Fudge, who will be played by Double Oliver and
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  Speaker 3: Tony Award winner Bertie.
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  Speaker 1: Carvel seamous is adorable, so cute, the freckles, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he's Irish, right, I.
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  Speaker 3: Would believe it just even based on his looks. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's interesting too because we're getting like casting
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  Speaker 3: announcements for people that wouldn't even really be in the
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  Speaker 3: first season, like in Sorcerer's Stone, Yeah, which I think
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  Speaker 3: is interesting. So it looks like they're just if they're
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  Speaker 3: finding the person, they're just you know, casting them.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice though, because like the students, like students that
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  Speaker 1: like don't really have a role in the earlier books,
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  Speaker 1: like the Petill Twins, like having them there from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning looks that much more natural when they like inevitably
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  Speaker 1: have lines and show up later, as opposed to just
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  Speaker 1: like casting them later and being like Oh, here's this
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  Speaker 1: new student, Like it's nice that they've cast them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so they can be in like those group scenes like
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  Speaker 1: in the Great Hall and classes all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they get to because they get the complete source
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  Speaker 2: material from the get go, So to them, it's like
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  Speaker 2: much easier to cast these characters that they know are
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  Speaker 2: going to have a much pivotal role down the line,
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  Speaker 2: So it gives them a lot more to It also
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  Speaker 2: is a lot a lot more work because they have
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  Speaker 2: to be like great castings from the very beginning. Whereas
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  Speaker 2: the films, you know, they were casting as the books
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  Speaker 2: were coming out, so they were like, you know, depending
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  Speaker 2: on which character was introduced in such book, they would
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  Speaker 2: going to be casting that because you know, Lavender Brown
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  Speaker 2: wasn't cast until haplat Prince, but now we have her
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  Speaker 2: since the first season. And I think also the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they were doing this is because they might potentially
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  Speaker 2: want to go for back to back filming seasons one
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  Speaker 2: and two. So I don't know, like we'll have to
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  Speaker 2: wait and see. But it is interesting that Lucius and
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  Speaker 2: well Molly does appear, but Lucius doesn't appear until the
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  Speaker 2: second book, so that really kind of like in fudged too,
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  Speaker 2: like it really raises questions and being like maybe they
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  Speaker 2: are really doing this whole like back to back shooting,
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  Speaker 2: and that makes you know they can get done maybe
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  Speaker 2: eleven months. I think the actor who's playing Hagrid said
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to be like roughly around ten or
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  Speaker 2: eleven months of shooting, so yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that definitely makes sense just seeing like who they've cast,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, like Lucius and Budge like it just it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's probably exactly what they're doing, is the
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  Speaker 1: back to back.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, yeah, I guess. I'm Yeah, it's excited to
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  Speaker 3: see who will get next because obviously we have some
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  Speaker 3: hogwart students that are in that first you know, a
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  Speaker 3: book that haven't been cast yet. And yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: There's obviously been a lot of discourse online about our
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  Speaker 3: Dursley is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we all seeming too hot?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we also talked about it too, like am I
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  Speaker 3: going to have like some weird conflicting thoughts about Vernon
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  Speaker 3: Dursley that I never thought i'd have, you know, But
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 1: It's happened with Alvis, then it happened with and now
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  Speaker 1: withs I would have never thought I here.
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  Speaker 5: We are, Yeah, you're you're right, because it's like I
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  Speaker 5: just you know, we we love you know, I stand
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  Speaker 5: Jude Law as young Dumbledore, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up a certain type of way about Richard Coyle
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  Speaker 1: as fo me too. I saw it coming.
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  Speaker 3: No, you know, you think back to like growing up,
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, man, these characters I grew up with,
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  Speaker 3: and like now I'm having weird feelings about them in
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  Speaker 3: their younger state. Like it's it's kind of so conflicting.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe we were already primed for this, but I
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  Speaker 3: think that I know, and we talked about this a
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  Speaker 3: little bit in our group chat that a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the other discourse I've seen online is just like they're
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  Speaker 3: too young, and like they're actually not. And we talked
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  Speaker 3: a lot about how, you know, the the films actually
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  Speaker 3: really aged up all of our characters, and the Dursley's
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  Speaker 3: actually would be in like their mid thirties, and like
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  Speaker 3: I'm in my mid thirties, so like, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think that and I think two that makeup and everything
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  Speaker 3: will be really good. And I saw some like AI
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  Speaker 3: mock ups and stuff of like what you know, Daniel
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  Speaker 3: could look like as Vernon and they could do it.
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  Speaker 1: Once you get them in costume and yeah, he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's in his uptight office guy apparel. Like it'll work. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So yeah, but yeah, they're they're they're quite attractive
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  Speaker 3: for the Dursley. So we'll see, you know, we'll see
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  Speaker 3: what happens here. Up my god. Yeah, it's just very strange,
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  Speaker 3: but but I I'm excited. I feel like with every
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  Speaker 3: like I think we've said this before, but like with
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  Speaker 3: every casting that we get, like everything just seems like
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  Speaker 3: more real. And I'm so excited to see everybody, like
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  Speaker 3: in costume, like in action, because especially, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about, I still have some reservations you know,
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  Speaker 3: about the show, and so I think actually getting to
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  Speaker 3: see people and everything will make it just more more real. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see who gets cast next.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In other news, we also learned that not one, but
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  Speaker 3: two new official Harry Potter shops are going to be
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  Speaker 3: opening in Japan this summer. So Harry Potter Shop hard
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  Speaker 3: Juku will be opening in Tokyo in August twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: So we talked a little bit when the Harry Potter
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  Speaker 3: Chicago opened that they're kind of doing different theming for
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  Speaker 3: each shop that's opening, which I think is so cool
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  Speaker 3: because it keeps it fresh and different, especially if you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: have the chance to visit more than one of them.
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  Speaker 3: So the interior for the Harajuku shop will be the
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  Speaker 3: Forbidden Forest, which I actually love this theme. And this
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  Speaker 3: is very fitting because where they're putting this store is
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  Speaker 3: along like a historic tree line path extending from a park,
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  Speaker 3: and so it's kind of just like this extension, like
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  Speaker 3: you kind of are already in this forest vibe walking
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  Speaker 3: up to the store.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I think another reason we got to take a
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  Speaker 1: field trip to Japan.
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  Speaker 2: We have to at this mandatory.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, there is no I think between all the Harry
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  Speaker 3: Potter stuff in Japan, all the Disney stuff in Japan,
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  Speaker 3: Like I actually want to see Japan too, but like
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  Speaker 3: there's so much great fandom stuff there that it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's non negotiable at this point that I have to
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  Speaker 3: get over.
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  Speaker 2: At some point, maybe we get a couple of Warner
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  Speaker 2: Brothers invites in the future, Warner.
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  Speaker 3: Brothers, you're listening, we would love to cover the opening
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  Speaker 3: of these store. Maybe not this store. It's in a
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  Speaker 3: couple of months. But in the future, any events you know.
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  Speaker 5: We would love to we are available, yes and ready
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  Speaker 5: well clearer calendars yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's actually going to be another store that
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  Speaker 3: there's a Wizarding World Street store already that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be closing on June twenty ninth and reopening on July
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  Speaker 3: seventeenth as Harry Potter Shop Akasaka. So it's actually it
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  Speaker 3: seems like it's going to be another one of these
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  Speaker 3: official stores.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting yea, so it was already an official store, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I was going to Google this, like
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  Speaker 3: when I saw it in the article, I was like, huh,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder like what this what this store was to
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  Speaker 3: I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: To actually pull it up store.
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  Speaker 3: It could be. I don't think it's super unofficial because
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  Speaker 3: like they're because I think they're artificial merch Yes, so okay,
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  Speaker 3: So Google tells me that the Maha Do gor Akasaka
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  Speaker 3: Wizarding World Street is a themed area in Akasaka, Tokyo,
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  Speaker 3: designed to evoke the atmosphere of the Harry Potter universe.
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  Speaker 3: It features the Harry Potter Store and the Harry Potter Cafe,
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  Speaker 3: both of which are popular destinations for fans visiting Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Cool. So, yeah, where else will you get a Harry
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  Speaker 2: Potter cafe? Like, we have to go to Japan and
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  Speaker 2: we have to experience that well.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm wondering what's going to happen now because I
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  Speaker 3: think that themed cafe was part of this store. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking now they're just going to turn that part
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  Speaker 3: into the butter beer area that's in all the stores already.
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  Speaker 1: Oh interesting that the candy counter type thing, pastries and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: That would be cool if they could keep it like
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  Speaker 3: the cafe, Like Google says that it's a themed cafe.
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  Speaker 3: There's magical themed food and drinks, and the interior is
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  Speaker 3: designed to resemble Wizards Inner Library. So I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's actually an official Maybe it's just been really successful
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  Speaker 3: and so the official powers that be are like, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to make the store official, yeah, because it doesn't Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't look like but yeah, so exciting for those
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  Speaker 3: that are in the Tokyo area. Lots of stuff coming.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. H So.
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  Speaker 3: Also since we recorded last, we talked about Tom Felton's
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  Speaker 3: return to the character of Draco malfoy on in Cursed Child.
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  Speaker 3: On Broadway, and after we recorded, tickets for this went
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  Speaker 3: on sale. There was pre sale tickets and then general sale,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of people signed up for the pre
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  Speaker 3: sale tickets. I was sixty six thousandth in the line
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  Speaker 3: and waited over six hours. It felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't I wasn't part of like the Eras tour
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  Speaker 3: like ticket you know thing, but it felt kind of
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  Speaker 3: like the Great War of Eras tour tickets and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and but at least there.
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  Speaker 1: Were plenty of seats available.
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  Speaker 3: There's plenty of seats available. Yeah, So, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I waited over I mean it was probably more like
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  Speaker 3: seven hours. I had the queue kind of just running
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  Speaker 3: in the background while I was working, and I was
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  Speaker 3: able to get tickets for me and Amy to see
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  Speaker 3: Tom in November. I will say, like, if you go
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  Speaker 3: on now, there's still like there was really no need
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  Speaker 3: to wait six hours. But it was fun and it's
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  Speaker 3: part of the experience, and it just feels like a
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  Speaker 3: fandom event.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted those weekend dates, which were going pretty quick, So.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's what I was going to say. By the
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  Speaker 3: time I got in, like weekends were pretty like more
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  Speaker 3: more limited, but even once you got in, there was
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  Speaker 3: still a lot of tickets. I do think that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people were trying when I was looking at
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  Speaker 3: different maps, like a lot of people were trying to
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  Speaker 3: get like orchestra seats and closer seats, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: they catch me time, right, I just want to be
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  Speaker 3: in the room where it happens, like, I don't need
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  Speaker 3: to be like, you know, spending Fortunately, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: six hundred dollars on tickets.
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  Speaker 1: With the yeah budget, yeah, yeah, And.
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  Speaker 3: I will say they definitely like increased the price of
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  Speaker 3: tickets for this, which completely understandable. I definitely Amy and
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  Speaker 3: I are sitting in a very similar spot that we
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  Speaker 3: sat a couple of years ago when we went, and
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  Speaker 3: the tickets are definitely like probably like one hundred dollars
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  Speaker 3: more than they were, So not surprised. But yeah, there's
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  Speaker 3: still lots of tickets available again that like his very
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  Speaker 3: first show, and weekends and everything are a bit more limited.
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  Speaker 3: And because because there was such unprecedented demand, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know who thought it was going to be unprecedented, but
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: that's what the official channel said that due to this
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: unprecedented demand, they announced that they're extending his run through May.
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  Speaker 3: So now there's even more tickets all, yes, so I'm
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  Speaker 3: hoping maybe I'll get to be able to go back again.
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  Speaker 3: I started thinking though, like, you know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of shows every week, and like, gosh, is he actually
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  Speaker 3: going to be in all of these? Right?
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  Speaker 1: That'd be awful? And he was like outset.
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  Speaker 3: I know, oh god, yeah, especially.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even think of it really until I started
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  Speaker 3: seeing people talk about that online, like what if I
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: go and he's not you know, but I think.
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  Speaker 1: That and they've jacked up the price.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I think that given the whole situation. Obviously,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: illness and stuff happens, right like, so there there is
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  Speaker 3: a chance that you might go and find out that
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  Speaker 3: the understudy is there.
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  Speaker 1: But the understudies are always amazing, but it's still good
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  Speaker 1: disappointing when you're like going to see the specific person.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So I mean, we'll see what happens with that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad we got tickets in November because I feel
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  Speaker 3: like that's it's right at the beginning. I think we're
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  Speaker 3: going it's like the second weekend or something like that
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  Speaker 3: of it, I think it's more likely. But yeah, on
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  Speaker 3: the weekends there's two shows, and you know, Broadway actors
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  Speaker 3: are very used to that, you know, because it's what
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  Speaker 3: they do. But a lot of times they do take
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  Speaker 3: certain days off and the understudy is that show and everything.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm really curious to see, especially them with them
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  Speaker 3: extending his run now, like what that actually ends up
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  Speaker 3: looking like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I hadn't thought about that. Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I didn't think about it. I'm kind of nervous,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also just realistic. So you know, if you're
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  Speaker 3: listening to this and you got tickets to the show
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  Speaker 3: and you're so excited and everything you do have to have,
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  Speaker 3: I think that you know, it's not it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: if we want to compare it to the Eras tour, right,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, Taylor did have some gaps in between
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  Speaker 3: her cities to rest, and on Broadway, you really don't.
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  Speaker 3: You're doing six shows a week or sometimes like that.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's it's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So and I guess just like setting your expectations that
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: that could happen. But even if it does happen, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see an amazing show anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, mm hmm, exactly. So yeah, hopefully I'm not jinxing
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  Speaker 3: this for us, Amy, I think we'll be good. We're
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  Speaker 3: going early enough in the run that I think will
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  Speaker 3: be good.
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  Speaker 1: Yea, the best luck in the world, Nicole. So we
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  Speaker 1: don't we don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we need to go in with the expectation that
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: he won't be there and then we'll be like, oh
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  Speaker 3: my god, Tom Felton's here, just.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know what would make up for it, I mean,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: kind of make up for it if they were like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you know Tom is not going to be able to
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: make it to today's show, but we're going to have
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: someone filling in for the role of Ginny, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have Bonnie Wright joining us tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be mean, yes, yes, it's not bad. It'll be
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: just like driving to Toronto for the Airs tour, not
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: booking a hotel because in our minds we're telling ourselves
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that we might be driving home.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, we didn't even have tickets until fifteen minutes
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: before the show, and look at us we got in.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: We had amazing seats. We were there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: So we just have to go in with the mindset
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: of we might be turning around disappointed, not really, because.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Well, we still get to see the show. Yes, but yes, yes, yes,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: but it'll be good. It'll be good.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: We're excited.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I think like stage door is probably going to be
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: absolutely insane because everyone's gonna want to meet Tom. Yeah,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: and yeah I did see online there was some people
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: on TikTok that were like before the pre sale that
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: we're talking about, like here's the seat you want to
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: try to buy if you want to try to do
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: stage door after your show, because they're like orchestra like
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: near the exit so you can kind of quickly exit.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure people will already be out there who
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: weren't even in the show. Well, I was going to say,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I think I did that for Dan when he.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Was in I did that too.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh I met him at stage door with
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: how to Succeed, and mine actually was after my show.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: We got really lucky. But I think that I will
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: say that when I met when I saw the original
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: cast in London, I did get to meet them all
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: like at the stage door, and I feel like I
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: didn't do it at my show. I feel like I
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: was in London for the weekend and I went the
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: day before my show or the day after. I must
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: have been the day after my show, because I had
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: a program.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I did stage door the first time I
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: saw christ Child on Broadway, which you went with me, right,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: so you did that one too?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: No?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: No, oh, I guess you did. Go huh. Yeah, so
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I did it the first time. And actually Paul Thornley,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: who was Ron, was in the lobby as people were exiting,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: doing autographs and taking photos and stuff, and then like
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a few other cast members were out stage dooring.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: But yeah, and I we'll have to see we're going
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: on a Sunday, so maybe like the Saturday show, maybe
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: we might have to like stage door. But the problem
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: with that is, like you don't have the program at
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: that point. You like have to go after your show
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: so that you have the program, right, Like I don't
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: want him to sign just my already program, Like I
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: want him to sign the program that he's listed in
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: as being Draco.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: There has been instances where the security guards outside give
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: you a program. We've been lucky, like a couple of
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: times when we went there and they to hand us
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a couple of like programs even though we didn't we
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: weren't at the show. I never I never saw Dan's show,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: but I did stay out waiting for him. So maybe
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: maybe you get one.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: You could like print out your ticket confirmation too. That'd
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: be kind of a cool thing to get a signed
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I have.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not the same as a program, but.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, or the actual ticket I miss getting like the
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: actual ticket. That's that's true.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: That's even better.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I have a like Harry Potter notebook that's got blank
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: pages and that's been my autograph scrap book for like
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: everybody that I've met. I have like one page has
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the picture if we got a picture, the other page
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: has the autograph. So that's where my Dan rad.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I need to show us that, yes, we need that
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: on our socials please. I know.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I ended up getting my autograph from Dan is like
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: a big poster from How to Succeed because like where
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I was, I bought the poster because like where I
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: was standing, I kind of just had to like you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: shove it over so he would sign it. And now
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: it's kind of like I don't have it hanging. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: just kind of have it, you know, rolled up. But
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I wish I had a smaller like autograph from him.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, when I did, when I saw How
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to Succeed, I went to the matinee and he didn't
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: stage door matinee, so I didn't see him then. But
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: then when he was in Lifespan of ef Fact, it
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: was well. I was at New York come Con, so
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I went and stage doored and he was awesome, Like
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: he did not leave until he saw every single person,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and he said that when he came out, he was like,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: there's no need to like push, no need to like
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: try and brush, I'm gonna see every single one of you, like,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: don't worry about it, and he like signed everything.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: It was awesome, so I could see it being like
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: that too. So I've had the pleasure of meeting Tom
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I when I worked for Muggle Matt. I went to
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: a press event for when Hagrid's roll poster was going
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: to be opening and had a lovely interaction with Tom
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: and he was a little, uh little a little drunk,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I think in the elevator and after we were leaving
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: the event and I was wearing I have this like
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: button up shirt and the collar has like when Guardian
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Leviosa like embroidered on it, and he got really close
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: to me to like read it like like and I
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: just was like so like wow, I can't believe he's
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: in my personal space right now. I just commented so
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: much about how he loved the shirt. So that was
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: a fun interaction. So I don't have his I don't
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: have a picture with him, or I don't have like
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: an autograph I come from him. But yes, I have
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: met him. I have met him, and I had a
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: very personal experience. I mean an elevator no less.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: So I yeah, yeah, I got to meet Alan Rickman.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: That was a huge milestone for me back in New York.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: And I remember he was signing autographs and I wanted
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: to take self so bad and I was like, hey, Allen,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: can I take a selfie? And he responded to me
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: like in the best snape ironically way, like he was like, well,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: do you have me here? Take a picture. I was like, okay,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I love you. And I took a picture and it
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: was like me he was just like signing autograph and
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: then he left with a bouquet of flowers and he
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: crossed the street and he walked all alone. Such a
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: humble such a humble man. Oh it was such a
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: precious moment and I'm I'm so glad I got that
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: little moment. Yes, it's it's definitely a standout.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I interviewed Tom at New York Comic Con that same
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: weekend that I did the dance stage door, and it
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: was actually funny because he told me during our interview
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: round table, He's like, oh, yeah, like, I'm actually going
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to see Dan tonight at his show. So then we're
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: at the stage door, I'm talking to Dan. I'm like, yeah, so,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: how was it seeing Tom? And I was like, oh, like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: who are you that?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: The earlier?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: So good?
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Were just hanging out with Tom. Earlier we went and
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: got lunch, you know, we were talking about coming to
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: see tonight. Yeah, it'd be funny.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, funny.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Dan and Emma and Ripper have to go to see
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Tom for sure, even like Emma is a good friend
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: of Tom, so I wouldn't be surprised if she makes
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: it there. It's fun. I can't wait to see what happens.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, you're gonna get good content, Yes, yes.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Well enough of our rant.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, but I love that we all
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: have those little stories. So nice.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: But yeah, So if you're still looking to get there
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: are still plenty of tickets available for sure, And like
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I said, it's been extended into may you know, twenty
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: twenty six now, so plenty of opportunities, especially during the week.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of availability, you know, during the week.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I think his like first show and the last show,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: those ones are quick to go. But yeah, definitely check
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: out Kirshchild dot com if you are looking to go
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: see it. And also just go see it. It's such
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: a great play. Even though we've talked about how the
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: story might have some issues, it's such a beautiful show.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: So and then also Harry Potter dot Com which should
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: still be Wizardingworld dot com but it's now Harry Potter
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: dot Com has refreshed user profiles. And this is really
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: cool because if you've never made like a user, which
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: if you've gone on you know it was Potter Moore
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: before and Harry Potter and like done the sorting test
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: and all of that, you probably have an account on
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: this website. But a few years ago. Now I feel
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: like they introduce where you can design your own like
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: user profile, and it's so cool. It's like you can
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: create like an avatar that looks like you, and there's
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: all these different like clothing items and accessories and like
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: magical backgrounds, and I always love going in and just
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: changing mine up, and it's just it's really fun and
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: it's a great way to personalize your profile. So they
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: actually recently refreshed these profiles so you can now share
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: your profile like publicly, and you can also see other
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: people's profiles, which is cool and see how people designed
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: their you know, a little avatar. And what's really nice
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: is that even if you make your profile public, you
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: can only see other people's like initials, so it still
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: keeps it really private, so your full name isn't out there.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: There's no reason like and this is great too because
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: there's I'm sure there's like younger kids and miners and
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: stuff that are on the website, so I'm really glad
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: that they did this. You can have it be public
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: but not have your full name out there. You'll also
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: be able to go into other people's like profile and
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: see their house, their patronas, so it's really cool and
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: it is a feature that you can either opt in
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: or out opt out of in settings. But yeah, I
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: super recommend and creating a profile if you haven't. And
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: they're always adding new like outfits and new accessories and
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: new backgrounds, and there's some new actually speaking of Revellio,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: there is a new feature now too where I don't
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: know how you get the clues. I just randomly had
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: the clue the initial clue there. But you can find
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: clues somehow and it unlocks like even more accessories and
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: different things a profile, and the first clue is revelliov Well,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I know, and like Revellio and specialis Revello have such
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: a prominent place in the theme parks now it's the it's
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: one of the new the new spells in Ministry of Magic.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Some more to come on that because I'm going to
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: get content of that. Yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one listeners.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: And I'm fine with that.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: You know, as long as they listened to us every
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: once in a while.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Exact yes, yes, so yeah, so Jed. That was just
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: a little piece of last minute news that I saw
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: that Harry Potter dot com put out in their official
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: official things.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, kind of takes me back to Potter more
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: days when we had to we had these user names.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Mine was like Fireball Seeker something. I remember. You could
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: add people, Yeah, and you could add people. You could
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: see I think you could see their houses and their
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: wan types and everything. I think they probably took the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: idea from pottermore wanted to integrate that back in, which
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I think is really really cool.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool. Yeah. And then just one last thing
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: for a news segment. This is Revellio related news. So
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: our friends over at three Broomsticks Podcast had me on
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: for their latest episode on which we discussed if Harry
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Potter was a roum come and all sorts of shenanigans ensued.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: So we had a lot of fun coming up with treatments,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: romcom treatments for it, what this could look like, how
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the plot would need to change, if main characters would
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: need to shift around, and of course pairings that we
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: thought would make really great rom com stories. So you
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: can check it out on their website which is three
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: broomstickspod dot com, and we'll link it in the show
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: notes as well, but you can also search them up
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: on any podcast app and they should appear. So thanks
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: for having me, guys. It was super fun. So yeah,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and that's all for the news.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, So for today our main discussion, we're going into
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: part three of our theme park adventure. And in our
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: last episode, last actually couple of episodes, we covered everything
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Wizarding World Orlando, so we thought it would be a
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: good idea to tap into other Wizarding world the parks
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: scattered across the globe and discuss not only what they
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: have in common, but also what sets them apart, as
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: each of them have unique features. But first, I just
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: wanted to quickly dig a little into the story of
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Universal Wizarding World of Harry Potter Universal Hollywood. So back
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: in December one, twenty eleven, the Wall Street Journal broke
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: some thrilling news for Harry Potter fans. So, according to sources,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Universal Studios Hollywood were preparing to bring its own version
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which obviously had
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: already been a huge hit at Islands of Adventure in Orlando.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: And they also hinted at even more magical expansions, with
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: possible Harry Potter themed areas being considered for Universal Studios
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: to Singapore, Universal Students Japan, and even a potential location
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: in Spain. And actually, Universal Studios Singapore does not have
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Yeah. I don't know if
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: it's because maybe they have it already in Beijing, but
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what the distance is. But yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: they it's the newest one, So I don't know if
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: it's like Beijing is the latest one, So I don't know.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe they will add it in the future, but yeah,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: so just a couple, you know. Within a few days,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: on December sixth, Universal Students Hollywood officially confirmed the rumors
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: and announced The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Students Hollywood. This meant that the Gibson Amphitheater would be
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: demolished to make way for recreation of Howard's Castle and
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: the iconic ride Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. So
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: for those who are probably not who might not be
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: aware of what the Gibson Amphitheater was, it was a
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: place that hosted a lot of events from concerts to
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: even the Country Music Awards, and it was a pretty
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: popular attraction attraction in La So yeah, another thing like
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: gets demolished to give birth to something Harry Potter. So yeah,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: And the Gibson Amphitheater held its final show on September sixth,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, and was soon after torn down to begin
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: construction on Howard's Castle. So moving on, you know, fast
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: forward to December eighth, twenty fifteen. The official opening date
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: was revealed April seventh, twenty sixteen, and we got to
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: see actress Evada Lynch, who portrayed Luna love Good, helped
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: make the announcement alongside Alan Gilmore, and he was the
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: art director of several of the Harry Potter films and
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: also the theme parks and it was nice to nice
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: little YouTube video. And so after that, the Wizarding World
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: of Harry Potter Japan opened on July fifteen, four fourteen,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: and Osaka. And there's more because on September twenty, twenty
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: twenty one, Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened in Beijing,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: China as part of Phase one of Universal Beijing Resort.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: So that's a little bit about the timeline of these parks.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Lots of parks, lots of openings. Yeah, so we have
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: plenty of Wizarding World theme parks to explore.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I'd love to get to all of them someday.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we've gone over the theme parks and some of
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: the opening dates, but now it's time to dive into
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the heart of today's topic, which is how these Wizdom
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: worlds are actually different from one another. So you know,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: at first glance they might seem nearly identical, and to
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: be fair, the experience, the core experience, is consistent, but
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: each park has its own unique touches. So some of
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: the references are pretty subtle, while others stand out very
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: easily because they're right in front of you. So we're
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: gonna begin with starting a little bit about what these
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: parks have in common. So obviously we have a full
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: sized replica of Hawksmeat and Hogwarts Castle. That's the same
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: in all the parks. The stores are the same, the
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: model of Hogwarts is the same. You're not gonna get
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: an extra tower in any of the parks or any variations.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: It's literally the same blueprint they used for all the parks.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: They do include like the Forbidding Journey ride and Flight
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: of the Hippogriff rides, and of course they have interactive
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: ones with interactive maps across the park and also the
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: famous Olivanders show at his shop. So I was just wondering, yeah,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: for quite a bit.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, maybe they're not gonna listen to
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: our suggestion of changing it to a different shop because then, well,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: you know what, they can because they only really need
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: to do that in Orlando, because Orlando is the only
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: park that actually has real olive and anders in diagon
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Alley and they can leave it in all these other parks.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and this old you know, the interactive
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: WAND spot made me think, like, I'm not sure, do
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: we have unique spots to Caspels Maybe depending on where
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: you are, like what park you visit. I'm not sure
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: if they all are the same spots.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Well, I think now we do, because now with the
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: introduction of the second generation WAND in Orlando, they added
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: some new spots in Hogsmeade.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: But I think there are different spots in Hollywood versus Orlando.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I'm remembering correctly because that's the only other one I've
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: been to, is the Hollywood one. I'm pretty sure there
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: were different spots.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Can you think of any favorites?
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Gosh, I didn't. The Hollywood one is a blur because
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I was only there for like a couple hours. In Orlando,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I really like the the ballet trolls in it's I
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: think it's like a toy shop window, but it's right
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: next to Florian's. That one's really cute.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: I think my favorites are to be determined because some
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: of the new ones, and some of the new I
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: actually they look so cool. I actually think the Revellio
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: one might end up being my favorite because the Demi
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Guys is my favorite magical creature and spoil or alert.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: When you do the Revellio spell in the New Wizarding Paris,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: you Revellio up, but Demi Guys. So I just have
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: a feeling that I'm really going to enjoy that. And
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: also some of the new second generation spells. I'm excited
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: to get my hand on that second generation wand.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Some of this.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, the new both new spells
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: in Nocturnale, and I can confirm that they do look
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: great because I think I had mentioned when I was
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: there last I was walking through Nocturnale when someone was
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: doing the patronas, so I think those are really cool.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: So I think they've definitely these new spells seem so exciting,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: and it's like just exciting to see that this has
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: been a like I don't know how to say it,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: like an aspect of the parks for so long and
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: they're still finding ways to innovate it and make it
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: even cooler. I think we talked about this too in
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: like one episode that it's like it helps to also
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: just with the re repeatability of it, you know, I
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: think especially so, I think it'd be interesting to see
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: if this second generation want technology like expands like beyond Orlando,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: and what that'll look like in all of these other parks,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: especially because they probably I don't know if they have
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: the room to add because I'm obviously I've never been
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: to these other parts, but if they have the room
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: to add new spells or yeah, I think we'll just
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: see like new things get added or technology updated.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: You would guess that they would have to just because
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: they want to keep up data with like what's you know,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: the latest technology as well, and they want to keep
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: learning people in and getting as many people as possible.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: So I think it's great. It's part of that upgrading,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: constant upgrading process that keeps them innovative and that, you know,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: people you always have a reason to come back because
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: it's never going to be the same park, right There's
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: always something new introduced, whether it's a new show, when
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: you spot to cast a spell or any attraction, there's
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: always something new to enjoy.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: I will say too that I've seen that with the
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: new like second generation ones that It's made it much
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: easier to cast spells as well, because they're just I
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: don't know if it's because it's so new and fresh,
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: but they're very responsive. And I know that sometimes like
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: the regular like wands and like regular magic casting like
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: can be frustrating because whether it's your wand needs a
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: little new tip on it, or you know, there's something
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: going on. So yeah, so I could definitely see it
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: potentially coming to these other parts, and I hope it does.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I have to admit, though I do not have an
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: interactive one. I have never casted a spell. What because
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to spend so much money on a
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: wand that was missing a tip and had that ugly
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: thing and you know, you never see it.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: You can't see mine at all. And I will say
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: the irony of that is I agree, because I kind
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: of hate it too. And I I feel like we
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: maybe have talked about I'm sure we've talked about this before.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Is that, like, I'm so angry when they made the
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: decision to sell only interactive ones, And the irony of
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: this is like and Amy is more to report in
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, but Amy and I are both
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: planning to purchase two wands each, like on our next trip,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: and one of them is going to be the second generation,
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: So we're about to drop some pretty pennies on these wands.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: But I will say they've done a much better job
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: hiding the tip. Yes, Like the one that I have,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: the first one I bought, has that really ugly like
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: white on the tip that like comes up.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Now I have the same wand yeah.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Moser is like buried in and the actual wand kind
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: of curves around it a little bit, so it's more hidden.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: But yeah, those initial ones are.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: But I wonder why they never covered it, like even
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: the lumis once like the illuminating tip ones they have,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: like that transparent tip that you know is at least
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: a little bit more presentable, but maybe because it's plastic,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: it kind of takes away a little bit about the
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: value that you know of those resin replicas. But yeah,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I'm like.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I think too. I think part of it is replacing them,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: which is kind of like a nice service that they
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: do offer at the parks where like if your wand
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: tip brakes or get scratched or whatever, like they will
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: replace it. So I wonder if like they don't want
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to put something over it, because then that would be
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: more of a process, and that wouldn't be something they
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: could actually do. I don't know.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: I've had my tip replaced, and I don't know how
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: if it was built in, I don't know how they
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: would do it without other otherwise just being like here's
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: a new wand rather than just being able to like
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: pop that tip off, yeah and put a new one on.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: But I think to some of it's like exactly what
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: we were just saying is that technology and everything has
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: advanced from they when they first did this, and I
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: think there's been a lot of trial and error, and
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: so I think in these newer ones that we're seeing,
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: we're seeing them really start to like perfect, not even
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: I won't even necessarily say perfect, but like make improvements.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Than the first ones. For sure.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one day you will get.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: One one day, one day, Yes, we're going to do this.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: You're gonna get the one. You're going to cast spells,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: you're gonna wash Celestina war back. Yes, yes, you'll be
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: a changed man.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Again.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: But no, you have to get you have to get
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: at least one interactive one just so that you can
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: do the spells.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm getting my head around that and just like, yeah,
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: I'm going to have to do it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: It's I think what helped me too is I don't
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: have any I don't have any plans to buy any
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: of the character wands with the interactive tip, So that
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: also helps too, because it's like, like my wand that
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: is interactive. It's like I have it on display, like
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: very similarly to Amy. I have it like in a
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: vase and it's down at the bottom and I kind
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: of have it towards the back so you cannot see
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: the tip at all. But I think that like for me,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: that's always like that's my universal wand. You know, I
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: never have really it.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: As being wand, you know, because it's like like a display.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, except that we have the exact same wand Amy,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: So is it really your wand? Is it really my wand?
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: And the irony is Amy and I are both planning
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: to purchase the same second generation wand too. I feel
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: like we'll probably get different causem wands.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Though, yeah, so more to come. Asthetic is a little different,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: so I'm sure we'll go different ways there.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Well, it's just Litherin and a hubble buff.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: So yes, sorry, we went on a tangent a Mount Lawns.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're candidate today.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: More to come on that too. And speaking of the shows,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: of course we have the Frog Choir and the Try
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Wizard Spirit Rally, and we also have the night Time
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Lights at Hogwart's Castle where the we haven't talked about
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: this in the previous episodes, so you know, the castle
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: becomes a canvas for breathtaking projections and a stunning and emotional,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: a tear jerking tribute to the Four Houses. I saw
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: it and I couldn't help but tear up because it's
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: so beautiful with the music playing and everything that's projected
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: on the screen. It's so good, and it's something that
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: they actually introduced like a few years down the line.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody like cheers for their house, like.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I really love the Christmas Light show too,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: where they like make a snow on the Hogwarts and
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: they've got the music like the Slays. Oh, it's so good.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: I also love, unsurprisingly, the dark art show that they do.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: That's the one I haven't seen.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't seen either the Christmas or the Halloween
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Nights one.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, we'll have to try to go and they have,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: like the Halloween stuff, but I don't remember when. Gosh,
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I don't remember when I saw that then, because I
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: typically always go to Universal with you, So how have
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: I seen that one?
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Well, it wouldn't be me because I tend to avoid Universal.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Then I know I won't do the horror I want.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: To do Halloween horror nights, and no one else wants
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: to I don't know. But then I feel like like
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: you're who I go to Universal with. So how did
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: I see that? Did I actually not see it in person?
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: And I'm just like thinking of, oh, I definitely have,
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: and am I just feeling like I was there. I've
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: definitely seen it maybe, but it's definitely on YouTube and
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I've seen it. It is really cool. Oh yeah, Because I
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: keep saying I want to go though, because I want
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: to go when the Death theaters are there roaming right,
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Not because I want to make a thirst strap video
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: with them, but I just right I just want to.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: I just think I love and this one thing I'm
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: really I know it will probably be back down and
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: again in a couple of months when they come on
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: to talk again, but that's one thing I love about
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Epic Universe and I'm hoping that this is something we
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: start to see in all these other parks, is having
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Roman characters, because it's doing so well at Epic and
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: like we only really get these Wizarding World Roman characters
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: at Halloween time with Halloween Horror Nights. And I think
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: they do it at Hollywood Universal Studios Hollywood as well.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: I almost think it started there maybe before it came
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: to Orlando, But I'm not sure if they do that
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: at the other parks. But hopefully that's something too we'll
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: start to see. It's just you, just people. The guests
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: need to just behave really like that's what the problem is.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: And I will say like from a like from a
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Orlando versus Hollywood perspective, I have more knowledge about this
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: from the Disney side, but like characters are usually more
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: free roaming in the California parks because those are typically
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: more like locals that are at those parks, whereas like
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: if you're going to Disney for the first time, probably
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: if you're going to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: for the first time, Orlando's where you're going in at
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: least in America, because that's just like it's a lot
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: of people's first part that they would go to so
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: they can't have character is kind of free roaming because
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: people just can't contain themselves and it just becomes unsafe
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: for the character actors. But yeah, I'm hoping with Epic Universe,
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: we're starting to see a change and we'll start to
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: see that pop up because right now Hollywood has like
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: with their fan Fest, they have people walking around like
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: with the Alchemy and everything like that, so and it
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: seems to be doing really well.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: I think I think the fan Fest event is over,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken. I think it was until May.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I did see reels and people. The people
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: were you know, really polite and they were keeping their
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: distance and just letting the actors do their job because
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: after all, it's their job, and it's it's like you said,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: and cool, like it's all about being respectful and just
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: you know, making sure it's a safe environment not just
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: for you as a park goer, but also for the
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: person who's there working you know, seven days a week
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: and you know, trying to have a good time.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for some reason, we haven't been able to
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: fully master that in Orlando. But like I said, I
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: truly think it's because it's like those parks just seem
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: more foot traffic. And I don't even know again about
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: the tangent things. This episode not no idea how we
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: just got I don't even know, and that was my fault.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: I brought us into that tangent. But we were talking
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: about Yeah, we were talking about the Nighttime Light Show.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: So I don't know how we got to characters, but
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed that ride into that off topic conversation.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Well, now that we have the Nighttime Show.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: The Halloween Show, so yeah, I remember, and that brought
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: up to the death Eaters.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: But now that we've talked a little bit about that,
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: how you know, there's different interactions. So let's you know,
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: fully dive into the differences that we can find in
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: each of these parks. So first off, we have Orlando,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: which is the only location that spans across three parks now,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: of which two are connected by the Hogwarts Express. So
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: it's the only one to feature Hagrid's Magical Creature's motorbike
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: adventure in Hawgsmead.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also the only one to have escape from
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: kring Dots and the only one where you can actually
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: ride the Hogwarts Express Yeah, Hogwarts Expresses makes appearances in
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: other parks, but yeah.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Mm hmmmmm. Yeah. Obviously it offers the most complete and
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: immersive experience because we're talking about now three parks, so
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: it's like we've been talking all these last few episodes.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: It's fully immersive and you hop literally hop on a
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: train and go from one part to the other. You
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: have to buy a park to park ticket and you
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: basically go from one magical world into another. So if
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: it's anyone's first time, yes, I would very much recommend
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: if you can to Orlando just because of it gives
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: you this big picture of what this universe is, this
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: theme park universe is capable of achieving. So obviously it's
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: bigger than the other Wizarding worlds and the most it's
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: the most complete one all in all, and like there
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: are like some little easter eggs like are hidden everywhere,
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: so you can find the Weasley's car, the fort Anglia
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: at Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure ride, so you're gonna see it
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: scattered in different places depending on the park. For instance, well,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: we also have then Osaka, Japan, So what do we
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: have here that's super like you know, in your face
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: moment when you when you come into the park. I've
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: seen it on pictures, not myself, but you have the
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Black Lake with Hogwart's reflection, so I think that's amazing
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: and a perfect opportunity for photos.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Orlando water and lake kind of got ruined
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: by the Velocca.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: The mass the coaster ruined a lot for Harry Potter,
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: like reliously, like it's very frustrating, like I know, and
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: it's it's hard because I know it's become a lot
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: of people's favorite ride. It's a ride I will never
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: go on because I don't do upside down. But yeah,
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: it definitely ruined the water. It ruined that lovely patio
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: behind three broomsticks.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: So aside from the Black Lake, we also used to
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: be able to see and experienced live owls that were
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: used in the early days up until twenty twenty one
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: following criticism from the Protago Foundation. So they used to
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: have an owl trainer so people could come up and
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure how the experience went, but yeah, it
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: was most you know, most likely you getting up and
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: closed with an owl trained owl. But again they're exposed
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: to you know, a lot of sounds, a lot of
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: like just noise and lights. And I think it was
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: the best decision really, because I mean, as much as
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: we love owls and we love them as such an
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: you know, important and iconic part of the Wizarding World,
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: some things our best to keep in you know, fiction
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: and not take them into the real world.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Well, and we talked about people not being able to
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: contain themselves around human actors and theme parks. I feel
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: the unpredictable human situation is not so great to stick
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: an owl into.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think this only happened. Yeah, I think
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: this only happened in Japan as far as I know,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: they they didn't do this for the other parks. And
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: they also used to have Forbidden Journey in three D.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: And when we to the park, the entrance is quite different,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: so you know, I was seeing a YouTube video. You
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: basically enter through a pathway that starts with the iconic
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: stone circle seen in Prisoner of Azkaban where the students
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: exit the bridge and you walk through the path that
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: is surrounded pipe bine trees, and as you reach the end,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: you bump into the Weasley's car, the Ford Anglia, and
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: it's living the wildlife just outside the forest and this
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: is and you keep walking until you reach the famous
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: archway that leads you straight into Hawksmeat. But the whole entrance,
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: the experience is a little different, and I kind of
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: like it when I saw the videos, like this is
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: nice because it's really like, you know, it's I feel
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: like it's a bit more immersive, immersive maybe than the
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: other parks because you just go from Jurassic Park in
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: Orlando straight into Wizarding World and you're hearing the Jurassic
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: World theme park and you're starting to hear here like
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: the Harry Potter theme song, and you're like, ah, where
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: am I like? And now with the Velosa Coaster. I
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: haven't been there since the Velosa Coaster opened, but it
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: must be even worse. Yeah, So I think it's a
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: nice thing.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: I know you probably have notes about this later, But
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: is the Ford Anglia like a common thread throughout all
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: the theme parks? Like do you get it in all
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: of them? Just in different places.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: There's a ton of things if you look for la
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: and Orlando, but when you try to look for the
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: parks in Asia, it's a little harder to see, you know,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: like details. And I actually went onto the official websites
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: of each of them and see what they hosted, like
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: the different events and shows, and so yeah, like there
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: are I'm sure there are more Easter eggs and things
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: that are particular and unique to each of the park.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: But yeah, like unless you go there, especially the Beijing one,
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: there's like very little I could pull up from that.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: Well, and I think I just googled it and the
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: AI overview of Google gave me wrong information because if
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: you google like Ford Anglia Beijing, Wisdom World of Harry Potter,
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: it says, yes, the Flying Ford Anglia is featured in
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: the Wisdom World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, Beijing,
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: and then underwhere to find it it is located along
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: the ride path of Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure. Cool,
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: that's not there in the park. And then if you google,
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: you know Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure Beijing. Hagrit's Magical
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: Creatures Motorbike Adventure is not located in Beijing. It's an
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: attraction exclusively to Orlando, Florida.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I never trust CHATBT on that, like I will
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: let it like answer, but I always have to double check. Yeah,
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: cross check, like with Google.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Because this is this is that a yep, this is
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: that AI overview that comes up right when you Google
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: anything nowadays. So yeah, I don't let it fool you.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: But so in addition, you have the Hippogriff Magical Lesson
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: in which you encounter a hippogriff and learn the best
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: way to approach this magic creature. So it's yeah, and
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: I feel it's also very something that you would find
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: in Japan because I feel there's so respectful and it's
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: it's a perfect place to have an interaction like that.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: You also get the to meet magical creatures like a
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Niffler baby dragon and Pigmy Puffs, which is what we
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: were talking about in FanFest. So I think they got
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: to kind of got a taste of what Japan gets
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: to live on a probably daily basis. Yeah, and again
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: makes me think like the reason why Japan has these
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: type of events is because their culture and their way
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: of just behaving overall allows for it to be you know,
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: allows for those situations and those shows to actually come
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: to life.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, very different mm hmm.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: And just a little a little plas in a year
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: of the Forbidden Journey, of course, is presented in Japanese,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: so as opposed to the parks in LA and in Orlando,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: we got a different language. So moving back to the
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: US to LA, we have Hollywood and this is has
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: a more compact layout. It's the smallest of all Wizarding
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: World parks, which I don't think you can really it's
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: not something that's so noticeable I think when you enter
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: the park, but when you see videos, if you see
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: a video of Orlando right after you've visited, you say, oh, yeah,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: like I can tell this has been like kind of
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: like scaled down a bit. It's been more compact, it's
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: more it's closer, it's easier, like it's the pathway to Hogwarts.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like it's you know, it's not as I
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: don't know, as long as it's probably like much quicker
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: to get there. And that's because the stores are pretty
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: much the same. But yeah, it's actually but they did
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: I think they did a good job. They did a
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: really good job in making the park as detailed and
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: as immersive as the Orlando won, even if they had
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: to like make it more compact. Yeah, so something that
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: they did for Forbidden journey. They had a three D
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: HD experience in which guests wore three D quidditch goggles,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: but they were removed after only eight months after the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: opening date. Why well, you know, there were reports that
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: too many writers became nauseated and felt sick. We did
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: talk about this in previous episodes as well, and it
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: has now been upgraded to four K in one and
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: twenty frames per second and all of the parks, so
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: three D is no longer an option. And yeah, good, Yeah.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I wrote it in three D and absolutely hated it.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: It didn't make me sick. But the problem I had
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: was I went to Hollywood after I'd been to Orlando,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: and the Hollywood one in three D just looked like blurry.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: It just didn't look right, like the three D wasn't
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: lining up right. So I'm really glad they did away
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: with it because now it just looks like so much
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: crisper in all the parks, because the Orlando one also
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: got the same update. Yeah, it just no, the three
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: D did not work on that ride at all.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: Well, and the problem with that ride already is that
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: without the three D it is extremely motion sickness inducing
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: for people. I know. I've talked about I don't know
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: if I can even tolerate it anymore, and it's just
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: overwhelmingly people in groups are like, if I'm get motion
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: sick easily, what ride should I avoid? And it's like
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: Forbidden Journey and Simpsons like really a lot in Orlando,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: So Forbidden Journey is just yeah, it is really hard
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: on a lot of people. And I just cannot even
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: imagine also having three D. I just.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder if it was maybe rushed
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: in the attempt to make something that was unique so
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: it could like attract more people to the La Park
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: and be like, hey, we're being innovative, so we are
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: introducing three D, which Orlando doesn't have, so calm and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: see us. But it kind of like didn't really work
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: out the way they planned at all, and a.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: Lot of people that is not something to entice you
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: to re ride something, So.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: I had to hire more janitorial staff.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: That's what it accomplished.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: It's like when you used to play roller coaster Tycoon
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: and the little like candy man that you could drop
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: in with the two users to sign them, like the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: pathway coming out of the roller toaster where everyone's being sick.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: Line up with trash cans, get people bags as they
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: come off, like yes.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Speaking in millennial basically yeah, Okay, So we talked about
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: the ford Anglia and the other parts so here. An
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: interesting fact is that it used to be located right
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: outside of Hogwarts, but was kind of tucked away to
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: the left of the entrance of Harry Potter the Forbidden Journey.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: It was kind of secluded and easy to miss. It
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: was actually only accessible by request. I remember when it
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: went there back in twenty nineteen. There it was actually
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: a chained off area, so I kind of had to
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: jump over the chain and just to find the ford
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: Anglia because there were no like, there weren't any people. There,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: weren't staff members, nothing, and it was kind of like
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: they're just sitting there and you know, not being appreciated enough.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: And so it is now that that part is now
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: a locker area. So the ford Anglia has moved to
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: a much more visible location in the fans area before
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: reaching the castle, so that's really much in your face now.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: So whenever you're reaching Hogwarts, you'd see the ford Anglia
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: plaster there, but it did seem it was it wasn't
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: great photo op location. But I think it was probably
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: not the best way to to you know, they should
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: have maybe made more signs or kind of like, you know,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: it seemed like a like a restricted area, to be honest.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you were having to jump over a right.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: I didn't get into problem. I didn't get into any
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: issues with that. I did. I did get kicked. I
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: did get called out for sitting on hagrids on the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: grass on Haggard's hut. I was just taking a picture
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: and I immediately got called out on that, and I
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, like, where do I you know, I
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: was so embarrassed. But yeah, like, but the Forte Anglo
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: was fine.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Nice. Speaking of photo ops, there's kind of a cool one.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: This is different than Orlando. I don't know if it's
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: exclusive to Hollywood, because I don't know if it's in
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: the other parks in Japan and China. But there is
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: a really cool photo op with the Hogwarts Express in Hollywood.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: So while you can't ride it, you can go inside
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: it and you take a picture in the compartment and
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: they like do a little green screen thing in the window.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: But the cool part is that the compartment furnishings, like
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: the seat cushions and the luggageracts and all that are
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: actually from the film set. What so you're like sitting
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: in a Hogwarts Express compartment.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: This is so cool, Like when what's this introduced? Oh gosh,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: I don't like do we know when it was because
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: I never saw it? Like maybe I just that was me,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: you know, in a rush, as you always not appreciating
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: the little details, but not watching the show, not watching
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: the shows, missing the compartment section, not by my interactive ones.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: Manh yeah, you have to come with me and Amy.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: It'll be like a whole new experience for you, like
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: you've never even been there before.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: My first time. But that's actually really cool.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing our goals from like twenty seventeen, so at
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: least in twenty seventeen, I'd say probably before then.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah, okay, that's one more thing to add to
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: my list. Now that's a good part. That's a good
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: part of doing this research and coming up with these episodes.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Like we've been talking so much and you know, we've
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: kind of like been like informing each other and kind
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: of like so it's great to see like all of
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: these things that I could have missed out on, and
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: that I actually missed out on and now like when
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: I go back, I'm gonna be much more like living
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: in the moment and kind of like taking it a
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: little bit slower, you know, like maybe you know, buying
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: an extra day of the park. If I want my
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: day of photo ops and stuff like, I can still
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: have it.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, there's so much to see. And that's
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: what's so cool about these parks is it's like you
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: can keep going back and noticing different things.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the one in La also, Okay, we have
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: to talk weather. So we get this dry, sunny climate
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: of California, southern California, which is very different from the
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: humidity in Orlando, especially I think in the month of
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: June summer, cause in the fall is not that bad.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: June's not bad. It's July, August, and September. But it's
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: getting I mean it's getting worse. I mean, like, as
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: someone who's in Orlando quite frequently, like I mean, even
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: the last couple of times I've been there in April
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: and May, it's been unseasonably hot. And I think it's
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: so hard because Orlando's become this like theme park mecca
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: of the world, you know, above and beyond universal. You know,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: there's Disney, there's Sea World, there's Legol, there's so many
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: theme parks there, but it's such an unforgiving climate for
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: theme parks. And yeah, La is is much nicer from
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: a weather perspective, but.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: You'll never get real snow, which takes us too our.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm okay with that as someone who lives
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: in a very snowy place.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: But if you want to experience Hogwarts in the real snow,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: you got to go to Beijing in China, because it's
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: not only the most modern build but and it not
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: only features the Black Lake, but unlike the parks in
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: La Orlando and even Japan, Beijing gets real winters. So
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: there are days where the trees are dusted in snow
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: and the lake itself looks frozen, and it just looks
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: so magical. Makes me want to rent a little room
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: there and live there in the hogs met Like somewhere
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: in the buildings it looks so beautiful, looks straight out
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: of the films.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: Part of me is like, this would be so cool
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: and so cozy to walk around with your hot butter
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: beer and a snowy hogsmeat. But then the other part
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: of me is like, what do you do with your
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: winter coat when you go on the rides?
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: Now, I can't imagine going to a theme park in
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: like winter.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: I know, logistically, I'm like, I mean.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: Even theme parks around here, like I think of like
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: like I'm like the northern Yeah, like Hershey Park closes
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: for the winter because Pennsylvania gets a lot of snow.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if they close too. Maybe these reels
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: that we get are from employees or people who have
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: special passes or something, because I don't see much people
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: like in all of these videos that I've seen, these
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: reels and pictures, it looks pretty empty. So I don't
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: see like these like huge crowds of people, you know,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: walking their way through the snow.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Or maybe people just don't want to go when it's
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: snowy cold. I don't know.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean again, I just googled it, and I
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: don't think they do. However, the obviously they make some
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: adjustments to the outdoor attractions, and some of those might
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: be closed completely in the winter or have limited operation
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: obviously based on the weather. But yeah, interesting, I think
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: it gives them a unique opportunity to and it'll be
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: with it being the newest Wizarding World, they have room
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: to grow here. But I think that it gives them
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: a unique opportunity to have like wintery events and like
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: holiday els and like things like that that the other
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: parks can't fully do, because I mean, yeah, you can
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: go to Orlando like in the wintertime when it's Christmas
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: and there's like you know, reads up and garland, and
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: but you're also like yeah, but you're like sweating, and
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: it's just there's something about the vibe that it's.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: Just on the ceiling, like on the roof are not
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: matching the climb melting.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: If you're lucky, Yeah, if you're lucky, you are wearing
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: long pants. But like that's about it. Like it's just
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: so yeah, that is really cool to be able to
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: have that type of climate.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine sometime in the future that's being covered
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: by a dome and being like you know, having its
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: own climate, very like Hunger Hunger Game X esque, Like
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: that would be so cool, like talking like twenty years
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: down the line and having these like completely immersive areas
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: and parts and like having actual like snow and you know,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: you I don't know, Like it's it's fun to imagine
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: like they're already like doing so many things as regards technology,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: so you can only imagine how far they'll go. Yeah,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I think it's really nice to have this,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: Like each of these parks have their own little charm
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: to them. They're not there are we could say they're identical,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: but they're not identical enough for you to say, Okay,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna skip on this one because I've seen this one.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Each of them has their own unique feature or things
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: that you know you might see in one park but
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: you don't see in the other. And I think it's
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: a they're all worthwhile visiting. I've only been to the
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: one in Orlando and the one in Beijing, not the
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: one in Beijing, sorry, the one in la I was
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: just reading Beijing's. But yeah, and I would love to
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: be in the one in Japan. We have again we
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: have to go to Japan, specifically Osaka for this part.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: But yeah, and one more thing about the Beijing one
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: is that forbidding journey as the one in Japan is
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: presented in Chinese.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we have talked about like Easter eggs and
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: film props and things like that that are in the
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: parks in Orlando, so check out episodes twenty and twenty
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: one for that. But I did want to touch on
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: some for these other parks, which you know, as we
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: said earlier, when you try and find information about Osaka
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: and Beijing parks, it's very difficult to do for some
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: reason on Google. I don't know. Maybe it's because we're
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: not like based in Asia, so maybe there's something with
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: our results. So really had a hard time finding info
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: about props and things in Osaka and Beijing parks. But
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if there are some Everything
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: that came up for Osaka was the studio tour, so
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: I really confused Google on that. But Hollywood definitely has
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: film props scattered all over the place, So if you
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: are going to the Hollywood parks, a few things to
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: look out for. Hagrid's motor bike that was actually used
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: in the films can be seen in the line for
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: Flood of the Hippogriff. There's a bunch of cauldrons that
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: were film props in the interactive wand display window of
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: Saradwin's Cauldron's Shop. Gladragg's Wizardwaar has two costumes from the films.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: That is Hermione's yule bawl dress and Cho Chang's your
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: Ball dress. So obviously multiples were made of these costumes,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: which is pretty typical, which is why you'll also see
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: these costumes and things like the touring exhibition, studio tours
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: all that. But these are actual costumes made for the
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: films and warned by the actresses, so that's pretty cool.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: We already talked about that Hogwarts Express photo op, but
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: again in that compartment in the train, the seat cushions,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: luggage and luggage rack are all from the film sets,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: so that's pretty cool. And then there are a bunch
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: of suitcases in the three broomsticks as part of the
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: decorps where like hotel guests staying upstairs and stuff, so
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: those are also many of them are film props, and
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's more, but these were ones that I
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: could actually verify.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: And it's funny because I guess the on you know,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: on the windows, like the Yu'll Ball dresses, it doesn't
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: say costume warn by because obviously it just takes away
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: that immersiveness and that you know that that they want
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: to cast on you like they want you to feel
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: in the Wizarding World. So it's things that you have
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: to look up because otherwise you're never going to get it.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have never known this, And like I said,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: I've been there, so I don't know. I've watched through
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: the shops and like just was like, oh cool, there's
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: Chow chain stress, but like wasn't like, oh that's the dress.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Same with the desks and the d A d
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: A class, Like I didn't know that and so now
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: it's like wow, like I've passed, you know, by those
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: so many times and I was like, okay, cute deess.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: They're nice replicas, but I never thought of them as like, oh,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: the actual film props because yeah, like and you can't
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: ask the staff because they're gonna be like, this is
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: real Hogwarts, what are you talking about because they're so
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: in character.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: Right. So yeah, so that wraps up the main discussion.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, specialis.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: All right. So for our specialis for Velio. For this episode,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about Grindilow's and you know, tying
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: this into our main discussion. These creatures can be found
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: in the Black Lake, which is depicted in Universal Japan
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: outside of Hogwarts, so that is our tie in Grindilow's
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: in the Harry Potter universe are based off of British
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: legends in folklore in which grendilows would pull children underwater
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: in lakes, ponds, marshes, etc. These creatures are also known
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: as Jenny Green Teeth or Peg Prowler, very like localized
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: folk tales, but they all are similar. Folk tales about
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: these water demons, and they're thought to have originated in
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: Lancashire and Yorkshire. And we're used as cautionary tales for children,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: trying to get them to stay away from deep standing water.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: It would work on me. It sounds terrifying.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. The name Grendi Low is thought to be
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: derived from Grendel, a character in the epic poem Beywolf.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: Grendel is one of the main antagonists of the Tail
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: and is often depicted as a giant or a monster.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: And well Grendel doesn't directly mean bog or marsh, some
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: scholars believe there is a connection there. The surname Grendel
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: can be a topographic name meaning living near a swamp
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: or more. Also, Grendel in variations of it often appear
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: in Anglo Saxon place names. They have connections to water
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: or Marsha such as Grendolea's Pete. I think I'm saying
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: that right, Pete Pitt, Grendeless Mirror and Grendle's sullen or
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: Grendel's bog.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: Very interesting.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: So that's our little tidbits about the Grendylos.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, pretty creepy. I read that that, you know,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: pulling children underwater, and you know, like it really makes
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: you like hm hm m hm.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: Paul, and that's exactly what they also did and Harry Potter. Yeah,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: children underwater. Yeah, but cool. I think there's I think
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: they're so cool but creepy but cool.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially how they made them in the films, Like
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: I think it looks really cool.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: With the tentacles and everything, like mm hmmmmmm.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: Really interesting to see how they appear in our show. Yeah,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: I think we haven't talked too much about like creatures
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: and what how they could potentially look a little different
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: in the show. So it'll be it'll be interesting to see.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: M hm, because we have so many Yeah, go ahead,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: I think you're going to say the same thing I
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: was going to say. Go ahead, Oh, I was.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: Just gonna say, like, we have so many different versions
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: of the creatures and like illustrated, I was going to
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: say that, Yeah, I knew it. I knew it. I
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: read ahead in your mind.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: That's what.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: I feel like. They all still have, like you know,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: at similarities, Like they all have like the main kind
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: of features I feel like, of being this kind of
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 3: scary teethy face with like these tentacles and stuff. So
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: there's still some similarities I think, in all these different
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: art forms. So I think that hopefully, even if they
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: decide to do it in a little bit more of
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: a different take, it'll still be familiar. Yeah, because I
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: have seen depictions before of it with like actual legs
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: instead of the tentacles, so almost like with legs with
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: like webbed feet kind of. I've seen a depiction of
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: that and like fan art, and I've also seen a
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: depiction that was like almost like a mermaid tail, but
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: not it's pretty. It was more like not like a
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: mermaid tale, more like an eel, like if you think
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: of like how an eel is. I've seen that as
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: well too, So it'll be very interesting to see what
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: direction they they take.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's only so many iterations you can have
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: of of an elf, right right.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: With some of these other creatures they could be, I'm sure.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, to play around more and just see what they
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: can come up with. M Yeah, so nice. Okay, So
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: last week we asked you, uh, what is your must
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: do when visiting Diagon Alley in Orlando. So we got
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: a couple of responses from our now longtime supporter Jerry.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Jerry. She says so much to love
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: in and around diagon Alley, the Hogwards Express ice cream
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: from Florian's, the new Huckleberry flavor. It's great, but I
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: would love a flight. A flight small containers of five
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: or six different flavors going into the shops.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: I love that idea. I also did not know about
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: this new Huckleberry flavor, so that might be on the list.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: Sounds great yeh, but yes, Jerry, I agree, I would
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: love an ice cream flight.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: It's too hard to decide on a flavor when you
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: walk in there so many simplings.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. She also says, I have to visit them all
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: and also look up the ice cream flavors, so I
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: can't just pick one. Perhaps my favorite memory is that
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: of my first visit to Diagon Alley. They had a
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: busker in King's Cross Station. A man playing a saxophone,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: and it reminded me of a real English street scene,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: except he didn't have his case open at his feed
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: for tips, right, it helped me feel the immersions of
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: the entire experience, but unfortunately they seem to have given
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: up on this touch in later years. I hope that
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: the roaming bits of color don't disappear from Epic, which
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, it goes back a little bit
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: to what we were discussing about people, you know, the
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: different crowds and how they behave around actors or cast members.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: So it could be a reason why these have kind
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: of disappeared after a while.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: And I'm nervous because I have seen some pretty disappointing
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: videos from Epic, not in Wizarding World in particular, but
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: in Dark Universe because Igor is a character that roams
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: there too, and I have seen some like videos that
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: were not great of like how people like hackled him
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: or stuff like that. And so we've only had this
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: park for a month at this point, Like, I really
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 3: hope that the few don't ruin it for the masses.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: Like you mentioned, Jerry, I hope so too.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: It's also lovely from what I've seen, like the students
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: from Bobaton's and Hogwarts and Elver Mourny, like.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: I want to find one of the rs.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: They're really yeah two, yes, I love those interactions the
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: great Yes.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 3: They're they're both actors I've seen have been so great,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: and they like like to give you little tidbits, like
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 3: about the park and point out things that you want
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 3: it normally like see and.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: Yeahs so cool. And we got a message from Felicia
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: saying Earl gray and lavender ice cream, Earl gray and
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: lavender ice cream, and again Earl gray and lavender ice cream.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: She was really excited about this one tongue twister. I
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: also love to sit on those steps and take in
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: the atmosphere while I eat it. And that's what I
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: need more of. That is what I need more of
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: next time. I keep getting all these comments and I
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: you know, it's just more reassuring that, you know, I
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: just have to sit on the steps, enjoy Celestina's show,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: get myself.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 3: Got to slow down, that's all it is. And it's hard, right,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: There's so much to do, and I think the atmosphere
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 3: of like going to a park is that and I
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: think it's really easy to go to Florian's and get
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 3: your ice cream and eat it while you're walking, you know,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: to get to your next thing. But I do think
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: the other benefit of going to the parks like frequently
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 3: is probably being able to slow down a little bit more.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, my first couple of trips to the Wizarding
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: World were the same, Like it was hustle. It was
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: one thing to the next, and I think that once
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: you you know, once you go more, it helps you
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: to be able to slow down a little bit. But yes, definitely,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 3: just yeah, and the fact that it's my recommendation to everyone.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: It's also like within a bigger park. So obviously, as
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: much as you love Harry Potter, I also love doing
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: the Simpsons, right, But then like I love like I've
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: done the Minions one, and I've done like, I like
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: doing like the other rides as well, even though I
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: like spending more time in Harry Potter obviously, but there's
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: also like Musco rides, like go to rides that, yeah,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: so it's a little bit yeah Spider Man, Yeah, Spider Man.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's another one that's Unfortunately that last time I
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: rode that one, I didn't ford After I rode that Jurassic.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: I like, et, I'm starting to get in the slower
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 3: I not making not making me sick ride. Yeah well yeah, yes, yes,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: I could go on and on about Disney, but Amy
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: will not go on Mummy with me. But I love Mommy.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: Go on Mummy now, Nicole this.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I couldn't go on a trip and you
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden go on Money. It was up
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: doors for other rollercoasters that you could possibly do.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: I win before I went a few we.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: Don't do upside out.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: I went on the Mummy a few trips ago and
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: was kind of like like that was fine. Then last
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: trip I went on it again, I was like, oh yeah,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: I actually kind of like it. So I think it
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: was one of those ones that like I had to
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: do multiple times to be like oh yeah, I.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: M I happy TSD of that ride. I just can't
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: get you know, I can't just wrap my head around
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: doing it again because I had such a horrible feeling
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: like this like kind of like cultural feeling, like some
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: thing like my you know. I think I was, yeah,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: at the edge of heart failure or something because I
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: didn't feel good and I was like, nope, I didn't
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: like this feeling. I do not want to experiment this again,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: so I'm done. But then I went to six Flags,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: which is like even worse, and I survived so.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 3: And it's so it's hard, like because like with rides,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: it's like you and here we're going on another tangent again.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: But sometimes like it's you might have one bad experience
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: just because of like one little thing, right, Like I
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: feel like there time right, and I would say too,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: like going in the summer when it's really hot, I
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: am more likely to avoid the rides that might make
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: me motion sick because you're already like dehydrated, you're already
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 3: like beaten down a little bit from being in the heat.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: And like, and I've been the same way, Like I've
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: had rides that have never And that's how I am
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: with Forbidden Journey. I mean I used to ride for
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: and of course as you get older, things change, but
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: I used to ride Forbid and Journey. I mean I
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: remember one time we went. We wrote it like back
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: to back, like a couple times. But now like the
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: last time I went, I didn't even go on it
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: because I remember the last time I did it, I
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 3: started to feel kind of sick. And so now that's
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 3: all I think about when I think about going on it,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: and so I just don't go on it. And all
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: it takes is one little experience, and it might have
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: even been like I mean, you probably weren't on the
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 3: edge of heart failure, but maybe you were, but like
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: you're not now, so you could try it again and
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 3: it could be really fun. But it's so hard because
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: you think about that one experience and I think, yeah,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: being getting motionsick or feeling motion sick has enough to
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: like ruin the rest of your park day, and it's
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 3: like you don't want to do that, and so it's unfortunate,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: but hopefully one day you'll give it another chance.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: My mom loves it. She's always like the Mummy. I
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: have to do the Mummy. That's my go to ride,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, do it with my sister. She's
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: a crazy rollercoaster girl. Like no, I'm not that person,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: but like, yeah, it was fifteen years ago the first
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: time I went on the Mummy and I didn't have
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: that good experience. But you know, like never say never.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, you.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: Never know, I will say. After riding Hagrid's Mummy seems
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: so much slower. It's really weird.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: But you know what the thing is that Hagrids is
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: in the open air and the Mummy is like completely dark,
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: and that's.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: You're right, You're like inside, yeah.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: And you like you can't see anything, and the I
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: think that's what was a little you know, made me
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: a little desperate, not like I remember, it was like
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: it kind of like blacked out and yeah, so I
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: didn't like that feeling, but who knows, Like maybe I'll
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: do it and I actually have a good time.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: No, I agree with the with the point you first made.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: It was like my first trips to the wizard World,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 3: like we only were in the Wizarding World like that
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: because it was I also went during celebration when University
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: used to write Harry Potter Celebration, so most of my
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: time was spent, you know, doing that. But I agree,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: like when you start to finally break away and explore
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: the other like parts of the park, I think, especially
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: with Epic Universe, this is going to be tricky because
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 3: like I'm so excited about other things in those other
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 3: lands that it's like it is harder to slow down
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: a little bit when you want to try to get
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 3: to all these other things and if you're only there
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 3: for a little bit.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, because you were also really excited about Dark Universe.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah, I'll just have to keep going back,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 3: that's right.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, thank you to our listeners for your messages.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: We always appreciate them. We love to see them. Every
• 1:32:36
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• 1:32:39
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• 1:32:45
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• 1:32:49
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• 1:32:52
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• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, which, Nicole and I when we go to Epic Universe,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we will have some great Patreon exclusives.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: So yeah, we can't put them all on our socials.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: Some of it's got to be exclusive, so now is
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  Speaker 3: a great time to join to check it out if
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 3: you haven't. So, yeah, if you haven't guessed, We've got
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  Speaker 3: one more episode left in our theme park series, and
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  Speaker 3: Jerry got us figured out out right away from the
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  Speaker 3: immediately in our last episode was leading up to us
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  Speaker 3: talking about Ministry of Magic at Epic Universe, and this
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  Speaker 3: episode will also come with mine and Amy's review of
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  Speaker 3: the park.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So also, if you have not visited our website yet,
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  Speaker 1: now I would like to plug that because I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: we'll have lots of content there as well, which is
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: just ravellio podcast dot com, so you can check out
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  Speaker 1: some of the articles. There's already some stuff up there.
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  Speaker 1: One of our friends, Lucy, who is based in Australia,
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  Speaker 1: she'll send us different things when she travels to Harry
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  Speaker 1: Potter themed places over there and in that area. So
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  Speaker 1: definitely check out our website, check out our socials. There
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  Speaker 1: will be lots incoming.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, definitely follow us on Instagram. I'm sure Amy
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  Speaker 3: and I will post some live stuff or some in
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  Speaker 3: the moment stories of things as well, so mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and we're gonna photoshop Tom into all the pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and make it look real.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've got AI on our side now, so just like.
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  Speaker 1: Our portal pictures for opening day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Much anyway, So until next time, I'm Amy, I'm
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  Speaker 2: Nicole, and I'm Tom