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Episode 2: Universal, If You're Listening · Revelio: A Wizarding World Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to episode two of Revellio for September nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I'm Amy, I'm Nicole, and I'm Tom
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  Speaker 1: and we're back for episode two. Whoo whoo.
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  Speaker 2: How hows already doing?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask.
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  Speaker 3: Doing doing doing? Yeah, swimming in the Harry Potter ness
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  Speaker 3: that has been the last couple of weeks here. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously we'll get into it all the news, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's not more, is there.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's not I mean there's not more, but it's
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  Speaker 3: just it's been an it's been a big Harry Potter
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks, and it's so nice because it
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  Speaker 3: just feels like old times a little bit, which obviously, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll get into here in a little bit in the episode.
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  Speaker 3: But we were talking before we started recording. I was
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  Speaker 3: mentioning to Amy and Tom about just the TikTok madness
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  Speaker 3: of Harry Potter the last couple of weeks. So for
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  Speaker 3: you guys listening, if you're on TikTok or on book
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  Speaker 3: talk as well, your TikTok is also probably full of
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  Speaker 3: death Eater thirst trap videos. And those are definitely words
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  Speaker 3: that I never thought i'd put together. But every year
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  Speaker 3: around this time, you know, at Universal Orlando, they bring
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  Speaker 3: the Death Eaters back for Halloween Horronit's and the actors
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  Speaker 3: that they get to play the Death Eaters are just
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  Speaker 3: so good and they just know how to work the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: And there's just so many videos all over TikTok right
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  Speaker 3: now set to very like I mean, they're just their
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  Speaker 3: thirst trap videos. That's why I describe it. There's like
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  Speaker 3: a certain artist I can't think of his name right now,
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  Speaker 3: but they're using his songs for it, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: he never thought his music would end up being put
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  Speaker 3: to these videos of Death Eaters. But I think these
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  Speaker 3: actors probably are all over TikTok and they're seeing the
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  Speaker 3: videos that are being creative of them because they are
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  Speaker 3: just working it. And I mean, you know, obviously I'm
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  Speaker 3: a Slytherin, so part of me is just like this
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  Speaker 3: is why I love being a Slytherin. But it's such
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  Speaker 3: book talk coded as well, Like if you're somebody who
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  Speaker 3: likes to read like romance or like dark.
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  Speaker 4: Romance, it's kind of like book talk come to life,
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  Speaker 4: and just the way that they just like lock eyes
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  Speaker 4: with you and their masks, and it's just like I
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  Speaker 4: will admit I've saved a few of the videos and.
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  Speaker 1: Then falling for the Death Theaters.
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  Speaker 3: I'm falling for the Death Eaters. I will have to
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  Speaker 3: I know you guys, Yeah, you guys. They're on TikTok,
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  Speaker 3: but I have to like save a video and send
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  Speaker 3: you so you can see. And I'm sure some of
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  Speaker 3: the people listening have to know I'm what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 3: because it is just flooding seen right now. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's just I love to see it. I hope one
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  Speaker 3: day I can get there to see them in person.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just it's funny and it made me think
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  Speaker 3: of like our last week when we were talking about
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  Speaker 3: how like, you know, as you grow up and stuff
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  Speaker 3: in the series kind of like grows up with you.
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  Speaker 3: And now you've got all of these adults that are
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  Speaker 3: just swooning over these death Eaters and nothing. I never
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  Speaker 3: thought that would happen. You know. When I read Goblet
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  Speaker 3: of Fire as a.
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  Speaker 1: Child, who thunket?
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  Speaker 3: Who what a buncut? So that's been what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with me?
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  Speaker 2: Look at them death Theaters.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what can of worms? I was opening
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 3: Question, yeah, I just like I thought of it, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, is this something I bring up on
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  Speaker 3: the episode? But I'm like, you know what, this is
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  Speaker 3: all over my TikTok right now, you know, as it
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  Speaker 3: kind of ties into our episode this week.
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  Speaker 1: And.
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  Speaker 3: I know there's people out there that know what I'm
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  Speaker 3: talking about.
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  Speaker 2: So just lookave it at that, Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So in this episode, we'll be discussing the latest information
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  Speaker 5: about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Ministry of Magic
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  Speaker 5: at Universal Orlando's Epic Universe.
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  Speaker 2: But first.
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  Speaker 3: Rostling to w W in the Wizarding Wireless Network now
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  Speaker 3: for the latest headlines. So, you know, our last episode,
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  Speaker 3: we said, okay, this is going to be a lot
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  Speaker 3: of news because we were catching up a little bit
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  Speaker 3: right from the summer and we've assumed it would slow
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  Speaker 3: down a little bit and we were wrong. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: we recorded when we released our first episode on September fifth,
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  Speaker 3: but we obviously were we made a big mistake with it.
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  Speaker 3: We obviously recorded that episode, you know, before the first
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  Speaker 3: of September where we just got a ton of amazing
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  Speaker 3: announcements on back to Hogwarts Day. So we want to
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  Speaker 3: kind of just you know, run through all of those
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  Speaker 3: kind of announcements, and we've got an official showcase video
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  Speaker 3: and just so much news. So we're going to say
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  Speaker 3: of talking about all the new announcements that we got
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  Speaker 3: obviously for the Wizarding World for our main discussion, but
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  Speaker 3: lots of other things in addition to that. So one
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  Speaker 3: of the first things we learned was about the upcoming
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  Speaker 3: competition series called Harry Potter Wizards of Baking. So this
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  Speaker 3: show is going to be available to stream on Max,
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  Speaker 3: which you know has kind of just become the new
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  Speaker 3: home of Harry Potter, and it's going to be hosted
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  Speaker 3: by James and Oliver Phelps. Yay yay, So yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think they'll be a great host for that.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna be so fun, so.
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  Speaker 3: Fun, And I think those baking competition shows are always
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  Speaker 3: really just fun as well, and it's always really cool
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  Speaker 3: to see like what people can come up with. And
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  Speaker 3: so the showcase also provided a ton of updates on
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  Speaker 3: the next stops of several worldwide Wizarding World experiences. So
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  Speaker 3: we found out that the Harry Potter Mule Ball Celebration
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  Speaker 3: is coming soon to Monterey, Mexico. So this event brings
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  Speaker 3: to life the Triwizard Tournament tradition and not the tournament,
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  Speaker 3: the mule.
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  Speaker 4: Ball that would be fun, that would be fun, gable, dangerous,
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  Speaker 4: the mule Ball.
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  Speaker 3: Tri Wizard tradition. And it includes a themed market and
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  Speaker 3: music and dance and photo ops and so there's more
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  Speaker 3: to come on this next stop, and in the meantime,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to learn more, you can sign up
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  Speaker 3: for the waitlist at Harry Potter mule Ball Celebration dot com.
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  Speaker 3: The showcase video also tease some upcoming locations for the
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  Speaker 3: Forbidden Forest Experience, which is really exciting. Amy and I
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  Speaker 3: got to go spending a couple of years now and
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  Speaker 3: was it like, yeah, a couple of years now. So
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  Speaker 3: it looks like it's going to be coming soon to Washington,
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  Speaker 3: d C, Austin, Texas, and Montabon, France, And so that's
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  Speaker 3: really fun. If you're close to any of those areas,
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  Speaker 3: I super recommend doing that experience. It happens at night
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  Speaker 3: and you kind of go through a forest and they
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  Speaker 3: just make it really magical and like honestly very realistic.
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  Speaker 3: So great experience.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty cool, very cool.
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  Speaker 3: And we also learned in that video that the Harry
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  Speaker 3: Potter Magic at play is going to be coming soon
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  Speaker 3: to Mexico City, Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of stuff going to Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: Lots of stuff going to Mexico this.
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  Speaker 2: Time, yeah, which is great.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And I think one thing that's great about
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  Speaker 3: all of these is just really showing how worldwide it is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and just gives gives a lot of fans
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  Speaker 3: all over the world and experience, you know, the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to experience these things, which I think is great. The
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  Speaker 3: Harry Potter the Exhibition opened in Boston, Massachusetts on the
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  Speaker 3: thirteenth of September, and that's also coming soon to Madrid, Spain.
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  Speaker 3: It's currently open in Brazil and China, and we'll be
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  Speaker 3: closing soon in Germany. So yeah, again all over the world.
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  Speaker 3: The Visions of Magic is going to be coming to
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  Speaker 3: Singapore and they're going to be adding some new scenes
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  Speaker 3: to that as well. And at the Warner Brothers Studio
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  Speaker 3: Tour in London in summer twenty twenty five, they announced
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  Speaker 3: that they're going to have a Triwizard Tournament feature in
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  Speaker 3: honor of the twentieth anniversary of the Goblet of Fire
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  Speaker 3: film release. Yay, yes, so I missed when I lived
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  Speaker 3: in UK I used to go to the Warner Brothers
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  Speaker 3: studio tour all the time, and I loved when they
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  Speaker 3: brought in these different kind of features, and so I
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  Speaker 3: really miss, you know, kind of being able to go.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that'll be really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go if I apply my passport now, but it's
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  Speaker 1: it's next summer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can show you the sobbing grounds. Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 3: do it on the road meet up, uh and yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So then also in the showcase, we also got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of updates and game footage from all the kind
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  Speaker 3: of various video games that are out there right now,
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  Speaker 3: from Hogwart's Mystery to Quidditch Champions to Harry Potter Puzzles
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  Speaker 3: and Spells. We learned that there will be new events
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  Speaker 3: and special adventures, new magical creatures and quest unlock, and
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  Speaker 3: for the first time ever, the ability to explore Egypt.
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  Speaker 3: This is all coming soon to Hogwarts Mystery. There's also
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  Speaker 3: going to be Curse Child robes that can be unlocked
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  Speaker 3: in the game, and we also learned in the showcase
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  Speaker 3: that there's going to be new puzzles coming to Harry
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  Speaker 3: Potter Puzzles and Spells. There's a new back to Hogwarts
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  Speaker 3: season in the game, there's going to be new creatures
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  Speaker 3: to unlock, including a Festal which as my patronas I
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  Speaker 3: love that. And there's also going to be a new
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  Speaker 3: super Bombastic Bomb power up which just sounds explosive, So
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  Speaker 3: lots coming there. We also learned that Lego Harry Potter
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  Speaker 3: is being remastered in four K resolution. There's going to
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  Speaker 3: be enhanced graphics, and they're going to release it again
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  Speaker 3: as like a full collection, so you'll be able to
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  Speaker 3: play through all eight films in this remastered format, and
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be available digitally on October eighth, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four on PS five, Xbox Series X, and U S,
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  Speaker 3: as well as on Steam on PC.
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  Speaker 2: Great gaps by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, unfortunately I will have to continue to play my
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  Speaker 3: old version on the Switch because no remastered version coming
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  Speaker 3: to the Switch. But that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a good game, notist so good.
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  Speaker 3: Love the Lego games.
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  Speaker 2: I love the little cut scenes so they're so funny.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So that's like lots of game things. And if
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  Speaker 3: you haven't like watched the actual showcase, like I totally
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  Speaker 3: recommend watching it just to even see the you know,
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  Speaker 3: the visuals of these different things that are coming to
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  Speaker 3: the game. And we also learned in that showcase that
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  Speaker 3: there's a new festive book coming from Scholastic in October.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be called Christmas at Hogwarts. So the
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  Speaker 3: book is going to showcase Harry's first Christmas at Hogwarts.
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  Speaker 3: The text in the book is going to come from
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  Speaker 3: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, but it's going to
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  Speaker 3: include new artwork. So this book will be available to
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  Speaker 3: purchase on October fifteenth, and I'm really excited for this.
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  Speaker 3: And we also learned about an upcoming experience involving boarding
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  Speaker 3: a real life moving train. It's going to be called
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  Speaker 3: a Hogwarts Express Adventure. The showcase showed a very brief
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  Speaker 3: taser of this, so we really don't know much about it.
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  Speaker 3: You can sign up at Harry Pottertrainadventure dot com to
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  Speaker 3: learn more and it's going to be launching in spring
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, so definitely more to come on this.
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  Speaker 3: I know that we've kind of signed up to learn
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  Speaker 3: more about it as well, so we'll be covering it
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  Speaker 3: here as soon as we get more information about that
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  Speaker 3: and where it's coming and what it will involve. We
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  Speaker 3: also got some magical merch announcements. So Puma launched a
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  Speaker 3: new Harry Potter collaboration with WNBA star Brianna Stewart. And
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  Speaker 3: we also learned that the entire Harry Potter series is
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  Speaker 3: going to be available on the Yodo Smart Speaker, which
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  Speaker 3: is an audiobook device for children, which I love, and
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  Speaker 3: it provides them a way to kind of easily lift
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  Speaker 3: sent to audiobooks on their own. That's cool, yes, So,
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  Speaker 3: and if all of those announcements were weren't enough, that's
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  Speaker 3: kind of what we learned in the showcase. We thought
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  Speaker 3: we're good, right, Well, a few days after.
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  Speaker 2: Enough I was.
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  Speaker 3: Ready, the doc was ready, and then Warner Brothers decided
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  Speaker 3: to throw in another thing in and we found out
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  Speaker 3: a few days later that Warner Brothers is prioritizing working
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  Speaker 3: on a direct sequel to Hogwarts Legacy. Yay, Yes, So
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  Speaker 3: that's exciting, definitely, Like not anytime soon, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a couple of years down the line. But essentially
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  Speaker 3: there's been a lot of like I think rumors, you know,
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  Speaker 3: about there being a sequel to Hogwarts Legacy, and finally
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  Speaker 3: Warner Brothers came out and said, like, this is something
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  Speaker 3: that is top of our priority for developing, which is exciting.
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  Speaker 3: And then because the news just has not slowed down
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  Speaker 3: at all, on Monday, September ninth, we learned that an
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  Speaker 3: open casting call was put out for the trio for
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  Speaker 3: the upcoming HBO adaption. So this casting call is open
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  Speaker 3: for children age nine to eleven who are residents of
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  Speaker 3: the UK or Ireland. So that was a lot. Wanted
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  Speaker 3: to kind of speed through that. Which bit of this
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  Speaker 3: news are we all most excited for?
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  Speaker 1: H I mean, out of like the event news, I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited for the Hogwarts Express Experience thing. I think that
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  Speaker 1: could be really cool. I wish that we kind of
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  Speaker 1: knew where that was going to be and if it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be something that travels around and something
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  Speaker 1: that we could actually go to. That's going to be
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  Speaker 1: close enough, But that sounds really really cool. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: hoping it'll be like the Forbidden Forest experience and like
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  Speaker 1: travel and make them stop so more people could experience
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  Speaker 1: it for sure.
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  Speaker 3: What about you, Tom.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm actually interested of the Triwizard Tournament, not try
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  Speaker 5: Wasard tournament, but actually the festivities and everything surrounding Goblet
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  Speaker 5: of Fire twentieth Anniversary That's kind of exciting because this
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  Speaker 5: year was super special. We got a lot of screenings
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  Speaker 5: all over the world for Prisoner of Azkaban. That was
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  Speaker 5: cool features at the studio tour, so I'm excited to
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  Speaker 5: see what they come up with. Unfortunately, I couldn't make
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  Speaker 5: it to this year. I wanted to go, but so
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: I couldn't make it, and Prisoner of Azkaban is my
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  Speaker 5: all time favorite film. But hopefully next year I can
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: make it to Goblet of Fire.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, I'm also excited too about the casting,
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  Speaker 1: because I think that means we're pretty much well on
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  Speaker 1: our way. I think I saw something like the age
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  Speaker 1: needed to be nine to eleven as of April twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, so to me, that means they're aiming to
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  Speaker 1: start filming around and then. So it seems like things
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  Speaker 1: are kind of chugging along, which is good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, It's like once you get that casting, and especially
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  Speaker 3: you get like your main cast, it just kind of
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  Speaker 3: seems like even that more real. Like I know we
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  Speaker 3: talked on last episode about you know, they have the
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  Speaker 3: showrunner and everything like that, but I feel like things
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  Speaker 3: don't really start to feel super real until you have
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  Speaker 3: your cast and you see your face the faces of
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  Speaker 3: who's going to play these people, and it just makes
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  Speaker 3: it that, you know, that much more real. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited for the kids too, because it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just how much their lives are going to change. And
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  Speaker 3: it just reminds me of like those videos that we
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  Speaker 3: got to see, like you know, when Dan Ruper and
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  Speaker 3: Emma were cast, and just those first couple of videos,
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  Speaker 3: and it just seems like very nostalgic, and yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: exciting for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's always fun when it's casting these childly too, because
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  Speaker 1: they're always on nones because they're so young. So it's
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  Speaker 1: really cool to see on nones come into these big roles.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think of like Percy Jackson and how
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  Speaker 1: perfect that casting is. So yeah, I'm excited for it.
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  Speaker 3: Do we think that Harry will have green eyes this time?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I just I didn't even think of that until just
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  Speaker 3: now because obviously that was such like a big deal,
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  Speaker 3: like with Dan, and I know, like it was just
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: it's you know, wearing like colored contacts was hard for
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: him and like that was so it was you know,
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  Speaker 3: and and blue is close enough to green. But I
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  Speaker 3: wonder if like that'll be a you know if that's
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  Speaker 3: like we're going to really try to get that, get
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  Speaker 3: that this time, just because obviously it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I I mean, I'm just gonna sound like a
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: party pooper in some ways because actually I've been I've
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: been kind of staying on to the radar when it
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: comes to the show.
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  Speaker 2: I have my reservations, and.
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  Speaker 5: I've really haven't been really much talking about it. But
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  Speaker 5: I think it's mostly because of the fact that I'm
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  Speaker 5: a controversial But I'm not quite.
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to this happening because I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I I because of my background and how I grew
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  Speaker 5: up with the films and how I literally grew up
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  Speaker 5: with the with the trio, like I was the same agency,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: actors and everything. Obviously that's like so inherently carved in me,
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  Speaker 5: and the way that you know these characters to me,
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  Speaker 5: like I can't imagine having another one playing you know,
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  Speaker 5: another child playing Harry or Hermione or Ron or Dumbledore
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  Speaker 5: or Snape. Like to me, I'm I'm a little I'm
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  Speaker 5: a little I'm not worried about the show itself because
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: I'm sure if they make it right, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: amazing and there's gonna be so much talk about it,
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  Speaker 5: But at the same time, I'm kind of like worried
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  Speaker 5: of what might happen to this world that we already
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  Speaker 5: love so much and that group from the films and
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: that we kind of, like most of us like came
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: from the films. And then we started like picking up
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: the books and then started I start to.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: See the actors right, like when you're reading, it's like
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: you kind of and that happened to me while I
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: was reading, right, because it's like I started reading before
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: the movies were out, so I think like I kind
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: of had like a vision in my mind. But then
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: once we started getting the films, and I thought, like
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: the casting was just so perfect like all around that
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I feel like as I got older, like when I
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: was reading, I was like starting to picture the actors,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: you know, and so it's like you're right, like they
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: really have just become the face of all of this.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: And obviously, you know when you go to Universal, it's
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: the faces of the actors that are there, and it's
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: just what you expect. And I think it's like Cursed
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Child's like a different thing, right because it's like a
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: totally different medium. And I think when you think of
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: like a stage show, you know that the cast is
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: going to change and they're you know, and it always
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: looks different, you know, absolutely, so you can kind of
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: almost like suspend your disbelief a little bit more when
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: it comes to a stage show. But I do know
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: what you mean. That's like, even though this is going
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: to be television and not film, it's still the same
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: kind of visual medium exactly.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: And I'm just I'm just I don't want, like, I
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: wouldn't want that to like have these repercussions and repercussions
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: in the end, like where we get like all of
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: I don't know, like new faces in the theme parks
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: and merch stores and everywhere, like we get like it's
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: so you know, I just love them so much, as
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: you know, they are my hairy, my run and my
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: harmining for so many people and millions and thousands of people,
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: and I wouldn't like that to change.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: So I don't know what it's going.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: To be like their their course of action to say,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: if they're just going to be like, Okay, let's you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: this is going to be serious. But you know they
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: said something that the films would still be at the
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: core of the Wizarding World, which I'm not sure what
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: they meant. Could mean like we're still going to keep
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: the parks, movie or and we're still going to keep
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: like everything that's already there.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: There might be.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: New iterations, there might be new things coming up from
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: the series itself from the TV show, But yeah, like
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I hope that they don't clash and that it's somehow like,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: you know, we can still enjoy both and they can coexist, but.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: We're replacing yea, yeah exactly, or.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like weird and like cobbled together. Like
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I feel like you almost have to keep the TV
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: show world separate from the world that's already been built
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and branded for the movies, for the studio tour, for
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the theme parks, everything, Like I feel like all of
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that still has to stay like movie realm and then
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: like you've got Cursed Child realm and then you've got TV.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Hopefully that's how they do it. I can't imagine they
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: would like try and somehow shoehorn it in at like
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the theme parks. That would be kind of weird, I
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: feel like, but you never know what they're thinking.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Hopefully that and I we'll see and I hope too,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: like whoever ends up getting cast that like there isn't
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: just like a very quick like comparison either, Like I
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: think it's not necessarily fair to like these new kids
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: coming in to be immediately compared to Dan, like Rupert
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: and Emma, and I think it's going to happen. Unfortunately.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's bound to happen, for sure. I feel like
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: they're going to be always living under the shadow of them,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: not because they're bad or because they're not up to expectations,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: but because it was so these films were so iconic,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: and people just have such a strong image of what
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: they see as a trio that it's going to be
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: hard for them to be like, Okay, you're you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: like you're you're always going to live under their shadow
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: just because it's it's hard, and it's it all always
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: happens in this media, and it's and it's you know,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: it's bound to happen. But if they can pull it
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: out well and they can kind of like do it
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: and try to separate them like you like you guys said,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: and try to keep them as separate entities, I think
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: it can.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: It can work.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: And I and I would actually like this to be
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: like a complete reboot in that sense, and to be
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: like completely faithful to the books, not just in the storyline,
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: but also esthetically, you know, so kind of like maybe
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: built you know, bring a newcastle, bring a youth set,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: bring new costumes, bring you you know, to have its
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: own thing. Otherwise it's going to be like a copycat
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: version of the films, and I don't think that's the plan.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: I think they want to do something you know, new
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: and exciting and just bring different iterations of the of
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: this world to life, like they did in Curse Child.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: And maybe that's what they're planning to do.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean we'll see and definitely more
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: to come with it. But for sure, even just having
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: this casting call coming out, like we said, clearly shows
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: we're going forward with this and hopefully pretty quickly. And yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I'll keep my eyes out for when they start, you know,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: showing who they have. And I'm excited, but I definitely
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: still have you know, obviously have some reservations as well,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: you know, right along with what you said, Tom, But
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: but yeah, so that's exciting. That's probably the bit of
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: news I'm most excited for too. But I'm also really
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: excited for the Little Christmas Book too. It sounds really
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: cute and I love a good coffee table book, and
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: any new artwork is great too, so but yeah, so
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: that is that wraps up the news for now. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: think that going forward, hopefully this section won't be this long.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, So for our main discussion for this episode, we're
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: going to be talking about everything we know about the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Wizarding World section of Epic Universe at Universal Orlando. So
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: we got a lot of info dumped on us this
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: summer about this, which is great. It's great content, not complaining.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: But this park is set to open in twenty twenty five,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: so I'm sure we're gonna get a lot more too
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: in the coming months. My guess they haven't said officially win,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: but my guess would probably be like summer, that seems
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to be the time to open up things in Orlando.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Very universal timing.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, even though it's ungodly hot, but.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just got flashed back. So standing on that
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: bridge for eight hours waiting to ryde Hagrid's and was
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: it July but yeah June June, yeah, yeah, but it
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: felt like it shouldly because it was hot, Yeah, but no,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I would agree that it seems like probably summer makes sense,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: and it makes the most sense too, because that's when
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get like your crowds, right, like, you don't
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: have to kind of battle school schedules and all of that,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: and a lot of people already travel a lot in
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: the summer, so that makes sense.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: So this park, Epic Universe is the start of what's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: being referred to as South Campus at Universal Orlando, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: that's because this is on a patch of land that
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: was acquired by Universal about fifteen minutes from what's now
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: going to be North Campus, which is the three existing
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: parks and Universal hotels in Orlando right now. So I'm
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: sure it'll be you know, the shuttle buses going between
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: all of that. But there's also going to be the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: hotel at Epic Universe as well. So if that's like
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the main place that you're going to be, then maybe
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you want to stay at the hotel there.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I think that's really cool. I love that. I know,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: like in I believe it's like Tokyo Disney or one
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: of the Asian Disney parks. They have the very similar
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: where they have like a hotel that's right in the park,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: and I think that's really cool to just kind of
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: be like right in that environment and just be able
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: to kind of like step right out of your hotel
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: and you're right in the park and in the environment.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: It just even makes it more immersive, I think.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, speaking of immersive, are we getting perhaps a
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: theme hotel or something like?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Is this one?
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Is it the called the Helios Hotel? Is that what
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: they're calling it? And it looks like it I wish
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: that we're going to do. Maybe it looks like it's
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: kind of a little separate, but it's going to be
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: this very like majestic kind of theme, like luxurious, and
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a Greek god theme, which seems
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: like it ties right into that celestial park area that
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: you kind of go right into. So that's really cool.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that'd be cool if like eventually they even
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: expanded it more and had like a Harry Potter themed one,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: you know, off of off of that era. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I want that. I would stay there. Who cares how
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: much it is, I would do it, I say that,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: But you know, I never got to go to the
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: quote unquote Star Wars Hotel because it was so expensive.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: So that makes me a little nervous that if they
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: were to do something like that that it would be
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: really expensive. But yeah, it kind of seems like almost
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: like the way that the land is, that like they
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: might have that extra space like around the kind of perimeter. Yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: so you never know if they want to end up
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: adding more hotel space.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's definitely still a lot of land unused,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: so they've got room to expand. And I think they
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: would even have room to make separate parks too, So
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: just like they have studios and islands and yeah, Volcano Bay,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: they could probably put other parks over there too.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it surprisingly haven't opened like Harry Potter themed hotel
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: yet after how long has it been has it been
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: like fourteen years now since the first one opened? Yeah,
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: fourteen years.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: So Epic Universe is going to be the first universal
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: park to use the spoken wheel layout that was made
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: popular by Disney. The park is comprised of four different lands,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: which are all accessible from the center hub, which is
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: called Celestial Park.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I like that. I like and it'll be nice too
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: because obviously, you know, as a bad Disney theme park fan,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: I think that that layout of something like you know,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: like Magic Kingdom, where you have your main hub area
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: and then you've got these lands that go across around.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I think it's a really good layout for a park,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: and obviously, yeah, very different from what we have at
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, And it's interesting because onlike Magic Kingdom, you can't
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: really access the other lands by like walking in a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: circle outside of the hub, Like you can't like walk
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: from Wizarding World into Dark Universe, like you have to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: go back to Celestial Park and then go to another section.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: I think that'll be good for immersion too, because I
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: think of, like I just was picturing like when we're
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: at the park Amy and we've got to like walk
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: through like Sous's landing, yeah, to get to you know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: to get to Hogs and it kind of just like
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: throws you off a little bit. And then you also, right,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: you also are like standing there looking at Hogwarts. But
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: then like Jurassic Park is right there, and you walk
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: in a glassic park, you can still see Hogwarts. And
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: then once Veloca Coaster open, forget that nice little sitting
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: area you know behind the three broomsticks, you're just watching
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: the Veloca coaster and it kind of took away some
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: of the immersion a little bit when you're on the
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: outside borders.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. So Orlando and Former actually in one
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of their articles was talking about this a little bit too,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and they compared it to how diagon Alley is like that,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and that it's fully immersed and you can't access like
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: there's no shortcuts through to the other lands. You have
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to go out of diagon Alley into London and then
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: move on from there, so which I think is why
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: diagon Alley is like my favorite out of diagon Alley
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: in Hogsweede because it does have that feeling of that
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: full immersion in the world. So I think that'll be
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: really good. So to enter each land, you go through
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: a portal off of the the hub Celestial Park, and
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: these portals are these really beautiful, like heavily designed archways
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that are topped with different beacons that have to do
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: with the land that you're entering. Those beacons can be
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: seen from across the hubs so that you can navigate
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: your way around to where you're trying to go. The
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: one for the Wizarding World is this giant hand holding
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the elderland.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I think it looks so cool. Yeah, I have nothing
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: else to say about that. I think the concept art
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: we saw look so cool, and I know that it
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: will look cool in person. And I think what they
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: chose to be the beacon for you know, this land
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: is perfect, like the whole hand holding a wand I
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: just love that visual in general, and yeah, it's so cool.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: The Wizarding portion of the park is officially titled The
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Wizarding World of Harry Potter Ministry of Magic, which is
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: after the area's biggest ride, the Ministry of Magic Ride. Uh.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: It is interesting that they didn't name, uh, this location
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: after Paris because it was Paris and they named it
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: after the ride instead, So that's kind of odd, I thought.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: But yeah, marketing, I agree.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's like, I mean, it's like you would
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: never call like diagon Alley like Gringods, right, just you
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: know what I mean. I think it's weird. I think
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: that like maybe it kind of like lends to the
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: fact that maybe the area should have maybe more been
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: like the that was not good English, but you know,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: like should have been more like Ministry of Magic, like
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: but that there wasn't enough to like do a full
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: land of that where like, obviously this Paris theme can
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: be extended more and you can that into a land.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: But I think that like Wizarding Paris is not like
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: I guess, right, what would you call it other than
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: calling it Paris. There's not like a specific name like
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: you can do diegon Ellie or Hogsmead. So it's like
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: you almost need to have a name that's recognizable to
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: the franchise, and I don't think there's something for Paris
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: that is like that. So I see why from like
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: a marketing standpoint, exactly like you said, Tom, like on
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: a map, and you know you want it to be
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: recognizable in ministry of Magic works. But it does seem like, yeah,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: exactly what you said, Amy, It's like the bulk of
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: the land is actually being more in Paris wizarding Paris,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: than it is kind of being in the ministry. But yeah, it's.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Interesting, by the way.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the city, like what they're doing for Paris, Like
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: it's huge and it's so detailed, Like what could you expect,
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Like Universal never disappoints with details.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: They're all it and I know they will not disappoint
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It's enormous, like one of the quotes
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: that stood out to me from the announcement video that
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: we got was the shortest building in Wizarding Paris is
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: taller than the tallest building in diagon Alley. So these
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: buildings are massive.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: That's like so insane too, because kind of like what
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: you were talking about earlier is like one of the
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: best things about Diagon Alley is how immersive that land
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: is and like how they were able to build it,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: and when you're in there, like you don't feel like
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: you're anywhere else right, Like there's no sight line of
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: any other area of the park, and so it's it's
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: so yeah, I can't even wrap my heat around standing
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: in an area you know, of a theme park that
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: has buildings taller than how it is in diagon Alley already,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: especially when you think of how they built Gringotts and
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: that whole section and having the dragon on and just
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: it's such a looming building and so big, and to
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: think that we're going to have even bigger than that,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: it is so crazy but so exciting at the same time.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: It really is just a full on city. It's so cool.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: So this section of the park is recreated nineteen twenties
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Wizarding Paris as we see it in the Fantastic Beast films,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: but it also jumps timelines in the Ministry of Magic Ride,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: which we're going to talk about in a minute. But
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: how this is kind of laid out is once you
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: walk through that portal that we talked about, guests go
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: and they're in Muggle Paris, and then there's the archway
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: with the phoenix on it that we see in Crimes
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: of Grendewald that Tina goes through, and you go through
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: that archway and then you're and Wizarding Paris. So it's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: pretty cool that we're actually getting Fantastic Beasts stuff and
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: like locations in the park, which I'm excited about because
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: everyone knows I love those movies. But it's just really
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: cool we're gonna get some of these locations. Like the
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: concept art shows that little like elevator thing with like
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the vines and the metal detailing that Queenie goes into
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: to get to the Paris Ministry, so it looks kind
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of like the photo op like the phone booth that
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: they have in London outside of diegott Alley. So just
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: little details like that I'm really excited about.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: And hopefully that will also bring back some of the
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: high before the series, because I feel like it's Fantastic
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: Beasts was kind of like overlooked by so many and maybe,
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: you know, it can give it a little boost and
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: who knows, maybe we get a fourth film eventually.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, the.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Harry Potters Sessions of Universal, I feel like really helped
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: in capturing a new audience of people who went to
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the parks and maybe hadn't read the books or watched
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the movies. They either watched the movies in preparation for
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: their trip, or they left the parks and were inspired
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to pick up the books or watch the movies. So yeah,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping this kind of does the same for the
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Fantastic East series as well.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I mean not to bring up Death Eater, thirst Trap
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Tiktoks again, but I will say that, like in a
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: lot of the comments of those videos, like a lot
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: of people are like, you know, I've never been a
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Universal before, but this makes me want to go. So
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: I feel like, yes, like I feel like there is.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: It's the one thing that's so great about the way
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: they do these parks and the things they do in
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: these parks is it makes you interested in something that
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: maybe wouldn't have otherwise been, you know, or makes you
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: want to go and revisit, or like, how am I
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: going to understand what's happening on the ride in the
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Wizarding World if I don't watch the movies first, right, Like,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: I think it's just it is this like symbiotic relationship
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Or also it's like you have people
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: that decide to just go to Universal, like as part
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: of a vacation, step into the Wizarding World areas, see
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: how absolutely amazingly cool it is, and then are inspired
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: to go read the books or watch the movies or whatever.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: And so I agree, like, and I think we always
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: like feel like when we found out that a Universal
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: was going to open, you know, this new park, there
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: was always kind of that speculation that the new like
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: obviously they were going to put Wizarding World in this
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: new park, and there was always like that speculation of
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: it being Fantastic Beasts, especially because everything was kind of
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: announced when you know, Fantastic Beasts, we were getting all
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: of that, So we like, I feel like we knew
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: we were going to get something. I'm glad that even
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: with the Fantastic Beast franchise kind of maybe not taking
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: off the way that it was planned. I'm glad they're
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: still sticking to the idea of keeping this Fantastic Beast themed,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: and I agree, like, I really hope it like rejuvenates
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: that a little bit. And I think one of the
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: things that like Universal has done best when it comes
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: to especially the Wizarding World areas, is recreating places that
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: like we know about, and so like it's I'm glad
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: that they're still kind of sticking with that in terms
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: of like how you were talking about literally recreating these
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: things that we saw in the film, because I truly
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: think like that's what Universal like does best and that's
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: what really separates them, and so I kind of like
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: didn't expect to know anything less from them with this.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's definitely really great to see that the
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: focus is still going to be so much on kind
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: of more that Fantastic Beast era. I do have some
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: like questions about the like time jump kind of thing,
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: but I think that I'm glad that it's still, yeah,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: that Fantastic Beast world kind of focused and we didn't
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: lose that.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: M maybe you get a Chris Child crossover with.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Just throw it all in there.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the multi Yeah.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, look how successful it's been for like Marvel, Right,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: it's we're just gonna have We're gonna have the Worsening
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: World multiverse happening here.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just like the other Wizardian World parks, there's going
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: to be these interactive wand spots throughout this land, and
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: it looks like a lot of them really feature magical
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: creatures I love so much. The one that we saw
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: in the video was the Niffler, which I love my Nifflers.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: So this is so cy Like I love this. You
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: can walk around, find all the wand spots, maybe discover
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: a bunch of the creatures. So this just looks like
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I'm glad that like they're they're keeping this in because
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: it's like even with how many years that the parks
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: have been open now, like people still love that, right,
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Like you go to the parks and everybody is doing
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: magic and it's just such a fun experience still for people.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: It never got boring, you know. I feel like for
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: people and I like that it's like, Okay, we're still
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: going to keep this aspect, but like give it a
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: kind of a new twist. And it's so themed with
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: what you know, what's going on in that land with
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: fantastic beasts, and it's just yeah, it's just such a
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: great idea.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, I do.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: I do hate though, that they replaced ones for interactive
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: ones all the way through, so you can't get anything
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: else than an interactive one. I'm like, no, I want
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: one for my collection. I don't want that tip, you know, Like,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: so it's yeah, that's that's the only thing I want them.
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: They should definitely take notes on that and be like, hey,
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: we should probably go back to selling like old school
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: ones again and personalized ones please.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, because I used to always get just a
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: regular one, not the interactive ones, and I would always
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: write on the bottom of the wand box like the
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: date and where I got it, so it's like a
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: little memento from different trips.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: I wonder if maybe I know that they just like
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know if this is new, but I saw
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: recently that you can have your wands personalized at like
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: the Harry Potter and New York shop, and I think
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: when you order online as well, So maybe this is
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: like a start of like this is something that could
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: eventually come universal maybe Warner Brothers Universal. If you're listening,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: you've got three people right here that would buy.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: That we'd travel so fast about our first episode that
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers in the Universal had to tune in for episode.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Of course, as soon as they hear we're talking about
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: their park.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, so the main ride of this section is
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: that Ministry of Magic ride. So it's Harry Potter in
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the battle at the Ministry and it's based in a
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: post deathly Hallow's timeline where Umbradge is on trial for
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: her crimes during the war, So major time jump. Curious
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: to see how that works?
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because it's not like it's not like we're
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, and it's it's funny because obviously we have
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: time travel, you know in the Worstering World universe with
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: time turners and stuff. So it's like, I feel like
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: there is ways that you could, like in universe explain
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: why there's this time jump, and it looks like that's
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: not like what's going to happen here. But I mean,
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: I guess, is there anything happening in the Paris section
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: that would make us feel like we're not in that
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: same timeline? O? Than like, well, I mean, we talked
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: last week about I guess like like Eddie is going
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: to come back to like reprise new in some ways,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: So I guess maybe that right there is kind of
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: like how we're staying in that same you're having different timelines.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: And they do say in that video that it is
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: different times, a different timeline, So I don't know how
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: they're dealing with that or if it's just like a
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: suspend your disbelief thing and just accepted a cool ride.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe a portal, because it's all about
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: portals over there, so who knows.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe well, And I.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: Know that they're because they're bringing like you know, the
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: whole like having like the flu network into entering them.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: You know, that's how that's essentially how you're being transported
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: from the Paris area to being at the British Ministry
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: of Magic. But then at the same time, like I mean, yeah,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: that would be to throw in like, oh, you're also
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: traveling in time, like that's like adding a whole like
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: new Cannon to using flud powder. So yeah, I mean, obviously,
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: like they're aware of the fact that we're jumping timeline,
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: so it's clearly something they've thought about and hopefully have
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: thought that, Like, there are some pretty die hard fans
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: out there that are going to have questions about how
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: we're jumping timelines there, so hopefully we'll kind of get
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: more about that. But I mean, I think either way,
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: it's exciting to have to see the British Ministry of
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: Magic because to me, that was always the next thing
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: that they should build, you know, after they did Hogwarts,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: after they did Gringotts, Like that's such an iconic film set,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: and it just made so much sense, and I think
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: it makes more sense to I am glad they're adding it,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: and they didn't just decide to do like the Paris
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Ministry of Magic, because we don't have as much like
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: nostalgic ties to you know, other ministries of magic. So
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: I'm glad they still found a way to like weave
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: that in as well. And we did find out too.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: We talked in our first episode that we weren't sure
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: on the Famelda was going to be coming back to
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: reprise her role as Umbridge, but we got confirmation in
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: that showcase that she is, which is so exciting because yeah,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: like we said last week, she's great and I couldn't
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: imagine having anybody else playing umbridge.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: She's looking amazing.
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: She looks like straight up, like what happens right?
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: Where is she has? She has a time turner? Yeah,
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: she looks great. Yeah, you would never know any time
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: has passed. And yeah, and they had confirmation we'll have
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: lots of cat plates, which is great, lots of pink,
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sure.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: So.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: You mentioned how guests are supposed to enter this ride
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: queue is through the Flu network, and they actually built
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: this whole thing called metro Flu, which is public transportation,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: this mass transit system of the Flu network, which I
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: think is awesome. And Universal creatives say they collaborated with
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: the filmmakers to come up with how this was going
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: to look and how it was going to work. And
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I'm so excited for this because it sounds like there's
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: some sort of special effects going on when you walk
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: into that fireplace.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: One of the.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: People in the video from Universal was saying, you get
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: fully engulfed in the flames as you walk through, So like,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I want to know how this is going to work,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and I'm kind of excited.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: It sounds so cool and yet so terrified too.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: So once you are through the Flue network, the ride
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: cue journeys through the British Ministry of Magic. We see
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: recreations of the film sets with the statue of Magical
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Brethren and the lobby of the Ministry. We also go
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: through a locker room where we're going to see Harry,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Ronn and Neville's lockers because this is at the time
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: that they're training as orrs at the Ministry. And there's
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: also a room full of portraits of past ministers throughout
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: history that are all talking to each other, so kind
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: of like the portrait room in Hogwarts that you walk
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: through in that queue. And then you're going to walk
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: through Umbridge's office too, which is where all the cat
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: plates are going to be in all the pink.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: I guess.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: You meet a house elf named Higgldy in Umbridge's office
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: and Higgldy comes along with you on this journey as well.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Once you go through Umbridge's office, you are going to
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: board elevators, which we know Universal loves to use elevators
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: to break up ride que yes, but it's actually the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: ride system for this one, so curveball, and once you're
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: in the elevator you find out that Umbrage is attempting
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: to escape her trial that's going on, So that's what
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: launches this ride off. And knowing how those elevators move
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: in the books and movies, that's absolutely terrifying to me
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: because these are just going to move in like whatever direction.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to suffer through and I'm going to
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: get on the ride no matter what, because that's what
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: I do for these rides.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: It's like a Tower of Terror on steroids.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: I mean, I hope there's more movement than just going
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: up and down, like you know these sudden falls. I
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: hope it's kind of like you know how it feels
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: like when you go to Gringock. Then you know there's
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: kind of like this fall where you feel like, oh
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: my god, I'm I'm about to you know, fall through
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: this whole like.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Underground thingy going on.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: And you get like, oh my god, and so it's
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: kind of like it's it's it's I feel like it
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: could be similar to that in some ways. I don't
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: know if it's just going to be like a drop
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: down or if it's just going to also move sideways
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: as well.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: It'll be interesting once we see the ride vehicles. I
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: was gonna say, I think it'll be like every direction
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: and kind of like what the what the mechanism like
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Whenever we get to see like the mechanism of the ride,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: that will kind of I think, really, how like is
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: it going to be or is it going to be
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: almost like coaster like but you're in a but the
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: vehicle that you're in is like elevator like but you're
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: technically maybe on a track like a coaster track, or
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: will it be similar to that, Like the name of
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: it is escaping me. But the type of like claw
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: mechanism that they use for Forbidden Journey where you kind
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: of get to move, they can kind of you know
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: what I mean, They can spin you, it can tip
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: you back, it kind of it just allows the ride
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: vehicle to move any which way and then maybe also
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: can move forward and back. Like I think there's a
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: lot of really cool things that they can do with it,
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: and I don't think it'll be like just a traditional
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: quote unquote elevator type ride.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, m hm, yeah, I agree, definitely.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: But definitely terrifying because I mean exactly how right, because
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: we have like visuals right like you said in the film,
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: and you know of what that looks like, and I
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: feel like, you know, at Universal we're all about trying
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: to kind of recreate what is shown in the film.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a little terrifying. I will, but I
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: will pop a drama mean and uh suffer through it
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: for the experience.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we know we're getting umbrage in this ride.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: We know we've got this house elf named Haiggledy. Apparently
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: we're also joined by Harry Ron and Hermione. I don't
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: know how this is going to work because I don't
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: imagine the actors are going to be back for this
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: since they weren't for other rides, So they're probably just
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: going to do their magic and do like projections of
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: them and fake the voices, I guess. So besides that
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: big ride, which is like the main attraction of this world,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: the second attraction within Wizarding Paris is Circus Anarchists, which
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: is a full scale stage show based off the circus
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: that we see in Crems of Grindewald. And apparently the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: plot of this is that Skender, who is like the
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: ringmaster guy that we see in that movie, is attempting
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: to save his dying circus, and he steals Newt's case
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: full of beasts to use in his show and the
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: show contains aerial performers, special effects, and puppetry.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: This is really exciting because I think that one, I
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: just love when theme parks do shows in general, and
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: you know, I think that this will be We obviously
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: have shows in the other Wizarding World sections, but this
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: is just seems like it's going to be a totally
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: different scale and taking like that to the next level,
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: which is so exciting. And I love the circus scene
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: in Crimes ofgrin Evault as well, and it just I
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: think that it always would have lend itself, lended itself
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: well to translating into a theme park type experience. So
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: it's really just I think it's really just perfect.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're kind of tapping into it and just further
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: exploring what that circus was about. Because we only got
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: like very small bits of it. It was kind of
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: like almost a blink and you'll miss a moment, so
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: we don't. It doesn't really have much of a prominent
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: presence in the film, so it's kind of interesting to
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: see how they can further expand it and we can
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: see how this circus works at full scale.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be pretty interesting.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I really want like a big full scale Zou puppet.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: I'm just picturing how amazing that could look.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Well, And I wonder too, like what you know, bringing
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: the beast to life will be, you know, what will
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: be like puppet, what might be animatronic, what might be
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: like a CGI kind of thing. There's like so many
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: different like types of mediums that they can use here
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: and mix of them, so it'll be really interesting to
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: see kind of just yeah, how they put it, how
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: they put it all together. And I'm always I'm somebody
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: that loves animatronics, so I really hope that like we
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: do get some you know, I think of like, you know,
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: the blast ended screw andtronic that we got for Hagrids
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: and how cool that is. And so I think they've
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: shown that they can do these you know, magical creature
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: type animatronics, and so I think, yeah, there's a lot
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: that could that could happen here.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. So besides our main attractions, there's several confirmed
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: shops in restaurants within this area as well, and we
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: got a lot of concept art for several of these.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: So we know that bar Moonshine is going to be
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: offering alcoholic drinks so that's kind of like the hogshead
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: of Wizarding Paris. I am not gonna be able to
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: say the French version of butterbeer cart like bear a
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: bear cart. I don't know that doesn't can attend to that,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: but but there will be a butter beer cart. Cafe
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Lair de la Serne is a quick service which is
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: offering French baked goods, sandwiches and drinks. And this looks
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: so gorgeous the inside concept art of this. It's got
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: all of these beautiful details in the architecture and in
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: the artwork on the walls and apparently fantastic beasts are
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: like worked into the decorations of the building.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Which is okay, super cool.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: I love this because it's such I think, like looking
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: at the concept art, it fits like French and Paris
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: style so much, and it'll be so nice to have,
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: like you know, it's a very different esthetic then we
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: have it like the leaky cauldron or the three broomsticks
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: that are very like rustic in nature, and this is
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: very like just.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Elegant Golden age, yes.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: And it just fits the theming and like I said, yeah,
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: that French aesthetics so well, and it'll be so nice
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: to have like another eatery place because I love Leaky
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: cauldron and three broomsticks and so it'll be nice to
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: have yet another kind of Wizarding World food place to
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: eat at. But that is such a different vibe than
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: the others that we have.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. If you're looking for a wand shop, there
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: is going to be cosme at kashar begets Magicue, which
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: is the wand Shop. And you know, they were really
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: asking for it with this park, just having Americans totally
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: butcher all of these.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: I was just thinking as we were, like you were
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: saying that you were going to attempt a butter beer cart, Like,
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: how are like the average travelers to universal going to
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: navigate this?
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: They need a pronunciation book upon le Yeah.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, so we have concept art for this wand Shop
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: as well, and it looks really cool. There's this large chandelier,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: there's all of the cases all around, and apparently the
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: thing that's unique about this shop is the wand boxes
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: are three sided.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: So like they're like a more like a triangle shape
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: than the long box.
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: Interesting, yeah, kind of making reference to the deathly hollows
• 59:45
  Speaker 5: maybe ooh yeah, I don't.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Think of that good call.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I see now I'm looking at the
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: concept art that's in here. It's funny because, like, I
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: think that that's really cool because it kind of again
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: fits that aesthetic of like this more elegant, elevated style.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Like obviously, like looking at this wand shop the concept
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: are it's so it fits again. It's so elegant. You know,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: where you've got like more like Olivanders is more of
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: that like rustic kind of look. And yeah, the wand
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: boxes being kind of in that more triangular shape kind
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: of just goes with the aesthetic of being a little
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: elevated elegant.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: I just think that's really fun too, because it gives
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: you something different. Like if you purchase a wand in
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: this park, it's going to give you a different experience
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: and a different wand box that you're taking away, So
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: it kind of sets it apart from like purchasing a
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: wand in Oliveanders. So it's two different experiences. And I
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: think that's smart of them because I think people will
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: do both. They'll be like, oh, I need one from
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: this land and I need one from this land, right.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: So yeah, and especially too it is yeah, and you
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: have a box with a different name on it. You know,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: it's not going to have the typical Olivanders, which you
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: can get at anyway, right, you know you don't have
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: to necessarily even be Yeah, you can get that in
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: either part. So definitely a good money grab, good job Universal.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: We will though for it.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, well, I mean I'm obviously going
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: to purchase a wand and it'll be interesting to see
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: like what the wands end up looking like, because I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: wonder if they will kind of go with that trend
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: of having some like non character wands, you know how
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: like an Olivanders you can get the non character wands
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: that are just the different wand type like one would types.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: And then I think about, like at like Harry Potter
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: New York, how they have all of the like specialty wands,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: which those are my favorite, like my the couple that
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: I have that are the specialty I love those, They're
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: my favorite ones. So I feel like they could really
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: maybe play into this like fantastic beast vibe and have
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: maybe some specialized ones that are like with different beasts.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: Interesting again, if you're listening Universal, like I would buy it.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: They could also make this the only wand shop in
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Universal that you could get the fantastic these characters.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, to like move them out of Olivanders and
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: this is where you get them. Yeah, that would be
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: I bet you they do do something like that, because
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: that would make complete sense and also help to be like,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: well why would I get a wand ear? Because I
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: think one thing you have to kind of battle with, right,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: is like getting a want at Olivanders is like a
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: very nostalgic experience, right, And I think even like for me,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: it's like getting not get going to Olivanders and diagon
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: Alley is more nostalgic than going to the one in
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: Hogsmeade because it just doesn't make sense kind of that
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: it's there. So you do have to do something to
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: kind of set apart from you know, it's like you
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: want to go and you're like, well, ever, you know,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: just like Harry he gets his first one at Olivanders,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: that's or I want to go to So what can
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: they do to make this wand shop just a little
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: bit extra special? But also want to go here?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: I think that's a good idea to sell the character
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 5: wants from the franchise from Fantastic Bias, I think it
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: would be a clever move, definitely.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: It also makes those wands seem more novelty too, which
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: I would imagine they probably don't sell very many of them.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: The demand's probably not really super high. But if you
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: make them like exclusive to a certain area of the park,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: then you're kind of making it more special, more novelty
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: to get those. So it could just be a smart
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: move all around.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: Just saying yeah, because I think, like, I mean, if
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: you think about it, it really wouldn't make sense to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: walk into this shop and buy the Elder wand or
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: by Harry's wand right like, you wouldn't like it makes
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: more sense that you'd find that in Britain, in Alvanders
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: and almost like it kind of doesn't make sense that
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: you would find certain wands I guess in oli Vanders too,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: although I guess that's a bit different because they did
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: go to Hogwarts, so I can't think of like someone
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: off the top of the head that has a wand
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: out right now that would be specific to Paris. But yeah, yeah, great, right, yeah,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: very interesting to see I guess what they what they
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: do here, but not surprised that another wand job ended
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: up here. Well, of course, they had to they have
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: the interactive part. You ought to be able to get
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: your wand somewhere.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: And do we think that if they do the like
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: the wand would non character wand, do we think that
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: they'll make them different?
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: I hope so, I really hope so, because it just
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: provides like another option, especially if like you really want
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: to buy like your wand type that you know you
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: got on well it's not powermore anymore, but like the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: Wizarding World website and you don't like how it looks,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: that's kind of my thing, right, Like I have an
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: ash wand, but I don't necessarily love the ash wand
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: that you can get at Olli Vanders. So that would
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: be a really good marketing thing to offer another style
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: of that, to give you options.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: So then there's also a sweet shop that they're going
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: to have in Wizarding Paris called k Rammel, So it's
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: expected to be similar to honey Dukes or what's the
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: sweet shop called.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: The sugar Plums.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sugar plums in the die Gotta Alley section. So
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: that makes sense too. You got to be able to
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: get your butter beer, fudge, your chocolate frogs, all that stuff.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: Well, do we think we'll see like different things at
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: this one, because you know how like honeydews and sugar
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: plums kind of sell the same thing. But like, yeah,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: and this one, do you think we'll see them kind
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: of stick with that like French theme, and maybe we'll
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: have like I would love, oh my god, a butter
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: beer macron. Yeah, like this would be again universal if
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: you're liing to this podcast, like that would be perfect,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: and I feel like too, you could also take other
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: pottery inspired the like like inspired flavors I think of
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: like Florian's and like different ice cream flavors, and I
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: feel like they could be turned into macrons. If that
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: doesn't happen, I might be a little disappointed. Do have.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: That quick service that we talked about does have French
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: baked goods?
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Do you know we're at least getting like some sort
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: of bakery stuff. Yeah, but yeah, that'd be really cool.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: If they did, like special.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: Sweep, they should definitely put their twist do it? Maybe
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: get nineteen twenties Bratty bought beans a different box, like you.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: Say, like different box have it in French?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Like chocolate frogs but in French and probably designed differently
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: as well, or I mean, I guess I will. I guess.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: We don't really know if those are more specifically like
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: British Wizarding suites, or if they're just Wizarding World in general,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: or are there specific suites in like France. I think
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of like creativity they could have with it,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: but it would be really cool to have, Like I
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: think of how like when they redesigned like the butter
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: beer bottles for like a Harry Potter New York and
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: had the New York style one. Like, there's so many
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: different opportunities there to kind of take what we know
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: and just rebrand it, and especially because so many of
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: us like to collect those things and collect the boxes.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a great frog box sitting on my
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: desk right now. Yeah.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: Like I would totally buy one that was in French.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So another restaurant that we get is Les Goublet
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Noir or yeah, which is a restaurant offering soup, salads, entrees,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: and desserts. And it is apparently like the Dark Spot
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: of Wizarding Paris, kind of looks like not nocturnality, kind
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: of vibes a little bit.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: A little bite material I was gonna say, I mean,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: this is gonna be like my favorite part of the era. Uh,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: this new Land for sure. I love Nocturnale. So this
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: is looking at the concept art, I think it's really
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: cool and it's nice. I think it's nice that they're
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: including like something like this because I think, obviously the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: dark arts is such a big thing in the Wizarding World,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: and it's nice to see like there's these darker areas
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: of all these different Wizarding communities. It's not like an
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: exclusively like British Wizarding World thing, and it'll be nice
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: to just kind of have a similar area. And it
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: looks really cool too, I mean all the concept art
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: looks really great and it looks like too. There's also
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: similar to like Wanted posters as well that we get,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: but just the French version.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks really cool.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: Oh and I love too on this. I always kind
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: of sometimes take concept art with a grain of salt
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: because like sometimes like when it actually gets built, you
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: don't get everything that's on the concept art. But looking
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: at this concept art that you know that we have
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: here on the back to it looks like there's also
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: that beast theme is carrying over into this area too.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: It looks like a snake, and I can't tell what
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: the other thing is, but it looks like we still
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: have that carrying, yeah, carrying through here as well, and
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: maybe some more dark magical creatures.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: M m. There's also two gift shops full of wizarding memorabilia,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: the first of which is Lace Galley Mirr Fiaks, and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: then Tour and Flu, which is the gift shop after
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: you exit the Ministry of Magic ride. And that is
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: kind of just the overview of what we know so far.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: We got quite a bit of information on this on
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: September first. We got some really good stuff over the
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: summer as well with all the concept art, and I'm
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: really looking forward to this park and I can't wait
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: to see what else we get.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 5: Absolutely yeah, I can't wait for this to kind of
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 5: like merch the three parks together somehow and you get
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: to experience all of them the other and it's going
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: to be a wild ride.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm. Yeah. I'm definitely looking forward to kind of
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: a new area to explore because I think, especially you know,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: when you're somebody who is like a frequent goer to
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: the parks, it's just always nice, you know, to get
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: to get a new area, and I mean, I definitely
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: more to come. I'm really interested to see what ends
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: up happening regarding ticketing here. We already we did learn
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: that initially, like you're gonna have to buy a separate
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: ticket to go to Epic Universe. And this makes sense
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: because I think also, and this is just me speculating,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: but I think that initially there will not be annual
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: pass for Epic Universe because they obviously really need to
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: control the traffic in this this area, and you can't
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: really do that with annual pass holders that can kind
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: of just come whenever. So I won't be I'll be
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: very like, I feel like what will happen is that
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: our annual passes will kind of like remain what they are,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: and you'll have to buy a separate ticket, like a
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: date based ticket, you know, to Epic Universe, so that
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: they have idea of the number of who's going.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: And maybe doing like a discount or something for annual
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: pass holders.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah maybe, you know, yeah, I think maybe at least
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: for the first year. So it'll be really interesting to
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: see kind of how that even how that works. And
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: of course this area of the park is going to
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: be absolutely you know, swarmed right when it first opens.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: But I think the good thing about it too, though,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: is it's not like we're not just getting like Wizarding Paris, right,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: We're getting literally a whole new theme park with also
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: the other really cool, amazing areas. So hopefully like that'll
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: help kind of like spread out a little. But as well,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: it's not just like when Diagon Alley opened and that
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: was like the only new part. But obviously, like we
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: know how big the fandom is and how many people
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: are excited for this, so it's going to be busy,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: especially at first, but yeah, super exciting, all right.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: So that wraps up our main discussion.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: It's about to leave.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: Grab on to the pork Key.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: This is our rotating segment. It's called the Pornky. Basically,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: what we do here is we talk a little bit
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: about different Wizarding themed travel destinations that we've either been
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: to or planning to go, or just you know, giving
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 5: tips to anyone who's interested in visiting these parts as
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: seen in the Harry Potter films or inspired by the
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: Harry Potter films. So I guess we can start with
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: our first experience for the segment. So I just came
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 5: back from a trip from New York and I went
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 5: to the Harry Potter store and I got to hop
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: on a broom for the Broomstake experience. And it's basically
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 5: just an immersive green screen experience where you get to
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 5: again hop on a room and fly around different iconic
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 5: locations that you see in the films, starting from downtown London,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 5: flying through River Thames as seen in the Order of
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: the Phoenix. Then you're seeing crossing the Glenfinn invitedt all
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 5: the way up to the Scottish Highlands, and you finally
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: arrive at Hobwartz and you're doing all this while you're
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: escaping and dodging spells from death theaters and you're counter
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: attacking with your wand so it's kind of chaotic. Before entering,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: you get a couple of muck shots taken as an
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 5: Azkaban inmate, which I thought was quite funny, and then
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 5: you're given you're provided with a house robe and a
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 5: wand and that's it.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: You're all said.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 5: So once you're done, you get some pictures taken and
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 5: they provide you also with a recording of the experience
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 5: and you're available, you're able to purchase it once you're done.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 5: And I would say if you've already done this at
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: the Making a Harry Potter in London, then maybe this
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 5: experience won't provide you with anything new, as it's almost
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: quite literally like a copycat version of that one. I
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 5: will say, however, that it's interesting how they've managed to
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 5: bring this small piece up, you know, of the Studio
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 5: Tour attraction into New York, and yeah, I mean I'm
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 5: excited to see what else they can come up with.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 5: I'd love to see other photo op experiences available, like
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 5: the Hogwarts Express one which is also at the Studio
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  Speaker 5: Tour in London. I think there's more than enough space,
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  Speaker 5: like to you know, swap one of the slots built
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  Speaker 5: for the Broomsticks experience for a new one, because there's
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  Speaker 5: like four of them. And yeah, I think they could
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  Speaker 5: even come up with something fresh and new that we've
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  Speaker 5: never seen before. And I think what makes these Harry
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  Speaker 5: Potter attractions scattered across the world so special is said
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  Speaker 5: that each offers something unique. And I think that's very
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  Speaker 5: interesting because it kind of like prompts you into exploring
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  Speaker 5: into going into these places and wanting to visit, and
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  Speaker 5: I do know that they used to have this virtual
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  Speaker 5: reality experience called Wizards Take Flight and Chaos at Hogwarts,
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  Speaker 5: both of which I unfortunately couldn't experience.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, if.
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  Speaker 5: You are happened to be in New York and you
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  Speaker 5: pay a visit to the Harry Potter Store, you should
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  Speaker 5: definitely check it out.
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  Speaker 2: You do have to.
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  Speaker 5: Pay for the photos and video though, but it's free
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  Speaker 5: to try out. And you have the crew who are
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  Speaker 5: super friendly and they're directing you and you know, making
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  Speaker 5: the you know, making sure that you are putting on
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  Speaker 5: a whiz worthy show. So they're kind of like telling you, okay,
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  Speaker 5: now dodge now cast now you know you arrived in Hogwarts,
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  Speaker 5: celebrate and put your hands up in the r.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 5: It's like very energetic. So yeah, it's it's a fun experience.
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  Speaker 5: I'd say, if you're there, you should definitely check it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't realize it's free. That's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: I know the VR experiences that they had before you
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  Speaker 1: had to pay for the slots for those, so that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of nice that it's offered for free.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to do both of those VR experiences
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  Speaker 3: and they were really cool and I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: such a good addition to the you know, the building
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  Speaker 3: to be more than just a store. And it was
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  Speaker 3: really sad too, you know, when they announced they were
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  Speaker 3: going to be closing those, but I'm glad it was
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  Speaker 3: replaced with something because I think it just you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, you go to there and you know
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  Speaker 3: it's a store, but it just right creating that experience
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  Speaker 3: like you mentioned and having something like different in different places.
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  Speaker 3: And they definitely have the space to kind of, like
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned, to maybe add something else because there was
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  Speaker 3: so many different rooms too for like the other VR experiences,
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  Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting to see how that expands or
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  Speaker 3: if they add anything else. But yeah, definitely recommend checking
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  Speaker 3: that out if you've not done to the store before. Sonoys.
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  Speaker 5: So moving on to our last section. Last week, we
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  Speaker 5: asked our listeners a question, what's the biggest impact the
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  Speaker 5: Harry Potter fandom has had on your life? And here
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: are some of your answers. So Phoenix dot five six
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  Speaker 5: eight zero on Instagram says, it just brings me a
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  Speaker 5: lot of consistent joy and has done for the entire time.
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  Speaker 5: I've known it, Carmen says, making friends from all over
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 5: the world. Juliana says, I met my best friends and
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 5: got into podcasting.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nice.
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  Speaker 5: Kimira says getting to co write two books about the
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  Speaker 5: Wizarding World, creating true friendships that I know will last
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  Speaker 5: no matter if I stay in the fandom or not,
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  Speaker 5: and helping awesome projects like this come to life. In
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  Speaker 5: all caps, I'm not yelling, I'm just super excited.
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  Speaker 2: I got you on that one.
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  Speaker 1: Kamara is one of our awesome social media people, so
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  Speaker 1: shout out to kim.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to Kim.
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  Speaker 3: Then.
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  Speaker 5: Felicia says I met my fiance through the Harry Potter fandom,
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  Speaker 5: which is super cute. And Lucy says I've made so
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  Speaker 5: many friends. I have paths to visit in towns and
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: cities around the world, which is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: That was also cute.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Felicia too, who copy edits for us
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  Speaker 1: and makes us look cool and smart.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Felicia. That was cute. So for this episode,
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  Speaker 3: we want to know what you are most looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to in the new Epic Universe Wizarding World edition, so
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yay, so another fun episode. I love talking about
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  Speaker 1: theme park stuff, and hopefully we'll get to do some
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  Speaker 1: more updates as we learn some more. I'm Amy, I'm Nicole,
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  Speaker 5: I'm Tom miss