The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Pictures

Considering how many times I’ve gone to Universal Orlando in the past 2 months, it’s hard to believe it’s taken me this long to finally snap some pictures of the new “Wizarding World of Harry Potter” area of Islands of Adventure. But yesterday I finally made the effort to take a walk through the winding wooden walkway that’s been setup to take a look at the new attraction area.

First I have to admit, I know about as much of “Harry Potter” as I do brain surgery (actually, I once saw a special on Discovery about brain surgery, I may actually know slightly more about that subject as I’ve never read nor watched anything related to Harry Potter). But I am a huge Theme Park/Thrill ride enthusiast, so I am excited about this new area of the park. Specifically the new ride. A ride so “top secret” that even ScreamScape.com hasn’t been able to find out anything about it yet. The mystery of this new ride is killing me!

With my parent along for the tour, I got a little bit of an education on what some of these buildings are probably going to be. Unfortunately, I already forgot most of what they said, but I’ll try to piece together what I can:

The general consensus among my parents (all 2 of them) is that this building must be Hogwarts. All I know is that it is a mammoth sized building. It is ridiculously huge! These pictures serve no justice on how big this thing actually is! The detail is amazing, and it is a very gorgeous piece of construction. Even without knowing anything about Harry Potter, I was really impressed and in awe of this structure.

What may or may not translate in these pictures is how high up this structure is. Even if it’s a clever architectural trick to make it seem higher and bigger than it actually is, it is quiet high off the ground. The detail is amazing.

These pictures are of “The Town” – They told me the name of “The Town”, but I forgot already.

A new construction between Hogwarts and “The Town” that’s not quite to the point that it can be recognized yet. It could be just about anything right now.

I think this duck was a foreman. He was quiet and calm until a construction crew came out of one of the buildings. At that point he turned directly to them and quacked quite loudly. I think the crew tried to sneak out early.