Parque do Harry Potter

Antes de tudo gostaria de avisar: o texto que peguei foi de uma revista da Tam (empresa área) e está em inglês, então se você for um francês, brasileiro ou um alemão que não entenda inglês passe para o google tradutor (não sei se é confiável, mas funciona parcialmente) e de dizer, mesmo que você não for um Potterhead, recomendo que leia esse texto porque dá cada vez mais vontade de ir para o parque do Harry Potter, que  parece ser o MELHOR lugar do mundo...

"Hermione did it. They are flying!" shouts Harry Potter. The sensation is that of tearing the air the speed of Harry's and his friend Ron's broomsticks, with Hogwarts Castle right before your eyes. Yes, the hero´s "they" refers to visitors that embark on the most taked-about attraction in Orlando nowadays: Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, a flight simulator that even takes travelers to a field in the middle of a Quidditch match, the wizard's sport.
"We've gathered some of the most exciting moments os Harry's life and the most remarkable sets of the stories to create this ride," says Thierry Coup, vice-president of crative development for Universal Creative. And Potter's life, as everybody knows, is not easy, so visitors must defeated a dragon, disgusting spiders and even the dementors, the terrible guards of Azkaban prison. It's combination of 360-degree projections, animatronics, sounds and the other special effects capable of isolating you from the crowd standing in line outside - and even from the people sitting close to you, due to how the trams, supported by a robotic arm over rails, have been projected. For almost five minutes, it's like Harry and Ron are totally under your control. As must be the spiders, the dragon, the dementors...
The flight is the climax at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, an area of 860 thousand square feet in the Islands of Adventure theme park, part of Universal Olando Resort (whichhouses also the Universal Studios, with rides inpired by TV and movie characters, like the Simpsons and Sherek). However, it's far from being the sole attraction. The village of Hogsmeade was beautifully recreated, its streets paved with cobblestone, little houses with snow-covered roofs and charming windows in the shops: there is a cello that plays by itself, Quidditch balls trying to escape form a trunk, celebrity professor Gilderoy Lockhart moving proudly within the frame of a picture, a howler making a scene at the post office, a mandrake that shouts and squirms in a vase in a magic plant shop or a pen that writes by itself.
Many of the shops are nothing but facades, but others have been recreated also inside-having products for sale. At Zonko's,children go made with the magic objects transformed in battery-operated toys , like the sneakscope ( a spinning top that detects danger in the stories) and the remembrall ( aball that turns red when its owner forgets an appointment). Next to Zonko's, Honeydukes sells chocolate forgs and beans of all flavors. With some adaptations to the real world: the frog doesn't jump out of the box, and there is no way anyone will have to eat a bean that tastes like vomit. The most exotic flavors are fish, hot pepper and onion.

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