By Samantha Sanders Forget hot chocolate! This holiday season, warm up with a toasty, buttery mug of hot Butterbeer. As most of you know, you can get chilled or frozen Butterbeer in the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. During the sweltering summer months, the cold beverage is a sweet treat for guests. But, now…
The Triceratops attraction in Jurassic Park at Universal’s Islands of Adventure reopened yesterday after being closed for many years.
Column by Kevin Yee Universal’s new Wizarding World of Harry Potter powered its parent company to some great quarterly profits in 2010, no doubt due to the amazing Forbidden Journey ride and those $25 wands. But a more humble item attracts equal attention from the rabid fans: the lowly beverage known as Butterbeer.
Column by Derek Burgan One of Orlando’s most unique attractions is the Blue Man Group show located at Universal Orlando. A visual and audio feast for the senses, a Blue Man Group show may be impossible to describe, but after experiencing it for the first time you’ll not be able to stop recommending it to…
Potter Puppet Pals, the YouTube comedy sensation, will perform live in Orlando next July for LeakyCon 2011, a charity Harry Potter conference put on by LeakyNews.com.
The Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride at Universal’s Islands of Adventure just became a lot more accommodating. As of Sept. 10, 2010, many of the seats on the ride have been modified to fit larger guests who had previously been turned away. Since the feature ride in The Wizarding World of Harry Poter…
Let’s start our photo update back in Jurassic Park. Guests can now meet a 10-week-old Triceratops in the Camp Jurassic area. The baby dinosaur moves and blinks her eyes.
Keith Cardin loves visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. He thinks it’s an awesome place for fans to visit, so much so, that he’s trying to raise money for a pair of financially-strapped hard-core Potter fans to win an all-expenses paid trip to Orlando and Universal’s Islands of Adventure.
Two days after Disney announced it’s raising its theme park ticket prices, Universal Orlando announced most of their ticket prices are also going up on Aug. 7, 2010. A one day, one park ticket is going from $79 to $82, the same as at Disney.
Column by Kevin Yee If you’re the sort who recognizes that vacations will simply be expensive, and hand over your credit card whenever asked (no matter the price) for food, then you’re exactly the kind of customer the Orlando theme parks are looking for. They want you to book immediately, by the way. But if…
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