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cool, i'm going to a theme park!

Postby vortex of pain » Saturday 14 April 2007 3:05:20pm

tomorrow!. i can't wait to ride all the thrill rides, andd get absolutely soaked. hahaha!, not to mention the burger king, that we will probably have
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Postby Scellanis » Sunday 15 April 2007 1:21:52am

Blackpool is the best themepark I've been to, mainly because its got the pepsi max roller coaster and that don't go upside down and I never want to go upside down so its perfect for me...they do have another one that does go upside down though, lol.

Wish I could go again, not been to Blackpool in like 6 years :(
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Postby vortex of pain » Sunday 15 April 2007 8:47:25am

hey, thanks for the information about blackpool, our friends from newcastle are taking us there for 5 days. i'm sooo scared. my sister should enjoy it though, it is her birthday
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Postby Scellanis » Sunday 15 April 2007 11:31:03pm

Blackpool is great, go on the pier with the big wheel on it and theres a little stall that sells all kinds of fruit coating in chocolate on it...or there was last time I went anyway....

Oh yeah and start saving 2ps and 10ps because the casinos are great fun, all the machines where you can stick in your loose change to knock the change down all day and win like once....its great fun....
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Postby Snow_Crystal » Monday 16 April 2007 9:23:12am

Hey talking of theme parks - Warner Bros are in talks about opening an Harry Potter World theme park. No idea where but I imagine it will be in the US.
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Postby Simatra » Monday 16 April 2007 3:10:57pm

Hmmm,... That's either really stupid or interesting. I'm debeteing witch.
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Postby youknowwho » Monday 16 April 2007 11:41:38pm

I'm going to 6-flags great adventure in june :D and I can't wait
they have either the bigest roller coaster in the world and/or the second biggest, I can't remember which.

That Harry Potter Amusment park sounds interesting...
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Postby Snow_Crystal » Tuesday 17 April 2007 3:53:32pm

Simatra wrote:Hmmm,... That's either really stupid or interesting. I'm debeteing witch.


I kind of see where you're coming from on this. Personally I think it's a cash cow and rightly or wrongly it's waiting to be tapped.

Can you imagine it, a Dragon ride, a Quidditch ride where you have to chase the snitch. There could also be a port key ride as well where you have to touch something and then you're kind of thrown everywhere at a pace that makes your tummy jump.

They'll be shops with all sorts of sweets from the Harry Potter series and you'd be able to buy your own broomsticks and wands. They'll also be a scary shop of horrors like Borgin and Burkes.

You could go and watch the films in a theatre style cinema where you perhaps you lie down on the floor and watch it on the ceiling!!

Other delights could be the Ministry of Magic, dressed up characters wandering the park, playing 3D wizard chess and the Hogwarts Owlery with real owls so you could learn at the same time.

Who could resist that!!!
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Postby Simatra » Tuesday 17 April 2007 4:01:19pm

True, didn't think about that,... sounds cool when you say it like that. But a whole park I didn't think that it would be very successful, maybe it would be better if it was inside a another park, you know, a little off section, but just as good as you desciped it. Or better!
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Postby Snow_Crystal » Tuesday 17 April 2007 4:15:17pm

Yeah I know what you mean! It would be a bit of overkill if the whole thing was HP. I think WBros have a park already in Florida don't they (sorry never been) that they would probably use that's why I thought it might be out in the States.

Just thought of another but have no idea how they would do it... The Room of Requirement

Or perhaps Duelling Club where you have to either compete against a computer system with various different spells

Can anyone think of any more - I'm feeling a bit imaginative today!!
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Postby Simatra » Tuesday 17 April 2007 6:14:14pm

A ride where you are running away from the Basalik! Or a ride where you have to try and get the SS/PS! Or a Weasly Joke Shop. :grin:
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Postby Scellanis » Tuesday 17 April 2007 9:52:33pm

The basilisk movie style could be made into a pretty good rollercoaster of type where you go in and out of a building....and you could have a proper upside downy type rollercoaster as quidditch or the dragon....

Be quite fun to design harry potter theme park rides actually...
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Postby Simatra » Wednesday 18 April 2007 3:01:28pm

Yes, it would! And I'm in a very drawing type mood,... Maybe I'll draw that as well!
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Postby vortex of pain » Wednesday 18 April 2007 3:32:23pm

yeah, and a hogwarts express, to take you around the park
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Postby choki » Friday 20 April 2007 2:52:05am

Wow, maybe you all should give a call to WB... and get them to hire as park designers.

Forbidden Forest, The Lake, Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade... just put everything together, you get a wizarding world
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