Except it may not be the best idea from a marketing standpoint to put Harry Potter in the name of the park, when the character won't have any presence within it... I honestly think the park would just be called "Wizarding World: Fantastic Beasts" or "Wizarding World: MoM" I don't think the park would want to open the can of worms of using HP's name and not having him in the park.
This is awesome, great job! :clap:My wish list for Fantastic Beasts (aka Wizarding World):
I walk into a well known location, Paris, but it's the 1920's. Not the picture perfect, clean and sugar coated Paris of Epcot that doesn't has the feel of the real thing, no a faithful recreation.
Trees line the impressive buildings and there are little cafe's. At night it gets even more magical.
An artist sells his artwork in a Montmartre street and there is a small souvenir shop.
There is a posh restaurant, art nouveau style of course, with amazing food.
From Montmatre we travel trough an arch and the world changes. It is getting darker. I'm in the wizarding world. There is a tiny circus and in front of it people seem to fly and there are fire eaters.
This is the holding room for an exiting ride. Eventually we are let into the tent.
We meet Newt. He secretly tells us the magical creatures there have a terrible life in the circus and he is going to save them. We step into a ride vehicle and go trough his magical suitcase. Here we meet many environments. The saved magical creatures are happy but there is 1 who creates a problem, a Runespoors it's a huge three-headed snake . During our tour we see how Newt eventually wins the trust of the mistreated animal and we end in the Runespoors' environment and wave Newt and the animal goodbye.
Still exited from the ride I order a croissant with Camembert and a glass of campaign when I notice another ride.
I enter a small courtyard with a beautiful Wallace Fountain in the middle. You can drink some water from it. It's getting quite crowded here as the area fill with people.
Then the lights go out for a second and we are transported too the "Ministrè des Affairs Magiques". In the grand hall we are greeted by young Albus Dumbledore from the first floor. We are recruited to collect information about an evil that threatens the wizarding community. I and the rest of the recruits enter several elevators that takes us, with the power of the Floo network trough the wizarding world. We get to the ministry of magic in Londen, New York, Japan and more. In each location we find multiple rooms and come back with a clue. Fun thing is that every elevator got some different rooms and locations. In the end Dumbledore catches the evil and it ends well as we exit the ride and are back in Paris.
Because based on concept art, there seems to be a clear entrance at the front of the park. Plus, there are attractions in the hub, can't imagine those would be free.
Entrance could be showing where tickets are sold, not scanned.
Interesting/complicated. I love it.
Do you think they would separate the different hub attractions into categories? Like the coaster could be an "E" ticket, and the simulator could be a "D." Shows could be a "C," and so on. And the E-tickets could cost more. There could be ticket booths in front of each attraction too, for people to buy them last minute.
''I think what we might be seeing in the concept art and plans are the vestigial remains of an early concept that has since been scrapped. The portals into and out of the lands like Diagon Alley lended themselves well to the ticketless hub concept, but they still want to have the immersion so they kept that idea in place. The hub may be big and probably has great restaurants, but instead of allowing anyone into the hub to dine, maybe they could close the lands an hour or two before the hub to force everyone into the hub for dinner. Maybe even hotel guests could venture down into the hub without a ticket for those last two hours to dine and watch the fireworks. There's lots of reasons to keep the same park design, even without the ticketless hub entry.
Interesting/complicated. I love it.
Do you think they would separate the different hub attractions into categories? Like the coaster could be an "E" ticket, and the simulator could be a "D." Shows could be a "C," and so on. And the E-tickets could cost more. There could be ticket booths in front of each attraction too, for people to buy them last minute.
I think what we might be seeing in the concept art and plans are the vestigial remains of an early concept that has since been scrapped. The portals into and out of the lands like Diagon Alley lended themselves well to the ticketless hub concept, but they still want to have the immersion so they kept that idea in place. The hub may be big and probably has great restaurants, but instead of allowing anyone into the hub to dine, maybe they could close the lands an hour or two before the hub to force everyone into the hub for dinner. Maybe even hotel guests could venture down into the hub without a ticket for those last two hours to dine and watch the fireworks. There's lots of reasons to keep the same park design, even without the ticketless hub entry.
But there's also lots of reasons why not to do a ticketless hub. Most notably for me, trying to swim across thousands of guests without a ticket just to get from one land to another.
