The changes have been confirmed by multiple outlets, IU included over the course of the past week/week and a half. It isn't something that has been apparently a slow burning process, and was almost overnight for most of it.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Hogsmeade (Orlando): Part 2
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The changes have been confirmed by multiple outlets, IU included over the course of the past week/week and a half. It isn't something that has been apparently a slow burning process, and was almost overnight for most of it.
Did someone mention a basilisk?!
I have been so fixated with the fact of adding a basilisk to this ride. I have sketched, conceptualized, imagined, played in my mid what the scene or upgrade would look like. Imagine you car goes almost grown level slowly passing through the large snake head statues and the chamber pipes.
Right in front of you you see a large yellow eye staring at you from inside the chamber holes. Harry’s screams to not look at it in the eye as you fly upward 180 degrees to find this 
Towering over you as its head lunges, reals back, and opens its moth at you. The soundtrack “Dueling the Baslaik” plays as it try’s to attack you then the score trupiumohantly transitions to “Fawkes is Reborn” amd you are able to escape the chamber of secrets as a grand finale to finish the ride. How was the pitch?
Sorry got going off tangent, just in my imaginary world for the last 3 years I have been just perfecting this idea in my head :topic:.
Timeline-wise, it wouldn't make sense. The ride appears to take place during the 5th or 6th film, which is after Harry defeats the Basilisk, hence the decayed skeleton we see in the ride.
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The basilisk skeleton is already in the ride.
The ride was originally supposed to have the chess board scene...I wish it did, that would have been amazing
I think it was in the original proposed concept art for Potter, that got leaked a long while back.
Keep in mind, that was during the time before things changed for the original Hogsmeade.
Yes, it's above...Also, general speculation/leaked documents back in the day
I get that, BUT...... it was still in the concept for the ride so the full living thing (basilisk) was considered.
It’s In the picture I uploaded in my previous comments. If you look middle left, right next to the basilisk it’s there.
Great find, I’ve never seen that interview before.
I distinctly remember smelling the fireplace during the early soft open. I was shocked to smell it again on both of my last rides. It was noticeable right at the start of the floo but I didn’t notice linger into the observatory.
I wonder if when I’m there April 12 if I will smell it. These small little effects usually stop working after not that long a period, and is not cared enough to fix it. It took these people almost 8 years to fir it.
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I think sometimes they underestimate the importance of smell on an attraction. Everybody always remembers a smell (ET and Soarin).
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I feel like the Soarin smell isn’t as iconic because you don’t smell it that long.
The ET queue smell is iconic because you’re spending a good 10-15 minutes breathing it in.
After years of experimentation, I finally found an expensive scented candle that came the closest to duplicating the ET scent. So I bought four of them, and I've been burning them all winter.
Can you share your source or are you taking that secret to your grave?
It was a Yankee Candle Holiday Season Edition special scent of Holiday Mountain Pine (the large candle). It's the closest to ET that I've tried. Since it was a Xmas holiday item, I don't think it will be available again until next Xmas.Can you share your source or are you taking that secret to your grave?
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