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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Hogsmeade (Orlando): Part 2

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I'm way behind, can somebody just give me a quick summary of what's going on with the Honeydukes and Tea shop façade?? When they got rid of Zonko's why didn't they just make that into another different Hogsmeade shop?
 
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They needed more room in Honeydukes. It is always overcrowded and the line to get in and then check out is too long. They are losing money by people just not being able to get in and then when they do get in they have to wait in line. So many (like me) just skip it all together. So by making it bigger with more registers they can get people in and out faster making all the lines shorter.

The tea facade is because the store that was there before is moving to DA.
 
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IzzyB said:
They needed more room in Honeydukes. It is always overcrowded and the line to get in and then check out is too long. They are losing money by people just not being able to get in and then when they do get in they have to wait in line. So many (like me) just skip it all together. So by making it bigger with more registers they can get people in and out faster making all the lines shorter.

The tea facade is because the store that was there before is moving to DA.
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Exactly. There's also a possibility that Pottages will be leaving, as well, seeing as there's gonna be a Pottages facade in Diagon Alley.
 
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With all these stores/facades leaving Hogsmeade, are they at least going to replace one with a store you can go into? Because you don't want screw over Hogsmeade because of the new DA expansion.
 
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Accio Butterbeer said:
With all these stores/facades leaving Hogsmeade, are they at least going to replace one with a store you can go into? Because you don't want screw over Hogsmeade because of the new DA expansion.
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Nah, I don't think it'd be screwing Hogsmeade if they don't add more stores. In fact, it's very good on them for even bothering to change some of these facades and not being cheap and leaving them as they were. Also, with Diagon Alley coming, the Potter crowds should hopefully be more spread out, so the Hogsmeade stores might be less crowded :shrug:
 
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Is this Zonko's window with the fireworks a new interactive one?



 
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^ It appears so, and that Zonko's will remain as a false storefront. The modern graphic-y clouds look completely inappropriate to the style of everything else Potter. How did that design get past Craig and Gilmore or UC even???
 
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awhen said:
Is this Zonko's window with the fireworks a new interactive one?
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That display is indeed new! Thanks for the heads-up and pics! :thumbs:
 
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^ It appears so, and that Zonko's will remain as a false storefront. The modern graphic-y clouds look completely inappropriate to the style of everything else Potter. How did that design get past Craig and Gilmore or UC even???
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It matches with a lot of the other MinaLima graphics, but I agree such a large display of it seems a bit out of theme.
 
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awhen said:
It matches with a lot of the other MinaLima graphics, but I agree such a large display of it seems a bit out of theme.
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Yeah, it just seems to flat to me... not jazzed up a bit with texture which MinaLima (which I had to look up as I had no idea what it was) does employ. As is, the clouds look like something that one would see in a Magic Kingdom Main St. window display.
 
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I'm just really not liking the look of the Honeydukes expansion. It looks so plain. I almost wish they had left the Zonko's shelves more or less as they had been but re-themed them to Honeydukes colors. Then, in order to make Honeydukes sweets available to more customers, I would have liked to see Honeydukes salespeople with cigarette-girl type sales boxes wandering in and out among the crowds or out on the Owl Post patio. That might not have worked for some of the meltier candies, but Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans, Exploding Bonbons, Sherbet Lemons, Pink Coconut Ice, Pepper Imps, & Fizzing Whizbees could be sold this way.

As for the Zonko's facade, I don't mind that the exit door is still Zonko's themed so much as the fact that you can actually see the interior of Honeydukes through the Zonko's door, from what I've heard. They should cover the glass with something so you can't see inside.

And I agree that the interactive window doesn't look quite right. Again, too plain. Or something.
 
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Magistra said:
I'm just really not liking the look of the Honeydukes expansion. It looks so plain. I almost wish they had left the Zonko's shelves more or less as they had been but re-themed them to Honeydukes colors. Then, in order to make Honeydukes sweets available to more customers, I would have liked to see Honeydukes salespeople with cigarette-girl type sales boxes wandering in and out among the crowds or out on the Owl Post patio. That might not have worked for some of the meltier candies, but Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans, Exploding Bonbons, Sherbet Lemons, Pink Coconut Ice, Pepper Imps, & Fizzing Whizbees could be sold this way.

As for the Zonko's facade, I don't mind that the exit door is still Zonko's themed so much as the fact that you can actually see the interior of Honeydukes through the Zonko's door, from what I've heard. They should cover the glass with something so you can't see inside.

And I agree that the interactive window doesn't look quite right. Again, too plain. Or something.
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The cigarette girl idea is awesome! they could have a cart/register nearby for transactions but it could work and would be great atmosphere.
 
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Keeping in mind that one of the things that makes potter so successful is it sticks to the fiction, how does the cigarette girl idea fit in?
 
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Keeping in mind that one of the things that makes potter so successful is it sticks to the fiction, how does the cigarette girl idea fit in?
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I think it would fit in Carkit Market since none of that is in the books or movies. I think it would be and interesting visual. The could also do people wearing the sandwich boards advertising local business "eat at the Leaky cauldron" ans such. I know they probably won't but it'd be neat.
 
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I think it would fit in Carkit Market since none of that is in the books or movies. I think it would be and interesting visual. The could also do people wearing the sandwich boards advertising local business "eat at the Leaky cauldron" ans such. I know they probably won't but it'd be neat.
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They'll need this to make it like London...

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From @zanebarefoot:

"Pottah construction."

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and

"[HASHTAG]#kongstruction[/HASHTAG] rocks. :p"

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And that picture lays that to rest... :thumbs:
 
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Felipe said:
"#kongstruction rocks. :p"

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And that picture lays that to rest... :thumbs:
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I don't get it, does everyone think those rocks are for some King Kong thing? Because they look like these rocks that were on the Hogwarts grounds...
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I don't get it, does everyone think those rocks are for some King Kong thing? Because they look like these rocks that were on the Hogwarts grounds...
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The picture shows that they have been moved to Potter overnight... so they have nothing to do with Kong... never did... at all... NADA. That is what Felipe pointed out when he posted the picture of them behind the wood wall.
 
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The picture shows that they have been moved to Potter overnight... so they have nothing to do with Kong... never did... at all... NADA. That is what Felipe pointed out when he posted the picture of them behind the wood wall.
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Correcto! I hope more of those will come, too. I think it's a wonderful choice to put them there. That wooden wall concerned me for a bit, but as always, Uni pulled through and this is shaping up beautifully! :cheers:
 
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Can't wait to go to the parks and see that this weekend. Awww yisss.
 
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