The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Hollywood

[Allen The Actor]

Apparently not. The rumored Grinchmas softs seemed to have been nixed... however, January is a good time to start camping outside Hogsmeade I'd say.

Currently putting out a completely speculative prediction of March 30th, with softs starting in mid-January. That actually might be conservative, we'll see...

Good guess! Official start of Spring is March 20th. Let's see how literal Universal takes it!

 

[k_peek_2000]

The announcement will be that they're adding a loop to Hippogriff.

Apparently not. The rumored Grinchmas softs seemed to have been nixed... 

Maybe the higher ups pitched the idea around, but I highly doubt that was ever seriously considered.

 

[Ryan]

The announcement will be that they're adding a loop to Hippogriff.

Not before Disney announces Hyperspace Mountain is getting one first!

 

[Chris]

Could December 8th be a possible soft opening date or is that too soon?  Like Universal did with Diagon Alley in Florida when they announced the grand opening date on the soft opening date!?

Read my post above...

 

[Imdbman]

Read my post above...

I guess we'll find out when they announce next week.

 

[Wesker69]

Here are a few pics from yesterday (Dec 3rd, 2015) & today (Dec 4th, 2015)...

*sorry I didn't get this centered better... there were people in the way

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[12th Man]

Lots of awesome lighting test going on at Hogwarts! I'll try to get some photos soon

 

[Aaron]

Really digging the new Studio Tour hub decorations! 

 

[12th Man]

Lots of awesome light testing going on at Hogwarts!! (sorry, some of the photos are a bit blurry)

They started blowing fog/smoke behind Hogwarts, wonder why but it looked really cool!

 

[Freak]

^Its the smoke from Water World.

But those lighting pics....OH MY WORD!

 

[Alexshow.]

Looking at those lighting pics..i am freaking out right now. That looks so beautiful that I can't even describe it.

 

[12th Man]

Nope, they turned on and off the smoke a couple times. Also the park was closed too. But yeah, the lights are really amazing! It is so awesome to have Hogwarts just around 10-15 minutes from home.

Wait, I can't tell. Did you mean the literally or not? lol

 

[Allen The Actor]

I'm freaking out!!! Looks so cool!

They've already tested all the regular night mood lighting and projection lights for Hogwarts, this looks like testing for the opening, with the smoke and special lighting behind Hogwarts, etc.

Before anyone says "that means grand/soft opening is close!" or what have you, it's not out of the ordinary to test out the special "event" lighting package ahead of time, it's just programming they can save for later.

Also, they might be getting this lighting package ready for the announcement on December 8th, you never know, might be a live broadcasted announcement.

 

[12th Man]

Definitely won't be live because they said they'll be posting it on their Youtube channel at 7am PT on Tuesday. But this most likely could have been for the video/announcement.

 

[chris.g]

^ The announcement will be live (as far as I know).

 

[Alexshow.]

^


Is it odd that I expected it to be live? It makes sense, due to how big it will have an impact for Hollywood once its announced, as it'll seem likely that ticket sales will atleast see a boost for the first two nights.

 

[JPLA]

Yeah, that light show was quite spectacular.  Whatever big production it's for is going to look wonderful.  Sorry for poor quality photos.

 

[Chris]

I am very impressed to see Universal Hollywood get this type of treatment.  Its time to shine USH...let''s do this right!

 

[William]

To quote the always articulate Ronald Weasley,

"Wicked."

I'd wager this is testing for the grand opening, or some other type of event/announcement. Florida and Japan's grand openings utilized similar lighting and smoke effects which aren't present on a regular basis.

 

[USHfan78]

I think the rose is off the bloom with this WWOHP the last movie was years ago and while it's great to have new stuff in the park I don't think this will have a huge turn out as they think people want new stuff fresh not thing based on a movies that was from 10 years ago while I see it having big crowds maybe in year one year two and three it's going to be seen and done it what's new and asking people to pay $299.00 for a pass that gives you any chance of coming more than once a year is crazy Universal Hollywood  is putting a lot of stock in WWOHP far after the last movie was I just hope it doesn't backfire on them