How Disney Lost The Rights to Harry Potter
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- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter changed everything for theme parks. But just a few years earlier Disney was one cheque away from having Harry all to themselves.
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00:00 Introduction
00:53 Hollywood on the Gold Coast
03:40 Disney and Harry Potter
08:50 Universal and Harry Potter
11:13 Disney's Response
Avengers Campus is pretty much what Disney would've done with Potter if they had gotten the rights to it: One Interactive Family Screen ride, one restaurant, one shop and a meet n greet location. Nothing huge or impressive like what you see today at Universal.
As opposed to SWGE which feature ROTR which is arguably the best attraction ever built
@@timothybernardi68 Its hard to know which way they would've taken it. At least at the time though, I'd have to lean towards being like avengers campus. Feels like SWGE was specifically meant to compete with Universal and the time scale fits for it to be a reaction to Universal's Diagon Alley.
Hell, their mistakes with Harry Potter are probably what lead to the Disney we have today. Caring more about massive IPs than anything else by trying to make big franchises out of Marvel and Star Wars right out of the gate. Disney has owned Marvel and the MCU almost as long as it has the latter has existed, and this was towards the peak of Harry Potter's popularity.
@@Fa1seP0sitive For a majority of people Disney does not compete with Universal. It competes with cruise lines and ski resorts and Broadway plays and the Eiffel Tower and the beaches of Maui and diving in the Grand Caymans. Not everyone who enters a theme park only vacations at theme parks.
Unpopular Opinion: I like Avengers Campus more than TWWOHP. It’s my Wizarding World of Harry Potter and this is coming from a Potterhead (fan of Harry Potter)
thank god
The best thing that ever happened to Disney was them losing Harry Potter. It forced Disney to have real competition in the theme park space, which they had never had before.
Had Universal not gotten Potter the Disney parks, especially Disney world, would improve at a glacial pace.
Sadly, Disney is still dressing that old pig and you don't realize it. You are over paying for just projected objects.
@@RabbitsInBlack no I realize it. The parks are still a mess. Just imagine how awful they’d be if they had no competition.
I would agree with you IF Disney improved. Sadly they have not. More appropriately Disney has degraded in the past few decades. Their new stuff such as Galaxy's Edge is a total joke. While on the other hand Universal is building a third major park in the Orlando area and will for sure have another unique Harry Potter land as well.
Even tried and true areas of Disney have laid in disrepair, chief among them Disney Springs.
@@verios44 I agree, the parks are still in a proper mess. But imagine how bad it’d be if it didn’t have Universals potter to compete with. Disney World would be at a stand still. Galaxy’s edge, Avatar. We’d get none of it.
@@verios44 there is also no doubt that Potter and Nintendo are better than Galaxy’s edge and Pandora.
I am so glad disney never got their hands on Harry Potter. One less franchise for them to ruin
Well said!!!
Are you telling me PIXAR Pier is better than Hogsmede at Universal?
so true.
Have you seen the Fantastic Beasts movies? I’m sure even Disney would’ve made something better but even that’s not saying much
The word is RoooooooNd! They would have RooooooooNd IT!
I had no idea Disney’s proposed use of the Harry Potter IP was so pathetic. It was a snub, a downright disrespectful waste. I’m so glad Rowling stuck to her guns, and Universal knocked it out of the stratosphere!
If you ask me, it serves the IP right considering how awful Rowling is
Disney would’ve absolutely ruined it. With universal, we have hogwarts and hogsmeade, with the hogwarts express train ride linking it to daigon alley and gringotts. The walking queues of hogwarts to higrids, and through gringotts is a mind blowing experience on its own. Now we’re getting the ministry of magic at epic universe, squeezing 3 huge lands out of the legendary IP. Knowing how Disney planned on ruining what is the greatest theme park IP, with a teacup ride and a petting zoo just shows how incompetent their leadership is.
@@GabyGeorge1996 shut it
@@GabyGeorge1996 Business is business and money is money. Hope you're not planning on open any business considering the way you think, it's called social justice warrior. It's not how the real world work, as you can see in the video. Disney lost it's opportunity to catch a cash cow, lol. It's only work on a fantasy world to some people and cesspool to most people, it's called Twitter.
I heard the rumour that Disney doesn't want Hogwarts Castle take an attention from Cinderella Castle which is an icon of WDW for long time.
Now I see why Nintendo world went to universal and not disney
100% Also makes sense why Illumination changed its animation style so much for Nintendo. Looks like NBCUniversal is a yes man which is a great positive for creatives.
The Peanuts theme park in Universal Osaka as well
and once upon time, Universal actually sued Nintendo over Donkey Kong XD
i guess just shows, even past events can be set aside, when enough time has went by.
Lowball offers, Buzz Lightyear with Wands, and "Dumbodore"... those plans are almost insulting to the franchise and its teen/adult fans! Disney has a lot of really smart people, but it's amazing how foolish their arrogance can make them sometimes.
Excellent video as usual.
Walt Disney would be rolling in his fucking grave if he looked at what the CEO's of today are doing with the business he envisioned and built.
To be fair at the time, the fans were predominantly children. We’ve since then grown into adults, but considering some of these plans started right alongside the 1st movie, they were probably expecting a 6-10 year old fanbase
Universal was able to get a Harry Potter theme park and now they got a Nintendo theme park. lol
I think all the smart people left for universal studios. Do only ones were left or the SJW types were trying to push a message to your kids.
Harry Potter would have been a horrible fit for a Disney theme park.
It would have been better than Star Wars.
@@dougmartin7129did you not paid attention to the video? The attractions proposed by Disney were horrible: A sorting hat teacup ride.
Maybe Hollywood Studios 🤔
Not if they put effort into it.
Sisney never had the right to Harry Potter. JK Rowling told Disney no when they wanted full control in a meeting
Universal getting Harry Potter is the best thing to happen to the theme park industry since WDW.
Wild that JK Rowling basically saved Universal parks and changed the themed entertainment industry forever. Thanks god she saw the writing on the wall with Disney and went with Universal, a bold move. Disney would have micro managed the hell out of the project and watered it down with convoluted, pointless backstory just like Galaxy’s Edge at best, and Avengers Campus at worst. In the end we ended up with not only incredible Potter lands but a new industry big dog with the ability to genuinely compete with Disney. We truly won!
She was a little smarter than the average bear and probably figured that Disney wouldn't go for an all-British cast.
Too bad her sharp thinking couldn't last into the 2010's. Poor woman really is behind on the times.
@@lavenderflowersfall280 if you say so 😂
As great as Potter Land is (and it is) she did not really save Universal. Even before Potter, Islands of Adventure was consistently rated as the 2nd best theme park in the world. Potter has helped them immensely, but Universal has always put on a great show. 😎
@@freemagicfun oh I always loved the park, but attendance was weak and never reached Universal’s projections. I doubt Comcast would have invested even a fraction of what they have into the parks without potter, in fact I think they may have spun the division off. I think potter absolutely saved the universal parks from further decline.
@@freemagicfun Potter did much more for Universal than you are giving credit for.
I’m really glad it went to Universal, I recently went to the parks, and was astonished with the immersion of the Wizarding World! I believe Disney would not do anything near it when analyzing the time it happened, and the competition gave us Pandora and Galaxy’s Edge. It all went perfectly to be honest, I’m thrilled to see more in Epic Universe
when i heard moaning myrtle in the bathroom XD
I have such blurry memories of the Harry Potter movie world attraction and have been trying to find images and videos for years, outside of ones featuring Aragog inside the Spooky Coaster. This was the last thing I expected to see in this video but man did I love it.
I visited Universal Studios in Hollywood on Halloween in 2016 and made sure to be one of the first visitors to step into the park by 8 in the morning. As I walked down the road and Hogwarts came into view, I basically started to cry. I remained the whole day in the Potter-Area and never had a similar experience since. It was just mind-blowing and somewhat wholesome... especially for a fan who read the books from the start in 1997.
Same!!! I'll never forget it. And honestly now with the video game. It seems like the best thing for any HP fan
Me too
The artists who worked on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter are glad you loved the experience they worked so hard to bring to you.
So glad Disney fumbled the bag.. it would have felt so out of place in Disney parks and I love what Universal did with the Wizarding World
Wish Sony kept Spider man. Or at least only lease to Disney. Hope Universal WB uses their common sense and keeps DC!😁🖐
why in the world would anyone go all the way to a "Harry Potter" world experience, just to drink a coke or sprite etc.
you want to have the full wizarding experience, so of course you want to try the "Butterbeer!"
and truth be told, when i went to the Harry Potter World in London, back in 2019, i absolutely loved the Butterbeer there!
It still absolutely blows my mind when I think about just *HOW FREAKING BADLY* Disney of all companies dropped the ball on the Harry Potter IP. Was the hubris *that* blinding that they believed JKR would say yes to anything they proposed no matter how lackluster just because they're Disney?
It doesn't matter who you are, or what you are. You sill have to have levels or respect to the authors/IP owners, or lose all of your chances.
Disney would have just made the Harry Potter area a large gift shop like they did with Star Wars. I’m so glad Universal got Harry Potter. The area is far more immersive than anything Disney has.
I’m happy with how this turned out.
Disney may be well established, but they have a terrible layout. They have too few attractions for proper people distribution, so they end up with huge bottlenecks and crazy wait times. The key to a good theme park experience is pacing, the faster the turnaround, the better the experience. People never complain about an experience being too short, if they get to do all or pretty much all the stuff they intended. However, people do feel cheated if they spend most of their day stuck in line up and don’t see a quarter of what they intended. It’s a good thing Universal got Harry Potter, because they know how to keep close to the source material and they provide a better experience overall.
Hearing this I realize J.K. has an amazing creative mind. I’m so thankful for her cause Universal Harry Potter World is exactly how she wanted and imagined it and it’s great for all Harry Potter fans. I just wish it was bigger lol
One interesting fact: Diagon Alley, historically, exists in real life. It is not 100% made up but is based on a real alley of shops in Rowling's native Scotland. I understand that claustrophobic tourists dislike the narrow streets but Rowling wanted it that way. See the first movie where Hagrid takes Harry shopping for school supplies in DA. It was like that in real life when I visited Universal and I can see why she insisted it had to be a specific width. I felt like I was walking in Harry's footsteps, seeing all the ancient shops and curios. With Rowling, in most cases, there IS a method to the madness.
I admit I sometimes an uncomfortable in tight spaces but on the other hand, I understand why many visitors said Universal took the idea of "immersive experiences" to the next level! I'm praying that the Ministry of Magic becomes an attraction at their new theme park...
IF Dizney had gotten the rights to Harry Potter they would have changed it and the result would not be as authentic and "Magical" as what Universal has been able to create. This is a fascinating video. I had never heard of Movie World and this story is also something I had never heard of.
One can't deny that JK Rowling is a business genius. And Universal's upcoming Epic Universe and Super Nintendo World has Disney shaking in its boots.
Funny thing, Disney also tried getting the theme park rights to Nintendo characters in the 90's
UO did a great job with both HP lands, and taught everyone a thing or three about making it immersive.
I'm glad Universal got the Wizarding World. After seeing what Disney did to Star Wars.
WB still own the ip…except for park rights
Now Universal needs a DC Heros land. TIME to start up a DC universe focusing on character development. ✨ And back story along with action.😄
SWGA would have worked if they had went with the Original Trilogy....
Disney is nothing like what it used to be. To me the spirit of disney died with the princess and the frog (their final 2d animated movie). They would have murdered the HP franchise in its entirety
Agreed
I'd never cared about visiting a theme park, until the plans for Universal's Wizarding World were revealed. We were there for opening day, and have been back almost every year since. I've learned to appreciate everything else that Universal has to offer, but it's the Wizarding World that keeps drawing me back
RIP the less fortunate franchises that didn’t escape Disney’s grasp.
RIP Marvel
RIP star wars
@@manny022and politics
I literally had no idea Disney had the rights to Harry Potter it would be sort of weird calling it a Disney thing lol
I'm glad universal got Harry potter it sounds like Disney wanted to cheap out on it. Regardless of what you think of jk Rowling the wizarding world is amazing.
Rowling should stick with her talent 😁🤗creativiting new stories. Impressive mind.
Do you know what I think of J. K. Rowling? She is an amazing phenomenon that we experienced at the British Isles besides Shakespeare.
Excellent video on the history of HP . You had me a bit worried after your last video.
Disney has always wanted control of the IP - even Walt Disney. That was why it took him so long to get the rights to Mary Poppins. He did not want to concede any control to the author. Then he hit on the Disney master plan - lie. He made the agreement with Travers then made the movie the way he wanted to anyway. They would have done the same with Potter, and Jo knew that. 😎
Meanwhile, they had the rights to *Bedknobs and Broomsticks* first and basically do bubkes with it except cut it up, an extension of their hatred of *Song of the South.*
Disney has had a problem for years. It has always imagined that it was superior to anything else. That view is now crashing around them.
Rowling demanding control over her franchise was such a good move! She's been hitting all the right marks.
Really inspiring, I love that she didn't want to sell out at the expense of the creative world.
I wish more creators were that controlling with their ip, it shows they truly care about it.
JK's demands made Universal the hit it is.
Definitely didn’t have the same impact, but I think Atlantica (and arguably Mysterious Island, if you count Verne’s works as a singular IP) in Tokyo DisneySea also opened earlier than Harry Potter. I’d be very curious to see how much Universal Creative was inspired by immersive parks like Disney Sea vs. strictly studying the Potter films in bringing the world of the movies to life. In any case, they clearly did an excellent job.
Being that there were plenty of Disney imagineers who ended up working for Universal I'm sure they took plenty of ideas or things they had seen from Disney and use them over at Universal
"He had soured on the Harry Potter franchise and on J.K Rowling herself" ... Iger was truly a trailblazer
That'll never work!
can't wait for 20 years when everyone realizes how stupid the wokeness fad was
@@jae5103 you're so pathetic lmao
Under his watch TRON, Rise of the Resistance, Cosmic Rewind and Flight of Passage were built ... So yeah, he was a trailblazer
@@jae5103 cope
It's funny how Disney seems to be doing the same thing today. Downplaying Nintendo, particularly if the rumors are true and Pokemon get a whole land.
As of right now, only Universal Japan got the rights for Pokémon at their park. The US Universal parks have yet to make a deal with Pokémon.
This does nothing but confirm to me what I have believed all along. That if Disney won Harry Potter they would doubtless have done to the wizarding world as they had done with Star Wars.
They’ve done some cool things with Star Wars. Admittedly more bad than good, but I feel as if people completely ignore the good.
With Harry Potter, the only continuation that was delivered ruined the series entirely for a lot of people, and was basically the fault of JK. Maybe it would have been a good idea to sell.
It's also the story of a modern-era writer who had learned from Disney mistreatment of writers who came before her, armed with good lawyers, and confident in the popularity of her characters. It was the Universal suits who caved to her demands, but obviously they don't regret it. A great victory for authors.
I'm surprised Warner bros considered giving theme park rights to their biggest rival.
Warner Bros are real ones fr
I’m surprise they never bought out Six Flags…considering how often they use their ip at their parks
Reminds of the Blockbuster, which had the opportunity to purchase Netflix, but passed on the offer.
I remember them building that harry potter section as I visited the park as it was under construction in 2008.
Just returned from a 5 day visit in orlando. Spent two days at univeral, and two days at disney. Long story short...Universal is the best theme park i've ever visited, so far in life. Disney felt dated, unexciting, and ultimately disappointing. Its unfortunate because my initial day going to disney (AK first, and then HS the next day), I was very eager and excited, but starting from my experience with Navi river journey, i realized that Disneys attractions and even the parks in general dont have the same attention to detail, immersion, or enjoyment as universals parks attractions. Both days my family and I were in disney, we left late afternoon to spend the rest of the day at universal. Each time I was convinced how far superior universal is. Going to Disney actually made me appreciate universal even more. Even Universals food is better (although I think its easier to get food faster in Disney). When Epic universe opens, its going to be a tough time for Disney.
As a former huge Disney fan since the 1980s, my disappointment in current Disney management cannot be overstated. They’ve declined to the point that I no longer trust them. Universal’s handling of Harry Potter has been nothing short of amazing, and I’m glad they acquired the rights instead. I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with it in Epic Universe.
What do you think about the dissallusion of reedy creek ?
It was not dissolved. Instead of Disney choosing the board of directors - the state now chooses them. 😎
The moral of the story is that Disney has ALWAYS been terrible at handling acquired IPs.
When disney first proposed their park it was "a cross between flintstones and medieval village". The Trouble is that because US designers arent around the kind of historic buildings we have in the UK every day, everything was cartoonish and oversized and not architecturally correct making it all look fake. Now, the parks are entirely designed by UK designers working on behalf of Universal Creative, many of whom worked on the films and all of whom are movie art directors and used to working with the kind of detail Rowling and TBP require.
The Harry Potter sections of Universal, including the connecting train ride is some of the most immersive attractions to happened anywhere. It's actually stunning the level of detail that has gone into it - not just the facades but even the ride queues. It actually puts the rest of Universal's park to shame where some of theming, especially in the Marvel / Toon sections amounts to little more than paint schemes and some signage. It definitely shows what a park can do when it puts its money where its mouth is. The funny part is Disney trying the same approach for Star Wars and while it's certainly immersive, I don't think it has received anywhere close the acclaim as Harry Potter has for capturing the spirit of its source material or just being fun to walk through.
The line for ET and The Mummy are fantastic. Honestly fun to wait for the ride.
Remember when harry potter movies use to play on the disney channel durring halloween? Even though we knew the movies didn't belong to disney? They don't do that anymore. Now I know why.
They always used to show non-Disney content. It was how I was first able to see *The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking* when I missed its theatrical release because I was too busy helping Disney become an oligopoly.
I am also happy that Disney didn't got any rights they would have ruined the Harry Potter completely like marvel and star wars.
RIP Robbie Coltrane
13:13 Spidey doesn't look like he nailed that landing... Interesting backstory of the battle between Universal and Disney btw :)
So one thing that wasn’t mentioned was what the tourist industry was like in the US after 9/11/2001. Travel and tourism was on a huge decline. Basically, during COVID, everyone wanted to travel, and be among large crowds, which seems odd considering that is not something you should do during a pandemic, but after 9/11, it was the exact opposite. Americans, who made up a large chunk of park attendance were afraid to fly since that was the method terrorists used. Driving was an option, except the fears of a terrorist attack at some place iconic in Americana like WDW. This didn’t keep people away during the holidays, but it did during the rest of the year. Both WDW and Universal had reduced hours, some as early as 6pm!!! And shows like fireworks were no longer daily since they were so expensive for what little tourists show up. Building such a land like Hogsmeade would be a dangerous high risk move.
While Universal was building Hogsmeade, they were corralling people out of lands before 6, making people wait longer for shows, so they could perform in front of a larger crowd, and other such disappointments, that caused my family not to want to return for nearly a full decade. Their money was being spent on this new land, while Disney was keeping its parks open 2 hours later than Universal. Still early, but since everything was walk on, and shows were actually given special times, you felt like you were still getting your moneys worth.
Then there’s Iger and the catching up. Cars Land needed to happen because DCA didn’t really have much. Eisner was opening up parks left and right, while Iger was all about expansion lands. Only one new park was opened, Shanghai, and that was more of a business deal to try to market themselves to China. There already was a park in Hong Kong, but the Chinese government wanted something of their own, and helped fund the project.
Universal went and built Epic Universe, but what was Disneys response? They always opened a new park before Universal could. But even before COVID, when profits were high, there was no new park. Maybe it was the debt taken on by all the acquisitions, I don’t know.
Modern Disney is definitely mismanaging the parks, with the 7,000 CAS member layoff on top of Chapek's previous firing of maintenance workers, points to severe cost-cutting measures while at the same time trying to spike up the prices of the park to exploit it as much as possible. (The only explanation for Tron taking 5 YEARS to build).
The whole firing of CAS members seems really off to me as a plan in the long run against Universal, talent and workers leaving to Universal was always talked about but always on a limited scale given the simple size of both parks. But w/ Epic Universe incoming, Universal is preparing to eat a lot more of the Orlando tourism market, but also the working class available. Universal already has significantly higher pay and still Disney is fighting against the union rn
I can only imagine that Disney executives do not think Epic Universe is sufficient enough of a threat to throw money at since other areas of the studio need more direct attention (I'm guessing this is where the debt acquisition comes in). Maybe they're right, While GE wasn't the big fundamental changer like WW in Islands was, they have increased profits and visitors and I doubt the number of visitors would drastically decrease even with Epic Universe.
But Disney failed to get the rights to HP 4 times and paid the price, it seems they will pay the price for failing to recognize Universal as threat.
@@SuperPaez lol, remember when they were hoping their Narnia franchise would be the next HP?
The biggest company on Earth's hatred of Harry Potter's author wouldn't lead to a mass condemnation in the media years later at all....
This. You can always see and smell where a rat has been.
I went to the both Universal parks for the Wizarding World Experience and let me just say IT WAS AMAZING STILL! (even though it rained and we had to wait for rides to open up, also never do 2 parks on the same day... we only did the Harry Potter stuff in both parks ;w; then realized we had missed more stuff cause we were on a rush to do everything in the Wizarding world.
the biggest difference between Universal and Disney is, that Universal uses their IPs to create art, wich then turns into money, while Disney has no respect towards their IPs and just throws them around like an overpriced six flags park because they see them as money makers. And the problem is: both works. But Disney does not respect their IPs, nor do they respect their customers. They think their customers are fanboy/fangirl idiots (wich they are, but thats how the concept works) who will pay any price if something has the Disney brand on it. Universal on the other hand knows their customers are mostly simps for movies (not universal as a brand), and want to experience immersive rides themed to their favourite movies that are actually entertaining, telling a story, and look beautiful. You just feel the money invested in those rides. At disney, sometimes I feel like "Where did the 200 million dollars go that you allegedly spent on this?"- because the plots are so damn uninteresting and boring, it all feels shallow (im talking spider man ride, the Cars studio tour replacement in Paris, etc)
That being said, they still build good rides from time to time. The star wars land may be an original planet no known from the movies, but Rise Of The Resistance is an absolute masterpiece! And the whole land looks stunning. But Avangers Campus and stuff like that make me not want to trust Disney anymore.
Disney isn’t good enough for Harry Potter. Disney doesn’t deserve Harry Potter.
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I was there opening season with my family i still remember how packed it was thanks for the revived memory lol
when i went to universal. i spent like 2 days just in the harry potter areas i didnt want to leave they did such a great job.
Considering how they are running both Star Wars and Marvel into the ground, HP is better off without Disney.
Universal won, and the theme park industry won
I can't even begin to count the number of times I've heard something along the lines of "Ah but Universal has Harry Potter"
Their idea of a Harry Potter theme area was down right appalling. Glad it didn't get in their hands. I was totally let down when I was last at Disney World years ago and saw they had a Pizza Planet, what a shame....it was a generic restaurant....no space theme....no arcade....no claw machine with vinyl aliens....nothing. What kind of Imagineering is that?
Harry Potter changed not only the whole theme park industry forever, but life on earth as we know it, maybe even for eternity or even longer. It's influence on the history of mankind just cannot be overstated, but please keep trying.
Imagine a ride going through many scenes of HP series, Gringot, Dragon, Ministry battle with the waterball and all.
I took my Niece to Harry Potter World near London. It was very underwhelming - when the first curtain pulled back I was impressed, but it quickly went downhill. Apart from the bank room, it was simply a walk - where none of the exhibits could be touched. I then spent 120 pounds on tat for her in the gift shop - what a complete rip off. Sadly my Niece loved it!
The only thing Disney has over Universal is nostalgia. If Universal Orlando does Epic Universe/Super Nintendo World right (adding Pokemon for example) they'll blow Disney out of the water
Universal picked up the fumble and they've been pushing forward full steam ahead since
What was said at 12:58 ?
“Even if you claim this is Bugs Land erasure” - Some things are difficult to say haha.
Walking into Diagon Alley is truly, truly a magical experience
finally a story about disney failing !
They didn't technically lose it ,they simply didn't have the vision for it and they said it was too British for American people.JK Rowling wasn't talking their typical low-ball offer and substandard attraction ideas she knew her worth and Universal gave her the moon to their credit.
Theres rumours that disney tried to get the lord of the rings theme park rights recently but botched it up (again) and universal is already planning a future expansion for their new theme 'Epic Universe'
Went to Universal Orlando Dec. of 2019. Talk about perfect timing! Wizard in World was great, would recomend.
I've been to Universal Studios Osaka, the Harry Potter attractions there were incredible. The actors were incredible. Sure, I got horrendously (playfully) picked on by Olivander, but at least the 20ish Japanese kids got a good laugh out of it. It was a great experience.
No slight against the Harry Potter franchise or the quality of the attraction, but the Lost World area was awesome, and I for one am sad that it had to give way.
Considering how poorly the magical beast movies are I’m not convinced Disney doesn’t have some role
As always , competition is good and force the hell out of innovations.
Universal needs to do a stand alone Wizarding world theme park.
I don't understand how HP could sell as many books as they did and Disney still low ball the offer... Literally HP was the ideal IP for HP in terms of economics. HP will outpace any Pixar Movie... Also with Avatar, with their box office why does nobody talk about those movies. But when you find an HP fan, there's podcasts, Tshirts, college sports teams etc.
Disney's idea for Harry Potter was insultingly unimaginative. A rethemed teacup ride and a petting zoo? I can experience that at the county fair.
Universal Studios did AMAZING with Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando! Absolutely love that they built Hogsmeade and Daigon Alley experiences. We went there in 2021 for the first time. Incredible!! My sons were Harry Potter fans when they were young. They were 24 and 25 when we visited WW and absolutely were blown away. Bravo to JK Rowling to holding to her vision. Disney can certainly improve on Avengers Camp. It is so plain and lacks the immersion that WW has. Though we like Galaxy’s Edge, again, feels like Disney held back. We don’t go to theme parks much due to how expensive they have become (please Universal, don’t do what Disney is doing with exorbitant price hikes), so when we do, it is big vacation for our family.
I just pictured a 2D Harry Potter like something out of a 1940s Disney film.
Was so sad there was no HP world at Universal Singapore.
If you want to see what Disney would have done to Harry Potter, look no further than the leaked “Mary Poppins Attraction” that was planned for Epcot Center….aka a teacup spinner with a fancy queue.
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It all comes down to control. Disney refuses to give, very much like Apple and some other large corporations. So happy the way it turned out. Universal WWOHP is by far our favorite.
By the way - what was JKs beef with coke?
If I had to guess... probably an immersion thing. That's all I can think of.
When did the last time you see a magical fantasy movie,that have Coke advertisement?
*Mac & Me.*
@Attmay that's sci-fi movie with aliens
Funny how history is going to repeat itself
yeah with Nintendo world lol
"To British for American children." Yeah since what you want as a kid is McMansions and Salem style witches.
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The arrogance of disney tho. I actually think bc they were British it made the world more immersive bc it was a unique "culture" American children didn't have anything like HP, forcing them to develop an imagination, so by the time the movie came around it was a big bang moment
As usual the egos of the top leadership at Disney leads to problems with the parks they never learn
Bloody hell, why did Universal not create Wizarding World in Singapore!!
the one in Singapore was too small, wizarding world needs quite a bit of space and the one in Singapore just couldn't make it work
Based on Disney's ownership of Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, thank goodness they did not get the Harry Potter franchise.
The greed of Disney knows no bounds, but their quality of movies or anything else is atrocious, especially since the best CGI makers will not work with them since they are delusional thinking they need their name to find clients.
Good for Universal. Wonderful video thank you.
6:20 I got a perfect 999999 score with picture proof. Space ranger right here
Top work Gentleman
i got to go to universal singapore, so dissapointed there was no HP
Bro….how did I get a Harry Potter Universal Studios ad before this vid?
Went to Orlando. First this is Harry Potter. I went every spot in wizard word. It so amazing place. Wanna go back again
Look what happened to the Disney Narnia films. The first one was a great hit, but when the second one didn’t bring the numbers in they pretty much gave up and pawned the series off, and it sputtered to a halt after the third film.
I love harry potter I just wish we could have hade these books when I Was a child.