Its Official: Harry Potter Attraction Going to Universal Hollywood

Comcast Hints That Harry Potter Would Go To Additional Universal Parks It’s been rumored for some time in addition to today Time Warner boss Rob Bewkes mentioned what is the news wasn't remote. Now Comcast’s Universal Parks & Resorts has confirmed that it's going to create a Harry Potter attraction inside its Universal Art galleries Hollywood theme park, additionally to grow its uber-lucrative The Wizarding Arena of Harry Potter attraction at its Orlando resort. It’s there the entire year-plus-old Potter-designed attraction has aided boost revenue by 33% using the first nine several days of 2011, and attendance expires 50% since Wizarding’s June 2010 launch, making the go to other parks a no-brainer. (Yesterday, Comcast CFO Mike Angelakis referred to as attraction at Universal Orlandos Islands of risk an entirely totally reset mechanism for your park.) “It was a game title title changer for people and frankly for Orlando,” Universal Art galleries leader Ron Meyer told the Connected Press after today’s announcement. “The expansion in Orlando makes it that actually essential-see, which we’ll have the identical experience here.” The completely new installation is predicted to create greater than 1,000 jobs. La County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky told the AP he was told Universal’s concert venue Gibson Amphitheatre might be axed to produce way of the Potter attraction. No plan particulars or time frames were spoken about. Harry Potter can be a Warner Bros property.