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Harry Potter is going to Island of Adventure, this is no secret anymore and it’s no secret either that it made me happy that it wouldn’t go to Disney. I always thought that Disney should make their own magic and not try to get this wizard to control its lands and boundaries within the Disney grounds. It seems I am not the only happy man as can be read on the Re-Imagineering blog (and surely on other forums and blogs on the net).

After the official press release from Warner Bros. and Universal Orlando you’d have thought that Bob Iger would be marching several legions of Disney Executives to the guillotine or that an angry mob of stockholders would be storming the castle. Instead a group of resilient battle weary Imagineers were quietly grinning from ear to ear, cracking open a bottle of champagne and staring out upon a very, very ‘blue sky’.

I never thought this would be a big loss for Disney. Now Disney Imagineers can do what they do best. Make their own magic without outside interference…

Universal can go right ahead and follow the franchise. The heritage of Disney Imagineering, however, is one of building franchises from the ground up. With Hogwarts Castle looming on the horizon, WDI is primed and ready to show the world something fresh, exciting, original, daring and wholly surprising, to dare to deliver to guests an experience they never knew they wanted.

I am convinced Disney will have an answer to the Harry Potter theme park within the IoA boundaries. Maybe we Disney fanatics can start dreaming about some real amazing new stuff for the near future. With the competition not to far away from Walt Disney World we can only expect Disney to fight back with something that will astonish us all…

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