Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle (IOA)

[Viator]

And after Hollywood had to cancel their Deatheaters.

 

[Tobias]

And after Hollywood had to cancel their Deatheaters.

Can we now stop saying Universal can’t use Harry Potter during HHN?

Orlando gets the Death Eaters, HW cancels theirs. Orlando gets Go Go dancers, HW fans still laments they're no longer there.

Either way, this is great news for IoA!
It's a sweet counter/additional entertainment to HHN.

 

[Clive]

So just a bit confused. I'm seeing the screencap shared, but the actual blog post makes no mention of live Death Eaters/fog/etc... did someone slip?

 

[Brian G.]

So just a bit confused. I'm seeing the screencap shared, but the actual blog post makes no mention of live Death Eaters/fog/etc... did someone slip?

Press release mentioned it.

 

[truejonas]

Excellent, we can hit this opening weekend. If I can drag my husband-to-be to it, of course.

 

[Cup_Of_Coffee]

Omg. My boyfriend and I hoped this would be happening but had no idea it actually could/would!! So happy!!

 

[Mad Dog]

I'll be watching to see how good this turns out with the Hogsmeade fog effects and deatheaters roaming, in addition to the projections. I'll be at WDW during the last two days of the show, so if it looks really great, I might drive down to Universal to catch it on the 15th, since I won't be staying at Universal until Nov. 19th. Decisions, decisions.

 

[jrn14]

I wonder when they will post the schedule

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I wonder when they will post the schedule

Likely next week.

 

[Junebug]

Just announced to run Sept 14 - Nov 15.

Had to cancel our trip over Labor Day weekend which royally bummed me out. But now I have the DARK ARTS to look forward to! Rescheduled trip for Sep 28th. Bring on the Death Eaters!:box:

 

[Mad Dog]

Had to cancel our trip over Labor Day weekend which royally bummed me out. But now I have the DARK ARTS to look forward to! Rescheduled trip for Sep 28th. Bring on the Death Eaters!:box:

Universal's way of saying, sorry you couldn't make it, but we'll make it up to you.

 

[Jwhee]

I'm beginning to fear that this show will not include drones.

-We haven't seen any testing
-No visible drone platform on HPFJ show building
-No nets installed like in Hollywood over guest areas where the drones fly
-Also to note, haven't seen any construction of the added flame jets that Hollywood has scattered around the land for this show.

Possible reasoning for no drone platform and nets near/on the castle could be that they wont be flying to the left of the castle like in Hollywood, they could be flying up high above, or to the right hand side of the castle which is backstage instead of over Jurassic Park.

One other potential theory is that to make the illusion look proper the drones could be flying over the active JP construction site, which is about equivalent to where the drones fly in Hollywood (over the studio tour)~ not sure if they can fly drones over this?? If they can, then maybe they simply put the drone launch point in Jurassic Park and that explains why we aren't seeing it on Bio's helicopter photos

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I'm beginning to fear that this show will not include drones.

-We haven't seen any testing
-No visible drone platform on HPFJ show building
-No nets installed like in Hollywood over guest areas where the drones fly
-Also to note, haven't seen any construction of the added flame jets that Hollywood has scattered around the land for this show.

Possible reasoning for no drone platform and nets near/on the castle could be that they wont be flying to the left of the castle like in Hollywood, they could be flying up high above, or to the right hand side of the castle which is backstage instead of over Jurassic Park.

One other potential theory is that to make the illusion look proper the drones could be flying over the active JP construction site, which is about equivalent to where the drones fly in Hollywood (over the studio tour)~ not sure if they can fly drones over this?? If they can, then maybe they simply put the drone launch point in Jurassic Park and that explains why we aren't seeing it on Bio's helicopter photos

To add to this Universal updated their show times page and does not list the Dark Arts yet, just Nighttime lights. I'm wondering what's up...

 

[Mad Dog]

I'm guessing the drones proved too expensive, and too troublesome with their landings, in Hollywood....so perhaps they've been cut from the show.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I'm guessing the drones proved too expensive, and too troublesome with their landings, in Hollywood....so perhaps they've been cut from the show.

We can’t speculate on something we don’t know.

 

[JungleSkip]

If they don't have the drones, the show doesn't look worth seeing.

 

[Viator]

I have consistently heard in the past no drones for Orlando. Would love to be proven wrong.

 

[Junebug]

Although they misspelled Hogwarts, the schedule is there.
Universal Orlando Resort™ | Your Orlando Vacation Destination

 

[Andysol]

Hogwartz™: With Dronez, not Screenz™

 

[Mad Dog]

We can’t speculate on something we don’t know.

If we didn't speculate we wouldn't have much to talk about on these Forums. There's very little 'official' information. That's what we do for the most part....Speculate. ....and we do it damn good for the most part, at least on IU.