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Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe introduce gathered customers to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. (Photo courtesy WFTV Orlando)
Video: Radcliffe, Grint marvel at attraction
Photos: Attraction opens | Wizarding World party
The day Harry Potter fans across the world have been waiting for has arrived. After years of planning, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened to visitors at Universal Orlando Friday morning.
The park opened at 9:00am, but the frenzy had been building all week long for excited visitors waiting to get their first look at the The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Universal opened its parking garage at 5:30am in anticipation of the big crowds the park is expecting Friday. The view from Skywitness 9 over the park shortly after 9:00am showed thousands of people lined up for hundreds of yards.
“It is amazing,” WFTV reporter Daralene Jones said. “I’ve never read the books or seen the movies, but as one Harry Potter fan put it, even I felt like I was walking on the movie set.”
I live in Orlando and I’m probably going to wait until right after Thanksgiving. I go to the parks that time every year and they are dead since its between holidays and many people go for Halloween Horror nights in October so its after that craziness too.