A couple of things:

[isabelladangelo]

http://www.slate.com/id/2258081/pagenum/all/

Interesting opinion piece on the Harry Potter theme park at Universal. Basically, the guy says he expected more magic and got...Orlando.

For the pink 18th c dress do-over -I'm now thinking a full front, in pink, but ripping all the trim I have off of it and using the marvelous aqua pleated velvet trim I got in NYC in April around the neckline and down the front closure. I think it would look a lot better.

I'm working on another 16th c dress right now. It's out of that rose red linen I got at Joann's. I'm going for a 1510-1520's Italian style with the tied front opening. The trim is going to be the way too many yards of green velvet I got years ago. (The tag said .25 cents and I thought it meant a yard. Turns out it meant the entire roll so I bought the three rolls I could find at the time.)

Comments

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

That guys seems like he expected it to be real - but that doesn't exist anywhere, no matter how much money and care you put into it. A the end of the day, it's still Orlando, not Scotland - and all the stuff in the book was fiction. Honestly, there is so much detail put into Hogsmeade, yet he's still not happy and wants more. Someone like that will never be happy, no matter how awesome something is. Despite the heat and crowds (which were inevitable in June just after the park opened), I thought it was really well done - and I bet it will only get better.

Also I missed the shadow of a house elf in Three Broomsticks? Damn!

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it yet but I'm thinking of heading down in November (when it's cooler!) to check it out. I *think* I'll probably be a mix bag; amazed at the detail and disappointed I can't get into every shop. I get what he's saying about wanting costumed wizards and witches walking around -and think that would be fabulous- but I also know there really, truly, is only so much they can do.
I'm sure that they will improve upon it year after year and it will only get better but...I really want some butterbeer and pumpkin juice! :-)

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

The thing is, there were costumed people. All the workers are dressed either like Hogwarts students or in robes and hats and wizardy outfits. Later on I saw a whole bunch of people in Beauxbatons and Durmstrang outfits with a girl in a student uniform. They were posing for pics with kids and adults.

Also, there is not even a tiny amount of advertising in that section of the park. No Pepsi splashed everywhere. None of the drinks are branded. I honestly think they did an excellent job of trying to maintain the illusion while still being, you know, a theme park. In Florida. Plus it just opened - I'm sure they're still tweaking things.

I mean, even the gift shops aren't really crassly out there. You can really shop in the candy store and the joke shop - and the other gift shop (which was packed) had all kinds of props and detail in it.

Honestly, they did a beautiful job with what's there - down to the "sickles only" label on the fortune telling machine. Maybe this reviewer wasn't looking closely enough.

Could some things be better? Sure - but the thing just opened a week ago. The Magic Kingdom has been running for how long now?

Meh. :-)

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Okay, that makes me feel a lot better. I want costumed people, darn it! :-D Maybe it was just too crowded the day the author went for him to notice?

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Maybe! But I've got picture proof!

[kysrinaria.livejournal.com]

I just want to go shopping in the candy shop!! I would like to go, but I want to go in winter...