Universal recently gave us all the details for their last and final installment of their Epic Universe announcements, and I am here for it.

Hello and welcome to Addict of the Mouse.

Today is Wednesday, August 28th.

We're listening to episode number 619.

And this is everything we know about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Ministry of Magic coming next year to Epic Universe.

Hey everybody, Dan and Leslie here. Thanks for joining us today. I am so excited to talk about this last little bit of information. And you know what it means when we have this last little bit of information?

We are no longer doing the podcast. No. It means that we are that much closer to knowing when Epic is going to open and when we can start booking it. I don't look. I would love to be as optimistic as you are right now,

but I'm not sure Universal has a clue what Epic Universe is going to open. Come and join my optimistic world.

Sure. Sure.

So we are anxiously awaiting the announcements, as Leslie just described, for the opening.

If you are living under a rock, let me tell you, Epic Universe is the brand new ginormous

theme park that Universal Orlando Resort is building right here

in the heart of Orlando, just like three-three-ish miles away, south-southeast of their

current existing resorts and theme parks, and it is going to be spectacular. This is almost

doubling the size of the theme parks

they have now. So this is not like really small or insignificant by any stretch of the imagination.

This completely blows Disney out of the water for anything, any new construction projects

that they have going on right now. This is something we have been talking about and looking

forward to for a minute. However,

there's some things like, I think a little bit outside of Universal's control, namely like

the roadway and the giant round bridgy thing that gets people to the front of the park. I'm not

sure. Like, that has to be done prior to, but, but to Universal's credit, like, we watch,

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