MAYOR OF LONDON WANTS POTTER FANS TO LOBBY FOR LONDON THEME PARK

Source: www.the-leaky-couldron.org

Yesterday, Mayor of London Boris Johnson wrote a column in the Daily Telegraph’s Comment section about The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction. Johnson was highly critical of the location of the theme park, asserting that whilst he has “nothing against Orlando,” he “bitterly [resents] that Orlando is about to become the official place of pilgrimage for every Harry Potter fan on earth.”

Voicing his frustration, the Mayor continues, “sometimes [the British] just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.” Johnson acknowledges that all behind The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will “do a magnificent job” but remains disillusioned by the prospect:

I know somewhere that’s even better than Orlando at looking like London – and that is London. I want to know why this Kingdom of Potter is not being built in the UK, and I won’t be fobbed off with any nonsense about the weather. They built Eurodisney in the Valley of the Marne, where it is at least as cold and drizzly as it is in London – and it has been a triumphant success.

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What do you think of the Mayor of London’s insistance that the Potter Themepark be in London as apposed to anywhere in America? Do you think it matters? I kind of like the idea of it opening in London before anywhere else.

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