UUOP #98 - Diagon Alley with Jim Hill
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2014
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we are joined by Jim Hill as he talks to us about his experience at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley Media Preview Event.
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| 0:00.0 | The unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast is a member of the Mice Chat Podcast Network, Micepod.com. |
| 0:09.8 | Micechat.com! |
| 0:12.8 | Now, Discover the Universe, one theme park at a time. |
| 0:31.5 | Greetings Universal fans. |
| 0:34.6 | It's time for the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. |
| 0:40.6 | Discovering more about the Universal Orlando Resort as well as Universal Studios Hollywood, Japan and Singapore. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to episode 98 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast, brought to an association with Micechat.com and sponsored by Fairy Godmother Travel. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm your hostess, Tracy, and with me as usual, we have Darren. |
| 1:02.6 | Hello. We have Hunter. What's up, everybody? We have Lee. Hello. And we have a very special guest that I know you're all going to be excited to hear is with us. Mr. Jim Hill, hello. |
| 1:07.6 | Hey guys, how you doing? We're good. How are you? It's been far too long. It has. Well, you know, the witness protection program has been. This is true. Yeah. I just had to go into hiding for all those many weeks. It's been far too long. Definitely. And I, for one, I'm sure I'm speaking for everybody here, I have been so excited about this show since we got you booked in, Jim. |
| 1:30.9 | It's always so exciting to have you on. |
| 1:33.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:34.8 | Again, but let's be honest, you, the thing we're, it's not me we're talking about, it's staggering out. |
| 1:40.4 | I know, you're not, you know, that's, I'm just like the telephone wire. I'm, you know, just, you know, just, you know, that's, yeah, there we go. That's a big word, do you? Thank you. There you go. So, yeah, so yeah, we're not going to bring you a news update this week as pretty much all we're going to talk about today is big news. As I said on last week's show, why not everybody else is? |
| 2:03.4 | Of course, yes. |
| 2:05.0 | So Jim, you travelled to Orlando two weeks ago as part of the media preview for Diagon Alley |
| 2:09.1 | and Cabana Bay, but mostly Diagon Alley. |
| 2:11.6 | So would you be kind of talk us through the media event, please? |
| 2:15.5 | Well, to be honest, this is actually my third trip to diagonally. |
| 2:21.2 | I was lucky enough in January to get the opportunity to walk the construction site. |
| 2:27.1 | And then I want to say four weeks ago, they invited me down to do a tasting at the Leaky Cauldron to sort of walk out the menu. |
| 2:40.0 | So this was what was kind of weird. |
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