--- description: Universal Studios Hollywood gets its first outdoor roller coaster title: Harry Potter Gets the Hollywood Treatment at New Theme Park image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e88acadb1a499a2/698864453c16390445459ca7/wiarding-world-of-harry-potter.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Harry Potter Gets the Hollywood Treatment at New Theme Park by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 18, 2015 7:54 PM CUT  Universal Studios Hollywood by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 18, 2015 7:54 PM CUT Universal Studios is offering the first glimpse of its vision for the West Coast’s new Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park. The original park was a magical success in Orlando, opening in 2010 and bringing park revenue up 17% in 2014\. Universal also opened a Harry Potter amusement park in Japan before deciding to expand to California. The first poster for Hollywood’s Harry Potter park shows The Chosen One with his wand at the ready, Hogwarts and Hogsmeade in the background. The theme park will be similar to the one in Orlando, featuring a world inspired by J.K. Rowling’s bestselling series and the film adaptations. Visitors will get to sip Butterbeer, eat at The Three Broomsticks and even wear Quidditch-like goggles on a 3-D ride called Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Universal Studios Hollywood will also get its first outdoor roller coaster, appropriately named Flight of the Hippogriff. The park is set to open in the spring of 2016. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4040872/hollywood-harry-potter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4040872/hollywood-harry-potter/"},"headline":"Harry Potter Gets the Hollywood Treatment at New Theme Park","datePublished":"2015-09-18T19:54:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:04:34.465Z","description":"Get your brooms ready to fly you to the West Coast","url":"https://time.com/4040872/hollywood-harry-potter/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e88acadb1a499a2/698864453c16390445459ca7/wiarding-world-of-harry-potter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e88acadb1a499a2/698864453c16390445459ca7/wiarding-world-of-harry-potter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Wiarding-World-of-Harry-Potter","caption":"Wiarding-World-of-Harry-Potter","creditText":"Universal Studios Hollywood","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4040872/hollywood-harry-potter/","name":"Harry Potter Gets the Hollywood Treatment at New Theme Park"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"J.K. Rowling Is Incredible At Keeping A Fandom Satisfied","description":"Years after the end of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling keeps proving she's the best at keeping the fandom going.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vsnwlvIt/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-08-22T13:48:59.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vsnwlvIt.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4040872/hollywood-harry-potter/","duration":"PT1M46S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4040872/hollywood-harry-potter/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```