A Geek Girl’s Musings on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Part 4
Yesterday, we posted part three of this four part series from Geek Shui Living’s Bryony Mackey on her adventures with Harry Potter. You should definitely read it before moving forward with this final chapter.
The Forbidden Journey pretty much rules.
After the Common Room you’ll be ready to get on the ride. (I didn’t mention the room with the floating candles, those were sweet.) Each car has 4 seats, and this ride is half animatronics, and half almost virtual reality.
I felt like I was flying. Really flying on a broom, through Hogwarts. Oh no!! Hagrid lost a dragon! No worries, it’ll find you! I don’t want to go through the entire ride for you, but if you want to fly on a broom through Hogwarts grounds, including the Quidditch Pitch….you need to go. This was my favorite ride of the entire trip. It’s pretty much the sweetest ride ever, IMHO.
A Geek Girl’s Musings on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Part 3
Yesterday, we posted part two of this four part series from Geek Shui Living’s Bryony Mackey on her adventures with Harry Potter. You should definitely read it before moving forward with part three.
Diagonsmeade. Alley. Place.
I was actually very surprised by how small the shops were in Hogsmeade. I don’t know if they underestimated the amount of people or just didn’t feel like making them bigger? Possibly it was the throngs of people that skewed my perception. There are a lot of faux storefronts they have set up, with window displays and the like, so maybe they left room for expansion. Honeyduke’s and Zonko’s are connected to each other, and I noticed right away that they really didn’t have too many differing products. I looked at one shelf, then another…and they had the same stuff on them. I wasn’t really there for the shopping at either of these stores, so this bothered me little.
A Geek Girl’s Musings on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Part 2
Yesterday, we posted part one of this four part series from Geek Shui Living’s Bryony Mackey on her adventures with Harry Potter. You should definitely read it before moving forward with part two.
‘Spared no expense!’ – John Hammond, Jurassic Park
So finally we have fast-forwarded to being at the park. We decided to go to Islands of Adventure on Friday, that way we’d have the option to return on Saturday if we felt we missed something. If not, we’d go to Universal on Saturday. We were picking up our tickets at the Kiosk when I heard a woman nearby exclaim: ‘THIS is my commemorative ticket? What a ripoff!!’. So…according to that woman, the commemorative ticket is not really worth it.
I wasn’t aware that Universal had implemented a fingerprint scan system throughout the park. (Apparently Disney does this, as well. Sue me, I’ve never been to Disney) I thought this was pretty dang snazzy, 1984-ish as it seemed. But my Big Brother fears were quickly erased by my first view of Hogwarts Castle. We could see it rising in the distance, and if you squinted just right, you could cut the Jurassic Park visitor’s center out of your line of vision. I love me some dino’s, but I don’t want them running loose in Hogsmeade!
A Geek Girl’s Musings on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Part 1
The following post is the first in a four part series from Geek Shui Living’s Bryony Mackey on her adventures with Harry Potter.
I am a Harry Potter fan. By fan, I don’t mean I ‘like’ Harry Potter. I don’t mean that the books are an ‘enjoyable read’.
I don’t use the word ‘fan’ as lackadaisically as most people do these days. I have Slytherin robes that I constructed (with my Mom’s help. Thanks, Mom!) I have a wand carved from wood corresponding to my birth-month in the Celtic calendar. I consider myself a fanatic.
A Geek Girl’s Musings on San Diego Comic Con 2010
Lately I’ve seen a few articles aimed at women regarding SDCC. Let me just say that the word condescending does not even begin to cover them. It’s more than a little sad that in the year 2010 many people still swing that wide brush which paints any girls at a comic/sci-fi convention as just tagging along with a guy. It reminds me of when I showed up to an employee’s desk to fix a computer issue one time. He said ‘Oh, er, um…Are you like the ‘unofficial’ IT person? All the guys are busy right now?’ I was so taken aback all I could say at first was ‘Are you serious?’ (which was 100% more profanity-free and less violent than what ran through my head) Oh yes, he was completely serious. People really are amazed when they discover I read comic books, wanted a Death Star cake at my wedding, and that I prefer technology to people. So when I was asked to do a write-up on my time at Comic Con, I thought that maybe, just maybe I can convince at least one person that the mythical geek girl does exist. And doesn’t always dwell in her parent’s basement.
This was my second year at SDCC. Due to traumatic events post-SDCC 2009 and other assorted factors, I only purchased a Friday pass this year. Which let me tell you, one day will exhaust you. I guarantee it! One thing I stress to anyone going to a con, regardless if it’s Comic Con in San Diego, Dragon*Con in Atlanta, or Starfest in Denver, is do some planning! Plan, plan, plan! I had poured over the schedule as soon as it was released, deciding which panels I absolutely had to see. I entered all of the pertinent information into my trusty Google Calendar and ensured it was sync’d with my trusty Blackberry so I would know where I was every step of the way. I also toyed with the idea of dressing up because my husband had helped me build a truly shiny Dark Helmet costume for Halloween last year (Slave Leia’s EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT!). Then I remembered how hot the costume was, how hot Comic Con was, and how hard it was to see in that helmet. So civvies it was.
