Sunday, February 24, 2019

POTTERHEAD CHRONICLES: New Year, New Tradition, New Loot, New Ride! Oh My Owl!

♫ Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Cha!♫ --- that is the BEST way to bring in 2019. The magnificent entry. The video is hilarious by the way. Check out Eddie Redmayne flunk James Cordan in the Wizarding Test. Ha! It went as great as the MVA driving tests! Sara and I can't get over the ♫ Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Cha!♫ --- It's become our official musical score! 

The New Year Tradition was honored. Chocolate Frog was broken to shards. It came from the 2017-2018 escape trip to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The wizard card is Hengist of Woodcroft the founder of Hogsmeade. Last year we wanted to start this tradition but figured our frog had expired. And little did we know that it was still good because it was simply Belgian chocolate - we had thrown it away! --- God! --- 2019 is dedicated to the memory of that lost frog. Cheers!
OH MY GOD! I went as wild as the Ukranian Ironbelly dragon on top of Gringotts Bank at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter when Hot Topic's Hot Cash season was announced open! Seriously! Like "tie me in chains so I don't lose control" kind of wild. Some incredibly fantastic tees had been launched and I was waiting for the right hour to strike! BONG! It struck! It was the Hot Cash hour! It is difficult to say which one I like best because they are ALL SO GOOD! --- It was a tad bit disappointing when the loot arrived because they're imported from another country and the makers got sizes wrong, and the prints with photographs (the Grand Staircase, etc) were fuzzy --- And, when we went back to the store for exchanges, they didn't process them because of online purchase so we are stuck with super loose tee's --- We returned the Grand Staircase and Honeydukes jar explosion ones for the fuzzy print --- The Knight Bus, Love Potion stayed because they're text vector graphics that were printed well! 
Snowstorm Gia was the PERFECT opportunity to fulfill that Potterhead style snowman bit from the Winter Bucket List. Sara and I headed outdoors to build our Gryffindor snow people. The fatty on the left is Sara's Luna and the Turkish style lady on the right is mine and she earned the name Queenie. 
On our Mall Day, Sara and I did the customary Hot Topic round but didn't find much on the shelves. We were about to leave when we saw CLEARANCE and CLOSEOUT signs at the nextdoor F.Y.E. outlet. We remembered seeing some HP merch there some months ago so Sara suggested we take a look. OH MY GOD! The entire Mina Lima collection was on Clearance Sale for $1. Yes! 100 cents for a boxed set of a 100+ Mina Lima postcards. There were also Weasley's Wizard Wheezes pin badges and a tote bag. We were STUNNED to see the $1 sign. It was not believable so Sara suggested I question the dudes behind the counter. "Yes! Please! They are all $1, please take them all." One of the dudes said. I went into OH GOD! OH GOD! OH GOD! mode! ---
  
Universal has spilled the beans! I nearly leaped out of my seat in my chiropractic's waiting lounge! It IS Hagrid's bike afterall! The new coaster at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is Hagrid's bike and it will be featuring his magical creatures! So, they haven't done anything to move the Flight of the Hippogriff coaster that loops around Hagrid's Hut - thank God! So, what route is this bike taking, flying just next to Hogwarts. I can sense the Forbidden Forest in the game, but well --- it could always be more crazy! They're saying that "Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, Universal’s most highly themed coaster opens June 13, 2019." What I can't understand is the building featured on the ride's route. What is that? --- Until more deets are revealed, Sara and I are deciding who sits on the bike and who sits in the buggy next to the bike. And how strapped is the bike going to be? *gulp* We are not rollercoaster-friendly and would appreciate a "human" speed.

Potterhead Chronicles will be back ...

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