Universal Orlando replaces Jaws ride with Harry Potter world expansion
Photo Credit: A tourist toasts to the giant Butterbeer cart keg in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park. Flickr / Pop Culture Geek
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The impact pop culture has on tourism can be seen no where as clearly as the physical space in Universal where the Jaws ride is about to be replaced by Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley.
Fans of Harry Potter and magic, rejoice: Universal Orlando is expanding its Wizarding World of Harry Potter with a new area based on the books' fictional scenes in Diagon Alley and London.
Universal Orlando announced Wednesday the new area will open in 2014.
"For Harry Potter fans, this is an opportunity to go to multiple places that are iconic places within the story,"
