{"id":22372,"date":"2016-03-30T00:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22372"},"modified":"2016-03-30T00:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T07:58:11","slug":"universal-studios-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/universal-studios-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Studios Launches Harry Potter Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/thmenuz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is Disneyland saluting the arrival of Harry Potter to Southern California this April?<\/p>\n<p>The heat is on as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arestravel.com\/5454_attraction-tickets_a10.html\">Universal Studios Hollywood<\/a>\u00a0theme park\u00a0unveils\u00a0of\u00a0The Wizarding World of Harry Potter on April 7, 2016. \u00a0Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride, attractions, food and merchandise\u00a0have\u00a0a proven track record at 11th &amp; 12th ranked Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, where you can also see\u00a0Marvel comic characters Captain America and Spider-Man. In California\u00a017th ranked Universal Studios Hollywood is getting better all the time, thanks to $1.6 billion earmarked for a 25-year park expansion that began in 2013. \u00a0Universal Studios theme parks make up less than 2% of total Comcast revenue, and <a href=\"http:\/\/arestravel.com\/5454_attraction-tickets_a18.html\">Disney theme parks<\/a>\u00a0make up approx. 33% of that company&#8217;s revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the movie,\u00a0\u201cCaptain America: Civil War,\u201d brings Captain America and\u00a0Spider-Man to Disney California Adventure starting April 3. Universal Studios Hollywood used to own licensing right to these Marvel Comics\u00a0cartoon\u00a0characters but gave them up in 2007, while Universal Orlando hung onto them and continues to own licensing\u00a0 rights even after Disneyland bought Marvel Entertainment\u00a0in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Disneyland saluting the arrival of Harry Potter to Southern California this April? The heat is on as\u00a0Universal Studios Hollywood\u00a0theme park\u00a0unveils\u00a0of\u00a0The Wizarding World of Harry Potter on April 7, 2016. \u00a0Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride, attractions, food and merchandise\u00a0have\u00a0a proven track record at 11th &amp; 12th ranked Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}