New details for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter announced today!

All right! Here are a whole bunch of new details for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, announced today:

• It will open Spring 2010.
• The “Forbidden Journey” ride named by JK Rowling, will takes guests through scenes and rooms from the blockbuster movies inside a richly detailed remake of Hogwarts Castle made to look 700 feet tall.
• Guests will enter the “Wizarding World” through a station archway named for Hogsmeade, the magical village near Hogwarts. A plume of steam and a train whistle will sound the arrival of the Hogwarts Express.
• Other rides include the “Dragon Challenge,” a twin high-speed roller coaster themed after the “Triwizard Tournament” and the family roller coaster “Flight of the Hippogriff,” named for a creature with an eagle’s head and a horse’s body.
• The Harry Potter park will be part of Universal’s Islands of Adventure.
• Every shop and eatery is Potter-themed. Honeydukes sells chocolate frogs and “Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans,” Ollivander’s peddles magic wands, Zonko’s joke shop has Sneakoscopes, and the British restaurant Three Broomsticks pours Butterbeer.
• At The Owl Post, guests can send letters with a certified Hogsmeade postmark. Magical instruments and equipment are available at Dervish and Banges, including everything needed to play Quidditch — a game like soccer played on flying broomsticks.
• There could even be new footage of Potter stars shot on actual sets from “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
• The addition will be 20 acres in total.
• Something will be included from EVERY book.
• Analysts estimate Wizarding World will cost about $265 million.

AWESOME. I can’t wait to go visit, how about you?