Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley on NBC

[KingdomofDreams]

Apologies if this has been previously posted elsewhere. Just stumbled across this and thought others might be interested.

NBC will air an hour-long special tomorrow night, June 30th (8pm eastern/7pm central) titled Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley

"This NBC News behind-the-scenes special shows how this brand-new theme park experience was brought to life and features interviews with the Universal Creative team and cast members from the films."

 

[disneyflush]

Please keep political views out of this thread. It is making people aware of a show on TV so lets leave it as that.

 

[DinoInstitute]

Wow a whole prime time hour of more commercials than programming that is a giant advertisement for the new land.

 

[JediMasterMatt]

Meanwhile, the mighty marketing arm of the Mouse is flexing its muscle with its multi-hour showcase of all the wonderful things it has opening this summer at its Orlando resort.

<checks program guide>

I wonder when ABC Family will have another Potter marathon on?

 

[Disneyhead'71]

Wow a whole prime time hour of more commercials than programming that is a giant advertisement for the new land.

I would rather sit through this than Disney's 2hr. "DisneyParks Annual Christmas Commercial".

 

[JT3000]

Wow a whole prime time hour of more commercials than programming that is a giant advertisement for the new land.

I heard Disney wanted to do the same thing on ABC, but then they realized it would be ALL commercials since they have nothing of their own to advertise.

 

[drew81]

Watching it right now.

 

[unkadug]

Watching it right now.

Me too.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Watching it right now.

It's a good Unimmercial so far.

Gotta love the "lightning strikes twice" commercial too.

 

[danlb_2000]

Watching it no too. Some real nice behind the scenes segments.

 

[ScoutN]

This. Is. AWESOME!

 

[danlb_2000]

I wonder what company built the trains?

 

[wm49rs]

Please keep political views out of this thread. It is making people aware of a show on TV so lets leave it as that.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Yep, Diagon Alley was just a pile a dirt before hand. Nothing to fish, er see, there...

Edit: OK, they do mention Jaws.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I wonder what company built the trains?

Doppelmayr.

 

[DinoInstitute]

What is bothering me is how the host lady keeps calling it a "park" not a "land"

 

[danlb_2000]

What is bothering me is how the host lady keeps calling it a "park" not a "land"

That happened a lot when Phase 1 opened also.

 

[DinoInstitute]

That happened a lot when Phase 1 opened also.

Eh didn't see it then.

But it just seems very misleading to those people that are just putting it on because there is nothing else on on Monday nights.

What do you think of those musical people?!

 

[unkadug]

Wow a whole prime time hour of more commercials than programming that is a giant advertisement for the new land.

Not NEAR the amount of commercials as there would have been is this had been a Disney production.

 

[DinoInstitute]

Not NEAR the amount of commercials as there would have been is this had been a Disney production.

True, true--a lot less than I thought. And I also expected them to say "coming up--gringotts coaster!" before every single commercial break until the end.

Do you think that Disney will do this kind of thing with Avatar?