Mackenzie Click-Mickelson
Chugging along the path of life
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2015
Thank you for letting me know we were geniunely interested about that. I really love the sounds then because as you can see we totally believed it lol. We heard the noises and saw that and basically assumed that's what it was but I really appreciate you letting me know Goes to show you Universal really had that immersion factor down.I think its actually just part of the building. The train from Kings Cross goes direct towards Hogsmeade, so doesn't actually cross over Diagon Alley (I checked a google maps because I was curious myself)! I think I remember they had sound and whooshing noises like it was actually being used as a train track!
We had already started the tradition if you will so we stuck with the mugs but a different tradition we started about 2 years ago is getting Christmas ornaments from our destinations. We have one from the Monuments in D.C. (cherry blossum edition) from April 2016, a Hawaii ornament from September 2016, one from WDW and one from Universal from September 2017 (you'll see the pics of those later on in the trip report), one from Vegas from October 2017 which has the Strip on it plus the Vegas sign and then the most recent one is an apple with New York (you know the big apple ) from December 2017.I wanted to collect these too but I knew I wouldn't have enough room! But then I saw this year (and maybe previous years), they had mini cups that were Christmas ornaments! I got one for all 4 WDW parks, the 2 DLR parks, and then California and Los Angeles. Didn't realize Universal had one too, so I may need to ebay that!
We didn't get one though from last March when we went to Colorado for a ski trip (I do not ski but my husband can) but we're about to go again in a few weeks so I'll have to see if there's a place we can try and find an ornament there..on the other hand we did last March get the Denver You Are Here mug We only flew into Denver but went to Frisco and this year we're going to Salida but we didn't like the design of the state of Colorado version so we stuck with the Denver one. They even had a Vail and Aspen design too that you could purchase.
I do think those mini cups/mugs are adorable though. It's a lot to collect either way you go . I mean just from the Orlando trip I have 6 You Are Here Mugs! I think just for grins I'll take a pic of all the You Are Here mugs I have and put them at the end of this trip report just as a little bonus (I totally don't remember when I got all the mugs though).