The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle - Hollywood

[Chris]

For years I have heard that we don't get fireworks at Universal because of the neighbors. Are you saying it's possible to have better fireworks shows? ... Apparently Disneyland does it all the time.

Although very similar ideas, they are handled very differently behind the scenes. Universal can do fireworks shows, however, they must have a special permit to do so. Disneyland has an ongoing permit which gets renewed. Disney also has far more reach on the neighboring communities over Universal which is attempting to be “neighbor friendly”. DLR is limited to 10” shells. WDW gets to have 12” shells. Universal California is primarily a movie studio, Orlando is a theme park...see the difference?

The bottom line is just like LAX...nobody ever planned for this location to ever support the amount of people and growth that we are seeing in the 21st century over 50 years ago!!! Now you can understand why land value is so high in the state of California...ownership of land makes you the leader! Why do you think Disneyland was built around the strawberry fields of Anaheim in 1955...? Land was cheap out there! Not any more! Orlando land is still cheap today!

aka - Property surrounding Disneyland: $500k, Property surrounding Universal: $1M. Politics carry the rest.

 

[Viator]

"Guess who's back, back again. Nighttime's back, tell your friend."

 

[Jerroddragon]

Do we have dates? Is this weekend only and do we know how long?

 

[Clive]

Very on-brand for them to just abruptly start doing this with no fanfare.

 

[salismetho]

I have a feeling the marketing team was not brought back after being furloughed during the pandemic lol

 

[Ron101]

Looks like they saw my post complaining about it lol.

 

[SnideRemarksDept]

Do we have dates? Is this weekend only and do we know how long?

It seems to be weekends only and I think it's through the last weekend of April. Just to cover the Spring Break peak season.

 

[ItsAtrap]

It's running everyday through April 15 then back to weekends only

 

[Viator]

We missed this bit--so I am rectifying it now: Going forward Hogwarts Always is now running directly in the ops for USH. It is the exact same show as that of the Fan Fest Nights/Orlando variant, and it should be directly replacing Nighttime Lights going forward for USH.

 

[Jonathan]

If you watched Hogwarts Always on opening weekend of Fan Fest they had added some new pyro that’s not in the Orlando version. The specific fireworks made noises and they ended up receiving some complaints from the neighbors due to the sound and they were cut from the show. You can see the pyro at the 1:58 mark

 

[bigclunky]

If you watched Hogwarts Always on opening weekend of Fan Fest they had added some new pyro that’s not in the Orlando version. The specific fireworks made noises and they ended up receiving some complaints from the neighbors due to the sound and they were cut from the show. You can see the pyro at the 1:58 mark

It's so disappointing that those people who complained can't handle fireworks for 5 seconds. It's nothing compared to what Disneyland neighbors put up with like every night.

 

[Jerroddragon]

It's so disappointing that those people who complained can't handle fireworks for 5 seconds. It's nothing compared to what Disneyland neighbors put up with like every night.

agreed

Just insane these people get to move to a theme park and make demands

Move anywhere else, if you have the money to live on that hill you have options