The Salt Lake Tribune (of all places) has the lowdown on the Harry Potter rides and area set for construction at Universal Studios in Orlando.

From their article:

The “Forbidden Journey” ride was named by author J.K. Rowling and described Tuesday by Universal officials in a Web cast revealing details of what the Potter park will look like.

The ride will take guests through scenes and rooms from the blockbuster movies inside a richly detailed remake of Hogwarts Castle made to look 700 feet tall. Hogwarts is where Harry attends a boarding school for witches and wizards.

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. The goal is to make the experience immersive, so nothing outside is visible after guests pass the Hogsmeade station archway.

Other rides in the area include:

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’sbody.

The article goes on to talk about how all of the shops and restaurants will be Harry Potter themed.  You’ll be able to buy wands at Ollivanders, drink Butterbeer, buy sneakoscopes at a Joke Shop, and even send letters at the post office with a real Hogsmeade postmark.

It sounds like any Harry Potter fan’s dream and I’m sure Universal Studios will be making a mint off of this endeavor.

In fact, the article in the Tribune was so convincing, it actually made me want to go.