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Harry Po er Fans Are Waiting 10 Hours or More to Ride

Hagrid’s Roller Coaster
BY SHAWNIE HAMER
JUNE 14, 2019
Muggles will do anything to be a part of

the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
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Universal Orlando opened up its newest

ride this week at its version of
Hogsmeade the village that surrounds
Hogwarts castle Hagrid s Magical
Creatures Motorbike Adventure takes
wannabe wizards and witches on a
twisting high speed flight through the
mystical Forbidden Forest
Diehard fans began waiting overnight

outside the park in anticipation of the
ride and it looks like just about
everyone had the same idea At
a m on opening day the line was
already eight hours long and quickly
stretched to hours long by
a m CNN reports
The line is worth the wait for many fans

of the franchise As Potterheads already
know Rubeus Hagrid beloved friend of
Harry Potter and the gang has a special
affinity for mysterious creatures So
who better to see the beasts of the
forest with than the half giant?
Participants on the ride can choose to

sit in Hagrid’s sidecar or in the driver’s
seat The winding track includes
appearances by some of our favorite
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wizards like Arthur Weasley and
creatures benevolent and otherwise
such as Cornish pixies massive spiders
and the three headed dog Fluffy
Fans aren’t the only ones wanting to

experience the ride Some of the stars
of the film series had a little reunion in
Orlando this week to celebrate the
opening including Rupert Grint Ron
Weasley Tom Felton Draco Malfoy
and Evanna Lynch Luna Lovegood
Warwick Davis
@WarwickADavis
So fun to reunite with my ‘students’

from #Hogwarts at @UniversalORL
for the opening of ‘Hagrid’s Magical
Creatures Motorbike Adventure’. They
are all quite ‘charming’!
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Unlike the fans however they have

magic fame to keep them from having
to wait in hour lines
to wait in hour lines
Happy riding Potterheads!
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10 Sweet Facts About Napoleon Dynamite

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BY GARIN PIRNIA
JUNE 15, 2019
ChapStick llamas and tater tots are

just a few things that appear in Napoleon
Dynamite a cult film shot for a mere
that went on to gross
million In Brigham Young
University film student Jared Hess
filmed a black and white short Peluca
with his classmate Jon Heder The film
got accepted into the Slamdance Film
Festival which gave Hess the courage to
adapt it into a feature Hess used his
real life upbringing in Preston Idaho—
he had six brothers and his mom owned
llamas—to form the basis of the movie
about a nerdy teenager named Napoleon
Heder who encourages his friend
Pedro Efren Ramirez to run for class
president
In the indie film screened at

Sundance and was quickly purchased by
Fox Searchlight and Paramount then
released less than six months later
Today the film remains so popular that
in Pedro and Napoleon reunited
for a cheesy tots
Burger King commercial To celebrated
the film s th anniversary here are
the film s th anniversary here are
some facts about the ever quotable
comedy
1. DEB IS BASED ON JERUSHA HESS.
Jared Hess’s wife Jerusha co wrote the

film and based Deb on her own life
“Her mom made her a dress when she
was going to a middle school dance and
she said ‘I hadn’t really developed yet
so my mom overcompensated and made
some very large fluffy shoulders ’”
Jared told Rolling Stone “Some guy
dancing with her patted the sleeves and
actually said ‘I like your sleeves …
they’re real big
Tina Majorino who played the fictional

Deb hadn’t done a comedy before
because people thought of her as a
dramatic actress The fact that Jared
would even let me come in and read
really appealed to me she told Rolling
Stone Even if I didn’t get the role I
just wanted to see what it was like to
audition for a comedy as I’d never done
it before
2. NAPOLEON'S FAMOUS DANCE

SCENE WAS THE RESULT OF HAVING
EXTRA FILM STOCK
EXTRA FILM STOCK.
Napoleon Dynamite Dance
At the end of shooting Peluca Hess had

a minute of film stock left and knew
Heder liked to dance Heder had on
moon boots—something Hess used to
wear—so they traveled to the end of a
dirt road They turned on the car radio
and Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat” was
playing “I just told him to start dancing
and realized This is how we’ve got to
end the film ” Hess told Rolling Stone
“You don’t anticipate those kinds of
things They’re just part of the creative
process ”
Heder told HuffPost he found

inspiration in Michael Jackson and
dancing in front of a mirror for the
end of the movie skit But when it came
time to film the dance for the feature
Heder felt pressure to deliver “I was
like ‘Oh crap!’ This isn’t just a silly
little scene ” he told PDX Monthly “This
is the moment where everything comes
and he’s making the sacrifice for his
and he s making the sacrifice for his
friend That’s the whole theme of the
movie Everything leads up to this
Napoleon’s been this loser This has to
be the moment where he lands a
victory ” Instead of hiring a
choreographer the filmmakers told him
to “just figure it out ” They filmed the
scene three times with three different
songs including Jamiroquai’s “Little L”
and “Canned Heat ”
3. NAPOLEON DYNAMITEFANS STILL

FLOCK TO PRESTON, IDAHO TO
TOUR THE MOVIE'S LOCATIONS.
In a interview with The Salt Lake

Tribune The Preston Citizen’s circulation
manager Rhonda Gregerson said
“every summer at least groups of
fans walk into the office wanting to
know more about the film ” She said
people come from all over the world to
see Preston High School Pedro’s house
and other filming locations as a layover
before heading to Yellowstone National
Park “If you talk to a lot of people in
Preston you’ll find a lot of people who
have become a bit sick of it ” Gregerson
said “I still think it’s great that there’s
still so much interest in the town this
long after the movie ”
Besides the filming locations the town

used to host a Napoleon Dynamite
festival In the fest drew about
people and featured a tater tot
eating contest a moon boot dancing
contest boondoggle keychains for sale
and a tetherball tournament The fest
was last held in
4. IDAHO ADOPTED A RESOLUTION

COMMENDING THE FILMMAKERS.
Jerusha and Jared Hess

FREDERICK M. BROWN, GET T Y IMAGES
In the Idaho legislature wrote a

resolution praising Jared and Jerusha
Hess and the city of Preston HCR
appreciates the use of tater tots for
“promoting Idaho’s most famous
export ” It extols bicycling and
skateboarding to promote “better air
quality ” and it says Kip and
LaFawnduh’s relationship “is a tribute

to e commerce and Idaho’s technology
driven industry ” The resolution goes
on to say those who “vote Nay on this
concurrent resolution are Freakin’
Idiots ” Napoleon would be proud
5. NAPOLEON WAS A DIFFERENT

KIND OF NERD.
Sure he was awkward but Napoleon

wasn’t as intelligent as other film nerds
“He’s not a genius ” Heder told
HuffPost “Maybe he’s getting good
grades but he’s not excelling he’s just
socially awkward He doesn’t know how
much of an outcast he is and that’s
what gives him that confidence He’s
trying to be cool sometimes but mostly
he just goes for it and does it ”
6. THE TITLE SEQUENCE FEATURED

SEVERAL DIFFERENT SETS OF
HANDS..
Napoleon Dynamite opening …
Eight months before the theatrical

release Fox Searchlight had Hess film a

title sequence that made it clear that
the film took place in not in the
’ s or ’ s Napoleon’s student ID
reveals the events occur during the
school year Heder’s hands
move the objects in and out of the
frame but Fox didn’t like his hangnails
“They flew out a hand model a couple
weeks later who had great hands but
was five or six shades darker than Jon
Heder ” Hess told Art of the Title “If
you look there are like three different
dudes’ hands—our producer’s are in
there too ”
7. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE MESSED

UP NETFLIX'S ALGORITHMS.
Beginning in Cinematch—
Netflix’s recommendation algorithm
software—held a contest called The
Netflix Prize Anyone who could make
Cinematch’s predictions at least
percent more accurate would win
million Computer scientist Len Bertoni
had trouble predicting whether people
would like Napoleon Dynamite Bertoni
told The New York Times the film is
“polarizing ” and the Netflix ratings are
i h fi fh
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either one or five stars If he could
accurately predict whether people liked
the movie Bertoni said then he’d come
much closer to winning the prize That
didn’t happen for him
The contest finally ended in when

Netflix awarded the grand prize to
BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos who
developed a percent improvement
over Cinematch’s score
8. NAPOLEON ACCIDENTALLY GOT A

BAD PERM.
© 2004 T WENTIETH CENTURY FOX
Heder got his hair permed the night

before shooting began—but something
went wrong Heder called Jared and
said “‘Yeah I got the perm but it’s a
little bit different than it was before ’”
Hess told Rolling Stone “He showed up
the night before shooting and he looked
like Shirley Temple! The curls were
huge!” They didn’t have much time to
fi th f H li t d J
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fix the goof so Hess enlisted Jerusha
and her cousin to re perm it It worked
but Jon wasn’t allowed to wash his hair
for the next three weeks “So he had
this stinky ‘do in the Idaho heat for
three weeks ” Jared said “We were
shooting near dairy farms and there
were tons of flies they were all flying in
and out of his hair ”
9. LAFAWNDUH'S REAL-LIFE FAMILY

STARRED IN THE FILM.
Shondrella Avery played LaFawnduh

the African American girlfriend of Kip
Napoleon’s older brother played by
Aaron Ruell Before filming Hess
phoned Avery and said “‘You remember
that there were no black people in
Preston Idaho right? Do you think your
family might want to be in the movie?’
And that’s how it happened ” Avery told
Los Angeles Weekly Her actual family
shows up at the end when LaFawnduh
and Kip get married
10. A SHORT-LIVED ANIMATED

SERIES ACTED AS A SEQUEL.
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Ani…
In Fox aired six episodes of

Napoleon Dynamite the animated series
before they canceled it All of the
original actors returned to supply
voices to their characters The only
difference between the film and the
series is Kip is not married Heder told
Rolling Stone the episodes are as close to
a sequel as fans will get “If you sit
down and watch those back to back
you’ve got yourself a sequel ” he said
“Because you’ve got all the same
characters and all the same actors ”
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BY MICHELE DEBCZAK
JUNE 14, 2019
Following the success of the HBO

miniseries Chernobyl one tour company
reported that bookings to the
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone located in
Ukraine rose percent Now series
creator Craig Mazin is imploring the
new wave of tourists to be respectful
when snapping selfies at Chernobyl
Gizmodo reports
A square kilometer exclusion zone

was established around the Chernobyl
nuclear power plant shortly after its
reactor exploded in and flooded
the area with harmful radiation The
abandoned towns are still too

radioactive for people to live there
safely but they have been deemed safe
to visit temporarily with the
supervision of a guide
Chernobyl has supported a dark tourism

industry for years but thanks to the
miniseries photographs taken there are
gaining new levels of attention online
News of influencers posing for
irreverent selfies at the site of the
nuclear disaster quickly went viral
Mazin tweeted
Craig Mazin
@clmazin
It's wonderful that #ChernobylHBO

has inspired a wave of tourism to the
Zone of Exclusion. But yes, I've seen
the photos going around.
If you visit, please remember that a

terrible tragedy occurred there.
Comport yourselves with respect for
all who suffered and sacrificed.
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presence of tragedy is always a good
idea It s also smart to resist leaving a
tour group to snap the perfect selfie in
tour group to snap the perfect selfie in
some abandoned building
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6/17/2019 Harry Potter Fans Are Waiting 10 Hours or More to Ride Hagrid’s Roller Coaster | Mental Floss

Harry Po er Fans Are Waiting 10 Hours or More to Ride

Muggles will do anything to be a part of

Universal Orlando opened up its newest

Diehard fans began waiting overnight

The line is worth the wait for many fans

Participants on the ride can choose to

Fans aren’t the only ones wanting to

So fun to reunite with my ‘students’

3,692 people are talking about this

Unlike the fans however they have

Happy riding Potterheads!

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10 Sweet Facts About Napoleon Dynamite

ChapStick llamas and tater tots are

In the indie film screened at

1. DEB IS BASED ON JERUSHA HESS.

Jared Hess’s wife Jerusha co wrote the

Tina Majorino who played the fictional

2. NAPOLEON'S FAMOUS DANCE

Napoleon Dynamite Dance

At the end of shooting Peluca Hess had

Heder told HuffPost he found

3. NAPOLEON DYNAMITEFANS STILL

In a interview with The Salt Lake

long after the movie ”

Besides the filming locations the town

4. IDAHO ADOPTED A RESOLUTION

Jerusha and Jared Hess

In the Idaho legislature wrote a

LaFawnduh’s relationship “is a tribute

5. NAPOLEON WAS A DIFFERENT

Sure he was awkward but Napoleon

6. THE TITLE SEQUENCE FEATURED

Napoleon Dynamite opening …

Eight months before the theatrical

release Fox Searchlight had Hess film a

7. NAPOLEON DYNAMITE MESSED

The contest finally ended in when

8. NAPOLEON ACCIDENTALLY GOT A

© 2004 T WENTIETH CENTURY FOX

Heder got his hair permed the night

9. LAFAWNDUH'S REAL-LIFE FAMILY

Shondrella Avery played LaFawnduh

10. A SHORT-LIVED ANIMATED

Napoleon Dynamite - The Ani…

In Fox aired six episodes of

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