May 19, 2009

Don’t go to the Harry Potter Exhibit

Filed under: Commentary — Chicago Taxi Guy @ 7:25 pm

Talk about disappointment. I thought wow, the harry potter experience. They had all this advertisement they made it seem exciting. You hear the music you see the owl wow this is going to be great a cool exhibit at the museum of science and industry. I payed 18 dollars to go in the evening I payed another 16 dollars for parking. I lined up for the 3:45pm slot and waited with my girlfriend for far so good I only spent 52 dollars and I’m about to have the coolest harry potter experience. They hoard us in to this giant tent. An actor greats us with a bad British accent. I thought ok not everyone is British. We walk into the first room where the sorting hat is going to sort us all. But I was wrong they took only three kids from the audience and they asked them what house do they think they belong in. And lo and behold they got into the desired house. The Actress holds an old hat above there heads and it doesn’t even move when it talks. I looked around I saw about 2000 dollars worth of people in this time slot and they couldn’t even get an animetranic hat? Now the time slots are every 7 minutes. So they are making the money. Next they move us into the next room where they have 7 LCD screens that show us clips of the movie I was like wow this is shitty. Then a curtain to the side goes and were greeted by another actor with a fog light in our faces. We are shoved into the Exhibit which is just the clothing of the actors from the movie. Which I found out were inaccurate. My girlfriend being a big harry potter fan watched the movies again and pointed out the inaccuracies of the exhibit costumes. And did I mention no photography? Yes your not allowed to photography any thing. We took one picture and the security made us delete it. Well I should say My girlfriend and I were not allowed because every time you look around everyone was allowed except us. When my girlfriends phone went off the security guards went ape shit crazy saying no cellphone use allowed. What stupid rules. Lets say you did take some pictures now what are you going to do with pictures of the costumes? You can buy the movies and use this new Invention called the pause button. And there’s tons of pictures of all this stuff online and for free. Then after walking around for about 30 minutes the exhibit ends in a store that try to sell you harry potter merchandise at jacked up prices and there was a line for people to buy this crap. It’s not enough that the average person paid close to 100 dollars (families), but do they get a discount at the store?? Nope! Just jacked up prices. I don’t see anything good about this fake ass exhibit. I would rather go to the museum of science and industry instead and walk around and interact with all the cool things there and have fun but save your money and don’t do the harry potter event, stay away from it or you will regret paying hard earned cash. If you want you can email me your money instead and I can use it to do pay my bills. Because thats how stupid the whole thing is. Buy the movies and watch them at home instead.

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