The final clue for The Today Show’s Diagon Alley Sweepstakes has been shared by Al Roker. To enter, visit this sweepstakes website, and answer the question Al gives  (you don’t have to get the answer right to be eligible to win.)  25 winners (with 3 guests each) will win trips to the Grand Opening of Diagon Alley in Orlando, which is expected to be in June.

The fifth clue for The Today Show’s Diagon Alley Sweepstakes has been revealed. To enter, visit this sweepstakes website, and answer the question Al gives  (you don’t have to get the answer right to be eligible to win.)  25 winners (with 3 guests each) will win trips to the Grand Opening of Diagon Alley, which is expected to be in June.

USA Today has an exclusive video preview of the Diagon Alley expansion of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando.  They also shared a bunch of new photos that can be seen in the gallery.

They detail the Escape from Gringotts ride:

inside Gringotts bank, after guests pass through the grand lobby, there’s a hallway with magical portraits and armor fit for goblins and trolls.

Turn the corner, and you realize you are in the office of Bill Weasley, who greets you in a similar way that Dumbledore does in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey at Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure. Then, you board souped-up elevators that make you feel as if you are going deep into the cavernous vaults.

Once you exit, there are massive stalactites above and 12-person ride vehicles, each with its own steam-pumping chimney. That is impressive in itself, but what about the ride?

“Is it part roller coaster, part 3-D-motion-based ride?” I ask.

Not exactly.

“It would be a real understatement to call it a roller coaster, because it does so much more,” Coup says. “It’s way beyond that.”

Here’s how it works: Riders put on 3-D glasses and race through a labyrinth of underground vaults, where they encounter the villainous Bellatrix Lestrange and Lord Voldermort, Harry’s archrival.

At one point, “a troll grabs the vehicle and starts shaking it,” Coup says. At another point, hot lava surrounds guests just as the villains reappear in a full, 360-degree scene. It’s all thanks to 4K digital high-definition animation, state-of-the-art 3-D Infitec projection systems and live special effects.

It’s clearly very different from Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, a wildly popular ride at Hogsmeade. The distinguishing factor: Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts “is thrilling and dynamic, but not as dynamic as Forbidden Journey because we wanted everyone to be able to ride it.”

We even get some new tidbits about the Hogwarts Express ride that connects the two worlds (Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade):

In a final stroke of brilliance, there’s the Hogwarts Express, which transports parkgoers from Hogsmeade Station to London’s King’s Cross Station and back. As you trundle along, you are treated to a four-minute Harry Potter movie made for this ride. Each carriage is “basically your own little audio theater,” Gilmore says. “The characters are all around you in this experience.”

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Indeed. As I sat in a train carriage on the Hogwarts Express, with the sound of the engine rumbling and smoke bellowing outside, I started to feel less like a Muggle and more like a wizard.

The third clue for The Today Show’s Diagon Alley Sweepstakes has been revealed this morning by Al Roker. To enter, visit this website, and answer the question Al gives in the video below (you don’t have to get the answer right to be eligible to win.)  25 winners (with 3 guests each) will win trips to the Grand Opening of Diagon Alley, which is expected to be in June.

The second clue for the Today Show’s Diagon Alley Grand Opening sweepstakes was revealed on the show this morning, as well as a look inside Ollivanders Wand Shop.

The Today Show’s Al Roker gave fans a sneak peek at Platform 9^3/4 and some more locations in Diagon Alley on this morning’s episode, he also shared the first Harry Potter clue/question for the sweepstakes to win tickets to the Grand Opening this Summer.  If you missed our original post, details are as follows:

From May 13th-18th, TODAY will reveal clues featuring iconic sights from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter^™ at Universal Orlando^® Resort, including some from the all-new Diagon Alley^™.

Enter here and you could win a trip to Universal Orlando^® Resort to be a part of The Grand Opening Celebration at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter^™ – Diagon Alley^™.