Rowling close to deal for Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure

Pfft...booster bike. I would love Florida's first traditional Hyper to plant itself at IOA. Not that I don't love Shakira, but I am drooling for some Toro airtime hills :-)

There is room behind The Lost Continent. It is just offices and parking lot. The only thing that may be a pain to move if they have to would be the what looks like a giant A/C unit. You could also, take the area that has Dueling Dragons, Enchanted Oak, and Flying Unicorn retheme that area and use the excess Jurassic Park land and turn that into Potterland.

I did find an aerial view of the park. It was on google earth. Not to mention that I used to live in florida and had a season pass to the park for 4 years and used to go at least once a month.

At no point did I say that they have no room for expansion, just not enough to make a whole new "island." They do have some room to build another attraction or two, just not a huge space. The park is litterally locked in by roads. The thinking in building IOA was that they were in Orlando which draws visitors as it is and they would not have to add new attraction to attract visitors like a local theme park does. I don't know this for sure, but I would bet that IOA's attendance figures are pretty much the same as what they were when the park opened, and they really didn't add anything major to the park since it opened.

^But any parks' goal would be to increase attendance, not just maintain it.

I agree with you Timmy, but if take a look at what happens to most of the local parks if the don't add new major attractions every two or so years. Their attendance drops, sometimes sharply. Some parks even see drops in attendance the year they add major new attractions.

For IOA to keep attendance without adding new attractions to the park is good for the bottom line of the park.