Nothing like a Butterbeer for lunch! (photo by Heidi Tandy, who is lucky enough to live super close to WWoHP!)
Ascendio 2012: A Harry Potter Fandom Event
Love Harry Potter? Get your con on! Ascendio is the Harry Potter convention taking place July 12-15, 2012 at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando® – just moments away from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! Brought to you by HPEF, which previously put on Infinitus 2010, Azkatraz 2009, Lumos 2006 & more!
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More details about NoaTW 2 - charity! food! rides with celebrities!
Now that tickets are on sale to Ascendio registrants at a special price of $124 until January 2nd, you probably want to know more about the event!
NoaTW 2 will take place the evening of Thursday, July 12th in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, starting at 8 p.m. and running until 1 a.m. Friday morning. This event is EXCLUSIVE to our party, so it will be just the most die-hard HP fans, running amock in costumes! That’s right — COSTUMES. Universal is letting up on its fan costume policy, just for NoaTW 2!
Each NoaTW 2 ticketholder will get a voucher for dinner that can be used between 8 and 10 p.m., and after 10, we’ll be featuring an extensive menu of dessert and beverages on the streets of Hogsmeade – and they’re included with your NoaTW 2 ticket! We’ll have a a DJ spinning magical music, full bars, lashings of Butterbeer and the opportunity to shop until you drop. Perfect time to get that Pygmy Puff you’ve had your eye on…
And there’s more! We’re having a charity auction – the winning bidder will get to skip the line for one of the Wizarding World rides and fly on a charmed bench, Hippogryff or dragon with Chris Rankin, Andrew Slack, MarkReads and other well-known fandomers!
A portion of each ticket for NoaTW 2 will go towards two inspirational fan organizations – the HP Alliance and the International Quidditch Association (IQA). So not only will you enjoy a unique park experience, but a percentage of your ticket will go towards supporting groups that delight, inform and help others, all in the name of Harry Potter!
(Source: hp2012.org)
It’s not a word cloud! It’s a word hat, made up of the most popular words in the Ascendio formal programming session summaries. We’re asking all the presenters to please click the button below to repost this - and include your session summaries (and times, and rooms) so everyone knows where to find you at Ascendio next month because O_O formal programming starts a month from today!
You can find the Programming Session grids here:
Thursday Quill Track | Friday | Saturday & Sunday
There are so many different wonderful presentations planned for this year’s event that it’s going to be tough to figure out which sessions to attend, so we’ve created an Ascendio scheduling app using Guidebook; download yours here - it’s free!
And don’t forget about all our after-hours Meetups (Avengers! Sherlock! Hogwarts Houses! Cosplayers! Educators! Doll collectors! And many more!) and events like Night of a Thousand Wizards 2, where we return to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and get to hang out until 1 AM after all the Muggles have gone home (and no stadium presentations by Universal this time - instead, we go right into the park).
If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time; online registration is open through June 25 and Day Passes will be available on-site.
See you next month at HPEF’s eighth - and final - Harry Potter fan extravaganza!
And, presenters and attendees, please reblog - and include your programming session information!
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Tickets for our exclusive, after-hours park event are now on sale! Click now to buy your ticket for Night of a Thousand Wizards 2: Ascendio Boogaloo!
If you already have a Full registration you can get a ticket for NoaTW 2 this month for $124! Also, the next 150 people to register at the Full registration level can buy a NoaTW 2 ticket in December for $124! As of January 2, 2012, the price is $140 for all Full registrants.
Daypass-holders can also get their tickets now, for $140; there will be no change in the price for those with daypasses.
NoaTW 2 tickets may become available to non-registrants in February for $155 for those who wish to accompany friends and family members to NoaTW 2 without registering for Ascendio. We cannot guarantee ticket availability at that point, though.
When you see your best friend somewhere unexpectedly
I think a lot of this is going to be happening at Ascendio!!!
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We love how you mention Ascendio in a post with two gifs of Media Properties That Are Rides at Universal.
LOVE ALL THE UNIVERSAL LANDS & RIDES!
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Hi from HPEF, the team behind awesome Harry Potter fancons (Infinitus, Azkatraz, Portus, Prophecy, Lumos, The Witching Hour and Nimbus - 2003)! We’re hosting ASCENDIO, our next (and final) HP fancon in Orlando in July at Universal Orlando’s Portofino Bay Resort, and a private event called Night of a Thousand Wizards 2 at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter on July 12.
The WWoHP, Ascendio and Universal Orlando are magical, and we’d love to see you there! Ticket & event info is here, our amazing YA novelist reading/signing schedule is here, and our special StarKid Totally Awesome reg pack details are here, so check them out.
But before we get everything started in Florida, we have a few things from cons past and present that we’d love to give away, including an Infinitus umbrella signed by Christian Coulson (Tom Riddle in Chamber of Secrets) and a bunch of Team StarKid, including Darren Criss, Lauren Lopez, Brian Holden and Jamie Lynn Beatty - Joe Moses, who’ll be back for two JMOMS shows at Ascendio.
Chris Rankin (Percy Weasley) and Afshan Azad (Padma Patil) have offered to sign it too, if the winner wants - it’s your choice!
We’re also giving away an Ascendio Swag Bag. Actually, it’s four bags - the official con tote in Hogwarts House colors - and we’re adding a con t-shirt, stickers, Craft Faire surprises and more!
How do you win?
You may reblog this post up to two times a day until midnight Eastern US time on June 25; we’ll do the drawing on June 26 or 27, depending on how many we have to count through.
Likes DO NOT COUNT.
The winners will be chosen by a random number generator. They will have 48 hours to confirm with their address. The first number wins the umbrella, the second number wins the Ascendio Swag Bag (to be shipped after July 17).
We will ship anywhere in the world, except to countries barred by the UN embargo from getting shipments from the US. If you’re attending Ascendio, we’ll give you your prize at the event. The same individual cannot win both versions of the giveaway.
You do not have to be following us, but it’s appreciated! If you are following us and win, you’ll get an extra gift from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in addition to your prize!
Any questions, please just ask here on tumblr. We’d prefer if you’d send an ask with your name on it so we can reply privately and not clog up people’s dashes.Who cannot win?
Anyone who signed the umbrella, and any HPEF Board Members and Ascendio senior staff. But we appreciate your signal boosts! If someone who’s ineligible reblogs this, and wins either package, we will choose the reblogger at the next number.
What if I know people who’d love to win this, but aren’t on Tumblr?
They can get a new tumblr account and start reblogging this!
And we’ll have a Swag Bag giveaway on Twitter soon, too.
lolz can i work this event
Sure! We just updated our Call for Volunteers!
If you aren’t registered yet we have a StarKid package (more info here) but if you can only come for one day, the Orlando Weekly’s doing a special sale on tix later this week.
