For the first time ever, Universal Studios Orlando is offering up selections from their theme park exclusive merchandise for sale online, including items from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

The new online shop, located at The Universal Store, is selling products from both Universal Studios Florida and Universal’s Islands of Adventure.

At The Wizarding World of Harry Potter section of the store, you can purchase Harry Potter books, movies, shirts, and toys, as well as items like Hogwarts robes and scarves, and Ollivanders wands. Check out the various sections of the WWHP part of the online store: Dervish and Banges, Filch’s Emporium, Ollivanders, Owl Post, and Zonko’s.

Along with The Wizarding World of Harry Potter merchandise, there’s products from other rides, attractions, and characters from the Universal Orlando theme parks, like the E.T. and Jurassic Park rides, along with Betty Boop and the Nickelodeon characters like SpongeBob SquarePants.

If you’ve been frequenting Geeks of Doom, then you know we LOVE all things Harry Potter and have been intently covering the development of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, theme park area at Universal Studios Orlando opening in June.

To celebrate The Wizarding World of Harry Potter‘s upcoming grand opening, it is with great excitement that we here at Geeks of Doom offer up a Harry Potter-themed prize pack to one (1) lucky reader!

One (1) winner will receive:

• One (1) $50 Amazon.com Gift Card
• One (1) Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)

That’s right, you’ll get ALL 7 books plus some Amazon spending money, all thanks to the good folks over at Scholastic. Read the fastest selling book of all time and experience the adventure from the beginning! Enter to win the complete Harry Potter box set in paperback from Geeks of Doom and don’t forget to check out Scholastic’s national sweepstakes. They are giving away 4 family trips to Universal Orlando Resort’s The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which opens June 18th! (See details below.)

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As the grand opening draws near for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the new theme park area at Universal Studios Orlando, another new image from the park has been released today.

The new image — see it here at right — is of Hagrid’s Hut. In the Harry Potter universe, Hagrid is the half-giant groundskeeper at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is a close confidant to boy wizard Harry Potter. Guests at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will pass by Hagrid’s Hut, which is a replica of Hagrid’s home from the films, on their way to the Flight of the Hippogriff coaster.

You can see more of Hagrid’s Hut in a feature on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter during this Sunday’s episode of NBC’s The Celebrity Apprentice on NBC.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which is part of Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park, will have its grand opening on June 18, 2010.

Universal has released a new image from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the Harry Potter-themed section of Islands of Adventure, a theme park within the Universal Orlando Resort.

See the image here at right (click for larger, full view).

The new image, which was taken today, is of the Hogwarts Express as it arrives at Hogsmeade Station. In the Harry Potter universe, the special train, which departs from King’s Cross railway station’s Platform 9 3/4, is what’s used to transport the young wizarding students to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The steam engine train will be what greets guests as they enter Hogsmeade at the Wizarding World area of the theme park, which is set to open this Spring.

Back in January, a tiny sneak peek was given of the top of the Hogwarts Castle at the park [read Geek Peek: Hogwarts Castle At Universal’s “˜Wizarding World of Harry Potter’].

The Super Bowl broadcast is known for having some really great commercials, as well as debut movie, TV, and game footage.

During tonight’s game (yay Saints!), as I was watching for the new TV spot for Alice In Wonderland, the first television commercial for Universal Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter came on, and I squealed. I did, I really did.

For those of you wondering what this is, it’s the new Harry Potter-themed section of Islands of Adventure, a theme park within the Universal Orlando Resort, that’s opening this Spring.

Watch the commercial, which includes an appearance by the boy wizard himself Daniel Radcliffe, here below.