I’ll be recapping my top six highlights of the week, and if you wish to add to any of it COMMENT!

Wizard Rock: Through out the whole week SpinnersCast’s favorite tunes were played live through out the hallways of the convention hall, and the atmosphere was contagious. With the music being divided into three different genres: Classic, Pub night and Comedy Slam. All of the bands featured there had in some way or another been on our show, wether it be an interview or us playing their music- it was fun to see that bands which we had enjoyed since the very beginning now available to the 2,400 attendees of this amazing con.

A Very Potter Sequel: If you haven’t watched the first Starkids on YouTube “A Very Potter Musical” then you need to go out and watch it as soon as you’re done with this post! These incredible actors were able to transform  the attention span of a goldfish, that I own, and glue it onto a screen for about three hours as I watched, laughed and cried. Alright, I didn’t really ‘cry’ but, nothing else really fit in there, so I just added it. The comedy takes from several book of the series and turns them into one hilarious play, which was beautifully directed, acted and best of all: filmed. The whole sequel is scheduled to debut on the 22nd of this month on YouTube, of course, for more information though check out their site!

The Final Battle: Lena Gabrielle’s masterpiece hit the stage. With a giant cast, full orchestra pit and actors and musicians who had never met each other till in person till three days before the performance. This incredibly feat that Lena and Mallory took under their wings to produce, direct, conduct and create a two hour long musical became such a success that before the final bow the audience was on their feet reaching for the moon as they applauded the 75 people who put this incredibly show together. From the hilarity of Ron and Hermione making out, to the very heartbreaking scene of Harry walking into the forest with his loved ones. Lena and Mallory captured the images that fans had envisioned for years, and I can say that they have given us high expectations for when Warner Brothers released the second part of Deathly Hallows. If a couple of actors that only means of rehearsing have been over the Internet, and just met each other three days before curtain call were able to bring several friends to tears, then WB your bar has been raised. Lena and Mallory, I love you girls, and helping out with the little that I did during your incredible performance has been an honor. I know Quinn would agree in saying: you both make us proud to be Potter fans.

Wizarding World of Harry Potter: I’ve been there before. Heck I work there. So for me it wasn’t much of anything, except having to wait in long lines for things like: food, merchandise and seeing Quinn get chosen by Ollivander’s assistant for his new wand. That’s right, Quinn got chosen of the group of 25 in the room. He, to say the least, was quite excited. For Night of a Thousand Wizards I spent the whole time with Kim Newsome, our old producer and great friend, and of course Quinn. We went straight home: Hogwarts. There was a giant line to even get into the castle, and of course me knowing where to go, took us the better way that no one decided to head- and got us three onto the ride right away. Before we got onto the ride I had to walk Kim and Quinn onto the ride, this took quite a bit. They kept stopping and looking at everything! Thank goodness we didn’t have a camera or we would not of moved since they might have just snapped a picture of every inch of that castle. Yet, I showed them around the castle. The moving book in Dumbledore’s office, Godric’s sword, the first head master of Hogwarts, the trio, told them little hidden secrets that are not easily caught by fans and so on. It was great finally being able to share these secrets with my favorite two people in the fandom, and see as their faces reacted to moving portraits, and everything we encountered on our way up to the loading platform of Journey. Then we got strapped onto the ride, I sat all the way left and let Kim and Quinn sit middle. Least I could do, right? The ride was AMAZING, they both loved! We even had a minor stop in the middle of our first ride through. I was VERY excited about that part, since it had never happened to me- Quinn and Kim weren’t as content. Oh, well we got off and then went on it again. Then Quinn purchased the ride picture- it came out AMAZINGLY! (Picture will be up soon, I promise). Then we went out and enjoyed some FREE food, enjoyed a bit of Muggle music as a local DJ kept up the tunes of the greatest hits pretty much. Then Journey came on, and we went wild. You can’t have a bunch of geeks around, and not have them dance to the musical masterpiece that “Don’t Stop Believin’” is. The crowd outside of the three-broomsticks knows exactly what I’m referring to. We danced, we jumped we hugged and best of all laughed as if this was our own senior prom where our last song played. It was truly magic. Like Professor Dumbledore says “music. A magic beyond all we do here!”. Then we went into the shops, Quinn and Kim mailed some letter home and we just sat and enjoyed the whole experience. It was probably the best night.

PodCast: I could never leave our passion out of this list. We’re podcasters so anytime that we are able to get infront of a microphone and talk about anything- we love it. This time it was no different, specially since we had our great friends from AlleyCast there! Jenn and Megs joined us as we talked all things Potter, the con and of course: the theme park. They had a particular great time questioning me on about WWoHP, since I’m still not allowed to give any information on the ride and things, they just kept egging it on. It was a blast, my only regret is we didn’t get the show recorded- so you won’t be hearing it any time soon. Just trust me on this: it was great!

Friends: Every convention that we attend, we’re very excited to meet new friends and reunite with old ones. I can say that this convention, which had the highest attendance for an HP-Con that I can remember. At least it was the biggest HPEF has ever put together. It meant that not only were there many of our friends present, that also we made great new friends! These cons have really become about meeting those Internet friendships that have been made for years. Its all about remembering each others screen names, then names and finally faces. Technology has brought us closer to each other, even if the other individual lives in Pasadena, California, and the other in Orlando, Florida. This is really the heart of Infinitus. Seeing many new faces, reuniting with old friendships and strengthening current ones.

This was Infinitus, to me. I loved it. I had a great time spending the little time I did with Quinn and walking around City Walk with Kim as we took our adventures deciding on which restaurant to dine in. Best of all, spending time the three of us. Just laughing in our room. Or simply sitting there watching the other rant, describe and enjoy the convention. I have made great friends with this fandom. I don’t want anyone to move on, because when people move- sometimes things get forgotten. So, let us all embark on a mission to return to Orlando next year! Begin planning people, start booking flights, begin saving and of course- lets keep in contact.

Much Love,

SpinnersCast

Harry Potter fans are flying into my, Juan’s, city from all over the world to welcome to our lives Hogwarts. We’re going to have a giant three day party where meet-ups, concerts, panels, lessons and arts-and-craft will be taking place. A conference has arrived, and we’re all very excited.

Tomorrow’s plans: Get up bright and early to help up Lena and Mallory with some instruments that they’re borrowing from my old High School for her AWESOME performance of The Final Battle. Then we’ll be arriving at our hotel where we’ll meet up with some friends to unpack and get settled in. POOL! Then Juan has to go to class (BORING!) while Quinn heads over to rehearse for Lena’s show. Then, once Juan gets back, there will be lots of hugging and meet-ups as our friends arrive- till the night comes when we will both make the trip to the airport to pick up Kim Newsome. =D Can’t wait to see her.

This weekend is going to be great. If you’re coming: LET US KNOW! Also do not forget that we’re part of the PodCast palooza, and as soon as we have more information as to the time and place of where it will be- we will let you know! So follow us on Twitter, @SpinnersCast, for the latest information.

Much love,

J & Q

Watch and email us with your reactions! We will be recording a quick MinSpin very soon and releasing it. Yet, our first and major objective is to hear about what you guys have to say of this trailer.

These will be mailed from the Hogsmeade! All that you must do is follow @SpinnersCast on Twitter, and RT the following message to your friends:

@SpinnersCast will be giving away FOUR Hogsmeade STAMPED postcards from the WWoHP in the upcoming days! Follow for more details!

We’ll pick a winner each day, so remember to tweet each day of the giveaway.

Love,

SPC

And we got you! Well at least some of you, including our friend from Hogwarts Radio: Terrance.

Its time to pay tribute to the pranksters themselves and wish Fred and George Weasley a Happy Birthday!

(From the AP article)

First, the book series transformed a then unknown single mother into the richest woman in the United Kingdom. Then it transformed the silver screen into six of the highest grossing films of all time. Now, Harry Potter is taking over Universal Studios Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, Florida.

At The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter, fans will be able to stroll though Hogsmeade, get a drink at The Three Broomsticks, ride on Dragons, stroll through Hogwarts Castle, and now even listen to Harry Potter themed radio shows. Warner Bros and Universal Studios have commissioned several young Harry Potter podcasters to join them in bringing Hogwarts Radio to life. These four-hour long segments will be broadcast live to park goers while they are in the park.

Warner Bros had their pick of several podcasts in the Harry Potter realm, one of the lucky candidates, Quinn Rossi spoke about the selection process. “It was kind of a long process… Warner had contacted me about our podcast, SpinnersCast, around the start of the year and we have been sending in clips and doing various interviews with them ever since.”

Once Warner had finalized the selection of young hosts- including PotterCast’s Melissa Anelli, MuggleCast’s Andrew Sims, and SpinnersCast’s Rossi and Juan L. – it was then a matter of getting approval from JK Rowling herself.

“Talking to Jo was one of the most intimidating experiences of my life” says Juan. “She was so kind, but just knowing that somewhere in the back of her mind, she was deciding if I was worth listening to or not was intense.”

The next step for the chosen few will be to move to Orlando from their various homes in time for the grand opening of the park on June 18. Despite the long process, the hosts seem uniformly thrilled at the opportunity. “Juan and I have been working so hard on this show. This is an honor we never dreamed would come.” says Rossi, 23 of Los Angeles.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park opens June 18th as part of Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando, FL. For more information about this and other thrilling attractions, visit www.universalorlando.com/harrypotter/

We are all extremely excited, Juan will be there- many will be there. If you get a chance to come and hang out, do it! It will be the experience of a lifetime, you now have very limited time to actually get your tickets and information together. So pack your bags, book a flight and get your happy little dollars to Orlando to spend them all away in an incredible adventure!

You can listen as Juan and Quinn talk a little more in depth about their opinion of this matter, make sure to subscribe so that the show is delivered straight to your feed for easy access

*I’d like to remind everyone that Juan’s opinion is his opinion solely and that he does not represent Universal Orlando Resort, or anyone that might have anything to do with the park*

We’ll be recording tonight’s show later on this week and release it soon.

Thanks for your patience,

Love

SPC

We’re going to be doing some great things this year, with the Theme Park opening, Deathly Hallows coming out and Kelly completing her first year teaching we’re ready fo some change!

We’re looking for some talented, impressive and committed individuals to join us and aid our efforts in producing some of the greatest HP related content on the web.

Open slots:

Show Host:

No age really required, however you must have a good voice, flexible hours and HUGE knowledge of the Harry Potter world. You must email juan[@]spinnerscast.co.uk with a thirty second sound clip of your voice reading your favorite passage from the any of the Potter books. Please ensure it is in mp3 format. Also include why you wish to join SPC and what you believe you can bring to the table. If you meet the requirements then you’ll join me in a small discussion through Skype were we’ll talk about your abilities and possibly see if you’re a fit for the show

Editors:

No age required and low experience is all we need. At SpinnersCast we do things very differently when it comes to editing and if you have a computer, an audio editing program: you can help. It is not hard, it is just simply being able to understand what ‘’sounds right”. Editors MUST be able to meet deadlines, usually a week long, be able to work in a team and have fun. If you think you have what it takes then email juan[@]spinnerscast.co.uk and we’ll set you up with some sound bites where you must edit a short segment.

Please keep in mind that these are all volunteer positions and while you don’t get paid, you do get the chance to add SpinnersCast in your resume, you will meet great people around the fandom as well as continue to network. Aaaand, if you’re planning on coming to Infinitus: Juan’s got the hook ups with Universal

So as we have talked about on our PodCast several times, Kelly Young is helping set up all of the CondorCon WRock side of the event- and many of you have been emailing us that you wish to attend but that it seems expensive, or that you cannot find any links so here it is! All the info you could ever need of CondorCon’s Hogwarts Retreat:

The Hogwarts Educational Retreat classes and presentations will be held on Saturday in the morning and afternoon  There will be magic refresher classes, discussions on the issues facing both wizard and muggle alike, and panels on the fictional works of J.K. Rowling.

The castle looks incredible from the outside and I honestly cannot wait until all of us get to roam it freely!

For who ever doesn’t know, Hogwarts Radio is HPANA’s official podcast, and they’re nominated for this year’s PodCast Awards under General Category. You can check out their website right here, or on our partners list!

Information about the show:

When? Saturday. December 5th, 2009 at 3 PM EST. (Time is tentative, follow us on Twitter for the latest info)

Where? On each of our websites, or on www.potterteevee.com

Thats sums it up, I hope you can all tune in and become part of the live event that you won’t want to miss.

Much love,

SPC

Ps: The newest episode shall be out this weekend. Sorry, computer problems.

Well now, its here: on-demand. For you all to watch and enjoy. I will soon be stripping the audio and releasing it to the feed, and then an optional video for all of us with iTouches and iPod Video.

**Please bare with us on the first 5 minutes, we were not very aware about the quality of the stream, yet- as you see later on, the laptop is moved, quality and sound improves**

Performances by:

• The Butterbeer Experience
• Fred Lives
• Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls

Aaron Mace, the world’s greatest site editor (or so I think), has given birth to his newest creation. After harassing him about getting a new look for the site and him insisting that “site editing requires time and patience, Juan!” he sat finally received a message from the “Mother Internet” and typed his little codes away.

This is what he gave us, the greatest SPC site I have yet seen. I am very proud to reveal it to all, specially since this weekend it will also play host to PotterTeeVee’s partnership with Wrockstock where all of the main-stage concerts will be broad-casted through the Internet waves, as well as SpinnersCast first LIVE! Broadcasted show. We are very excited and cannot wait to reveal what we have planned for you all.

So tune in from Friday night till Sunday night for a full week of Wizard Rock and SpinnersCast first LIVE! Broadcasted show!

SpinnersCast is going to host a LIVE show from the Cabin of Awesome that will also be broadcasted on PotterTeeVee for those who couldn’t make it to Wrockstock this year. On Sunday at 6 PM CST- SPC will go live for the very first time for all to enjoy. Musical guests include: Madam Pince and the Librarians, Fred Lives, Lena Gabrielle and much more. We will also be joined by ALL SpinnersCast present hosts, as well as our former leading lady: Kim Newsome.

We are also very lucky to bring our listeners with partnership of PotterTeeVee all of the main stage bands, live back into your own living computer screens. That’s right! You saw it  here, SpinnersCast and PotterTeeVee will be the only organization in the fandom that will bring you LIVE video of the event. So tune in, get excited and run-around-like-you’re-on-fire because its all coming this weekend, to your very own house!

-Zombies! by the Mudbloods

SpinnersCast loves Wizard Rock, and we all have some great friends in that lovely side of the community, so with much effort and hard work- this year, for the first time ever, ALL of the SPC host will be together, in one place, at the same time.

We are all very excited because we’re not going there to do anything else but hang out with each other, listen to some of our favorite Wizard Rock bands and have a great time! We will of course be uploading some videos onto our YouTube account, possibly even record a show while we’re there bust most importantly- we will be getting to see each other, and get a chance to interact with each other.

I personally will try my hardest to keep a blog for every day, but knowing what I’ve heard from the former attendees, it might be a little too hard

We’re counting down the days till Wrockstock and if you’re planning on attending, let us know! We’d love to know of any SPC listeners that are going. If you haven’t registered to go, I believe you can still try, but first you must secure a cabin/room/place to stay, and you can even find roommates by the wonderful use of the Wrockstock forums.

We are very excited for this, and cannot wait till November the 6th comes rolling around.

Love,

SPC

Kelly, we just want to say congratulations and we know that you’ll be one heck of a teacher! Just like Remus

Now, three years later- we still produce a show like if it would be our first: with excitement, love and dedication… which is why we’d like to thank each and every one of you for continuing to listen to SpinnersCast. We love each and every one of you.

Now, since a picture is a million a thousand words, we’re going to give give you some exclusive SpinnersCast pictures that I, Juan, took of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Islands of Adventure in Orlando, Florida.

Hope you enjoy,

The SPC Staff

**Click to enlarge!**

Here at SpinnersCast we are all incredibly excited, and cannot wait to actually watch the movie. So we’re going to take a step back, and ask ourselves as well as you guys: what are your expectations, and how will you be spending your special Harry Potter night? Will you wear a costume? Are you going at midnight?! Going as a group?!?! NOT GOING AT ALL?!?!?!?!?!?

All of those great things! Answer as a comment down below, through voice mail at +1-206-426-5639 or you can send us your answer via a YouTube Vlog (which are ALWAYS fun to watch) telling us what you’ll be doing, via an e-mail or through skype, at SpinnersFeedback. We want to hear it ALL.

So don’t forget that while watching the movie is magical in and of itself, sharing it with those that are as well transforms the experience to something magically extraordinary.

Show Notes:

-WRock interviews with Lena from the Butterbeer Experience and Erin from the House of Black.

We would like to thank the Leaky staff for inviting us to this great event, and also a very special thanks to Melissa for recording this episode for us, we LOVE you.

That’s right! SpinnersCast will be part of LeakyCon’s informal programming and we’ll be combining our show with our great friends over at AlleyCast and will be bringing a live show to anyone and everyone who is present!

Quinn and I are extremely excited for this, and cannot wait to meet every single one of you who will be in attendance, so please come by and have some great fun with us

*We don’t know much about at what time the podcast is going to be, or what room and stuff, but as soon as we know, you’ll know too*

SpinnersCast Episode 62 will be just about our reactions to the trailers and how freaking excited we are for the movie to come out! But, we want your voice, and word to also be a part of our conversation, so be make sure to let us know what you think about the trailer and if it has made you excited or even less attracted towards the movie by emailing us at cast@spinnerscast.co.uk or send us a voice mail to 787-464-8190.

Enjoy,

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*Make sure to do the whole rick-click or Option + Click deal*

We want your thoughts. What do you think about this new trailer? Likes, dislikes, questions, thoughts, goals, beliefs, ambitions, desires?

Don’t forget you can comment here or send us an email to cast@spinnerscast.co.uk or leave us a voicemail at (206) 984-1993.

HAHAHAHA!!!

Well guys, that says it! In honor of the Weasley twins and the month of April, we just couldn’t resist a harmless little prank.

We had an awful lot of fun trying to fool you all. And I know that we got a few of you!

Thanks to everyone who emailed in with your congratulations. It really meant a lot. And to any new listeners we may have gotten from our little Tom Riddle Foolery, I hope you will stick around and check out some of our new episodes and even subscribe on iTunes.

Thanks so much for playing along with our gag, everyone! We will be back soon with a new episode and all kinds of fun new things!

In the mean time, shoot us an email or leave us a comment with your favorite/most notorious April Fools prank you have either committed or someone has played on you. We’ll talk about it in our next big episode!

Hey Guys!!!

Just got back from a pretty incredible day at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank!

We started our meeting with talks about the episodes, we’re getting 6 to start and then we’ll go from there. Then we were talking about Merch and we are making some T-shirts and limited edition action figures of Juan, Kelly and Myself. Then we set about actually planning out all the episodes. It’s pretty easy since they are really short, unscripted episodes and we only need the voices and they do all the animation there. It’s pretty darn easy actually. We had sent in the pilot and that’s been animated already so we watched that, got some pretty amazing feedback and conferenced with Juan and Kelly on the subjects they discussed.

Then the fun happened! After planning out a couple episodes, we actually set about recording!!! Our first episode had none other than the man, the myth, the legend himself, Stephen King!!! We played a drinking game trivia challenge with him. Dude! That guy is brilliant. And he’s got a pretty awesome voice for the show. We were looking at some preliminary sketchwork of the art for the episode and, guys, this is going to be some of the coolest stuff you’ve ever seen! I promise. This is seriously going to be LEGIT! I can’t wait to put this on TV!

The next episode featured a return from the Lovely and talented Kim Newsome as well as the infamous Laura Mallory of Potter Book Burning fame. That debate got a little fiery. HAHAHA! She’s CRAZY!!! I loved it!

That was all we did today, just two episodes, but it was enough to really get my juices flowing. I’m so excited for this, guys. The big news we’re working on right now is getting Jo to come on for the last one. CN seems to be pretty confident that we can interview J.K. Rowling for the last episode since we just need to talk to her over the phone so if it happens I am going to be obscenely excited.

I’m working on getting some sketches for you to put on the site and hopefully I’ll have some by the end of the day.

What do you think?

If you could ask J.K. Rowling one question, what would it be????

Love you all!

-Quinn

Helloooo Listeners!!!!!!

Boy, I have hardly been able to contain myself all night!!!

So you know how we have been teasing you that we have some a big piece of information that we haven’t been able to share with you just yet? Well, I’ve finally been given the Go-ahead and I’m gonna spill the beans about SPC’s biggest and most exciting project to date!

So, as many of you know, our wonderful former producer and life-long friend of the show, Kim works for a certain news agency which is part of the media group founded by multi-millionaire mogul Ted Turner. Now, Mr. Turner’s company also owns quite a significant number of other major cable networks and news outlets (for more, see here.) including Cartoon Network and one of my sentimental favorite cartoons Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

Now, when Ms. Newsome was hired on with said media network, her past productions was brought to the attention of certain higher up officials who were quite impressed with the work she had done, specifically the old SpinnersCast Animated Webisodes. Do you remember those? We’re talking really really old “live” podcasts which were animated over for viewing pleasure and which aired in the first ten episodes but ended up being just a little too much work for our poor fledgling podcast to put out on a regular basis. Anywho, a certain industry official loved the concept of a “live-action cartoon” and thought that our format could be marketable for their new line up. I’ve been having meetings with Cartoon Network out here in Burbank for the past few months and they just decided to pick our lovely little SpinnersCast up for a trial run to air on Thursday nights as part of Adult Swim!

That’s right!!! The official SpinnersCast Cartoon will be featured in the new Thursday night Line Up on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim!!!!!!!

You will get to watch 15 minutes of me, Juan, Aaron, Kelly, and quite a few other special guests every Thursday night for the next 6-10 weeks!!!!!!

Now, the only catch right now is that it’s on a little bit late at night (12:30-12:45am/11:30-11:45 Central) so our younger listeners will have to TiVo the first episode (which airs next Thursday, April 9th on Cartoon Network). I had been personally waiting for confirmation from Cartoon Network as to what I could post on the site as a short preview of what’s to come. While I’m waiting on getting a solid approved clip, they did tell me that I can share with you some of what’s to come and who some of our special guests will be.

Which I will do… In the Morning!

Sorry guys, I have a meeting in the morning with CN in Burbank to hammer out some final peculiars and when that is done, I can come home and update more of that! We’re actually talking about the promo material and (possibly most exciting for me) ACTION FIGURES!!! But until then, I hope you’ll stick with us here and I am just honestly so flipping excited about this all you have no idea!!!!!

Love you all!

Quinn!

And now the second thing I’d like to say is that SpinnersCast is happy to welcome the newest member of our staff, Sophie.

Sophie is going to be taking care to fix all of our grammar mistakes, ensuring that everything in the site is properly set up and fun things like that.

So from the bottom of all of our hearts, WELCOME SOPHIE

And if you are looking for a way to give back to the community, but don’t enjoy getting out and picking up garbage or things like that, and rather sit at home and work for the community that loves you- The Harry Potter community- then hit us up at cast @ spinnerscast.co.uk if you wish to join our Army, and help make SPC and the HP World a much better place !

Much love,

SPC Army

Show Notes:

Season Three, Episode 60: Filled with Awesomeness

• SpinnersCast welcomes their new “old” age, and accepts that we’ll now be needing a walking stick.
• BUT that’s okay, the boys seem to think that being old attracts some good ladies.
• Join us as we talk to Lauren about her brand new album “Say Nothing.”
• Juan is bright red from having the opportunity to even speak with Lauren.
• Quinn calls him out on the fan-girl love that Juan has going on.
• Lauren laughs. She’s an AWESOME girl.
• Juan gets to sit down with Josh, the director of We are Wizards and discuss his incredible movie.
• Make sure to catch it over at hulu.com or visit their website at www.wearewizards-themovie.com
• Lauren’s new album is now on sale on her myspace, so make sure to check that out !

Thank you guys for listening to SpinnersCast Episode 60, we love you- And can’t wait to hear about what you have to say of the show. Send us an email at cast@spinnerscast.co.uk and send us a voice mail !

And also make sure to check Lauren’s social networks:

http://www.myspace.com/laurenmyrtle

http://www.myspace.com/themoaningmyrtles

http://www.youtube.com/devilishlypure

http://www.youtube.com/fiveawesomegirls