I loved the space exploration part of VDNH, too, but I haven't' seen it for a long time. But other places I visited quite often, especially in the last year that I lived in Moscow when my visits there work-related. There are a lot of fun stuff there now - old and new.

About HP - I agree that rearrangement of the plot served the movie better. Excessive courtesy to the book made the previous movie a moving illustration.