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The model used in all the Harry Potter films for Hogswart has been unveiled. The enormous castle will go on display at the end of March as part of Making of Harry Potter tour at Leavesdon Studio in London. It’s 50 feet across and no detail is left unattended. There a miniature owls and more than 2,000 fiber optic lights to simulate torches. If you add up all the hours it took the 86 artists and crew members to build it, the model took 74 years to construct. Wow.
Though the castle will certainly be the superstar of the tour, it won’t be the only display to ooh and ahh over:
The three-hour tour will also take Harry Potter fans inside the Great Hall and Dumbledore’s office. Visitors will also be able to step onto cobbles of Diagon Alley, walking past the the shop fronts of Ollivanders wand shop, Flourish and Blotts, the Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, Gringotts Wizarding Bank and Eeylops Owl Emporium.
Iconic props from the films, including Harry’s Nimbus 2000 broomstick and Hagrid’s motorcycle will be on display alongside life-sized models of some of the creatures from the films.
Other film sets included in the tour include the Gryffindor common room, the boys’ dormitory, Hagrid’s hut, Potion’s classroom and Professor Umbridge’s office at the Ministry of Magic.
Who wants to buy me a plane ticket to London?
Check out additional images and a time lapse video of Hogwarts being built after the break.
I left my heart in Hogsmeade. I went to Orlando recently, and for the first time, I was excited to see something other than Disney. I felt like I was cheating on the Mouse, but I couldn’t wait to visit Wizarding World in Universal’s Islands of Adventure. It was everything I imagined Harry Potter-land would be, and it surpassed all of my expectations. I didn’t know a theme park atmosphere could be so charming, but I walked around in a state of absolute wonder for the duration of my visit. From my first cry of joy at seeing Hogsmeade to practically shedding tears at having to leave – Universal, you did good.
Haven’t read any of the Harry Potter books or seen any of the movies? The following video won’t clear things up at all. Not one damn bit.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 concept artist Andrei Riabovitchev has revealed another possibility for Voldemort’s ending. The stills show more of a smoky demise.
Watch the progression of Voldemort into dust after the break.
Harry Potter lends itself to home decorating. Well, that’s true if you live in a castle. Professor Snape fan Logospilgrim has shown us how it can translate to a regular house though. She has made her entire office the sort of place Snape would feel right at home. It’s decorated with objects that could be used in potions, Snape art and collectibles, a cloak, and plenty of books.
View more photos of the room after the break.
Now he’s a student at Don Mariano Marcos Elementary.
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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
This geek likes to travel. Road trips, long flights, or short jaunts just down the road – I take what I can get. When I can, I try to combine travel with activities and sights that make my inner fangirl squeal. Those trips are my favorites. Film and TV locations, museums, old cemeteries, and sites with urban and rural decay top my list of “places I will detour to see.” The small stuff is just as enjoyable, too. It may not be possible for me to visit the actual castle used for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, but I can usually fit in a drive to see the oldest surviving American robot in Mansfield, Ohio. If you’d like to mix some geek stops into your next trip or even into your weekend, I have plenty of suggestions.
“Funny, the damage a silly little book can do, especially in the hands of a silly little girl…”
Indeed, who knows what kind of damage can be done when you write your deepest, darkest thoughts into this replica Tom Riddle diary. Eventually, your horcrux diary will be compromised and your secrets revealed to everyone at school by your brother Harry. From then on, he is your mortal enemy.
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The Harry Potter films still have one final breath of life in them thanks to a 46-minute documentary that will be bundled in the Target exclusive edition of the four-disc Blu-ray set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
As you’ll see in the trailer for the documentary after the break, it looks to be pretty candid—and likely to open up some wounds for Potter fans that are only just beginning to get over the end of the series.
