Saturday, August 9, 2014

Harry Potter Studios Tour!!

This. Tour. Was. Amazing.  But really!!  Probably one of the best things I have done here so far.  Lauren and I went together, and since we are both total Harry Potter nerds, we enjoyed it on a deeper level together. :) Seriously though, we saw so many cool things from all eight of the Harry Potter movies, including props, costumes, sets, filming sites, and much much more!!  Okay, enough words, the pictures are much more exciting! :) Be prepared, there are over 100... I went crazy!  (Sorry some of the pictures are blurry, the lighting wasn't the best!)

Completely unrelated, I know, but we had shawarma for lunch and it was soo yummy!


The gift shop.. it was HUGE!

I guess you could say we're a little excited.. :)

Our special copies of the British versions of Harry Potter books!

The cupboard under the stairs

Door to the Great Hall!

Tables in the Great Hall with Hufflepuff Uniforms

Gryffindor Uniforms

Broomstick that George Weasley road in the 5th movie as they chase Umbridge out of the Great Hall

Uniform that Daniel Radcliffe wore in the very first movie!  He was only 11 years old.

McGonagall, Dumbledore, Snape, Hagrid, Filch

Flitwick, Moody, Trelawney

Yule Ball costumes!

Floating candles

Ron's lovely Yule Ball dress robes.


Umbridge's many "Proclamations" 

The gates of Hogwarts!



Gryffindor boys dormitory 

Wands for all the main characters!

Mirror of Erised

Portrait of the Fat Lady

Gryffindor Common Room


Costumes, and the invisibility cloak! It was part green screen, which actually makes a lot of sense. :)


Sirius Black costume

Costumes in the 3rd movie during the scene with Lupin as a werewolf, the shrieking shack, saving Buckbeak, etc.  It was an epic scene.  So epic they did it twice. :)

Secret doorway to Dumbledore's office


Dumbledore's office

Case of memories

The Pensive 

The cup that chose the competitors for the TriWizard Tournament in the fourth movie.

Important props, such as the time turner, the remember all, the sorcerer's stone, the golden snitch, etc.

The TriWizard Tournament Trophy/Portkey and the Golden Dragon's Egg


Potions Classroom, and Slughorn's costume


Snape Costume


Hagrid's Hut

Cart from the Gringotts vault

Moving Marble Staircase

Hagrid's motorbike and buggy

Moody's chest

Quidditch robes and brooms

Bludgers and Quaffle

Firebolt, Nimbus 2000, Nimbus 2001

Gringotts Vault Door

Door within the Chamber of Secrets

Weasley's Kitchen

More Quidditch stuff!

Statue from the Ministry of Magic

Crystals from the cave where the Horcrux was found in the sixth movie

This man personally helped build props for the set of Harry Potter and told us a little bit about those broomsticks!

Umbridge's Office... Holy Pink!

Umbridge's costumes

Ministry of Magic


Costumes that Harry and Ron wore when they were disguised and going through the Ministry of Magic

Malfoy Family Costumes

Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange Costumes

Death Eater's costumes

Graphic art in the film: Daily Prophet newspapers, posters, and the Marauder's Map


Products from Weasley Wizard Wheezes

The bridge, as seen in many of the films

On the Knight Bus!

Tom Riddle's gravestone




We had to.. :)

Wizard's Chess pieces!

Privet Drive!  Harry's home with the Dursleys

The Potter home in Godric's Hollow


Been there.

And there.  There too.

The flying car!! 

More chess pieces!



The head of Nearly-Headless Nick

Costume heads masks and make up for goblins

Bathilda Bagshot and more make up masks

Fawkes the Phoenix 

The Monstrous Book of Monsters

Hagrid Head

Robotic Werewolf

Creepy little Voldemort..

Robotic Hedwig: Not used very often, usually had a real owl!

More costumes and models of actors

Aunt Marge's costume!

Costumes and Models

Dementor model and costume: Most of that was done by a computer though.

Mandrake

Head of a dragon

Thestral


Basilisk Skeleton

Aragog and the Basilisk head

Dragon model

Buckbeak!


Diagon Alley


Gringotts Bank

Ollivanders Wand Shop



Weasley Wizard Wheezes

Quidditch Shop!


Model of Hogwarts!  It was HUGE.  They used this for all of the scenes in the movie that give a flyover view of the castle!



This room contained a wand box dedicated to every single person that helped the Harry Potter movies come to be.  Total: Over 4000 wands!

WE LOVED IT SO MUCH WE COULD HARDLY CONTAIN OUR JOY!!!!!!

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