the wizarding world of harry potter

Harry Potter Set Tours Coming in 2012

My inner geek is exploding with nerdgasms! The sets from all 8 Harry Potter movies will be expanded and made tourist friendly. The U.S. has The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, now the UK will have the actual HP sets. (Click HERE for my park review including price lists, photos and rumors of expansion!)

Leavesden will be home to a Harry Potter experience that many have wizard fans have dreamed of. The sets of all the films will be transformed into a studio tour. This plan is the beginning stages, but an opening date of 2012 has been projected.

Via Deadline:

“Leavesden, the north-west London-based studio where Warner has filmed all 8 Harry Potter movies, is to be refurbished and expanded. A Harry Potter studio tour – offering fans the chance to see the actual sets — will be part of the new Leavesden, which will re-open mid-2012.”

Rumor is that a budget of $161 million is tied to this project. My advice to Warner Brothers (in the words of the great RuPaul)…DON’T F**K IT UP.

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Harry Potter Theme Park Details, Photos and Video

It is no secret that I am a huge Harry Potter fan and I may or may not have a t-shirt that says “I get on all fours for Gryffindors!” So news that the Harry Potter theme park in Universal Studios will be open in 2010 makes me quiver with glee.

Today it was announced that the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will be open in spring of 2010.

Harry Potter stores will include Zonko’s, Honeydukes, and a wand shop full of deliberately dusty wand boxes where, just like in the books, you can be matched with your wand. Food on based on the books and traditional British fare will include butterbeer available at the Three Broomsticks pub. A rest area combine in open space where owls roost and anyone wanting to send a postcard can do it from the adjoining Owl Post. If you are a Quidditch fan, you can participate in a simulated Triwizard Tournament – and pick up some Quidditch equipment.

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