Now create your own Potter magic
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October 4, 2011, Tuesday
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WAVE a wand and a ladle across the room turns in a cauldron. Move your hand and a knife starts to chop.
Warner Brothers aims to recreate the magic of the Harry Potter movies with a major tour at its Leavesden Studios on the outskirts of London, with the attraction due to open in spring.
The studio behind the record-breaking franchise has relocated the original Great Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and visitors will be able to enter the towering set they had only previously seen on film.
There they can admire the attention to detail in which the production crews on the eight movies took great pride - from the elaborate "stonework" of the outer walls to graffiti carved into wooden tables by students.
There will be no floating candles - that particular piece of magic was conjured by computers, but many of the characters, props, costumes and settings were real-life.
Among the highlights will be the giant spider Aragog suspended from the ceiling, and fans will be able to pose for photographs in one of the "flying" Ford Anglia cars used in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
The sharp-toothed "The Monster Book of Monsters" has been dusted off, and Buckbeak the "Hippogriff" is getting a meticulous makeover for when the doors open.
The studios and neighboring tour space are currently little more than a giant building site, with only a few of the main attractions in place.
Tickets for "Warner Bros Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter" going on sale on October 13.
They will cost 21 pounds (US$32.5) per child, 28 pounds per adult and 83 pounds for a family of four, and up to 5,000 visitors are expected to be able to take the three-hour tour each day.
The venture underlines how the Potter phenomenon looks set to go on generating revenue long after the release of the eighth and final film.
Warner Brothers aims to recreate the magic of the Harry Potter movies with a major tour at its Leavesden Studios on the outskirts of London, with the attraction due to open in spring.
The studio behind the record-breaking franchise has relocated the original Great Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and visitors will be able to enter the towering set they had only previously seen on film.
There they can admire the attention to detail in which the production crews on the eight movies took great pride - from the elaborate "stonework" of the outer walls to graffiti carved into wooden tables by students.
There will be no floating candles - that particular piece of magic was conjured by computers, but many of the characters, props, costumes and settings were real-life.
Among the highlights will be the giant spider Aragog suspended from the ceiling, and fans will be able to pose for photographs in one of the "flying" Ford Anglia cars used in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."
The sharp-toothed "The Monster Book of Monsters" has been dusted off, and Buckbeak the "Hippogriff" is getting a meticulous makeover for when the doors open.
The studios and neighboring tour space are currently little more than a giant building site, with only a few of the main attractions in place.
Tickets for "Warner Bros Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter" going on sale on October 13.
They will cost 21 pounds (US$32.5) per child, 28 pounds per adult and 83 pounds for a family of four, and up to 5,000 visitors are expected to be able to take the three-hour tour each day.
The venture underlines how the Potter phenomenon looks set to go on generating revenue long after the release of the eighth and final film.
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