Wow, what a day! This was a treat for us all at the end of our travels and was well worth it. Very cool to set the actual sets, costumes and props, and home for many of the main actors and actresses for 10 years during filming. Many birthdays an other celebrations also took place here during the 10 years of filming.
The pictures speak for themselves for the most part, however highlights were 'the cupboard under the stairs', The Great Hall, Dumbledore's Office, the potions 'class', the entire special effects (SFX) section and how that is all done, the recreation of Kings Cross St Pancras train station complete with the Hogwarts Express train, the Knight Bus and Privet Drive, the Ford Anglia, Gringotts Bank and Diagon Alley. Which, now that I've typed that all up, is pretty much all of it haha! It certainly was well worth the money spend to go.
It should be mentioned that the floor in The Great Hall is made with real flagstone stone tiles so it could withstand 10 years of use in filming. The road in Diagon Alley is also made from real paving stones.
The dragon inside Gringotts is AMAZING as is the interior of Gringotts.
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves and add anything else I think of at a later date.
The website is very good. Explains many things on the tour. Check it out if you're interested Warner Bros. Studio Tour
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| Inside the entrance before entering the tour. These are huge screens. |
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| Inside the entrance before entering the tour. These are huge screens. |
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| Inside the entrance before entering the tour. These are huge screens. |
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| Inside the entrance before entering the tour. These are huge screens. |
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| Inside the entrance before entering the tour. These are huge screens. |
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| Just as you enter the tour. The Dursley's home. |
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| The 'Cupboard Under the Stairs' where Harry Potter lived at his Aunt and Uncle's home. |
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| Inside the 'Cupboard Under the Stairs' |
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| Plaque explaining the beginning of the Harry Potter filming. |
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| Waiting for the tour to start. The walls are covered in photographs from the 10 years of filming, on and off set. |
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| Entrance to 'The Great Hall' once the screen went up after the small movie clip. |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' with the costumes that Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint wore when filming started at the age of 11. |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' with the costumes that Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint wore when filming started at the age of 11. |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' with the main characters costumes from Slytherin House. |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' with 'Hagrid' and 'Professor Flitwick' costumes. |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' with 'Minerva McGonagall', 'Albus Dumbledore' and 'Severus Snape' costumes. |
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| Inside 'The Great Hall' |
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| Dumbledore's Owl Lecturn |
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| Funny! See who this quote belongs to? |
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| Wigs, wigs and... |
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| ...more wigs! |
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| The moving staircase at Hogwarts |
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| Mad Eye Moody, Professor Trelawney, Professor Flitwick costumes |
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| The Great Hall ceiling. This was the only one made and trick photography was used to make it look huge. |
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Under the ceiling of The Great Hall |
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| The Leaky Caldron |
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| Wands! |
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| Boys Dormitory. Hard to tell in the picture, but the beds are small for kids! |
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| Boys Dormitory |
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| Griffyndor Common Room |
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| Griffyndor Common Room |
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| Slytherin Common Room |
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| Dumbledore's Office |
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| Dumbledore's Office with the 'sorting hat' up on the shelf behind. |
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| Close up of the 'sorting hat' |
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| Lots of instruments and scientific stuff in Dumbledore's office. |
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Potions Classroom with Professor Snape's costume.
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| Potions Classroom |
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| Broomsticks and Quidditch |
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| Broomsticks: Firebolt (top), Nimbus 2000 (middle), Nimbus 2001 (bottom) |
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| Hagrid's Hut |
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| Quidditch |
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| SFX - Making broomsticks fly! |
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| SFX - Making a Ford Anglia fly, land in the 'Whomping Willow' tree and get attached by the tree. |
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| Add caption |
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| Lock to the entrance of The Chamber of Secrets |
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| Tom Riddle's father's grave with the Ministry of Magic set behind. |
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| Deatheaters at the Malfoy Manor |
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| Deatheaters at the Malfoy Manor |
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| Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy, Draco Malfoy costumes |
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| The Ministry of Magic |
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| The Ministry of Magic |
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| The Forbidden Forest |
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| Buckbeak the Hippogriff in the Forbidden Forest |
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| Giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest |
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| Giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest |
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| Giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest |
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| Picture with the flash on showing the huge trees used for the Forbidden Forest set. |
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| Kings Cross St Pancras and the recreation of Platform 9 ¾ |
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| Kings Cross St Pancras and the recreation of Platform 9 ¾ |
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| Kings Cross St Pancras and the recreation of Platform 9 ¾ with The Hogwarts Express |
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| Kings Cross St Pancras and the recreation of Platform 9 ¾ with The Hogwarts Express |
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| Final costumes worn by Ginny, Harry, Hermione and Ron when they bring their children to Platform 9 ¾ at Kings Cross St Pancras |
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| Platform 9 ¾ at Kings Cross St Pancras |
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| Butterbeer at the Backlot Cafe |
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| Number 4 Privet Drive. This is an entire house. No going inside today due to Covid though. |
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| Harry Potter's parents, Lily and James home after Voldermort attacked it. |
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| The Knight Bus - take it away Ernie! |
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| The Knight Bus |
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| Inside The Knight Bus |
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| Hogwarts Bridge |
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| Hogwarts Bridge |
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| Sirius Black's Motorbike |
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| Sirius Black's Motorbike |
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| The 'Flying Ford Angila' |
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| The 'Mandrake' plants that scream |
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| Creature Effects - Heads |
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| Creature Effects - Heads |
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| Creature Effects - Heads |
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| Monster Book of Monsters |
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| Hagrid's Robotic Head |
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| Hagrid's Robotic Head |
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| Grawp - Hagrid's giant brother |
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| Voldermort's soul |
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| Dobby |
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| Aragog and the Basilisk |
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| Goblin Heads |
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| Entrance to Gringotts Bank |
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| Model of the outside of Gringotts Bank |
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| Inside Gringotts Bank |
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| Inside Gringotts Bank |
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| Costumes worn by Harry, Ron and Hermione to sneak into Gringotts Bank |
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| Harry's Gringotts vault with a 'small fortune' from his parents. |
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| Cart at Gringotts used to get to the vaults |
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| Lestrange family vault in Gringotts Bank |
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| Diagon Alley with real stone paving |
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| Olivanders in Diagon Alley |
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| Designs and drawings |
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| White card models are made before work begins on the actual set. |
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| Scale model of Hogwarts which appeared in every movie. Trick photography made it appear the size it is in the movies. |
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| These are the wands made for JK Rowling and the Harry Potter cast and crew. |
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