I will let you into a little secret of mine… I am a huge Harry Potter fan geek. After humming the theme tune to myself for the entire bank holiday weekend, Tuesday came along and we made our way over to Warner Brothers Leavesden for the Harry Potter studio tour.
The great hall started the tour, it included costumes for the teachers. 
Props for the Yule Ball
Props for potions class
The Dumbledore office set
Dolores Umbridge office set and costumes
Shop front on Diagon Alley
Gryffindor boys dormitory and common room set
The Weasley’s family home (The Burrow set) 
the leaky cauldron set
Exterior for the Privet Drive set and the set for Harrys room under the stairs 
Outside of the spooky Potter cottage
Me posing with the three story Knight Bus
Ministry of Magic muggle statue
Masks used for the films including the Goblin mask. There was also life sized models of the actors and a little dobby model the actors used to work with
The end of the tour featured the Hogwarts model, which was actually quite large.
Did you spot the cinemagraphs? They are not brilliant, you really do need a tripod to get the steady filming. When I spotted the moving objects I really wanted wanted to at least try and get a few moving photo’s for you.
This is probably the largest post I have published and I have not even shown you a quarter of what was on display. We was informed to allow 3 hours for your visit, but I could of spent a lot longer there. We didn’t stop to look at anything too long as the 2 year old was getting quite restless. I would love to go back again at some point and look at the sets and props in more detail.
The Harry Potter Studio Tour is an absolute must for Harry Potter fans and if you are just a movie buff this would also be fascinating experience. The detail that went into making the films is incredible, from the sets to the props to the costumes. I didn’t realise how much was physically made rather than just a green screen and special effects. The highlight for me was walking into the Great hall and strolling down Diagon Alley.
One criticism I do have is that there was far too many people at the experience. This is a moan I have about most things, it was also my criticism of Lapland UK. It does kind of put a downer on things when you are being pushed from side to side when you want to take a look at something. Also it would have been nice to have a photo in the great hall without a crowd of people. I would have paid double the price for half of a crowd.
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The photos are incredible WOW! I so want to go! xx
Highly recommend it. I am usually disappointed by these things, but not for here x
Not really a Harry Potter fan but this does look like lots of fun! x
Swear words ;). My husband isn’t a fan, but I could tell he was enjoying himself. The details that went into making the films is mind blowing xx
oh WOW!!!! I love it!!! cute cinemagraphs 🙂
I see that you are more excited than Eva for this visit!!! 😉
Thank you 🙂 I am going to try and do better ones. I had to film them without a tripod, so you can see the shakes.
Definitely more excited than Eva, she is still a bit too young for it, but I am a big kid at heart xx
Your photos are amazing, what an eye for those things, wish I was as good as you at taking pics! Also if you want you can find me on facebook if you can see my website url.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment 🙂
great pictures.. looks amazing !! I want to take my kids there. Will have to book day off school ..I dread holiday queues. xx Dawn
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Thanks Dawn. I don’t think it will matter as there is a limited amount of tickets per day and the days practically sell out school day or not. Its amazing though, definitely take your kiddos xx
Amazing – some of the best shots ive seen of the tour! What camera did you use?
Ah thanks Emma, that is really nice of you to say. I use the Canon 500d and I used the 50mm f1.8 lens (really great for isolating your subject and great in low light conditions) x
now that i found you here, i’m always going to enter on your site…it is helping to study a lot
Thank you, glad you are enjoying it 🙂 x