Chapter 13 These Days Are Dark Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The Burrow set looked just as welcoming as you would expect. I basically wanted to go take a seat at their table and hang out with the Weasleys. You can see in the background that several of the magical home items featured at …
Chapter 12 Cauldrons and Broomsticks Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The next set was the Potions classroom. Interestingly, this set was only used for actual Potions lessons in the sixth film, but the shape of it looked so familiar because it was also used in the first movie as the third-floor corridor housing Fluffy! …
Chapter 11 Sherbet Lemon! Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The giant Hogwarts clock occupied an entire wall of the soundstage area. I feel like it’s difficult to appreciate it until you see it from far away. There were a few interactive touchscreens that went along with some of the set design and costume design …
Chapter 10 Better Be… Gryffindor Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The first big set after walking past the Hogwarts gates was the Gryffindor boys’ dormitory. This one showed a bit of a lack of planning on the part of set designers, because it was definitely built for 11-year-olds, and I truly can’t imagine them trying to …
Chapter 9 Making Movie Magic Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents We moved out of the Great Hall and into the next room. It’s crazy, because that whole set looks so real when you are inside of it, but the backside just makes it very clear that it’s all smoke and mirrors (and a lot …
Chapter 8 Small Sets and Large Sets Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents It’s sort of hard to describe how excited we were to start this tour. Obviously, Tracy and I have been Harry Potter fans since before there were movie adaptations, and the books and films were a huge part of our childhoods/adolescences. It …
October 20, 2016 Chapter 7 The Room Where It Happened Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Adjusting to the time change was still going to take a day or two, so I didn’t sleep great on our first night. Waking up for our first full day in London, however, we actually had concrete plans for …
Chapter 6 Pub Hopping Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Here’s that fancy-looking old building at the base of the London Eye again. Looks like it was County Hall back before it was repurposed for Shrek… Here’s a lovely view across the Thames. And here’s a seagull cleaning itself while another one watches. Look, …
Chapter 5 Eye Spy Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The skyline of London is different than other major cities in that it has several recognizable buildings, but most of them are scattered amongst several other generic buildings. So actually seeing the cityscape, it’s not always really distinctive. You can see the dome of …
Chapter 4 Fairly Large Benjamin Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents Posting my first “artsy” photo below reminds me that this is actually the first trip report I’ve done since getting a new camera. I made the leap to a Nikon DSLR a little more than a year ago (but I am always woefully …