21 March 2012

A Boy's visit to the Harry Potter Studio Tour


The Boy was incredibly lucky last week; his school had the opportunity to go to a preview of the Harry Potter Experience at the Leavesden Studios. Our (very) small claim to fame is living within walking distance of the studios. Sadly, they are excellent neighbours and I have never seen or heard anything interesting from the outside.

When The Boy told me about his day, pretty much every other word he used was 'awesome'. So, over to you, Boy:

  • We saw  the trolley from the train, and you could eat the sweets, They had snakes to eat that moved in my mouth!
  • There were chocolate cauldrons with caramel goo inside them that you could drink, and wands that dropped bits of licorish out of the end. They tasted delicious.
  • We went into Fred and George's shop. There were actually fireworks! We saw Peruvian instant darkness powder that makes black smoke go everywhere. My friend went home covered in it. 
  • The electric shock hand worked! 
  • We met the actors that played Fred and George and they were really funny. They were jokers just like in the films.
  • There was a cinema and we thought it was going to be boring but then the wall turned out to be the screen. After the film the screen went up and there were two huge doors. Everybody gasped and didn't move. Behind the doors was the great hall, with no roof. Apparently they only used candles in the first film because they kept falling on the children's food!
  • In the tunnel I swear there was magic going on there, because there were lights on the walls and they moved around. You felt like you were walking upside down!
  • We went into a huge room with 15 golden snitches to find. Finding the snitches was a lot of fun. They were... Stop! You can't tell people where to find the golden snitches!
  • We saw Hagrid's Hut, Professor Dumbledore's office, the night bus, the Griffindor common room, the Slytherin common room, the dormitories for all the houses, the floor network and the Ministry for Magic.
  • We got to drink butterbeer! It was really nice.
  • There were wands that shot a bright light out of the end. I really, really wanted one to take home.
  • There was lots of other stuff but the absolute best thing of all was wearing the quidditch robes and riding the broomsticks! You got to see yourself  on a screen. It was awesome! 
  • I still wish our head teacher had let us get autographs from Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Ralph Fiennes. She had a load of paper and she wouldn't give it to us.

So, overall, good day out?

One of the best days of my entire life. I would recommend it to every single person in the world, and that includes people on Mars.

Thank you, Boy. The Harry Potter studio tour officially gets the nine-year-old's seal of approval. In fact, he wants me to take him again when it opens so that he can show it all to me. I think I might have to. I want to ride on a broomstick too.

6 comments:

  1. I'm with you! How much fun was that!

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  2. Wow! That does sound awesome! I hope one day to enjoy it with the same amount of enthusiasm.

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  3. Wow, really.... awesome! I'd love to do that if we ever make it to your side of the pond. Boy is not the only Harry Potter fan!

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  4. That's something I would love to do, if only we could get all those darned children out of the way!! *snort*

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  5. Oh wow this sounds like a blast! I want to go!

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  6. I had a look and it's pricey, but if all these things are standard it's hard to sniff. i might not be shelling out to go with him *quite* yet.

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