Today was for Dana with doing the Harry Potter studio tour. We got away about 8:15 and ended up getting 3 adult tickets for the train as there was no attendant and the machine wouldn’t do child day tickets.
When we got the Euston to change to the national line to get out Watford Junction, everything was in chaos due to an earlier fatality at Rugby which is on the line we wanted. Just as well we got away slightly earlier than we needed as well as having padded our trip too. In the end we ended up getting away at the time we had planned for, just on a train that was 20 minutes late.
Got out to Warner Brothers in plenty of time on the first transfer coach of the day. Our first double decker bus. Queues really short that early for the tour so straight through. Tour starts with a couple of quick movies, then into the main hall for a short talk then off on the self guided tour.
There are two studio’s to walk through, J and K. I’m sure someone in marketing laughed themselves silly coming up with that one.
Studio J is mostly filled with props and sets from the movies. Lots of information about each item. They also had a green screen area for photos of broom riding and the like which Dana had no interest in.
In between the studios is a small outdoor lot where we tried buttered beer. Which was a lot nicer than we expected it to be.
Studio K was mostly taken up with animatronics, models, drawings and the like. At the end is a full replica of Hogwarts as used in filming.
In all we spent about three hours going through. The guide at the start said 2 to 3 was the norm, but they’d had someone take 10 hours once.
After returning to Euston station we decided that it was too early to go straight home, so headed back to the British Museum to finish the rooms we didn’t get to on Monday. After about an hours wandering we grabbed an ice cream, then headed for the tube and home.
