{"id":98880985,"date":"2011-08-15T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/harry-potter-studio-tours-to-open-near-london-in-spring-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-08-15T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:04:00","slug":"harry-potter-studio-tours-to-open-near-london-in-spring-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/harry-potter-studio-tours-to-open-near-london-in-spring-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Studio Tours to Open Near London in Spring 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHarry Potter fanatics will have yet another chance to dive into the Harry Potter universe beginning in Spring 2012.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThough the final chapter has long closed on the Boy Who Lived, there appears to be tons of milk left in this literary cash cow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNext year, Warner Bros. Studios will begin hosting tours of the Harry Potter studios in Leavesden, England (about 20 miles outside London) where all eight blockbuster Potter movies were filmed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tours will include strolls through Hogwart&rsquo;s Great Hall, Professor Dumbledore&rsquo;s office, the Gryffindor common room, and Hargrid&rsquo;s Hut.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTour-goers will also get a behind-the-scenes look at the &ldquo;movie magic&rdquo; that brought some of the series&rsquo; most spectacular creatures to life, including Buckbeak the mythical Hippogriff, Aragog the giant spider, and Fawkes the phoenix.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCrews are currently working to convert the temporary movie sets into permanent fixtures for the tours. The first tickets for the studio tours will go on sale on October 13.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/article-2026172\/Harry-Potter-scenes-tour-Tickets-sale-13-October-Warner-Bros-Studios.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter fanatics will have yet another chance to dive into the Harry Potter universe beginning in Spring 2012. &nbsp; Though the final chapter has long closed on the Boy Who Lived, there appears to be tons of milk left in this literary cash cow. &nbsp; Next year, Warner Bros. Studios will begin hosting tours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}