Harry Potter's Warner Bros. Studio Tour London may have expansion, WandWeek

Harry Potter's Warner Bros. Studio Tour London

may have expansion, Wand Week 

           Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of

Harry Potter its hosting its Wand Week from now

until June 2, and SnitchSeeker got a look at the

special series this past weekend. Highlights from

the extras featured, including a duel at the studios in

Leavesden, UK, were shown to guests. S
nitchSeeker's correspondent Milo also noticed that

there was construction taking place at the studio

tour's back lot, for what may be an expansion. No

confirmed word yet from Warner Bros. about this,

but for those visiting the tour, do keep an eye out for

it. 

This half term, Wand Week returns to the Warner

Bros. Studio Tour London, and this time there are

even more surprises and showcases on hand to

reveal the magic of the Harry Potter Films. One of

the most unique things that visitors will be able to see
for the first time is the duelling platform from

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This

unique piece takes centre stage in the Great Hall,

and gives you the opportunity to get up close and

examine the detail of it, though unfortunately due to

the fragile nature, you won’t be able to dust off your
 wand and have a duel, though it is close enough to

touch.

Other features of wand week include a team of wand

makers, who are on hand and are actually making

the wands live for everyone to see. You can witness

this amazing process as one team member carves the
 wand on a machine, whilst the other applies the

finishing touches making the wand ready to use, a

real intricate art in itself and just goes to show the

level of detail they put into every aspect of the

production of the Potter films. As always throughout

the studio tour, visitors can practice and learn the
 different modes of wand combat, as originally

choreographed by Paul Harris for the Order of the

Phoenix, but now visitors have the chance to duel

and battle Death Eaters by the Ministry of Magic

set, and this does make for a very cool photo

opportunity, something not to be missed.
As you wander through Diagon Alley, there is a new

special effects demonstration featuring a bit of wand

magic. All you have to do is point the wand, given to

you by a member of staff, at one of the cauldron

signs, and it will send a blasting spell, which hits the

sign. The effect is rather cool indeed, and even made me jump,
as I was not expecting it. Again this

is one of the new features for Wand Week, and

finally as you approach the production and art

design aspect of the tour, another staff member is

on hand with blueprints for wands as well as

different moulds for some of the wands that were made for the films.

These great additional details are just a small part of

the tour as a whole, and if you are lucky enough to

be visiting this week then you are in for a treat! One

other thing that fans may be pleased with, is that

construction has begun on expanding the studio tour,
so you may notice a bit of a difference in the

back lot as a few things have been moved around

and you can see one of the soundstages being

extended, so hopefully this means some great new

Harry Potter elements to come in the near future…