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Episode 29: The Making of Harry Potter · Revelio: A Wizarding World Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to episode twenty nine of Rebellio for
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  Speaker 1: October second, twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nicole and I'm Tom and.
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  Speaker 1: Today we are missing Amy, but we are joined by
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  Speaker 1: a very special guest host for this episode, Lucy.
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  Speaker 3: So welcome Lucy.
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  Speaker 1: II. Yeah, and uh so we just wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: you kind of like introduce yourself. You know, obviously the
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  Speaker 1: run of the mill, your Hogwarts house, how you got
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  Speaker 1: into Harry Potter, how you're involved in the fandom now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, So my hobo sass is a griffin,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what I was sort of into on Potimore,
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  Speaker 4: so I've just kept it, even though I kind of
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  Speaker 4: think I'm more of a Raymond Claw now. I got
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  Speaker 4: into Harry Potter for my mum, so when I was
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  Speaker 4: about ten, eight or eight nine ten, she got the
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  Speaker 4: first one as an audiobook, and I loved audiobooks at
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  Speaker 4: the time, so I started the first one. I did
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  Speaker 4: not like it at all, so I don't think I
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  Speaker 4: made it very far, and then a year later I
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  Speaker 4: tried it again and fell in love. So within probably
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  Speaker 4: the span of the year, I had gone through them
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  Speaker 4: all in audiobook form, and I think I read the
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  Speaker 4: last one because I remember reading the last one and
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  Speaker 4: that was just before the last film came out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so probably around twenty ten was when I last read
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  Speaker 4: the last book, which is pretty cool. And right now
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  Speaker 4: I'm involved with the fandom mainly just through podcasts. So
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  Speaker 4: I do a podcast it Amy called Expect I put Trona,
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  Speaker 4: and I also do another podcast. I produced another podcast
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  Speaker 4: with Flick Miles called Behind the Wound.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah, we had Flick on one
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  Speaker 2: of our episodes. It was pretty early on, right, Nicole
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  Speaker 2: was one of the first ones. Yeah, I had a
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  Speaker 2: great time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's great, and she has so much information on
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  Speaker 4: behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what we love. We love digging into these
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  Speaker 2: little dips of like, you know, all of these little
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  Speaker 2: bits of information. I'm a huge fan of that. So
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  Speaker 2: I always love just digging deep and deep diving into
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  Speaker 2: all that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I guess this episode's perfect for us because
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  Speaker 4: film nerds.
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  Speaker 1: Right here, I was gonna say, that was like a
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  Speaker 1: really good segue into like what our topic is this week.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, so in this episode, we are going
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  Speaker 2: to be discussing Warner Brothers studio tour, the making of
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  Speaker 2: Harry Potter, but first.
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  Speaker 4: Listening to w W in the Wizarding Wireless Network now
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  Speaker 4: for the latest headlines.
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  Speaker 1: So when I was like checking the news, I was
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  Speaker 1: like really shocked because we typically have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: news to discuss, and I think this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time in weeks, if not months, but there really hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of news to report. So really the
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  Speaker 1: only thing that I saw is that, you know, filming
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  Speaker 1: for the HBO series is still just chuggling, chugging right along,
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  Speaker 1: and we I know, a few episodes ago we talked
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  Speaker 1: all about all the sneak peaks and everything that we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten so far, and I've just seen a few more
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  Speaker 1: kind of pop up on social media, which is always fun,
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  Speaker 1: especially now. I think they're still doing some outdoor filming
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  Speaker 1: right and it's like, once we kind of get done
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  Speaker 1: with those outdoor space then we won't really get to
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  Speaker 1: see much. So I recently saw some photos and video
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  Speaker 1: of them filming the very first chapter, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we keep talking about and sticking to Cannon, this
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  Speaker 1: looks straight out of the first chapter and obviously scenes
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  Speaker 1: that we did not get to see in the films,
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  Speaker 1: which is exciting. So there is the witches and wizards
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  Speaker 1: celebrating Baltimore's defeat. In the streets, We've got Vernon holding
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  Speaker 1: his ice bun, bumping into the Wizard and the Purple Cloak.
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  Speaker 1: And something else that I saw that was really cool
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  Speaker 1: is in the background of that, you know, like when
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  Speaker 1: Vernon's coming out of the store, there's like newspapers, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know in the back, and I saw that there
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  Speaker 1: they've recreated some new original newspaper headlines from that time
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  Speaker 1: period in the background in the you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: Muggle world, which I think is really cool. There's one
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  Speaker 1: that's like about Princess Diana, and I just think that
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  Speaker 1: just the attention you know, we alway talk about attention
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  Speaker 1: to detail here, so.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: That's so cool, and I'm so excited that actually doing
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  Speaker 4: what they said and bringing the whole book to life.
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  Speaker 4: Like don't get me wrong, Like the start of the
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  Speaker 4: first film was cool and just straight into it, but
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  Speaker 4: that first chapter it just sort of brings you, as
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  Speaker 4: I guess we.
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  Speaker 5: Are Muggles into the wizzarding world.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's such a unique way and so just
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  Speaker 4: throwing you straight in like most fantasies due.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds so excited for that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's another picture that's kind of popped up I've
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  Speaker 1: seen on Instagram as well that looks and it's being
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  Speaker 1: speculated that it might be Jeans and Lily and you
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  Speaker 1: can't see. It's like really kind of far off, so
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  Speaker 1: you really can't tell. And obviously we haven't gotten a
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  Speaker 1: casting announcement for them yet, but of course it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that they're not cast, right, But I mean we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, could it be that.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see a little bit more like leading.
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  Speaker 1: Up into Godriig's Hollow, Like it'll be very interesting because,
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  Speaker 1: like we've talked about, you have so much more time
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  Speaker 1: and room to play right with the TV series. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on the TV series, Lucy, since
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  Speaker 1: you're getting new to our show and we're very curious.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm extremely excited for it. Like just coming from
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  Speaker 4: a filming perspective, like so the first God, my brain
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  Speaker 4: just blamed on how many films there were?
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  Speaker 5: Seven films?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like that was they did a lot of creation
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  Speaker 4: of technology just to produce those films, and just from
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  Speaker 4: film one to seven, like you see the progression of film,
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  Speaker 4: Like they went from shooting on film to shooting on digital,
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  Speaker 4: like that is insane. And then you see Fantastic Beasts
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  Speaker 4: and what they could do with CGI and how amazing
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  Speaker 4: that was and how interactive that was as well, Like
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  Speaker 4: I'm really excited to see the technology they can use
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  Speaker 4: to bring it to life, especially with p because they
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  Speaker 4: couldn't do it in the original series due to budgeting
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  Speaker 4: and they didn't have the technology. And you see that
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  Speaker 4: a lot with those old films, like I think Star
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  Speaker 4: Wars they've reshot stuff because of the technology was eventually
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  Speaker 4: created for it, And I just feel like, if they
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  Speaker 4: do it correctly, it's going to be such an amazing
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  Speaker 4: immersive experience. But I also feel like with them, I
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  Speaker 4: hope they build all the sets, like I hope the
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  Speaker 4: children get to experience all the sets like their original
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  Speaker 4: cast did. Because my favorite thing from a film that
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  Speaker 4: I've seen is Narnia. When they got Georgia, who played Blucy,
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  Speaker 4: she didn't have a clue about the snow scene, and
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  Speaker 4: you have that great behind the scene moment where she
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  Speaker 4: sees it for the first time and the general reaction,
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  Speaker 4: And I believe that's what happened with The Great Hall
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  Speaker 4: as well. In the first film, like the kids didn't
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  Speaker 4: know anything, and it's the general reactions, like, I hope
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  Speaker 4: they get to still do that because especially with kids
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  Speaker 4: that young, like you can't put them onto green screens
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  Speaker 4: and expect them to go, there's a snake there, pretend.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm really excited, like just for all those things
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  Speaker 4: that we didn't get to see in the films.
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  Speaker 5: I do hope that.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they do expand it a little so we do
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  Speaker 4: get like maybe like a little episode on Voldemort or
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  Speaker 4: like a little episode on the Founders, so we do
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  Speaker 4: get a bit more information then straight out copping.
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  Speaker 5: Directly what you see. So it we'll find out.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm very excited for it, and I do hope
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  Speaker 4: that we get all seven seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think like to your point too,
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  Speaker 1: I do get more excited every time we get these
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  Speaker 1: little glimpses of filming, because everything that we've gotten, these
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  Speaker 1: little glimpses of filming is like showing that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: wanting to be true to the canon, and we've gotten
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  Speaker 1: characters you know, that we didn't get and just even yeah,
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  Speaker 1: these these photo and everything look great and they really
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  Speaker 1: stuck to the witches and Wizards being very colorful like
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  Speaker 1: and how they're described, you know, in the book and
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  Speaker 1: really standing out in the Muggle world.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, so really excited, very excited.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. The one thing I'm surprised about, like, I know,
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  Speaker 4: the books were written in the nineties, but it technically
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  Speaker 4: is based in the eighties eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Or is it this, Well, this part would be the
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  Speaker 1: eighties and then we jump we would jump forward in
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  Speaker 1: time obviously, you know, obviously when Harry then becomes like
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  Speaker 1: eleven and then we're more kind of through the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: But and it's like that transition I think from like
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  Speaker 1: the eighties and.
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  Speaker 3: Eighties, and we talked about that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: When we got to finally see like their like costumes
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, they're obviously very like eighties early nineties inspired.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because I remember with the films that's more two
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  Speaker 4: thousand inspired, like they tried to go for a timeless one.
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  Speaker 4: So it's very cool that they're just like, no, we'll
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  Speaker 4: put it in the actual era that's set.
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  Speaker 1: M hm, Yes, and you can see yeah, and all
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  Speaker 1: the filming too, just the costuming, the cars, like everything.
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  Speaker 1: It just yeah, it feels so eighties nineties, which is great,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that I think the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: the rest of this series will have a timeless look
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  Speaker 1: to it, but I think the Muggle world doesn't need
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  Speaker 1: to have a timeless look to it because we know,
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  Speaker 1: we know the time period, you know that it's in.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm also glad that they're really really seem
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  Speaker 1: to be playing into the eighties aesthetic there.
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  Speaker 5: I cannot wait to see Dumbledore's costume.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, just just give me the full own chaotic what
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  Speaker 4: it is in the book.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, well, yeah, so we'll see and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that well, yeah, we'll keep getting some you know clips,
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  Speaker 1: and we still have more casting announcements that maybe we'll
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe we'll get maybe not. Maybe they're going
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  Speaker 1: to keep other things separate to like the whole Baltimore thing.
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  Speaker 1: They said they're going to keep that casting you know secret.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm excited with every look that we get.
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  Speaker 1: And something else that actually just saw too was speaking
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  Speaker 1: of building sets. Actually, as it looks like the Hogsmead
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  Speaker 1: Station set might be under construction in this like forest,
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  Speaker 1: there's this thing that's popped up that looks kind of
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  Speaker 1: like it could be, you know, a train platform, So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if that is and then also we recently
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  Speaker 1: talked about the Hogwarts Express and then like acquiring the
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  Speaker 1: train and everything, and I saw on Instagram that it's
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  Speaker 1: it's been recently seen being transported on the street and
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  Speaker 1: it's like in this like it honestly looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: wrapped in a big like garbage bag like.
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  Speaker 3: The heide it but apparently looks like why are you
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  Speaker 3: right right?
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  Speaker 1: And like we said, like, you know, I mean there,
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  Speaker 1: does that maybe the the design whatever they're going to
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  Speaker 1: paint on it is going to be like a little
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  Speaker 1: different or something. But I think that would have been
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  Speaker 1: really cool to have it just out on the back
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  Speaker 1: of a truck like going down the road, not covered.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: So yep, Yeah, definitely movements continuing to happen with the show.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, really that's all I could find for any
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  Speaker 1: kind of I don't even know if that's really news.
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  Speaker 3: It's just things that have popped out.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, obviously, coming off back to Hogwarts where we
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  Speaker 1: kind of got a lot of news announcements, we're now
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  Speaker 1: kind of I think in that that little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a slow period.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'll pick back up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: So for today's main discussion. We are going to be
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  Speaker 2: diving into the making of Harry Potter studio tours, So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be covering everything we know about the
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  Speaker 2: Warner brother Studio Tour London, and then we're going to
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  Speaker 2: also be chiming in on the different other studio tour
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  Speaker 2: like the japan one. And yeah, we're just going to
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  Speaker 2: kick this off right away, so a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: backstory on the Warner Brothers Studio Tour London. So this
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  Speaker 2: obviously was constructed after the films were filmed at Leiveston.
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  Speaker 2: So Leedsten began as an aircraft factory in nineteen forty,
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  Speaker 2: which was later owned by the Haveland and Royals Royce,
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  Speaker 2: but it was abandoned by the early nineteen nineties. So
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four the site was transformed into film
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  Speaker 2: stages for GoldenEye and soon became a major studio, hosting
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  Speaker 2: films like Star Wars, The Phantom, Menace and Sleepy Hollow,
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  Speaker 2: and from nineteen ninety one onward it served as the
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  Speaker 2: home for the Harry Potter film.
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  Speaker 3: Sets nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so filming actually began at least in studios
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand. But I'm guessing all of the construction
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  Speaker 2: of the sets, and everything was done pretty early on too.
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  Speaker 5: Yes and no like.
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  Speaker 4: According to Flick, I'm pretty sure they were still constructing
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  Speaker 4: some sets as they were going because they basically had
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  Speaker 4: the run of at least in studios. So I remember
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  Speaker 4: her telling me. Because there was a huge runway, like
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  Speaker 4: we said it was a it was a a. So
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  Speaker 4: they had pretty sure studios all the way up, but
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  Speaker 4: there was one that was like all the way out
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  Speaker 4: the other end of the runway, so they would bring
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  Speaker 4: golf carts all the way up and they were still
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  Speaker 4: constructing stuff all all the time there. And she said
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  Speaker 4: that they had a ball and it was a leaky,
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  Speaker 4: a leaky studio. It wasn't like the studio till you
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  Speaker 4: see now. Apparently it was leaking and it was cold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So basically, also when they started these films, they
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  Speaker 2: were filming most like a lot of these scenes were
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  Speaker 2: filmed on location. We didn't have like if you think
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  Speaker 2: back in the first movie, we didn't have that many
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  Speaker 2: sets built. So it definitely started getting more like in
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  Speaker 2: studio as the film's progressed. They started finding a home
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  Speaker 2: in at Leisten, so they barely used on location later on.
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  Speaker 2: So this they shoot the Harry Potter films all the
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  Speaker 2: way up to June of two thousand and ten, tent
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  Speaker 2: sorry in June twenty ten, spanning for over ten years,
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  Speaker 2: and just fun fact, as early as two thousand and one,
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  Speaker 2: following the success of the first film, Warner Brothers were
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  Speaker 2: putting plans in place to build an attraction dedicated to
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  Speaker 2: the series, and so they began storing items from the
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  Speaker 2: films when they were no longer being used. So they
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  Speaker 2: weren't just you know, putting them on auction or destroying
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  Speaker 2: them or you know, they were just kind of like
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  Speaker 2: storing them somewhere and maybe someday they will be built again.
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  Speaker 2: So in twenty ten, Warner Brothers purchased the site, so
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  Speaker 2: they invested one hundred million pounds to redevelop it into
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  Speaker 2: a permanent, based and public exhibition which would become the
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  Speaker 2: Studio Tour. So these the sound stages. This Studio Tour
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  Speaker 2: is located in two thousand sound stages, which is J
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  Speaker 2: and K. So these were purpose built by Warner Brothers
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  Speaker 2: during the studio's redevelopment, and they were never film stages,
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  Speaker 2: but they were actually designs from scratch to hold the
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  Speaker 2: permanent exhibition. So obviously once the films ended, everything was dismantled.
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  Speaker 2: So like you said, Lucy, it's not the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the very modernized and fully equipped studio tour you see,
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  Speaker 2: but it was very much more like very a lot
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  Speaker 2: more rustic, i'd say, and more like yeah, like you
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  Speaker 2: would think of sound on stage would look.
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  Speaker 1: Like like a true studio, like yeah, yeah, yeah, which
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  Speaker 1: is what you see with the Great Hole.
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  Speaker 4: Like I believe Great Hole is basically where was originally.
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  Speaker 4: I could be wrong, but the Great Hole was set
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  Speaker 4: up as a live set to show you what it
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  Speaker 4: used to look like.
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  Speaker 2: Mmm mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Good thing they had that idea to like save everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I think that now that's more commonplace, right
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  Speaker 1: for these big series because and I don't I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I mean I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if this was another area where like Harry Potter kind
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  Speaker 1: of paved that way of like having an exhibition based
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  Speaker 1: on your films and kind of because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: now we see that, right with other franchises do exhibitions
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  Speaker 1: of movie props. But yeah, I wonder like who kind
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  Speaker 1: of made that decision or like or you know, where
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  Speaker 1: did that come up, Like, hey, we should maybe save
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  Speaker 1: some of this stuff because we could maybe display this
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  Speaker 1: and have an exhibition at some point.
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  Speaker 4: Because I wonder if it was also because they knew
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  Speaker 4: they were filming the other series, so and all the
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  Speaker 4: books haven't come out by that point, so I wonder
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  Speaker 4: if that all also played into it.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, like you don't know what you might need
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  Speaker 1: again later on, like there could be something they can
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  Speaker 1: need later later on.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I'm glad they saved a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: stuff because obviously we see a lot of places now right,
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  Speaker 1: We've got so many studio tours, We've got some of
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  Speaker 1: the original props in the official stores.
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  Speaker 5: There's a traveling exhibition at the moment.
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  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So the layout and design of the tour were created
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  Speaker 2: by Burbank based think Well Group, working closely with Warner
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and several members of the original Harry Potter filmmaking team.
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  Speaker 2: So the contributors included production designer Stuart Craig, set decorator
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Stephanie McMillan, creature designer Nick Duttman, construction manager Paul Haynes,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: and special effects supervisor John Richardson. So obviously, of course
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: most of these people who worked on the films were
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: heavily involved in the process, and so yeah, so basically
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: this all came together and the Studio Tour officially opened
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to the public on March thirty first, twenty twelve. Its
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: grand opening event was attended by many of the cast
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and crew members. So you had Ruber Grant, Tom Felton,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Bonnie Ryde, Evanna Lynch, Wary Davis, and so many more
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: other members of the cast that were present, and it
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: was a yeah, it was a star studded red carpet,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: and I remember watching it on live stream and it was, yeah,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: it was really it was so exciting to see that
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: these sets were going to be available to the public,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: because one of the things that you are really sad
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: when when a series you love or a movie that
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: movie franchise that you love comes to an end, is like, oh,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen to all these things are going
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to cease to exist? And knowing that they are now
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: they have a home to live, hopefully for many more
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: decades to come, is so, I don't know, it's just
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: so it feels really, i don't know, like reassuring, and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: it just makes you feel like you're a little closer
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: to home and that it's always going to be there somehow.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: It's like we.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Talked about last episode, right would like.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: You know, obviously the last episode we talked about Stuart Craig,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and we dove a lot into production design and those
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: kind of like behind the scenes roles and how so
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: much work goes in to all aspects of the art
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: department and sometimes those things are seen on screen for
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: half a second or maybe not even fully seen on
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: screen because they're in the background, and just how much
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: work and dedication goes into making these things and exactly
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: what you said. I think having an exhibition like gives
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a place for those items to live and to like
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: be seen and appreciated, you know that you might not
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: get in the film.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm hmm. Yeah. So I was like always saying,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: how lucky are we?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah? What year did you guys go to the London tours?
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Oh man?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Because it's changed so much in twelve years, because I
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: went twenty fifteen and then I went in twenty twenty
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: four and it had changed a lot.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of the new developments actually,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: because I went quite a bit when I was living
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in the UK. I went to grad school in Scotland
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and then in England, and so I think probably the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: first time I went to the studio tour probably would
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: have been like twenty I was living in Scotland in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, so I would assume it was probably then.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And then I was in England and like twenty fifteen
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, so I went several times then. And then
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I remember when I went, they did expand the outdoor
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: a lot, and they like opened private drive so that
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you could go in and see it. And I remember
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: going like very soon after that open, and then I
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: like moved back to America and then they opened like
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the fervid and forests and like all this other stuff,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: and I've not been back and I've not seen it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: I was just sad.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll get but I think they had the train
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: open when I first went, and I've been so jealous
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: because my sister's of the time got to say it
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: because they.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Went a couple of years later.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I can't remember when that was.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I know that I definitely was able to go into
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the train that opened. I think at one of the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: time periods I was there.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: But well about yourself. Told when did you go?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: So my first time was actually a couple of years ago,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: so it was in twenty twenty four, no, twenty twenty three,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: So yeah, two years ago. And I went twice because
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the first time I was like, ah, it wasn't enough.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I felt like I was a little rushed, So I
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: went a second time and on the same trip. And
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: then since moving here to Ireland, I was there last month, No,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: this month, actually it's almost been. Yeah, it's been like
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: two weeks since I was there for the Goblet of
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Fire feature and yeah, there's always something new to see
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and and it's so and you know, whenever you see
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: those doors through the Great Hall, you can't help but
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: getting super emotional. So it's yeah, it's great. Like I
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: love I love visiting. And we were talking about this
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: on our last episode, how different the experience is from
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the theme parks because it's it's like you you still get
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's like a different approach that your
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: mind has to the experience, because obviously they have they
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: are obviously like targeted at the same audience, but this
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: is more like, hey, this is how we did the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: magic and this the theme Parks is hey, get immersed
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: in the magic and so it's something completely different. But
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I think both have so much, you know, to offer.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I just love whenever whenever I have a
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: time and I can go visit then yeah, and now
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: that I'm closer, like I want to go to all
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the different events, So I'm planning to go to the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: to the Dark Arts feature probably next month, and then
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to the Christmas feature as well. So yeah, like I
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: want to take full advantage now that I'm that I'm closer.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: You got it, Like there's so many events that they
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: put on. And I was lucky enough to see the
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Hope What Since scenario twice because I went in January
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: and oh my god, it is gorgeous. Like when I
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: found out, I was going, like we'll go into London.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: The second time, I was like, I wonder if hopewtsin
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Snow was still going to be on And we just
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: got in like three days before it closed, and my
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: friend was just like this is beautiful, andes like, yeah,
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: it's the best time to see Hogwarts.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Basically, I love that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Love that event.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I've been able to go to that one as well,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and I think, like I like when I was living
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: in England too. I especially wanted to take advantage because
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I was like two hours on the train away from London.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: So I tried to go to a lot of those
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: special events.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And I think, I know, I have some buttons from
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: going to some fifteenth and it must have been for
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: like Philosopher's Stone, and I've got like buttons from the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: houses and they say like fifteenth anniversary and they did.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly what feature they did. I think
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I was I said it in one of our other episodes.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I've definitely gone during some Goblet of Fire feature as
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: well too, because I remember them having like the goblet
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: out and then demonstrating how it worked and having like
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the papers come out.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: All the demonstrations are amazing, Like they did demonstration how
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: they made the snow, how they made the footprints in
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: the snow.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: That was cool.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I remember that. Yeah, yeah, that was like the Diagon
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Alley part. I think they showed like the pressing that
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: You have to look literally everywhere because there's stuff happening
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: everywhere and you can walk past it and not realize.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: It's just incredible.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: So a little bit about the attraction. So it features
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: obviously authentic sets, props, and costumes that were all created
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: for or used directly in the Harry Potter films. So
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: a little bit of how this works for those of
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: you who are listening to who you know would like
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: to know how this experience is. You basically start off
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: by getting into this very like big lobby where you're
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: greeted with a huge dragon right above you. I'm forgetting
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the name of the dragon.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I just I just called great dragon friend friend George,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: go dragon.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: And yeah, so you are. So you have your own
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: time slot, so you have to go into whenever you
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: have purchased tickets for. So once your time is your
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: time is coming close, you get immediately sucked into a
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: trip down memory lane with pictures from the films, blueprints
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: all plastered on the walls, and life sized pictures of
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: the cast, which is really cute because you can see
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: how they how they grew up. So you know, it
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: starts with it really tiny Danniel Radcliffe and it ends
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: up with him like twenty plus years old, and you
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: also get to see a section of Harry's room under
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: the stairs. It's actually his room under the stairs, but
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the section is which is kind of like a little misleading,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: just because that's also in the Harry Potter exhibition. It's
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: also in Harry Potter the studio tour in Ala. This
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: set is everywhere, so it's like you kind of start
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: wondering which is the real deal. So but yeah, it's
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: really it's really cool, cool to see all that just
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: at the very beginning, because it's like you're going, you know,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you're starting from the very beginning up to Daphleie Holl's
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Part two. And then you are welcomed into a pre
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: show area, so you have these very large screens that
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: are style like moving portraits, and they showcase fans with
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: their favorite memories from the saga, and it followed by
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: it's followed by a video introduction about the making of
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the films, and the Phelps twins appear on screen to
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: share a few welcoming words. They explain a little bit
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: about how the tour works, about how it's divided into
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: soundstages Jay and Kay with a backlot in the middle,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: and then you also have a personal message from Jaking
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Rolling herself. So yeah, it's very emotional. It's really nice.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: It's just you know, kind of like prepping you for
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the Grand the Grand entrance really so then you're guided
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: into a cinema and you watch basically behind the scenes
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: film which is introduced by Dan Rupert and Emma and
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: they reflect on their journey journeys through the through making
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the the series, and and yeah, it's again, it's all
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's it's a really great experience. It's
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: really nice because it's kind of, like like I said,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: preparing you for that grand reveal. And it's really exciting
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: because when the film, when the film ends, you know,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the cinema screen rises to reveal the doors to the
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Great Hall, and that is the part where you kind
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: of like, you know, you get that first snack of like,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: you know, I made it, I'm here, and yeah, it's
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: so like, how do you guys, How did you guys
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: feel when when when you had that moment right in
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: front of you.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: I reckon the first time.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: I was just excited to be there because it was
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: just a dream for a long time. I don't really
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: remember much of the first time because it's such a
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: long time ago, but I remember time because I knew
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: what was going to happen.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: I was watching my friend because she'd never been.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: And she was just just the ore, Like they did
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: a brilliant job of introducing you into that room.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: It's just cool.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: And I love how you're just in a smaller group
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: as well, and it's just you're not filtered in in
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: a very large group and it's just a warm, fuzzy
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: feeling walking into that room.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: And there's always something here as well. Yeah, m h.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I think it's It's a really good way to start
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the tour because like, even though it's been like over
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a decade since I've been there, I remember it so clearly,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and I always get emotional with like those kind of
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: films where it's like looking back on things like I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: just am sitting there like crying all the whole time.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: And I and it's like even though I've bet I
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: don't even know how many times I've been now it
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: has to be in at least five times, but every
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: single time that I went, like that moment, especially watching
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the film, and like you said, then like rise it,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: you know, raising the screen and then the doors are there,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: like that moment like never got old. Like no matter
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: how many times I went, it still had the same
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: like oh we're here.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: H yeah, Yeah, it's kind of the same feeling when
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: you see the Hogwarts castle towering over you when you
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: go to hogs Meeat at one of the theme parks,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: it's kind of that same feeling, like you know, getting
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: kind of like gobsmacked and being like wow, Like, no
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: matter how many times I visit, no matter how many
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: times you know, I do this, I'm always gonna get these,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: like you said, you see these warm, fuzzy feels and
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: just feel at home.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Basically, yeah, I just love it like it's and it
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: also gives you a real idea of like it's like they,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: like I said before, they really put you straight into
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: the film set and they have the live lights and
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: they talk about behind the scenes and how like if
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: they wanted to, they can come straight in here now
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: film because all set.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Up like that, and the details as well.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: I remember walking in and they pointed out the demonstraying
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: gibbets from their sticks when they did the dance, and
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: they're just like, yeah, they just stayed there for the
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: rest of the films. It's like that is so cool.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, those little pieces are so so so
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: amazing to hear because you don't know of those I mean,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: you never know it unless they tell you and lets
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: you know. They kind of like reveal it somehow one
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of the companion books or one of the interviews or something.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: So it's really cool to see all that and still
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: coming to light. We were discussing that the other day too,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: like how much even fifteen years after the film's wrapped,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: we are still discovering new bits of information and new
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: behind the scenes and it's still as exciting as it was.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and all the I don't know what they call them,
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: but all the staff members there at the studio tour,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: they are all fans of Harry Potter and they will
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: ask them anything. They will tell you what's going on,
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: they'll point out little details. It's so interactive as well,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: which is incredible. And that first set really really pays
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: the way for the rest. Like you'd think this is
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: like the best set they have. They're going big from
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: the first bit you see, but no, it just keeps
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: getting better and better the more you dive in. And
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: I'll keep going back like it's amazing. And I remember
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: because I went with my mom the first time and
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: it was sort of our little deal. She's like, Okay,
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I'll take you to this studio too, if you come
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: up to Scotland with me and do this family stuff.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: I was like, I wanted to go to Scotland anyway,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: but sure, And she was just like, oh, we don't.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Like they say you need four hours to go through
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: that and that was like ten years ago and you
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: did need it and you still do.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: So be prepared. Everybody like you need at least four hours.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: We went to the.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: First one in the morning and I think she we
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: sort of got split up around the first section and
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: I met her out in the courtyard and she turns
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: to me. She's like, I'm not a Harry Potter fan.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: She only made it to the fourth book because she
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: stopped after baltimoret returned. She's like, I can't and it
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: was like fair, She's like, not a Harry Potter fan,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: but this is an amazing exhibition, Like it is incredible.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: I thought we were just going to go in and
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: look at props, but no, we're seeing like they go
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: into so much detail about house or made and all
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: the interactive bits you get to see.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: And she was just in awe.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: And that's incredible coming from someone who is not in
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: the fandom, who only came because her daughter wanted to
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: come and to leave going this is amazing, and basically
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: forced my two sisters to go. When they went to
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: London three years later. She's like, you tube better, you
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: have to go to this. So they went out to
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: her and they had a blast as well. Not don't
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: and I think they've only watched the films, those two
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: and they loved it, Like, it's amazing how it caters
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: to both big fans of the films and people who
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: are interested in just filmmaking in general, and.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: People who are just go because it's just a big attraction.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: That's a good point too, because I think, like, you know,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: comparing it to something like the theme parks, right, like
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a theme park space makes a lot of sense that
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have tons of people that go there, right
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: that are really big fans and people that aren't, or
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: people that are just theme park fans. And you can
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: still go to you know, Universal and not be a
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: fan of Harry Potter and still love the Harry Potter
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: sections because you might just be a theme park fan.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: But I think that something like the exhibition or the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: studio tour sometimes might get like overlooked by you know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: just a lot of people who are not big fans
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: or maybe not super into like movie design. But I
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: do think like more people just need to like give
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: those things a chance.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: It would be really surprised.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Because they do do a very good job at you know,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: building in those interactive elements. And yeah, I don't think
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: you need to be a fan of Harry Potter. I think,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're even just a fan of how
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: movies are made in general, this is like a tour
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that you should definitely have.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: So my friend went with his fiance at the start
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: of the year and she's a huge she's huge fan,
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: and she's already been and she's like, I want to
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: go again. And he is a huge Lord the Room fan,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: and he's like, oh, okay, And I was like, no,
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: you're gonna love it because coming from a film nerd perspective,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: like we both went to film school and everything, You're
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: gonna absolutely love it.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: And he comes out going.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: I wish they did one of these for a lot
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: of the rings. It's like, Yeah, And when I went
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: to Tokyo again in twenty so, I did London in
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: January and then I did Tokyo in September. So sometimes
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: they get really mixed, stop which ones. But I went
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: with another friend again not a hiring pot, a fan,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: but she spent four hours. I lost her. She ended
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: up behind me at one point because she was so
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: just engulfed in it all and she had the time
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: for life as well.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: And I think every time I went, I went solo,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: which also had its benefits, right because I just like
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: took my time and I didn't have to worry about
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: anyone else rushing me or like you know, not wanting
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: to spend the whole time. But yeah, I mean I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: remember being surprised as well by how much time, like
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I think I had been to I believe my first
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: time going to the exhibition did happen before my first.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Time going to the studio tour.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: And I remember I did go to the exhibition with
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a friend and we did spend a lot of time there.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: But I kind of, you know, was just thinking that
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the studio tour would just basically be the exhibition like
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: just a little bit bigger, and it's like it's totally
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: totally different, and you know, you really, I mean, I
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: feel like we've said this so much, but like you
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: do need a budget the time, because there is so much, Like.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: I always recommend to anybody who's thinking of going, book
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: the first session you can so book an early morning one,
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: because then you had the whole day to do it. Otherwise,
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: if you booked the last session, you only have four hours.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: And sometimes it may take you longer, sometimes it may
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: be shorter. But at least if your book in the
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: morning and you finish around midday one o'clock, you still
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: have the afternoon to do stuff, or otherwise you just
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: spend the whole day there.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: Like that's what I recommend to people.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Last last time I was there, I entered like around
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: eleven and I left at five pm. So and I
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: and I felt I felt like I rushed through some
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: of the you know, through some of the last ones,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: like and because it's there's, like you guys said, there's
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: so much to see and there's so many details and
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: with all these new like features like the well I
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: went when the Gobblet of Fire feature was still on,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: but so there's even more to see. There are like
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: different yeah, like different little shows going on, and so
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: like it's it's yeah, there's something, always something new to
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: see and yeah, and like.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: He said, Nicole.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Tom, I I did the exhibition because it was
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: recently in Melbourne after I down the studio tours and
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: I got out of the exhibition going.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: That's all, well, yeah, yeah, you really need to kind
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: of do it the other way around because then it's like, yeah,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: that it's got that extra wow factor.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: But no, yeah, I think that's the biggest tip.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: And I know we're going to kind of continue talking
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: through about like you know, the rest of the tour
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and everything, but yeah, that's a really good call that
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: you had Lucy about. Like I remember, I used to
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: always book the earliest morning sessions as well because you
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: just want to have that time. And we're going to
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: talk about this a little bit more and a little
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: bit here, but there's also like food available and at
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the beginning and the halfway through the tour. There's obviously
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: a shop at the end, and so you really have
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: to think about like you're not just going to like
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: you know, see the sets, like you're probably going to
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: get food while you're there, maybe more than once. Like me,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I always got food at the you know, at the
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: beginning and then usually halfway.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Through, and you just you really do just need to budget,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: budget that time.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I think most people would be very surprised by how
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: long that they would actually.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think recommend recommend you book out a whole
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: day for it, with the lackihood that you'll probably finish
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: around if you're booking in the morning, you'll probably finish
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: around midday. But just in case, book out the whole day.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, I agreed. So obviously we talked about
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: the Great Hall being the first set. So if you
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: say it's your birthday, even if it isn't, they you
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: might get lucky enough to open the doors yourself. I'm
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: too shy to actually have done that. I won't with
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: my boyfriend. All the times I've been there, I've been
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: with my boyfriend and this time he was like, go ahead,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: come on, go go, and I was like, no, no,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I don't want to. Like I was still because there
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: were also like little kids, so I wanted them to
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: have like their the opportunity to open the door. But
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I would love to do it sometime.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: I was the same.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: But every time London, I find it hard. I found
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: it harder also because again little kids send them up
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: like they deserve to have this magical moment. But in Tokyo.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: I couldn't understand what they were saying. I roughly knew
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: because of London what they were saying, but I was like,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be that person who who accidentally
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: translates something wrong and ends up at the front. But
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: they were having a hard time getting someone to go
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: out the front. I think it's just because how respectful
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: the Japanese are, and I put my hand up like
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: five minutes in, going yeah, I'll do it. But I
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: think they convinced a little kid to go up, which
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: was like little kids, do it please, Like I'm happy
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: just to stand here just watch it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So obviously we talked about the Great
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Hall and but you have a handful of other sets.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: You walk into Dumbledore's office, the Potion's classroom, a small
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: portion of the Ministry, Magic Diagon Alley, the Griffin common Room,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: and the boys dormitory, Hagard's Hut, Grand Gods, obviously the
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: one twenty four scale model of Hogward's Castle which was
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: used for the serior shots. And we discussed more about
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: some of these sets and Stewart's master contributions in our
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: previous episodes, So if you're interested in that, be sure
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: to check it out, because we did really dive deep
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: into that discussion and had a lot of a lot
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: of nice insightful things to say.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked a lot about that castle.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: All that castle.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, how they the way they did that
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: in the tour, Like even knowing it was coming up,
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: it's still amazing when you turn that corner and you
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: hear like you hear the music a little bit as
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: you're going up, but just turning that corner and you're
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: up on the top bit and you just see this
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: cast when you go they that's handmade it. It never
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: seems to blow my mind, Like even when you know
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: that it's coming up, you're just like, and I think
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: that's that's probably the longest time. Probably the Hogwarts and
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: the Great Hall are the two spots that I spent
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: the longest time in. Obviously, the Great Hall you can't
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: spend that much longer because they're showing you out for
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: the next group. But Hogwarts I just sat there for
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: probably like ten to fifteen minutes just staring at it.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like walking around the whole table, the whole angle.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the photos are good.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, lighting in that room, right, the lighting in the
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: room of your photos get a lot of.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: Blue computer is my friend looking at the Wholeworts Castle
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: in Tokyo and it's it's in the blue section.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: I think it's dusk.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I really yeah, And I want to talk about that
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: about the model, because it's I can see by by
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the photos how different, Like they are the same model,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: but you can tell which one is the original and
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: which one is the the imitation. What was your when
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: you saw it?
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Like, oh, yeah, I've just brought up my article I
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: did on Robelio.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the phone is there, yees.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: So the Tokyo one is a bit larger, if I
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: remember correctly, but I believe they got the same people
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: to come and help rebuild it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: But it is a lot larger, and it does look
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: a lot larger.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: But it's pretty much exactly the same, how you come
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: in and everything.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: It's just spectacular as always.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all I can really say.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: It's just a bit larger.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking it would be the same size
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: as the one in London.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: I could be wrong, please fact check me, but I
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: believe it was a bit larger, and it does. I
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: don't know if it's just because maybe it's the way
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: they displayed it, and maybe you are a bit further
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: down than in London, but it does look a bit larger,
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I also remember the hallways like leading up to the
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: castle and just all the pictures on the wall, and
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: I feel like everybody just like rushes through those hallways.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Oh I was.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: The one that looked at stopped and looked at every
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: picture because London.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: And it's also where Stuart's yeah, and it's also where
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Stuart Craig's little spot is, so you get a lot
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: of you know, and that's where people start rushing and
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: it's like you have to, you know, just take your
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: moment because it's so precious.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: Those concept arts are just gorgeous. Yes, because in Tokyo
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: you're walking up.
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: Like I remember, there's a birty box every fly.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: With beings, big bing thing and it's oh so that
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: that things. So it's completely different than in London. It's
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: more colorful. I'll try and find a photo for you
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: guys of it. And there was a display on one side.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: I think it was all the graphics maybe, but yeah,
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: it was a lot more colorful and yeah.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Hm hmmm. It's good because it makes them different too,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: like it makes it worthwhile visiting not just one, but well,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: we're going to get into a little bit more about
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: the things that you noticed in one and not in
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: the other. But I like, I like when things offer
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: a unique perspective or something that you know that stands
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: on its own. So that's very appreciated.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: It makes it worth right going to both and not
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: knowing that, like you know, yes, you can say, okay,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I've went to both. And obviously the merch is going
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: to have like London versus Tokyo and all that kind
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: of stuff, right, but it's not when it's like we
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: don't just have an exact replica.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Well, expecting about it to be very the same, and
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: I was shocked, and we can talk about lighter, but
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: I was very shocked how different they were.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Wow. So well, obviously we discussed this already. We were
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: talking about the tour is massive. You might be underestimating
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: how big it is. So if you're a hardcore fan,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: just like we said, expectatively spend five or six hours
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: walking through the sets, taking pictures and dining. And speaking
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: of dining, the studio tour offers a wide range of
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: dining options, So I think the most recognizable one is
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: the Backlock Cafe, which is the main food spot, and
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: I think it's very conveniently located because it's just in
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: the middle of the tour when you're exiting one of
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: the sound stages, right, it's the connection between the backlot
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: and both sound stages, and it's a perfect moment to
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: take a break, enjoy burgers, fish and chips, hot dogs, snacks.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: And it's also obviously famous for serving butter beer and
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: butter beer ice cream.
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: I ever tried butter beer?
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: Me too, Yeah, my first trip Moms is like and
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: there's a picture of me with the butterbeer mustache.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mine was at Wizarding World. So interesting. And what's
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: nice about this Backlock Cafe is that it has like
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of images from the behind the scenes and
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: it's everything is so beautifully decorated that you not once like,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: even though we talk about how it's all behind the scenes,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: it's still very fully immersive, so it's always like very
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: grounded in what you know, what these films represent. And
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: it's just a great, great and obviously there's music playing
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: the soundtracks and uh, it's it's beautiful really, but yeah,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: it's a good place to just take a little break,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: sip of butter beer and just keep going. And you
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: also have the Frog Cafe, which is at the entrance
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: or exit area, depending on how you look at it,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: because it's in the main lobby of the tour so
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: and yeah, again it offers theme treats like frog copcakes
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: and hot chocolates and a wide range of cakes which
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: are expertly handcrafted by their team of on site patty sears.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's the correct pronunciation, but let's go
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: with that. And yeah, you also have another option, which
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: is a hub Cafe and butter Beer bar, which again
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: are perfect places to enjoy sip of butter beer or coffee.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: So again you're pretty much covered when it comes to
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: dining options, because I think that has more than enough options.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's actually I had this last time
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: I went. I had the Happy Birthday Hary ice cream,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: which is very pecu because it was literally it was
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: basically a sponge cake covered with strawberry like creamy strawberry
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: ice cream. So that was interesting and I think I'm
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: not sure if it's a permanent thing or they added
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: that for Harry's birthday. I think it's a limited but yeah,
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but yeah, there's.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: Definitely not any of the food i'v e in there
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: because it was so long.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: It's really good, really good, I remember being really good.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: But yeah, like Lucy said, this was definitely the first
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: place I ever had butter beer because I went here
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: many years before I went to the theme park for the
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: first time.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sig, Like, the first time I went to the
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: Fame Pack was twenty twinty two, so obviously ever a
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: decade later.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, I think I really took it took
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: me a long time to visit the studio tour. I
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: went multiple times to the theme parks before I ever
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: stepped a step foot into the studio tour, so it
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: had been really long time coming for me. I was
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: so excited when I when I got to see I
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: just remember wanting to go to London just to just
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: to go. I wanted to do Scotland, go to the
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Scottish Highlands and just do the studio tour. And I've
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: been wanting that for so long that it really felt
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: like a dream contruy when when it finally happened.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: See, this is how I feel about Tokyo now right,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Like I feel like I should be wanting to, like
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: you know, go to Japan to like experience Japan, which
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I do want to, but like I already know that
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: like when I eventually get there, like my trips to
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Japan are going to be very pop culture based because
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: like I have to do the Harry Potter stuff. I
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: have to do Disney like you know, and it's just
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: like that's actually more of a priority for me than
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: like seeing the country. And I'm like, gosh, that sounds terrible,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: but I think, like, you know, I think we get
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: it right because that is that is a priority.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: But I always think of how ironic. Yeah, go ahead.
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, I was gonna say.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: If you can like balance it, like we spent four
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: weeks into pair yeah, and yeah, we of course went
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: to all the big tourist destinations and then we did
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: do Growths Disneylands, and we did the Universal and we
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: did the.
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: Higher flights too too, Like if you find a good balance.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: Also, a lot of that's in Tokyo, so it's a
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: lot easier to do.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna say.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of have to, especially when it's you know,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I mean for me to go to Tokyo is a
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: pretty long distance and so I do feel like it's
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: that's kind of like what I'm saving up is to
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: be able to do like this bigger trip that can
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: kind of have all the key things in one trip,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: just in case I never get the chance to, you know,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: go again.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. Because we keep joking about it when on
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: the on the podcast, we we we say that there's
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: more Harry Potter experiences in Japan itself. Then you have
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: scattered across the US and UK, and we we keep
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: saying we're going to do a trip down the line.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Probably I'll be there.
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: I will go back to Japan the heartbeat, Like I
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: still think about the at the airport on the last day.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: I want to go to Japan so bad me too. Yeah,
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: it's just it's just planning, it's just planning it.
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: But one day.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we already covered some of the dining options,
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: some of the sets that you can see, but not
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: all of the sets were always there from the very beginning.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: So obviously the tour as it became bigger and more popular,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: started getting a lot more traction and started getting obviously
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: you need to you know, you need to refurbish it.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Every now and then you need to add new experiences,
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: so they have done that and quite a few of them.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: So the first one was Platform nine and three quarters
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen, so they introduced a full section featuring
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: the Howards Express steam locomotive, the Alton Hall and the
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: original train carriages. And it was built by the same
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: crew who worked on the films, including Stuart Craig, and
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: we also discussed this a little bit in our previous episode.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: And again it includes a green screen experience, so it
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: lets visitors simulate boarding the train, which is very fun.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: And I wish they had that in the New York
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Shop because yeah, I think it's a lot. I don't know.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's it looks better, the
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: final result looks better than the broom stick experience like
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: that one is fun, but when you see the final cut,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: it's a little you know, it's not it's not really
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: you can tell it's you know, it's it's a green screen,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's it's a great, great little experience.
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't get I didn't do that experience well
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: the first time. It wasn't there at the tour and
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: then the second time, I think my friend and I
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: both looked at each other went.
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: No, my good, it was cute. It's cute.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We talked about it a little bit in our
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: last episode, and I was talking about how I like
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: really distinctly remember like walking through the train and seeing
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: like they have like it's set up like a couple
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: different scenes, and I remember like at the end, like
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: you've got these like dummy models that are addressed as.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: Harry and Ron and they're sitting on the.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Chair with all the candy around and that just for
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: some reason, that particular piece of the studio tour is
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: like very ingrained in my brain.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: But yeah, so I definitely must have. I definitely remember this.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Looking at the list and the other ones we're going
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: to talk about is really making me like, wow, I
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: have to get back to the studio tour because other
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: than Platform nine and three quarters, all of these other
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: editions have happened after I have been there.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Platform nical clothes happened I think just after
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: I went, well they just now sit after I went
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: I was like seriously, yeah, so yeah saying that around
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: them the the again walking around the corner and saying
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: this train in front of you, and it's.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Like the actual train. It's the actual train that they
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: used for you know, when they did the drone shots.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Whenever that you see that, that's the that's the locomotive
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: that they use for the film. So it makes it
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: a lot more like Yeah, it makes it a lot
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: more like personal I think, like more fuzzy, I think,
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: and nice and warm, and it's kind of like you
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: you know, it's the real thing. It's a real deal.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: And that's what I love about this tour. We're going
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: to discuss some of the things because not everything is
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: the actual set. But the good part is that whenever
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: you ask one of the interactors, they will be fully
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: transparent with you, and if it's not the real deal,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: they're going to be like, no, this is actually a
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: replica or this is you know, but they always you
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: always know whenever it's a real actual piece of the
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: set or when it's the actual train, which is this case,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: and it's just amazing.
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: I love that you can go in the train.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: Like they could have said to that, but you can
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: go in and it's it's amazing just walking through a
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: train like that. It's just they've done so much Yeah.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: The only thing I don't like, it's natural that it's
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: a little clogged in there, so and you have such
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: little yeah, and you have such little time to just
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: you know, like breathe it in because you're just walking
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: through it. It's like this.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Behind you, like you can't you have to keep moving
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: because there's so many people coming in.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Behind it because it's so narrow. Yeah, exactly.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: And I feel like that's a big difference between London
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: and Tokyo because Tokyo, I felt there was not.
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: Many crowd, Like the crowd was very small.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: And I feel like because everybody goes to London like
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: it's the original, and Tokyo only just was open for
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: a year by the time we went, so it was
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: still fairly new. But I remember walking through that try
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: and going we took our time. We're looking at every
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: set and I think there's a picture of us and
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: we're the only one on the platform, like one of
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: few people on that platform. Yeah.
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that definitely was not my experience in London.
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, London was complete.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: London was also culture, right, like very different. Culture is
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: very different. So so yeah, that's good because maybe for
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: photo ops it might be a better you know, it
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: might be a better choice to do that at the
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: Japan Studio Tour, just because it feels like, based on
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: what you're saying, Lucy, like you have more time to
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: just you know, pose for pictures and just take your
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: time and it's not as crowded.
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And the other thing is the Tokyo one is
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: built on an old theme park site, so they specifically
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: built it there so they had more room. And going
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: from London, they knew how big to make areas, so
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of the areas are a
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: larger so it's easier for people to spread out as well.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: Like the back lot in Tokyo is huge, like they
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: have they set up the whole chess board. Wow, it's yeah,
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: there's just pictures of my friend just prising with all
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: the chess pieces, where.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: London just has like the chess pieces like tucked away
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: kind of.
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And the bridge yeah yeah, the bridge bridge is full.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: It's full.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, I know there's a video of my friend and
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: I running along the bridge and we're the other ones
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: on the bridge.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Sorry, that's yeah. And I love how it has like
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: the entrance and the entrance to the bridge too, which
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: is not at the Warner Brother Studio tour in London.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: So I love I love the fact that it has
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: things that the other doesn't just makes it a lot
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: more worthwhile, I think. Okay, So, speaking of these different
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: additions we have, in twenty seventeen, the Forbidden Forest was introduced.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: It's a walkthrough area recreating the four scenes from the films.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: So it features large scale trees, magical creatures and animatronics
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: such as Buckbeak, the Hippogrif and Ergo the agromantula. And
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: again it's a it was cool cool addition too.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: This was so cool, like walking in and the spider
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: is dropped down, so if you're afraid of that, you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: can skip it.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: They tell you very on you can skip it.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: And there's areas where if you get halfway through you
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: can dip out quickly.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: So don't don't worry about that.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: They were very cautious in that, but oh so cool,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: like they have a lightning spies going down, they have
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: Buckbeak in there bowing, and then I'm just gonna make
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: comparisons hit very like all the time with Japan.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 5: Japan.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: Japan made their Forbidden Forest is huge, and they also
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: included the Patrona's experience in it. It was amazing, Like
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: I think it was like double the size and it
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: just kept winding. And there's also like bits like you
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: can go like under trees and then pop.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: Out somewhere else.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: It's like little shortcuts and oh you could get.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: Lost in there.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Wow. Nice because in the London one is kind of
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: like a one way only, like there's not much like
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: you can't venture into any forest or anything, so it's
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: kind of like either he goes this way, you go
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: this way. It's like a you know, linear Yeah, it's
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: very very linear. So that's cool. And also I think
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: technology obviously has gotten a lot more advanced, so I
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: think that really opens up to having these more immersive
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: experiences as well.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and also the big thing with Tokyo is that
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: they say, like you can tell from the beginning, they're
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: just like, we are not London. We don't have the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: original sets. Everything is built for this tour. So a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: lot of the sets you can go into, so you
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: can go into the protion lab and pretend you're making
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: a potionent, you can go into the defense classroom and
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: make a defense class like it's a very much interactive.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: We did a whole quidditche.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: Game, like when we're reacting doing the green Skin like
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: it's very very interactive, which is really cool. And they
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: added like extra bits as well, like you can see
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: behind the scene, like behind Dumbledore's office you can see
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: these little.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 5: Living room underneath, which is so cool. They added like
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: the real requirement and all the They're.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: Just like we had so many props, we just added
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: them in and we just made a room requirement. It's like, yeah,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: that's what they did in the films.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: Are they are they also actual props?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: I believe So I believe a lot of them are.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: And some of them you look at them like they
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: have they had rowing ores and it's like, hope, what's
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: had a rowing team?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: So so yeah, after the forbidding sporest in two thousand
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: and nine, they opened Green Got's Wizards Bank, which is
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: their largest expansion to date, so sixteen five hundred square feet.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: It's is huge. Visitors can't walk through the marble the
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: marble pillar banking hall with crystal chandeliers and gobbling desks.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: It includes the list range vault with their treasures, and
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: a dramatic dragon destruction sequence created with visual and special effects.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: So there's the set on the one hand, and then
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: as you move forward there's another with its screen. It's
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: just like a section of the set destroyed. And again
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: speaking of yeah, and speaking of these sets, this wasn't
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: the actual set, so it was actually something that they
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: had to do for a scratch because, as they said,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: the set was destroyed because of what plays out in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: definitely Hall's Part two. So so yeah, but it's massive,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: it's I think it's it's it's huge. I don't know
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: if it's even I dare say it might be almost
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: the same as the Great Hole.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty big, very big.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 4: And they don't have this in Tokyo, I believe. I
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: don't remember it in Tokyo. And I just looked through
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: the book and I couldn't see it. So I'm pretty
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: sure this sounds an exclusive to London.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: M hm.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: And but oh yeah, it feels incredible, which say that
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: all the time. It's incredible, yes.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, and especially the sequence with the dragon blowing you know,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: fire and just it's so good. It feels it feels
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: very much Wizarding World like, it feels very much like
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: from the theme pres that little bit.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: It Also, I don't know if I was just remembering
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: it wrong.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 5: But it reminds me a lot of the Green Gorots ride.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: M h.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, grand scale and everything. It's pretty cool.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And the again, the details like everything you see
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: every the little cards and the deaths and like, oh,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: it's so good and it's actually walked through, so you
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: can actually enter that set unlike because like you said, Lucy,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: it makes sense because if it's not the actual set,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: it's not going to be behind bars because the potion
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: said you know, you cannot enter. You cannot enter the
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: boys dormitory or the griffindor common room. There's a little
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: section of the glittering common room as well. I think
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Japan has the full set.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we we sat on the slittering couches in
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: the common room. It was weird, but like you hit,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: like we'll going up and like touching like all the stuff.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: It's really cool.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: But yeah, basically in London, if it's behind bars, it's
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: most likely the original set.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm yeah, or behind a crystal everything that is
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: kind of like behind a crystal box or something like,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: it's always going to be the prop. Everything you can
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: touch is not a prop basically. So yeah, interesting, interesting,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: to hear that, because I didn't know they were like
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: they were all Now that you say it makes sense
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: because I've seen pictures of the Defense against the Dark
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Arts class and it's actually a walk a walk through
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: set so you can actually enter it. And it's one
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: of my favorite sets by the way.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder how.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: Because I didn't yet to see that set in London,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: but I wonder how similar it is to the Taikyo one.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, the Defense Against Dark Arts Class, it's very small,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: it's just a little section and it's not the original.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Well we're going to talk about this in a bit, but.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but we can circle back around to it.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, we can circle back around to it, but just
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: to wrap up the expansion. So in twenty twenty two
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: we had Professor Sprouts Greenhouse which was part as part
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: of the Mandricks and Magical Creatures feature. And it's obviously
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: the Greenhouse with pott Man Rakes and it's where bis
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: you know, Bizzard can pull them from they can pull
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: them out and seen in the Chamber of Secrets. It's
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: very it's very similar to the one in l A
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: and the studio to were in l A. And yeah,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: and it's as you know this this the greenhouse was added.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: They also had other Sei sets, which were the Fountain,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: the Fountain, the fountain from the Hogwarts courtyard, and a
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: one three scale version of the Weasleys borrow. And yeah,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: those are pretty cool, but again the fountain is not
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: the actual one, so they.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: Don't think the burrow is either because I remember correctly
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: they lit that up on fire.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 5: The bars, I don't think the originally.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Though, And also it makes sense because these we have
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: to think these are you know, they have to be
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: very made out of very resistent material because it's raining
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of the time, and it's out in the
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: you know, it's in the exterior, like there's nothing covering them.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: So obviously the bridge is the real set, but it's
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: you know, it's an exterior. It's an exterior set. So
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: they have to either be I don't know if yeah,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: redone with different materials, so it's obviously not it's obviously
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: not the same. But yeah, that was also quite interesting
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: to hear. And last but not least, the Divination and
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: Defense against the Dark Arts sections in twenty twenty four
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: as part as their Return to Azkaban feature which celebrated
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: twenty years of the Prisoner of Azkaban and it includes
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: the section of the defense against the Dark Arts classroom
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: complete with the buggered wardrobe and the Divination classroom. So
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: I didn't get to see, uh, I don't think the
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: bugger wardrobe was there when I when I went there
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. And then obviously you also
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: have a section of the Divination classroom and yeah there
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: it's it's cool because you have a lot of interactive
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: elements as well, so you get one choreography lessons from
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: the interactors, which is a lot of fun. I tried
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: it myself this time, and yeah, you get to come
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: face to face with a death theater and Nicole.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: So yeah, that's the same in Toko. Like you you're
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: learning a skull to defeat the deafeats that come in.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: It's the classroom. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: They don't have the divination I don't remember they had
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: divination classroom, but the defense was pretty cool.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I love the one in Tokyo from what
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: I've seen in pictures because it, you know, it looks
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: like the full thing, like the real like it's not
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: the real set, but it feels like it is like it.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 5: Feels very much like the real set.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like they had the classic I think it's a
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: dragon skeleton on the on the roof and the deaf
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: it comes out from the defense office at the top
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: of the stairs.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's all amazing interactive mm hmm.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's what I love about it. It's not
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: just so it has That's why I say sometimes I
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: compare it a lot to the Wizarding World theme parks
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: because it has those interactive elements, either death theaters or
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: well here, when I went to the Goblet of Fire feature,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: we had Barbaton's and Derm staring students coming in and
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: it's you know, there are shows and there are things,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: and it's it's a lot of fun really, And I
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: think that also adds to the amount of time that
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: you spend there. Obviously, the more the more of these
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: shows you have, the more time you're going to spend,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: especially if.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: You're going during like a specific event, because they have
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: a lot more stuff going on at the specific events.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: But Tokyo in general, everything we saw, I'm pretty sure
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: they do every single day mm.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 5: Hmmm, which is a lot.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 4: I think we spent more time in Tokyo one than
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: we did in London one because there was just so
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: much interaction.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: You could do, and they repeat it so like it's
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: very cyclical, so it happens every like ten or fifteen minutes.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So the Defense one, they finished one session
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 4: and then.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: Two minutes later will to the next one.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like that, we weren't waiting long and the lines
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: there was no line.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 5: As soon as we hopped in the line, worean the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 5: next group in.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: Again we went first thing in the morning, so that
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: could have played a part as well.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: So yeah, so I just wanted to mention a few
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: fun facts about the tour itself. So as we were
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: talking about circling back to the Defense against the Dark
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: art section, it's not an actual set from the Harry
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: Potter films but from Fantastic be and Where to find
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: them The Crimes of Grindewald. So yeah, that's that's quite interesting.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: They have no idea where the actual sets are stored.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: They say it's in a very secret location they don't
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: even know, So who knows where they.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: Are actually bringing them back out for the TV show?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah I don't. Yeah, probably tumult like that. I mean, yeah,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: I have a hope, but.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of want them to make like news
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 4: sets and stuff. But if they're saying.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: That they can't bring them out for the London studio tour.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: Like, I think it's not so much they don't want
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: to or they don't they can't, but you know, maybe
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: they're just saving it because obviously they need to keep
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: expanding it and there are going to be more anniversaries
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: coming up and there you know, there's a lot of
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: sets that haven't been brought back, so they also must
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: you know, I imagine they could be saving it for
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: you know, the next few years as well. So yeah,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, well, I guess we're gonna have to wait
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: and see. But yeah, so even though most of the
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: sets are original, some of them are replicas, so the
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: interior of the Dursley's home and gring Gods, they're not
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: the actual sets. And I know, if i'm fact is
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: that over seventeen thousand and one boxes were created for
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: the Olivander set, each individually labeled with names of the
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: cast and crew as a tribute. So if you just
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: peek there and into the boxes, you're going to see
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: either someone from the cast or the crew. I don't
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: know if they have that in Japan too, they do.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: So the cool thing about this is it's the last
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: thing you see on the tour before you go into
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: the gift shop, so it's after hogwards and it's really
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: cool because so like you're watching the credits to a
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: film and they do have every single person there. I
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: thought when we got to Japan and we got to
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: that section, they only had the main casting crew.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 5: But I asked because I was like, I gotta find.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 4: Flick, and they had her, so we pretty much assume
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: that they had every single person and she was very
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: surprised that she was in Tokyo. And another fun fact
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: is when I went in twenty fifteen, I took a
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: random photo of the ones and it so happened to
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: be Flick's one, just in the corner because I was like, hey,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: I remember that photo. I've finished, and I zoomed and
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: I was like, vision name, I'll random.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: You guys were destined to work toge.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's cool. So and the Forbidden Forest expansion,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: the animatronic spider Aragog spans eighteen feet wide with individual
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: hair individual leg hairs added by hand. Then also something
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: interesting that I never got to see that you guys
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: did most likely it's the Potter Residents and got it hollow.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: It was archived with the introduction of the Greenhouse in
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, so that one is no longer on display.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, that makes sense because I because I remember seeing
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: it the first time. I'm forret sure I had a
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: pitched up, and when I went the second time, I
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: was like, am I just making a memory? Because that
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: made sense?
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: Now I got archives?
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so that's one of the perks of going
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: there early, Like they haven't archived many of them, like
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: I think it's mostly all there, but that's one of
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: the things that they have to obviously, because the space
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: is not insane.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: They're going to start running out of space if they
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: keep expanding.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, because they're still filming things
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: like either the TV show or they're filming HBO original content,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: Like they're filming a lot of stuff. It's an actual
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: working studio, sets studio, so I don't know how they
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: could keep expanding. I imagine they will too, but.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, from what I remember the first time, like even
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 4: the working studio was very small, and it's changed a lot,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 4: Like I remember coming on the bus going those sound
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: stages were not there when I was last there, so
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know if they have built another sound stage
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: to expand the studio or they are using them as
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: working studios. But there's a lot of working sound stages
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 4: and it's incredibly large, like it was a working airfield,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: so they have a lot of space.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So at peak times the studio tour welcomes
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: up to six thousand visitors a day, making one of
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: the UK's most popular attractions. That's insane.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: It's hard to get tickets sometimes it is hard. Like, yes,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 5: I was, I was.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: There as soon as my date opened. I was on
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 4: the computer because it's like I am not missing out lists.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you have to book in advance always. They
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: do open last minute tickets, so if you happen to
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: be there, like on a you know, last minute trip,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: just check it just in case, because there might be
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: some openings. It happened to me with the last trip
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: I did, I was able to get tickets like two
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: days before because they opened a few more slots. So yeah,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: just for you to keep that in mind in case.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: In case you do happen to go kind of last
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: minute and last just be sure to peek around at
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: the gift shop, since there's more than just merch, you
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: can see some pieces of sets placed, like the Gray
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: Lady bald Arch, which is you know, standing on top
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: like it's above and it literally says it's the actual set.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: There's this tag on it that says original set, and
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: the stained glass from the Spiral stairs as seen in
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: the Goblet of Fire. And I'm not sure how much
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: of you know, how more like how many more Easter
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: ex there could be. I've seen some of like the
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Hotwarts library bookshelves, but I don't know those are the
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: actual ones or they were just remade for the show,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: for the for the gift shop. So yeah, that's really
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: interesting too, Like even in the gift shop, you get
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: to see all these little, you know, bits of the world.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: And if you guys the gift shoup in Toyko, be
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 4: prepared to spind the least half an air in there
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: because it's like the sane itself, like because they have
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: every single room is decorated so and check out is
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: green gots, so you will collect the gates of green dots.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 4: And again there's props in the gift shop, and that
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 4: gift shop was huge.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 5: You could have spent a lot of money in there.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I imagine it's bigger than the one in London too.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well they had the space for it, like it's
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 4: probably the same size as the Fruit Hall on the
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 4: other side, which is pretty big anyway.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So last but not leads I
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: wanted to cover just really quickly go through some of
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: the events that take place. So you have the Dark
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: Arts event, which runs through September to November. So basically
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: the sets are dressed for Halloween with loading pumpkins in
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: the Great Hall and creeping depth dark mark projections around
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: the tour. So it gives it that little kind of
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: like eerie vibe and spooky. So it's good. It's an
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: annual event. It happens every year, so if you happen
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: to be there around Halloween time, it's a great opportunity
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: to drop by the student tour. I haven't experienced it,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: probably this year, but yeah.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: I feel like I maybe went.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like I remember seeing the pumpkins and the
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: Great Hall, and I also, being the Halloween fan that
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: I am, could have seen myself like purposely trying to
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: go during this time. So I feel like one of
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: my visits was during this, but it could be a
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: false memory just from seeing pictures of it, but I'm
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: pretty sure I went. But yeah, the Great Hall is
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: really cool seeing it decorated for the different holidays. Yeah.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, like you have also Hobwards in the Snow,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: which runs from November to January, so again you get
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: the the Hogward's Castle coated snow, which you know, I
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: haven't been there, but you guys have seen it and
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: you know it's amazing from what I've seen. The Magical Mischief,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: which runs from January to April, so it's very Weasley focused,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: lots of pranks, practical effects and playful displays. And last
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: but not least, there are a ton more features, but
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: we would have to discuss these and spend hours talking
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: about it because there's so much. But these are kind
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: of like the most important ones. And the Summer Future
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: basically is tied into anniversary events. It happens runs through
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: from May through September. Last year it was returned to Azkaban,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: and this year it was Making of Champions for Goblet
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: of Fire twentieth anniversary, and next year there's going to
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: be a special anniversary twenty fifth anniversary celebration for SORCER's Stone,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: so exciting to see what they come up with just
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: really quick. I was able to go to the last
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: couple of days where the making of Champions feature took
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: place for Goblet of Fire and it was cool. You know,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: it included displays of costumes and props from the movie,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: interactive shows with students from derdam Strang and bo Botzones
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: and you know how they made their entrance and it
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: was like, you know, they were walking through you know,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: the sets and it was a pretty good spectacle and
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: it was Yeah. There's also uh the new backlock stage
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: where interactors reveal secrets of special effects. So it includes
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: the Hungarian horn tail and the huge water tank that
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: they had to build for the underwater scene in the
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: second task. So that was also really really interesting because
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: it's also new, a new backlock stage, and I'm sure
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: they're going to be incorporating new elements to it, just
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: not revolving so much on Goblet of Fire but on
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: the other films. So interesting to see how they're going
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: to put it into use now.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: Because in Tarkio they have a whole section of the
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 4: sounds on the construction team, the team Like that was
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 4: really interesting.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 5: So I hope they bring that to London, and.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: Especially if they have a special effects area, like they
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: can do a whole post production that.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: There.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 4: They talked about the dubbing as well, which was very
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 4: unique because you wouldn't have that in London, but since
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: it's Japan, and of course they had to dub everything.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 5: They had the character who dubbed Harry.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: I think they had another one, maybe the Harmione one,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 4: but that was really cool. They had a whole section
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 4: like a video of him talking about getting the role
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 4: and how it was dubbing Daniel Radcliffe.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah nice, Yeah, yeah, I love it because it's also
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: very like it's not just you know, it incorporates things
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: from the Japanese dubbing. So it's cool because it's very
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: like cultural too. It's very like rooted in the Japanese.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: Like I think of myself like if it was kind
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: of like a tour in Latin America and I would
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: have like the actors who did it, who voiced the
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: actors that you know, I grew up watching the films
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: dubbed into Spanish, and yeah, that would be really cool
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: to see.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: And even going back to like the star to where
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 4: you get like all the fans talking about it. They
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 4: they had the exact same video, but they interwined it
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 4: with Japanese fans and them talking about it, which is
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: very very cool.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah nice and so yeah, to wrap up the
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: the Making of Champions feature, obviously, the Hogwarts Castle always
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: has some sort of track under its leeve because there's
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: always something that, you know, whenever there's a new event
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: coming up, and you can see a projection of Harry
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: being chased by the Hungarian horn tale taking place. It
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: happens every It happened every kind of like five minutes,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: so you know, the lights dimmed and you got to see,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: like it was really cool because it kind of like
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: seemed like Harry was actually flying through the castle and
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: the dragon was following. Yeah, so that one was pretty
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: cool too. So yeah, like, if if you ever happened
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: to be there when there's a special event, just make
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: sure to go because these things don't always you know,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: some of them happening yearly, but some of them don't.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I wish I was closer, same, right, I
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: really really definitely try to take advantage when I lived there,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: But I guess I guess I have the parks that
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: it's easy.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: You got the parks.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: I mean I can go to the parks to our flight.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have to really plan that. Sorry,
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 5: you do.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: Being a.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: January we're at the parks.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: We have to do we have to all do a
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: trip together to the parks.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I did pitch to the to our group chat
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 4: out rebellion and expect we have a group chat together
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: that after our January group trip to Orlando.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 5: The following year, we go to Scotland in London in
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 5: a couple of years time.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I have not been back since I graduated.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: Like so it's been over a decade and it's been
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: on and.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: We plan it Jacobite train and everything, because I've been
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: in Scotland twice and I still have not done the
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: Jacobite train.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it makes you feel any better, I
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: lived in Scotland and I never did the Jacobite train
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: because you just think you've got all this time to
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: do it, and I just before you knew it, my
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: program was over and I had to come back to America.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 3: And yeah, so I have never done it either and.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 5: So short as well.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: So yes, the Jacobite train experience is magical. It's well, yeah,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: it takes your breath away really.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: But I had gone up to Fort Will and we
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: did manage to get up there in the middle of
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: the snow, so that was magical.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: Wow, And we just didn't we're.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 4: Going to catch the normal train that goes along the
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 4: same line, but it was very snowy, and all the
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 4: locals were just like, it does not.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 5: Snow up here, so everything's sort of at a standstill.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: So we're just like, okay, we only don't really have
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 4: twenty four hours until we're heading back, so.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: Always something to come back for, yes, of course, yes,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: and also nice that you got to see snow, because
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: if it doesn't happen that often, like how many times
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: are you going to go there and see it all
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: covered in snow?
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 5: Like yeah, I was surprised about that.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: But we walked in and they're just like, yeah, the
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 4: snow doesn't really stick, but it's sticking, which is really weird.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 4: And it's like, oh, I'm just happy just to be here.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 5: This is magical. Yeah, it's very very much in Australia.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: You can have some of mine.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I live in one of the snowiest parts of
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: the country, so you can have some of mine.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 4: Oh don't. I'll be seeing some in Canada in generally
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: so oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: So I was just wondering you guys, if you know,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: you had any sets that you would like to see
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: incorporated in the future. Like for me, I would love
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: to see the entrance courtyard. I think it's such a
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: prominent set from films four to eight, and there's a
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: lot of scenes that take place there. It's such an
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: iconic piece. But I'm also in you know, I'm surprised
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: it hasn't been at it to this point. But I
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: guess also, like we would talking about space limitations, that
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: could be a reason. But yeah, I also love to
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: see the Astronomy Tower, the Harvard's Library, the hospital wing,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: I think would be great to see.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: How about you, well, it would be cool for they
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: turn the backplot into the courtyard and they put everything
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 4: in there.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 5: That would be cool.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 4: Howart's Library is that Tokyo And I did get a
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 4: picture of me sitting down with all the books, and
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 4: the books were so funny to read the titles of
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 4: I think that was the one.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 5: That's like law and something in the magical World.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 4: It's like, okay, so Yeah, the library, but that was
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 4: only a small section, so I'd love to see a bigger,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 4: expanded library. That would be amazing. Oh, the Austronomy town
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: would be so cool, especially if they can add something
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: special effects to make, like like a planetarium.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: That would be cool.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: I was thinking like an underwater great lake sort of
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 4: as like yeah to put like because like you were saying,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: how they had the special effects with like the boat
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 4: scenes and stuff. It'll because they did a whole great
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 4: lake area where you can have the top bit but
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 4: then walk down underneath to see everything underneath the lake.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 5: That would be cool.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: That'd be cool. Yeah, give photop Yeah.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: One thing they had in Tokyo that I loved was
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: they expanded the platform to include the train from Fantastic Beasts.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 5: I will I can't.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 4: That would have been like a remay set, I'm pretty sure,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 4: but it was pretty cool. They talked about all sign
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 4: I'd love to see more Fantastic Beast stuff in London,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 4: and they had a lot in Tokyo because they had the.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's nothing fantastic. I think there's nothing Fantastic Beasts
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: in the studio tour, which I find surprising.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: Thing I haven't well maybe because it's all in Tokyo now,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: but they had they had all the costumes lined up.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 4: It was like they had a whole section on the costumes.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 4: They had the ones, and then they had the training apartment.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 4: They they really did talk a lot about fantastic beasts
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 4: and everything.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, I love to see more beasts in tours.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about Nicole?
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: I know, Sorry, I don't know, because like I just
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: want to go back and see all the additions that
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen, Like I.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: Just want to start there.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to think of, like what
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: else I want to see because I'm like I want
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: to see the Forbidden Forests and stuff.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: But no, I mean it'd also be cool to get like.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: I think of like like diagon Alley and if we
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: were able to like go into some of those sets,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: like and they were able to do like you know,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: like any like really any of the shops like have
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: like an actual set. They can't do that, but if
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: but if they like it would have they have the
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: space like to like obviously not walk through the actual set, right,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: but it was like off that room or something like.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 3: That, and you got to go in and see like.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm always you know, I can't even I
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: mean I don't even know really any of the shops.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: I think like an actual like Oli Vanders would be cool.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: I think even like Flourish Blots or something. You can
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: do it at the park, right like and.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 4: Like the London set is the original set, so it's like, right,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 4: which wouldn't you depressed me?
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 5: It's such a small set.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is very surprising, yeah, because you think of
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: it just being massive. But if they did like some
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: kind of magic where you didn't like obviously walk through
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: the door, but like it was like off to the side.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: But I also think, yeah, Hogwart's Library would be cool.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know, like even I just I just think
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: of all the different shops, it'd be really cool to
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: see to see those. I never would have thought the
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: Astronomy Tower, but that would actually be really cool as well.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: And I think also yeah, just for like fantastic beasts,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: Like I think about how cool like having like Newts
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: Case would be.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: If they'd I don't think they'd ever incorporate that unfortunately
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: in London because there's just not space. And then this
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: also gets me thinking, like, are we gonna like eventually
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: get like a second studio tour for like the TV
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: show and then all the different things there that that
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: could open up, and like, well, I would much rather
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: have that than them incorporate it right to what we
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: already have.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 4: Well, they did announce a stall issue that they've opened
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 4: Shanghai studio tour, so I wonder if that TV show
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: will not go there because it seems like a lot
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 4: of fantastic bass wants to Tikyo.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: That makes sense because they have they'll have the space
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: to add those things that they really can't do in London,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: and I think to it also is good to like
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: keep everything separate, and like we've talked about, it makes
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: it nice to go to these different places, right because
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: there's so many different things you can see that you
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: can't see other places.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: But yeah, we'll see.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: I also don't want them to add too much because
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: like what we talked about earlier, like because they're limited
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: in space, Like the more they add, the more things
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: that are going to have to get taken away, and
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: I really don't want to see more things taken away,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: So I would be okay with them like maybe focusing
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: more on like featured events that they can do rather
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: than building like a huge, big set that would potentially
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: take something else away. Yeah, because yeah, I can't imagine
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: walking into the back lot and not seeing the gotcha
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: callow like the house. I guess I will realize that
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: next time I get there, because it'll be gone. But
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine that not being there. So yeah, I
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: don't want them to remove anything else.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: Hm hmm, yeah that's true. Not for this maybe nothing.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: My answer is going to be nothing, don't add anything
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: else something else? Correct.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I love speaking of to wrap up our
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: main discussion, Like the something I love about the Japan
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: Studio tour is you actually have the Grand Staircase.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, that area is incredible, Like you walk into the
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 4: entrance hall and then you have the staircase and you
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: have all the porchras and you put yourself on the portrait.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 4: It was so fun trying to work out where in
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 4: the hole will turn up. Yeah that that I forgot about.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 4: That that's cool. And that's right.
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 5: After the great Hall.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 4: So you walk out and you're in the Grand entrance
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 4: and everything.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, well I know, well, I mean I know
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 6: that you have to kind of depart from us here
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 6: at Lucy, but wanted to see if there was anything
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 6: else that, like you wanted to share about the studio
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 6: tour Tokyo that we didn't like that you didn't get
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 6: to touch on or talk about throughout the episode.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 4: I think I touched on everything that I enjoyed, Like
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 4: I loved all the extra things they put in, like
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: the construction, Like the construction was they had a whole
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 4: section on it and it was amazing. You got to
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: touch and feel all the set pieces, well not the
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 4: set pieces, but like pieces from sets, like to see
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 4: what it felt like.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 5: That was cool.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 4: But I think everything else I've sort of touched on
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: throughout the whole episode. Is there something I've forgotten, I'll
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 4: let you know. But it was just incredible and I
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 4: highly recommend anybody who care to check you to see
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 4: it and you'll have an amazing time. It's different but
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 4: the same as London.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 3: M I just say it. I mean, you made it
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: sound like it's so different but in such a good way.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 4: And I also have an article on your website about
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 4: the two different things and how amazing it was.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, good plug for that.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, you can go to our website and see
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Lucy's article and there's some pictures I believe in there
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: as well, and yeah.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'll send you guys some more pictures. Like
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 4: I because I did both of the tours within like
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: eight months of each other, and because I work with
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: behind the Water, I was like, I need to shoot
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 4: everything because I don't know when this but I'm gonna
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 4: need it.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 5: So I've got so much footage.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 4: So if you guys need any photos, just let me
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: know and.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 5: I probably have for it all. But sounds good.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for joining us today.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having you. It's such a blast.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: I love talking about this sort of stuff, like it's oh,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: I love behind the scenes.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 5: I love all this.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: I could go on for hours.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: We do too, that is like that is like we
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: talk about that all the time where we feel like
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: it's something we cover on this podcast that maybe others don't.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: So yeah, you're more than what join us again.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if I didn't have to go to work, I'll
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 4: talk all day to you guys about this and like,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: if you if you want to like do like behind
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 4: the scenes or something later on let me know.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 5: I'm your go.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: We would love to have thank you on Yeah.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much, like I actually probably should
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 4: hit twig now, Okay, okay.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: Bye bye, Lucy Sony.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: So, last episode, we asked what is your favorite set
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: from the Harry Potter or Fantastic Beast films. So Jerry
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: shared that she loved the episode, discussing Stuart Craig's legacy
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: as production designer for both The Harry Potter and The
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: Fantastic Beast films, and obviously you know his theme park
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: involvement as well, she said, waiting for the extended discussion
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: mentioned at the end of the episode to appear on Patreon.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: It's on there, Jerry. If you haven't listened to it yet,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 3: it is on Patreon. She said.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: It is almost impossible to select a favorite set from
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: the films. There are so many great sets, from Harry's
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: introduction to the Wizarding World at the Three Broomsticks and
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: diagon Alley, to the Great Hall, the Gryffindor Common Room,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: the Burrow, hogs Mead, and so many more. And that
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: isn't even getting into the Fantastic Beast films, where my
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: visions from the books didn't have to compete with the
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: film versions, so you've got Jacob's Bakery, the Blind Pig,
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: Nut's Case, Queen and Tina's apartment, the Great Wizarding Express,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: and so many more. Jerry says fresh back from Epic Universe.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: Perhaps newt Case gained some points since I felt like
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: I was almost inside it during the circus show. So
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: if I have to select just one, this is it.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: But I don't want to pick just one. Thinking about
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: the previous episode and the discussion of the upcoming we
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: Hope Train experience, I can wish that they would put
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: a Great Wizarding Express from Fantastic Beast Train Car Onto
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: Or into the experience in addition to the Hogwarts Express part,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: since I really loved that Wizarding World train car for
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: grown ups and apparently it can be added to Muggle trains,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: so why not the Hogwarts Express. The Good, The Bad
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: and the Boy podcast on Instagram said, great question. Dumbledore's office, However,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: Gryffindor's common room just.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: Seems so cozy.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: I agree, C Yeah, and and shared the Ministry of Magic. Honestly,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: any of them, they're all stunning, but the British Ministry
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: of magic is peak though.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: Ugly. Yes, yes, especially when you see it. You know
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: it's not the actual set at the theme park, but
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: from what I've seen in.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: Pictures up yeah, oh my goodness.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and I'm guessing it's even grander than the
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: actual set that they built.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: Honestly, probably because it's it can be immersive in the
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: way that a film set can't be, right because it's
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: like a living set.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: But you have this.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: It's you're literally walking in and it's in camp. You're
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: like you're in it. The only thing that takes you
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: away from it is the chains of the queue for
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: the line. If that was We're gone, you would just
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: feel like you're I feel like you feel like you're there.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: So for this episode, we want to know what would
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: you most look forward to you if you are visiting
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: the studio tour, so we would love to hear from you.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: You can drop us an email at Revellio Podcast staff
• 1:39:07
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• 1:39:10
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• 1:39:19
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• 1:39:23
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• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: backslash Revellio podcast. So just want to give another thank
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: you to Lucy for joining our episode. Super super great
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: to hear from somebody who's been to the Tokyo Studio
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: tour and can yeah share all the insights about a
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: place that I one day hope that I can get to.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: Same and also like how different they are and just
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: getting a new perspective on it and from someone who's
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: actually been there, because it's one thing to see it
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: in picture, but it's something different, like someone who's been
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: to both tours and be like, you know, the Hogwarts
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: model is actually bigger in Japan or you have this
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: and you know, and so it's really interesting and it
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: makes you look forward to like visiting the other you know,
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: on the other side of the world, and yeah, just
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: keeps fostering our desire to visit Japan and we'll do
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: one day for sure.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: Well, we hope that everybody enjoyed another episode kind of
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: talking a little bit more about the behind the scenes.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: We obviously love talking about that here at Revellio and
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: we're all big fans of the studio tour as well,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: so definitely add it to your list of places to
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: travel to in this world, because if you're listening to
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: this podcast, you're obviously, you know, a big Harry Potter fan,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: and it is as we've talked about, it is not
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: just a museum. It is much more than that, and
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: hopefully this episode gave you a little bit more insight
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: into it.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 3: So until next time, I'm Nicole and
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: I'm Tom mischief Man.