Easter Catchup - Wizards Rock

So over the Easter weekend I went to Watford and to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter

Major Harry Potter geek here.

I love anything to do with Harry Potter - so absolutely jumped at the chance to go visit the place the films were actually filmed! See the sets, walk in the Great Hall...... Heaven!

The tickets were released for sale last October, and I booked mine the release date, and went for all added extras possible. These included the Digital Guide, narrated by Tom Felton, and the Souvenir Guidebook.

The Digital Guide was really interesting - in the past I have Google'd Harry Potter to death, I have seen almost every backstage behind the scenes video, interview, footage possible, so it was quite refreshing to see and hear lots of new information, made available especially for this guide.

The Souvenir Guidebook was OK. I'm glad I waiting until we were leaving before collecting it. If I'd have got it before hand, I would have read through it in the queue, and spoiled the whole tour for myself. It's basically the tour, in book-form. It'll be nice to look back on over time though.

The whole tour has had a lot of negative press. 'It's too expensive'; 'there's nothing for children to do'; 'it spoils the magic'. Admittedly, I don't think it's the place to take young children. But it's never been 'sold' as a theme park, it's a museum.

We spent just over 4 hours on the tour - including taking a break to drink Butter Beer and browsing the Gift Shop! And I managed to take over 250 photos! So I definitely think it was worth the £28 ticket price.

I've added a small selection of my own photographs below - look away now If you don't want to spoil it for yourself!

Collage © Photovisi

Pip

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Easter Catchup - Busy Beetee....

Gosh, considering I had nothing really planned for my two weeks off work, I didn't half get a lot done!

I will be doing separate posts, in the not too distant future about what I got up too. Hopefully with lots of pictures, once I've sifted out my favourites!

One of the main things that took over my life over Easter was The Hunger Games!

I had bought the first book a couple of months ago, with the intention of 'trying it out'. I am a huge Harry Potter fan, and was looking for something to fill the dark empty void left behind now it's all over.

After searching around on the internet 'The Hunger Games' kept popping up. Reviewers were telling me it was 'the new Harry Potter or Twilight' but I wasn't at all convinced by the synopsis:

" Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. The Hunger Games is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.

Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever... "

© of Amazon

Where are the wands? The magic? The sparkly Vampires?

So, like I said, I bought the first book to try out - and then did nothing with it!

A few weeks ago, in work, a 'book club' type catalogue was passed around, in it was The Hunger Games Trilogy, for £4.99! I couldn't not have them! For that price!? Again though, I did nothing about reading them.

Then, I went to see the film - and fell in love, instantly. As soon as I got back from the cinema, ignoring the fact it was almost midnight, I made a start on the first book... then the second... then the third. The next three days I read all three books.... two days later I was back in the cinema watching the film again, two days after that I had started on the books again!

So yeah, in 12 days I had seen the film twice and read all three books twice.

I think I'm now officially a fan girl!

Yay, go me!

Pip
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