Just as how Deathly Hallows was split into 2 parts, my visit shall be in 2 parts.
Got a cup of butterbeer because this is one of the 2 (soon to be 3 if you count Japan) places in the world where you can find butterbeer. The other being in Orlando Florida, which I'm not going to go to soon enough. Basically it tastes like root beer macciato (vanilla cream with a bit of butter, like in Gongcha). It was really quite nice after all that walking around inside the first part of the studios. We took 3 hours just for the first part, although the tour guide said that the average time people take for the WHOLE thing was 3 hours.
Standing on the bones of my father
A little bit of an anticlimax there, but we had tea in before Tom Riddle's grave. Joven bought us cupcakes from Hummingbird bakery the day before and they were really OHSOGOOD.
Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard
Knight to E5
Turns out that Buckbeak is real! The animatronics team actually made a hippogriff that could move!
Diagon Alley
Well before any CGI or filming could be done, they had artists to 'design' the concepts of the movie. There were walls of these paintings and you could see how the concepts progressed, which is really cool.
Durmstrang ship, but not a real ship. So was the Beaubaton carriage
Hogwarts in the day
Hogwarts at night.
Sadly, Hogwarts wasn't a real castle.
In total, there were about 4000 people involved in the production of the 8 movies, and each and every one of them has their name written on Ollivander's wand box in this room. It's crazy just to see how much effort went into the movies, and it's no wonder the credits of each movie is so so longggg.
Emma Watson
Tom Felton
At night, we rushed back to get our luggage, have dinner, and catch the Phantom of the Opera. Luckily we arrived 5 minutes before the play started, which gave us just about enough time to deposit our bags in a room before catching the play.
Phantom was awesome in so many ways, even though I was slightly disappointed that the Phantom wasn't Geronimo Rauch. No matter, Scott Davies was splendid anyway. The band was very very tight. The sets were bigger and better than I had expected heh. It's no wonder it's still a favourite after so many years.
Well that's the end of London. We caught a bus to the airport to catch a flight the next morning, slept over in the airport (which sucks as usual. I hate sleeping over in airports), and got back to Stockholm because I had class and we needed a pit stop before Paris.
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