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Explore Gringotts Wizarding Bank at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter from April

Gringotts Wizarding Bank is coming to Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, in the attractions biggest expansion to date.

The location played an important role in the Harry Potter film series and from 6th April fans will be able to to walk through the wizarding bank of Gringotts, the Lestrange vault, a gallery of goblins and so much more.

Lined by towering marble pillars, the grand banking hall will be decorated with three magnificent crystal chandeliers and finished with real brass leaf. Inkwells, quills, ledgers and piles of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts will complete the goblin tellers’ desks as seen on screen. The Prop-making Department, led by Pierre Bohanna, created over 210,000 coins for the final two films alone.

Harry Potter Studio Tour - Gringotts
Credit: Warner Bros

Famously run by goblins, Gringotts Wizarding Bank will feature the costumes and prosthetics belonging to Bogrod, Griphook and many other goblin bankers. Each prosthetic mask took weeks to create, with every hair individually inserted and veins painstakingly painted by hand. It took four hours to transform actor Warwick Davis into Griphook in the films which included him wearing black contact lenses and dentures with extremely sharp teeth to complete the goblin look.

Once through the banking hall of Gringotts, visitors will enter the depths of the Lestrange Vault used to store the treasures of Bellatrix Lestrange including the Sword of Gryffindor and Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup, one of Voldemort’s many Horcruxes. During filming 38,000 pieces of rubberised treasure were created the for the Lestrange vault including 7,014 Hufflepuff Cups. Here, visitors can try out a unique photo opportunity allowing them to step inside the Lestrange vault and surround themselves with treasure.

Entrance to the expansion will be included in general admission ticket price. For more information head over to www.wbstudiotour.co.uk.

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