Take a first-hand look at 'Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience'

Mark Chrysafis
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We got a first-hand look at 'Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience' brought to life by Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment in partnership with Thinkwell, Unify and Fever

Video Transcript

HEATHER MCGILL: I would describe this experience as a nighttime trail. It's illuminated full of all of the "Harry Potter" creatures that you would expect to see.

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Hi, I'm Heather McGill. I'm one of the Executive Producers of Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience and I am here with In The know. We opened Harry Potter: Forbidden Forest Experience in Manchester in the UK last year and we then looked to expand, and where else could we come to but America, and especially this area.

We're really excited to be in West Chester. So it's a great place to be for us. If you watch the movies, The Forbidden Forest actually is in almost all of them. So fans are going to see all sorts of scenes and we also have creatures and characters from "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."

Our experience is full of lots of elements that you would expect to see. We have [INAUDIBLE], we, obviously, have Hagrid and Fang. And those centaurs will also be featuring in our forest. It was really important to us to get interactive experiences into our trail.

So guests have the chance to have a want battle with each other. That's a brilliant one. You can also cast a patronus in the forest, which is a really special moment, given that featured so highly in the films.

We were really lucky that we worked really closely with Warner Brothers Entertainment and we have a huge team, both here in the US and across the world, who helped bring this together. And it's taken several months to get to this point and we open this experience on the 22 of October and we're running all the way through to the end of January. It is just so amazing and immersive.

The films, the books, and now having experiences such as this. I think it's timeless in the way that it speaks to audiences. I have small kids and they adore the films and they adore coming here as well.

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