{"id":577627,"date":"2026-05-11T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577627\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:01:08","slug":"harry-potter-set-and-prop-designers-admit-surprise-at-its-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577627\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter set and prop designers admit surprise at its success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tomkins, 63, recalls working on designs for the Weasley family home, The Burrow, which he described as having a &#8220;real kind of eccentric character to it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A quarter of a century later, his work is displayed at the Warner Bros Studio Tour in Watford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He explained: &#8220;We were so delighted the studio tour was built and showcases all the fantastic sets, props and costumes that we created for the films.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair said they were excited to see how the upcoming HBO Harry Potter TV series would re-imagine the stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomkins, 63, recalls working on designs for the Weasley family home, The Burrow, which he described as having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-577627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}