The UK’s largest Harry Potter shop will open on London’s Oxford Street in November, Warner Bros has announced.<\/p>\n
The flagship store, which will span more than 21,000 sq ft (1,951 sq m) over two floors, will open within The Ribbon development at 134-140 Oxford Street on 4 November.<\/p>\n
Warner Bros said the store was inspired by the magical shopping street Diagon Alley, and would feature a dragon towering over Gringotts bank, a full-sized Knight Bus, and The Leaky Cauldron pub where visitors can enjoy food and Butterbeer drinks.<\/p>\n
The New West End Company called the store a “great example” of an “immersive and leisure experience” for the nation’s high street.<\/p>\n
The shop will be the second official Harry Potter retail destination in the UK after the site at King’s Cross Station.<\/p>\n
Karl Durrant, Warner Bros senior vice-president of worldwide retail, said opening the shop in London was “a truly special milestone”.<\/p>\n
“There’s no better place to create a destination that celebrates the magic, creativity and storytelling that has captivated generations of fans around the world,” he said.<\/p>\n
Oxford Street is one of the world’s busiest shopping areas, with around half a million visitors each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK’s largest Harry Potter shop will open on London’s Oxford Street in November, Warner Bros has announced.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735386","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\/735386","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=735386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}