Travel Aboard A Real-life Hogwarts Express At A New Socal 'harry Potter' Experience

Don’t interest if your Hogwarts acceptance missive sewage mislaid successful nan message — a caller “Harry Potter” acquisition will soon fto you hop aboard nan Hogwarts Express anyway.

Harry Potter: A Hogwarts Express Adventure will unfastened astatine nan Southern California Railway Museum this summertime for guests to acquisition nan Wizarding World rite of transition aboard a existent moving train successful nan Inland Empire. The acquisition will tally from July 24 done Sept. 27. Yes, that includes Back to Hogwarts Day connected Sept. 1.

A Hogwarts Express Adventure will see a Platform 9¾-themed preboarding acquisition arsenic good arsenic House competitions and chants, spell-casting challenges and different interactive activities aboard nan train. Guests will besides beryllium capable to drawback immoderate themed treats from nan trolley. The train thrust will extremity astatine a Hogsmeade-inspired colony wherever much food, beverages and merchandise will beryllium available.

The Rail Events Inc. property merchandise besides teases a imaginable brushwood pinch “a acheronian and mysterious force.” The company, besides known for nan Polar Express Train Ride, developed A Hogwarts Express Adventure on pinch Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences.

This is simply a large twelvemonth for “Harry Potter” fans. “Harry Potter and nan Philosopher’s Stone,” a caller tv bid based connected writer J.K. Rowling’s celebrated book series, is group to debut connected HBO Max connected Christmas Day. The show will present audiences to a caller Golden Trio, portrayed by Dominic McLaughlin (Harry Potter), Alastair Stout (Ron Weasley) and Arabella Stanton (Hermione Granger), arsenic they embark connected their Hogwarts journey. (Rowling remains controversial for her views connected trans women.)

Ticket income for A Hogwarts Express Adventure will statesman April 28, pinch prices starting astatine $77 for adults and $67 for children ages 2 to 11, depending connected departure time.