Muggles in France, start clearing some freezer space. Picard, the French frozen-food chain, has teamed up with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products on a 20-piece Harry Potter collection for Halloween, Christmas and Epiphany. It’s the chain’s first tie-in with a franchise this size, and Picard says the range was 18 months in the making….
The new era of Hogwarts has its first dress code. Three Amazon-exclusive shirts branded to HBO’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone are on sale now on Amazon.com, and they’re only the opening act: the official Harry Potter Shop has quietly put up a sign-up page for a full series collection arriving this Christmas. All…
Some exclusives you have to turn up for in person. Funko Pop! #200 — Harry Potter (New York Sweater) — is now on the shelf at Harry Potter Shop New York, priced at US$18 and sold in store only. Collectors started spotting the figure at the Broadway flagship last weekend. Harry Potter collector @blabberingcollector filmed…
Butterbeer by the bottle is all very well, but it deserves a proper tankard. The official Harry Potter Shop US is running a gift-with-purchase offer: spend US$100 or more in a single order and the MinaLima-designed Butterbeer Glass is added free. No code, no hunting for a checkbox. ✦ THE FREE GIFT ✦ The Butterbeer Glass, with…
Students were always told to stay out of the Forbidden Forest. Mexico City is about to get a permission slip. Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience — La Experiencia del Bosque Prohibido — opens on October 23, 2026 at Parque Naucalli in Naucalpan de Juárez, in the State of Mexico just outside Mexico City. It…
When you have been both a Weasley and a First Order general, a couple of franchises are off the table. Domhnall Gleeson — Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 — has explained why his new film, The Incomer, steers well clear of Hogwarts. In one scene his character…
Most fans keep their Hogwarts letter in a frame. Olympia Le-Tan would rather you carried it to dinner. The Paris fashion house, best known for hand-embroidered clutches shaped like hardback books, has unveiled a four-piece Harry Potter capsule made with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products to mark 25 years of the films. Each design…
Hagrid’s favorite textbook was famous for biting. This one settles for making the noise. Brazilian chocolate chain Cacau Show is adding an interactive Monster Book of Monsters plush to its Christmas 2026 range. It recreates the snapping Care of Magical Creatures textbook from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, complete with a “monstrous” sound…
Hirono has always looked a little like a boy waiting for a letter that never came. It seems the owl finally found him. Update, October 3, 2026: Pop Mart has now revealed both secret figures, a Mandrake and a Special Edition Harry, and listed the series in Canada. The full lineup, price and release date…
Revelio works on more than invisible ink. Panini’s Harry Potter Always trading card collection — which we first spotted in our roundup of Italy’s Back to Hogwarts launches — is now on sale in the UK, with the full range live on Panini UK’s store. Built around the 25th anniversary of the films, it leans…
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